US to build Gaza aid port as UN warns of widespread famine
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00:00 Packages of food and water airdropped into Gaza.
00:05 A solution for countries such as France, Jordan, the Netherlands and Belgium,
00:10 who have been unable to deliver aid by land due to Israeli protesters
00:14 and police blocking the crossings into the Strip.
00:18 Even Israeli aid groups cannot get in.
00:20 There is a huge humanitarian crisis happening in Gaza.
00:23 People are literally starving to death.
00:25 The hunger in Gaza is not just something that hurts Palestinians,
00:30 it's also something that destabilises the entire region.
00:33 The White House has said that the US will help set up a temporary port off the coast
00:38 of Gaza,
00:39 opening a sea route for food and other aid for desperate Palestinian civilians.
00:44 This comes as the country announced it conducted its third airdrop of food into the besieged
00:49 enclave.
00:52 American C-130 cargo planes dropped over 38,000 meals,
00:56 providing life-saving humanitarian assistance in northern Gaza
00:59 to enable civilian access to critical aid.
01:02 According to the World Food Programme,
01:04 the conflict in Gaza has left the entire population of 2.2 million people in crisis,
01:10 facing alarming levels of acute food insecurity.
01:14 The situation is most dire in the north of the Strip.
01:18 Many of the estimated 300,000 people still living there
01:21 have been reduced to eating animal fodder to survive.
01:24 "Today we do not have the meaningful, at scale, uninterrupted humanitarian assistance
01:34 reaching the people in Gaza in desperate need of assistance.
01:39 Airdrop can be an addition, possibly, but the airdrop will not be the answer."
01:46 The UN says one in six children younger than two in the north
01:50 now suffers from acute malnutrition.