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Israel killing some 1200 people 
and# 
kidnapping about 240 more. Ever 
sinc

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Israel is bombarded Gaza with 
the# 
goal of eliminating Hamas. The 
Hamas##

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run Gaza health ministry puts 
the# 
Gaza death toll at nearly 
23,000.

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And the United Nations says 
that as many as# 
40 percent of the casualties 
are children,##

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about half the Gaza strips 
population is# 
younger than 18. And as a new 
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many of them have a simple wish.

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LAYAN HARARA, Gazan resident 
(through# 
translator): In 2024 I wish not 
to die.##

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There is no bathroom, no food 
and no# 
drinking water. Our

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LAYAN ABU KUWAIK, Gazan 
resident (through# 
translator): This year is a 
nightmare for##

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every child in Gaza

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JOHN YANG: Earlier I spoke 
with# 
Jason Lee, the country 
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for the Occupied Territories 
for Save# 
the Children. He w

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JASON LEE, Country Director, 
Save the# 
Children: The situation in Gaza 
keeps##

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deteriorating children, the 
families that#

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1. 
9 million people. That's 85 
percent of the# 
population that have basically 
become homeless.

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I was in Rafah. And within 
three days, I saw# 
the sheer number of civilians 
that fled south,##

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putting up tents wherever they 
could, on the# 
side of the roads next to the 
hospitals. Again,##

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there's a lack of food, there's 
lack of water,# 
there's absolutely no primary 
health care,##

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no health facilities are 
working. This# 
is the situation like that 
children and##

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cars are facing right now. And 
every# 
single day, it gets worse and 
worse.

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JOHN YANG: You see no primary# 
health care facilities,##

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what happens to children or to 
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who may be injured in the 
fighting or injured#

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JA 
SON LEE: Seven out of 10 of 
the civilians# 
that have been killed and 
injured has been a##

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woman or a child. And these 
children have# 
nowhere to go. The hospitals 
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full. They don't have enough 
supplies.# 
There's not enough health care 
workers.

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So the doctors, the nurses, 
they're# 
performing examinations in 
corridors.##

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The rooms are completely 
filled, overcrowded# 
beyond belief. Patients are 
sleeping on the floor,##

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floors that are covered with 
blood. And the damage# 
that sold around again, these 
hospitals do not##

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have the fuel to keep running. 
They don't# 
have bandages, they don't have 
medicines.

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It is now unthinkable where 
majority of hospitals# 
in Gaza are no longer 
functioning. Patients,##

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children cannot go anywhere to 
get treatment# 
for the injuries that they're 
sustaining.

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JOHN YANG: What is the 
situation? How dire is# 
the situation about getting 
food into Gaza?

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JASON LEE: The latest report on 
the food# 
security indicates again, the 
high levels of food##

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insecurity throughout all of 
Gaza. 50 percent of# 
the population in Gaza, that's 
1.1 million people##

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at risk of starvation. 
Starvation cannot be used# 
as a weapon of war. And we see 
this right now.

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Throughout all of the Gaza 
Strip, food# 
availability is decreasing 
families are coping##

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or resorting to negative coping 
mechanisms. My# 
team report that in the north 
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civilians have started taking 
two hunting# 
animals in the street just to 
find a meal.

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JOHN YANG: I want to make sure 
I understand what# 
you're saying earlier you said 
that starvation##

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cannot be used as a weapon of 
war. Are you saying# 
that you think Israel is 
deliberately doing this?

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JASON LEE: What I can say and 
what I saw in# 
Gaza is that there is not 
enough supplies##

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coming in. We do not have free 
access# 
throughout all of Gaza. When I 
was in##

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Gaza for three successive days, 
all of our# 
movement to the North was 
denied. We were##

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not allowed to take any convoys 
of aid to# 
the Northern part of Gaza. And 
of course,##

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the increased fighting does 
not# 
allow for humanitarians to work.

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JOHN YANG: The Israeli military 
says# 
they do work to try and 
minimize##

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civilian casualties. And they 
blame# 
Hamas for the civilian 
casualties,##

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saying that they operate in 
these very densely# 
packed civilian areas. What do 
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JASON LEE: Gaza is one of the 
most# 
densely populated places on 
Earth.##

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It has 2.3 million people 
living in an area# 
that is 365 square kilometers. 
And again,##

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half of them the population of 
Gaza are children.

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Now the forcible transfer or 
concentration# 
of civilians into areas that 
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them to satisfy military 
objectives is# 
not trying to minimize civilian 
deaths.##

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It is not protecting civilians, 
forcing# 
civilians to move when there is 
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active fighting. Those areas 
cannot sustain# 
life. It is not trying to 
protect civilians,##

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when you're forcing them to 
move into# 
areas that cannot keep them 
alive.

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JOHN YANG: Israel with the 
support# 
and backing of the United 
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is reluctant or is resistant to 
the# 
idea of humanitarian ceasefire. 
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do talk about brief pauses to 
allow# 
humanitarian aid in is that 
enough?

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JASON LEE: The ceasefire a 
definitive# 
and immediate ceasefire is the 
only way##

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to protect civilians first and 
foremost,# 
because it actually stops 
civilians from##

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being continually killed and 
injured. It allows# 
humanitarians to work. Pauses 
do not allow us to##

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systematically bring the 
supplies and distribute# 
them throughout all of Gaza 
Strip. We do not have##

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enough personnel in Gaza to 
actually mount an# 
effective and principled 
humanitarian action.##

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Humanitarian pauses do not do 
enough. They# 
do not protect civilians. They 
do not allow##

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humanitarians to deliver 
assistance wherever# 
civilians are throughout all of 
the Gaza Strip.

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JOHN YANG: Jason, are there 
any# 
firsthand experiences you 
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while you were in Gaza that 
you# 
could you could tell us about?

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JASON LEE: When I was in Gaza, 
there was this# 
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girl that turned up to why the 
Gaza alone. We have# 
no idea who she is, how she got 
to where to Gaza,##

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where she came from. 
Thankfully, were able to# 
find this four year old girl 
take her to medical##

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care and shoot this young child 
was in such# 
a state of catatonic shock. Her 
skin was cold##

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and clammy. We have no idea 
when she last ate.# 
And she wasn't speaking, she 
was non responsive.

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We managed to get her some# 
food, give her some juice,##

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give some high protein biscuits 
and have a# 
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if 
this child has regained 
speech. We have no# 
idea who she is. If she's got 
any family left.

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The U.N. have estimated just in 
the U.N. shelters# 
alone and this is a rough 
indication that for##

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2,000 children without parents 
without family. We# 
have not been able to look into 
in the shelters,##

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the government shelters. We've 
not been able# 
to look in the camps and the 
tents that are##

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springing up all around Rafah 
right now. We need# 
to find these children. We need 
to keep them safe.

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JOHN YANG: I understand you 
also visited# 
a training center at Khan 
Younis?

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JASON LEE: I met this young 
family that# 
were desperately trying to find 
milk for##

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this baby. I don't know how old 
the baby was# 
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un 
fortunately the mother had 
died buried# 
under the rubble. And this 
family were##

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trying to find milk for this 
baby that hadn't# 
eaten for a day. This is just 
one story of the##

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thousands and thousands of 
children that have been# 
impacted by what is happening 
in Gaza right now.

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JOHN YANG: Jason Lee have Save# 
the Children. Thank you very 
much.

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JOSON LEE: Thank you.