Ali Rogin:
Scott Anderson with the U.N. Relief Works Agency in Gaza, thank you so much for joining us.
The World Food Program recently tweeted that everyone in Gaza is hungry. Can you just give us a sense of just how dire the food scarcity situation is right now?
Scott Anderson, Deputy Director of Operations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency Gaza: Yes, I'm joining you from the Rafah governorate in Southern Gaza, where there are approximately 1.4 million internally displaced people here.
The only food that most people have is what comes in through the crossing, either Kerem Shalom or Rafah, and it's simply not enough to accommodate the basic needs of this many people. And I have seen a convoy where people are chasing the convoy down the street because they're just desperate to get any food that they can.
We did have a convoy that managed to go north a few days ago with trucks of flour, and as they were carrying their flour away, you could see how happy they were. But the situation really is quite desperate, children begging for food because they don't have any. It's just a very difficult situation for them, and I can't imagine how their parents feel not being able to provide for them.
So I think that, overall, we need to do more as a humanitarian community. We need to get more food in.
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