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Special Gaza ceasefire ‘failing’ as hunger, rats and rubble define daily life, UN humanitarian chief warns video

Gaza ceasefire ‘failing’ as hunger, rats and rubble define daily life, UN humanitarian chief warns

  • Tom Fletcher tells Security Council 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in 7 months since ceasefire began and the humanitarian recovery is dangerously incomplete
  • Gains made since truce began are simply ‘movement away from a catastrophic baseline, not the fulfillment of fundamental needs,’ he says
  • Oxfam’s Palestinian envoy, whose husband’s family is trapped in Gaza, says trucks at border crossings tell only part of the story and mask a deeper failure to reach families with aid
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