#PODCAST UN Emergency Relief describe the situation in occupied Palestine and Israel as "bone-chilling" #sabcnews

"Bone-chilling" - is how the U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths has described the scale and speed of what's unfolding in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel. In aftermath of the brazen, multi-pronged attack by Hamas on Israel in which more than 1000 people were killed, Israel has responded by pulverizing the Gaza Strip with air strikes, a tiny enclave that is home to more than two million Palestinians. Blocked from leaving the area due to a siege imposed by Israel and a single border crossing with Egypt closed indefinitely, almost 200-thousand Palestinians are packed into U.N. shelters as already desperate conditions deteriorate rapidly with no supplies of electricity, water, food and fuel able to enter the area. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports...