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A UN report has confirmed famine in parts of Gaza, with nearly a quarter of the population facing starvation. UN aid chief Tom Fletcher blamed Israel’s blockade, but also called it ‘the world's famine’. ‘Everyone owns this… we've watched it happen in real time’.

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00:00It is a famine. The Gaza famine. It is a famine that we could have prevented if we had been
00:10allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine
00:20within a few hundred meters of food in a fertile land. It is a famine in 2025, a 21st century famine
00:31watched over by drones and the most advanced military technology in history.
00:40It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war.
00:45It is a famine on all of our watch. Everyone owns this. The Gaza famine is the world's famine.
00:57It is a famine that asks, but what did you do? A famine that will and must haunt us all. This is
01:09a moment of collective shame and I think we all feel that in different ways. We all have to look
01:14back as the international community and think, where could we have got this in a different
01:21place? And we've watched it happen in real time.

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