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00:00 This sea of people is waiting desperately for a little flower in Gaza, where more than
00:06 a million people, half the population, are now facing catastrophic levels of hunger.
00:12 "Children are dying.
00:16 Bring money, water, food."
00:18 According to a report released on Monday by UN agencies and international relief groups
00:24 known as the IPC, famine could hit 300,000 people in the north as early as May, before
00:31 affecting half of the population by mid-July.
00:34 It is the highest number ever recorded in the IPC's worst tier, the catastrophic phase.
00:40 "Well before any finding of famine takes place, people are already in extreme, I don't know,
00:47 and experience profound suffering, malnutrition is spiking, mortality numbers are going up."
00:56 To avoid famine, NGOs are calling for an immediate ceasefire to bring water, food and medicines
01:01 into the enclave.
01:03 500 trucks of aid are needed every day, but only a fraction of that is getting in.
01:09 And experts say that aid deliveries by air or sea can never replace routes on land, which
01:15 are currently tightly controlled by Israeli authorities.
01:19 The EU's foreign policy chief says Israel has turned Gaza into the world's biggest open
01:24 air graveyard.
01:25 "It is unacceptable, starvation is used as a weapon of war.
01:32 Let's say that.
01:33 And it's not a question of a lack of sufficient supplies.
01:38 You hear that there are several months of food stock on the Egyptian side."
01:45 The main border crossing between Gaza and Egypt is in Rafa, where almost 1.5 million
01:51 civilians have taken refuge, and where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has foreshadowed
01:57 a ground offensive, despite international warnings against it.