Save the Children CEO says ‘children waiting their turn to die’ in Gaza

So, there are a million children in Gaza

in desperate need. Uh, the UN says the

11week Israeli blockade has caused the

rate of young children suffering from

acute malnutrition to

triple. What are you able to get in to

help? So, since March 2nd, Save the

Children has been able to get nothing in

whatsoever. Even though the blockade's

over, even though the blockade is

formally over, we haven't been able to

get any of our the 50 trucks that we

have around Gaza on the border ready to

go in. We haven't been able to get

anything in. So, our staff are operating

currently still with what we have. We

have dwindling stocks, medical supplies,

therapeutic malnutrition treatment for

children, very young children. We're

still working where we can and

delivering goods while we can, but these

stocks are dwindling fast. What's the

choke point? Why can't your trucks get

in? We haven't gotten any authorization

to get them in from the Israeli

authorities. Yes. Um, is the US

government helping at all?

I think there is um there's an effort. I

think there's a recognition that the

humanitarian situation as it is is

completely untenable that we're looking

at mass starvation of innocent civilians

and above all very young children as you

said. Uh so there's attempts being made.

We think that those attempts currently

are completely ineffective and and

inadequate.

Um the director of Alchea Hospital in

Gaza told CBS this morning that only a

few hours remain before the generators

in the hospital shut down because they

don't have enough fuel to keep them

going. What are your medical workers

seeing on the ground? What happens if a

hospital like that can't function? Yeah,

it's I'm not surprised by that. It's

completely abhorrent. We're hearing

stories from colleagues in Gaza that are

talking about children who have to

undergo surgery and then they wake up

during the surgery because there's not

enough anesthetics. So that is what's

happening. That is what it looks like.

That is horrific. It is.

The UN office that oversees these

efforts um have warned as well that kids

are are leaving households because their

parents are gone. That's right. There's

thousands and thousands of children

who've lost one or more parents, lost

their immediate family. So, yes, we'll

have kids, young kids, taking care of

their younger siblings trying to

survive. What does that do to a society?

It it it's unbelievable what's happening

to this generation uh of two million

people in Gaza. Um you know, the trauma

is hard to overestimate. Uh we are

hearing mothers tell us that now their

children are essentially waiting their

turn to