(30 Jul 2024)
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Cairo, Egypt – 30 July 2024
1. Set up shot of Corinne Fleischer, regional director of the World Food Program
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Fleischer, regional director of the World Food Program:
"We don’t have enough entry points on border crossing points into Gaza. We’re not able to bring in what we need to bring in. So that was one additional point. But we are saying that we need road access, we need Rafah (crossing at the border with Egypt) to open again. We need Kerem Shalom (crossing) to work better. We need law and order inside the Gaza Strip so we can operate inside Gaza, and our teams are not at risk of being shot at."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Fleischer, regional director of the World Food Program:
"While I have been there (Mawasi area in Gaza), within seven days, there have been two evacuation orders affecting almost 200,000 people, (they) have to pack and go and set up again at the beach. And the beach is completely cramped. I mean there are makeshift tents up to the shore wait for winter waves to come."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Fleischer, regional director of the World Food Program:
"We’re operating in a war zone there are military operation. So at time is it’s not safe to go and we cannot go. It took me six hours from the moment we were authorized to leave Deir al-Balah (central Gaza strip) to go to Ziken (the northern border with Gaza), that takes normally 30 to 40 minutes, because you’re waiting at checkpoints, you’re waiting at holding points, the roads are destroyed so you drive very slowly and then there are people on the road so you have to be very careful."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Fleischer, regional director of the World Food Program:
"We are not where we should be to sustain that and to scale that. Actually we are not providing food rations because we don’t have enough food in the Gaza Strip for our operations."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Fleischer, regional director of the World Food Program:
"To The people of Gaza, we will never give up. We will be there and we will support with the food that they need and with the hope that the future is coming. And to the authorities on both sides, it’s not enough what we’re able to do; we need more crossing points open to bring in the food. We need a safe environment on the ground to move safely to the people, and for the people to access the distribution points safely."
11. Fleischer at her desk
STORYLINE:
A senior United Nations official on Tuesday appealed for the reopening of land crossings into the Gaza Strip and the removal of crippling restrictions on the delivery of aid to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in the war-torn Palestinian enclave.
Corinne Fleischer, regional director of the World Food Program, said her agency has become unable to provide food rations in the strip since it doesn’t have enough inside Gaza.
“Right now the biggest challenge is we don’t have enough crossing points to bring the food in,” she told The Associated Press in Cairo.
“We need road access. We need the Rafah (crossing) to open again. We need Kerem Shalom to work better. We need law and order.”
The Rafah crossing, which had been the main entry point for humanitarian aid, was closed early in May after Israel’s military took over the crossing’s Palestinian side as part of its ground assault on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
The WFP has scaled up its operations, providing 420,000 meals every day and helping 13 bakeries across the strip.
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