Aid Coordinator Describes Disease, Famine as Israel Blows Up Residential Towers

"There's no real safe zone in Gaza [City] and all of the Gaza Strip," says Eyad Amawi, who joins us for an update from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces move deeper into Gaza City to forcibly evict 1 million residents. The local aid coordinator describes relentless bombardment, water shortages, infectious diseases and worsening famine. "All of these things must end now. As a human being, the most priority is the life of the civilians here."

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