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We are being buried alive, a fathers plea from the Gaza Strip · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Armed with a pot the size of her head, three
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  Speaker 1: year old wide Cassim walks in our familiar route along
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  Speaker 1: the melee of makeshift tense where she's been living for
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  Speaker 1: the past two years, to get food for her family.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Lebrosa Zaia.
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  Speaker 3: Above words.
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  Speaker 1: Standing tall with her pot, waits among the chaos of
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  Speaker 1: the crowd while other members of her family go to
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  Speaker 1: other sites to increase their chances of getting food. Growing
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  Speaker 1: impatient by each minute, she stares into the pot, the
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  Speaker 1: reflection of the sun briefly blinding her eyes. This scene
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  Speaker 1: still common in Gaza, even nine months after the US
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  Speaker 1: broken to cease fire.
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  Speaker 3: Na Ward's family among the one point six million people
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  Speaker 3: in Gaza who rely on food handouts like these.
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  Speaker 1: According to the UN, On this day, no member of
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  Speaker 1: the family was able to get food. Ward becomes lost
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  Speaker 1: in the crowd. Despite her efforts, our producer intervenes on
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  Speaker 1: the ground and a worker out of compassion gave food
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  Speaker 1: to Word. She successfully secured a meal for her family,
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  Speaker 1: bringing back home a pot full of stew to her relatives.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve of them live here in this tent, and though
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  Speaker 1: life can be grueling, the family is still grateful to
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  Speaker 1: share a meal in each other's company.
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  Speaker 4: Hib as I thought.
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  Speaker 1: With Gaza cut off from the outside world, there are
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  Speaker 1: very few ways of earning money to provide food, food
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  Speaker 1: and shelter for a family. Since the start of the war,
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  Speaker 1: sixty percent of Palestinians have lost their homes, according to
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  Speaker 1: a recent UN report. As days go by at the camp,
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  Speaker 1: overcrowding and unsanitary conditions help spread disease, attracting rats and mice.
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  Speaker 4: Where have been its named me I would have the live.
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  Speaker 1: Shift what it was treated at the hospital, but the
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  Speaker 1: family can no longer afford the ointments to help her heal.
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  Speaker 4: And the s hey manish fish.
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  Speaker 5: There is a huge concern for the rodents that we
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  Speaker 5: see here in Gaza, and they carry very high risk
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  Speaker 5: of infection.
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  Speaker 6: They carry diseases that could be deadly.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor nol Shehaff traveled from Texas to volunteer at Gaza's
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  Speaker 1: Al Shifa Hospital. She was also working here when the
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  Speaker 1: sea spar began, and says the plight of people like
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  Speaker 1: little Wad and her family has still not improved.
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  Speaker 4: Her been.
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  Speaker 6: She's only three, so her whole life has been really
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  Speaker 6: just like this is all she knows. She's never seen stability.
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  Speaker 6: She's never known any type of normal living.
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  Speaker 1: Conditions, aside from rats. Un workers nearby spray against another
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  Speaker 1: spreader of disease, mosquitoes hovering over the stagnant dirty water
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  Speaker 1: flowing through the camp. Despite these measures, the unrelenting conditions,
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  Speaker 1: lack of resources, and continued bombings mean Gaza's hospitals cannot
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  Speaker 1: save many patients with otherwise treatable conditions.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen so many children with injuries related to bombings
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  Speaker 5: or shootings and have been absolutely targets of this war,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm still seeing it now despite several months into
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  Speaker 5: the ceasefire.
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  Speaker 1: Since January twenty two, hospitals and healthcare centers in Gaza
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  Speaker 1: have been attacked, according to the World Health Organization, and
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  Speaker 1: as of now, there are only about a dozen partially
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  Speaker 1: functioning hospitals in the strip.
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  Speaker 6: Hospitals are supposed to be safe spaces.
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  Speaker 4: They're supposed to be.
