![]() ![]() US intelligence separately has estimated 100 to 300 people were killed. The ambassador is then asked about the hospital blast last week that the Hamas-led Palestinian health ministry killed more than 470 people. "We have been working every single day to get trucks in," he adds. "People need to know where they are safe under international law, places like hospitals, schools, legal institutions are always legally safe."Īfter accusations of "impotence" levelled at the UN as they have not been able to get aid into Gaza, Mr Griffiths says it is "not a decision for people like me" whether those supplies are allowed in. He adds: "We need to know safe corridors, safe paths of access, safe places to live to receive aid. "We are not sure we are going to get ," he adds, saying the UN is "deep in negotiation", but he is a "bit pessimistic".īut they "damn well better" get more tomorrow, he says.Īsked about a short-term solution to stop the violence, Mr Griffiths echoed the head of the UN's words, saying there was "a need for a humanitarian ceasefire". ![]() He says the 20 trucks allowed in yesterday was "a very good start", but "nowhere near" what is needed to help the two million people on the strip. The United Nations humanitarian aid chief, Martin Griffiths, is now on the show and talking about the corridor that has opened up in Rafah to bring some aid into Gaza. "We have got to step this up and get aid and fuel over the border within hours, not days," she adds. She says everyone is "seriously concerned" about the lack of aid getting through to Gaza - especially when it comes to power for hospitals. Ms Nandy also says Labour supports Israel's right to self defence, alongside the Palestinian people "at what is a desperately, desperately critical time where the world simply cannot afford to walk away". "So I think it is right the government is taking care in the way it is approaching this and adding to international efforts to get more aid through the Rafah crossing." "We have got to get the hostages out and get far more aid in," she adds. "Everyone is using a great deal of care," she adds, particularly because of the number of hostages, the ongoing rocket strikes by Hamas and the "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza. ![]() Trevor Phillips' final guest is Labour's shadow minister Lisa Nandy.Īsked whether she is comfortable with the "tone and substance" of the government's response, she says yes. Ms Nandy says her party's focus was on winning with "a positive alternative", and Labour will be doing that every day ahead of the next general election. Trevor argues Labour may be "beholden" to other parties taking votes from the Tories at the next election - such as Reform, the former Brexit Party set up by Nigel Farage. "We are confident we are right about the future of this country, but we are not complacent." "It is starting to make an impact," she says. She says the party is focused on taking their place on the world stage, as well as sorting out the economy at home after the "experiments" of Liz Truss, and supporting young people. "People are genuinely sick of the Tories," she says, "but we have done a huge amount of work over recent years to show that there is not just an opposition to this Tory government but a genuine alternative". ![]() Now to those by-election victories, and Trevor Phillips asks whether Labour are putting forward a positive alternative or just picking up votes due to Conservative mistakes in power. Scroll down to read and watch key clips from today's edition. However, Ms Nandy claimed it was down to Labour offering a "positive alternative" to the the government.On this week's by-elections, Mr Jenrick said he was "disappointed", but blamed mid-term blues and Tory voters staying at home for his party's losses.But the Palestinian ambassador to the UK said people living in Gaza felt "unseen", and the "carnage" in the region was "unprecedented".Labour's Lisa Nandy backed the government's interventions in the Middle East, and called for more aid to be allowed in.But UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said he was "pessimistic" about more aid getting through today.He also said the government was working "very closely" with the UN, Egypt and Israel to get more aid into the Gaza Strip.Immigration minister Robert Jenrick confirmed arrests had been made for terror offences during Palestinian protests since the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out.Here are some of the key points that came out of the show: That's the end of Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips for this week. ![]()
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