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Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has arrived in Egypt to call for urgent aid supplies to enter Gaza, including the possibility of using British ships to bring supplies by sea. The former prime minister also said he wanted to see the United Nations Security Council reach consensus on a resolution on humanitarian relief. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 But the incredibly frustrating thing is, you know, not enough aid is getting in.
00:04 We need hundreds of trucks to get in every day.
00:07 People need food, people need water, they need shelter, they need medical equipment,
00:11 and we've got to do more.
00:13 And what you hear here is how many bottlenecks and difficulties and problems there are.
00:17 So what we want to do is keep putting the money in,
00:20 we've trebled the British money going in, keep building the capacity,
00:24 but make it faster and more ways of getting aid into Gaza.
00:27 Let's get the aid from Jordan into Gaza, that's beginning.
00:30 Let's get the aid from here into Gaza, that's working, but not enough trucks getting through.
00:35 And let's look at the maritime routes, can we take aid from Cyprus to Israel, to Gaza?
00:40 So all of these things, because there is a crisis taking place in Gaza.
00:45 People are hungry and cannot get food, people are ill and cannot get medicine,
00:49 and it's going to get worse. We've got to get the aid in.

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