United Nations denounces crisis in Gaza Strip

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At least 400,000 Palestinians are trapped in the northern Gaza Strip amid growing famine and increased Israeli attacks, a UN official said today. teleSUR
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00:00On Tuesday, the UN denounced that the population of the Gaza Strip is facing the worst restrictions
00:04on humanitarian aid since the beginning of the war a year ago. The spokesman for the United
00:08Nations Children's Fund, James Elder, said the situation for children is worse every day than
00:13the last. He kept declaring that the amount of humanitarian aid sent in August to the Gaza Strip
00:18was the lowest in a month since the war broke out, and added that there have been several days over
00:24the past week when no trucks were allowed in. Elder stressed that earlier in the year, when the
00:28UN feared a famine in the Gaza Strip, there was a real pressure to open new routes and new
00:33access points. However, it is the opposite nowadays.

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