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00:00Crowding around a food distribution site in Deir el-Bala, schools of Palestinians seek
00:06to stave off the hunger that's become so widespread.
00:09Humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip remain dire, and on Tuesday, eight international
00:15aid organizations said that Israel had missed a US deadline to reduce human suffering in
00:21the territory.
00:23The US sent Israel a letter on October 13, warning it had 30 days to take a list of steps
00:29to improve the situation or risk losing American military support.
00:34On Monday, Israel's new foreign minister appeared to downplay the deadline.
00:39We see how we can respond in difficult circumstances to the humanitarian demands.
00:48I'm sure that we can also reach understanding with our American friends.
00:55According to the aid organizations, Israel showed partial or inconsistent implementation
01:01on four of the American demands, and non-compliance, delays or backtracking on 15 of them.
01:08One key demand was to increase the amount of aid trucks entering Gaza.
01:12The UN said an average of 37 trucks passed into the Strip per day in October.
01:18That's compared to roughly 200 per day in the two previous months.
01:23But barely any of this made it to northern Gaza, where Israel launched a major offensive
01:28weeks ago.
01:29The Israeli military says it's fighting Hamas militants who have regrouped in the north.
01:35Rights groups and observers have accused Israel of trying to implement a plan in which the
01:39army forcibly displaces the population from the area.
01:43In its letter to Israel, the US had asked for written commitment that the military was
01:48not seeking to isolate northern Gaza.