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  Speaker 6: Somewhere where people go for healing.
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  Speaker 1: Al Shifa is the largest medical complex in Gaza, and
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  Speaker 1: it has come under attack several times during the war,
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  Speaker 1: killing hundreds inside the hospital. Israel said some of the
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  Speaker 1: buildings were being used by Hamas. The hospital's director says
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  Speaker 1: there are no nursery beds compared to the fifty they
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  Speaker 1: once had, and less than half of the operating rooms
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  Speaker 1: left are functional.
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  Speaker 6: I'm standing right now outside of the surgery building at
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  Speaker 6: Schaffa Hospital that housed all kinds of surgeries under The
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  Speaker 6: patients used to be able to receive care at this
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  Speaker 6: facility and now it's completely destroyed.
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  Speaker 4: The Gaza ceasefire delivered record levels of humanitarian aid. You
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  Speaker 4: don't hear those stories anymore with people survey.
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  Speaker 1: In January, the Trump administration unveiled a real estate master
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  Speaker 1: plan for Gaza. The plan included one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: tourism towers, residential areas, parks, an airport, and a railway.
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  Speaker 1: But it all hinged on her mass disarming, and that
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  Speaker 1: has not happened.
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  Speaker 7: In the beginning, we were toying with the idea of saying,
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  Speaker 7: let's build a free zone and then we have a
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  Speaker 7: Hamas zone, and then we said, you know what, let's
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  Speaker 7: just plan for catastrophic success. We have as signed a
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  Speaker 7: deal with de militarized. That is what we are going
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  Speaker 7: to enforce. People asked just what our plan be is.
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  Speaker 7: We do not have a Plan B.
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  Speaker 1: Without a Plan B, Gaza was split into two, meaning
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  Speaker 1: Gaza's more than two million people were crammed into less
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  Speaker 1: than half of the western part of the strip. Israel's
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  Speaker 1: leader says the plan is to occupy more Land, whose.
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  Speaker 4: Shibum Mama had sacked for some football heirs, which like
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  Speaker 4: you know what is it's zamble shabble for us. Thine
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  Speaker 4: is that is Albert and the first drum Yalla.
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  Speaker 2: I must give you a lean foramanam or.
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  Speaker 1: In a cease fire. There are still threats from Israeli
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  Speaker 1: air strikes that echo across encampments like these. Garza's health
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  Speaker 1: ministry says is Ready attacks throughout Gaza have killed over
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  Speaker 1: one thousand people since the US broken October seasfar deal
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  Speaker 1: between Israel and Hamas. Israel says each time it is
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  Speaker 1: targeting terrorists. As strikes continue, Whil's father remains focused on
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  Speaker 1: the revival of his children, like.
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  Speaker 2: In Leybo Dijen of him, Zak Been liss As Barbara,
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  Speaker 2: Oh for sure is Coln you look like Ami Ina, Jenny,
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  Speaker 2: Bara Magfinla main Is family and Scharffin.
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  Speaker 8: We are so grateful to Tom, Sophie Berg and the
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  Speaker 8: entire team for that story. ABC News reached out to
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  Speaker 8: Prime Minister Benjamin etna Who's office asking why the I
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  Speaker 8: d F has been ordered to take more land. A
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  Speaker 8: sportsperson told ABC News President Trump's twenty point piece Planet unequivocal.
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  Speaker 8: AMAS must disarm and Gaza must be demilitarized. It can
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  Speaker 8: happen the easy way or the hard way, but it
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  Speaker 8: will happen. And in response to continuing strikes during the ceasefire,
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  Speaker 8: the spokesperson said AMAS continues to violate the terms of
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  Speaker 8: the US cease fire and that in accordance with the
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  Speaker 8: US ces fire, the Idea of has the right to
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  Speaker 8: defend against these threats. The Idea of targets terrorists and
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  Speaker 8: not civilians and takes precautionary measures before strikes. End quote