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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
year begins,##

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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
director##

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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
an

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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
completely##

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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
of Gaza in Jabalya,##

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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
you

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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
ca

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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
still##

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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
States##

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is reluctant or is resistant to
the#
idea of humanitarian ceasefire.
They##

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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
had##

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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#
horrific a

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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#
doctor check her out. But I

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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#
probably about six months to

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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.