Let's bring in Ross Smith, the director of emergency preparedness and response at the UN World Food Program. Ross, you've described the hunger crisis in Gaza as a disaster and unlike anything we've seen in this century. Help put this into perspective for us.What is your team there on the ground seeing that perhaps cameras aren't even capturing. Yeah, thanks Anna and thanks for having me on. I mean, we're seeing an absolutely devastating situation on the ground and I think you see some of those images um in ...

21 US senators are demanding action from the Trump administration in the face of Gaza's starvation crisis. They're calling for the US to stop funding the Israeli backed humanitarian foundation, which delivers food to Gaza. The UN says more than 1,000 people have been killed by Israeli forces trying to get food in Gaza since May, mostly at or near those often chaotic distribution sites.In their letter, the senators write, "There should be no American taxpayer dollars contributing to this scheme." Joining me ...

Now, what do we know about these aid drops today. What actually has been able to get into Gaza. And what's the plan going forward.Yeah. Well, it's like you started off with, I mean, I can say how much aid was dropped, but I can already start with what aid agencies are saying, which is that this is not nearly enough. We're still seeing deaths.14 deaths just in the past 24 hours. that number is probably going to be increasing according to Palestinian health officials in the Gaza Strip which is ruled by Hamas. ...

I want to bring in Joe English from UNICEF. Joe, your group has been desperately trying to help providing baby food, milk, and biscuits, but I know it's been a struggle to reach the people who really need it. How are you looking at this tactical pause and the airdrops.Is this going to allow for the surge of food that's needed. >> Yeah, good to you, Anna. So, look, let me separate those two things out.The the pause in the fighting is important and it is welcome. you know, we have to be able to to deliver aid ...

situation is now so desperate in Gaza and there's been such international pressure on Israel to ease it humanitarian restrictions there that these foreign aid drops began yesterday. Israel as well carrying out its own a drops and these aircraft are preparing to fly missions over at least one United Arab Emirates that's being loaded at the moment. Another flight from the UAE has just left a C7, an even bigger aircraft and one from the Jordanian military is also leaving today.Now, they're being loaded at the ...

We also discussed obviously Gaza and I think before we get to phase two which is you know what's going to happen afterwards. We want to get the children fed. We made a contribution a week ago of $60 million uh all going into food.We only hope the food goes to the people that need it because so so much as you know when you >> do something there it gets taken by Hamas or somebody but it gets taken but uh and we're prepared to help you know we want to help. It's uh it's a terrible situation. Uh the whole thing ...

and we're going to continue onward. We do have to take care of the humanitarian needs at the on the what they used to call the Gaza Strip. You don't hear that line too much anymore.You don't hear the Gaza Strip, but it is the Gaza Strip. And uh it's amazing that it's not being handled a little bit differently. Uh we're going to set up food centers and we're going to do it in conjunction with some very good people and we're going to supply funds and we we just took in trillions of dollars. We got a lot of mo ...

Israel is easing its restrictions on humanitarian aid, allowing Arab states to parachute food into the strip and dropping some from IDF planes. The IDF also announcing new humanitarian corridors for UN trucks to deliver food and pausing strikes for 10 hours a day so aid can get through, but only in the limited coastal areas seen here. The UN welcoming the moves which come after the famine deaths of at least 133 people according to the Gaza Health Ministry.87 of them children. Doctors Without Borders says Is ...

A lot of international pressure had been building on Israel to do something about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Resume the passage of humanitarian aid. What do we know.What are the latest developments from the weekend in terms of what is being allowed in now. So, I mean, there does seem to be a change of policy there and we'll see how long it lasts, because as you know, we've been here several times before. So what we can see on the ground is air drops going in.And we know that Israel did some and then w ...

Tonight, as the famine in Gaza deepens, Israel is easing its restrictions on humanitarian aid, allowing Arab states to parachute food into the strip and dropping some from IDF planes. The IDF also announcing new humanitarian corridors for UN trucks to deliver food and pausing strikes for 10 hours a day so aid can get through, but only in the limited coastal areas seen here. The UN welcoming the moves which come after the famine deaths of at least 133 people according to the Gaza Health Ministry, 87 of them ...