Feliz Solomon
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Thanks, Luke. That's right. Earlier this week we saw what's been a pretty rocky rollout of a new aid distribution system in Gaza. Israel and the United States came up with this new system as a way to reintroduce aid after what's been a total blockade that started in early March.
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After months with no supplies, meaning no food, no fuel, no medicine, the humanitarian situation there has become quite dire with a lot of people struggling to find food. Before the blockade, the UN and NGOs already had a system in place. But Israeli officials have claimed that Hamas was stealing aid and using it to keep control of the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas has denied that and the UN also says that there's no evidence of widespread aid diversion. To avoid that, this new foundation was formed. Die UN hat den neuen Plan kritisiert, weil es Menschen benötigt, lange Wege zu reisen, um Hilfe zu bekommen, oft durch aktive Kriegszonen. Und weil es essentiell ein israelischer Plan ist, stellt das Fragen über Neutralität.
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Das ist genau richtig. Für eine Bevölkerung von ca. 2 Millionen Menschen begann es mit nur einem Distributionsort am Donnerstag. Das bedeutet, dass es eine große Anzahl von Leuten gab, die alle gleichzeitig kamen. Die Leute waren fürchtet, dass sie die Hilfe nicht bekommen würden. Sie haben also zu einem Punkt eine Fenster geschlagen. Das hat also viel Chaos geleistet.
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Nach einer Woche haben sie noch ein paar mehr Sites geöffnet, aber es gibt nur noch ein paar. Es sind also wirklich nicht viele Distributionspunkte für diese ziemlich große und verschlossene Bevölkerung.
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The United Nations, for example, had hundreds of distribution points throughout the Gaza Strip, whereas this new system so far has only four, three of them in operation, and most of them are in the southern part of Gaza.
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Yes, moving forward, we're going to be looking firstly to see whether they can scale this up rapidly, because right now the needs are very, very great. And they're only providing a small amount of aid for a large population that is very, very desperate.
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There are also concerns from the UN and others about whether this plan could ultimately facilitate displacement of Gazans who are in the north of the Strip. because much of the aid is being distributed in the South.
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So there's some concern over whether that's going to lead to people leaving the North, coming to the South, where they can have access to food, and whether that will ultimately bar them from returning.
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Israel and the United States came up with this new system as a way to reintroduce aid after months with no food, no fuel, no medicine. We're going to be looking firstly to see whether they can scale this up rapidly, because right now they're only providing a small amount of aid for a large population that is very, very desperate.