CNN’s Bell: Only 94 Foreign Aid Trucks Have Reached Gaza Over the Past 3 Weeks

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BELL: “So the fact that there have been 94 so far gives you an idea of how depleted the resources are inside the Gaza Strip. And I think one important measure of that is what we have seen over the course of the last night, which is desperate civilians raiding the U.N. warehouses to try and get their hands on wheat, on flour, on hygiene supplies, on everything that they need to try and survive. So, those latest 10 trucks, clearly a bit of relief, nowhere near what is needed for the civilians trapped inside. We're hearing — it's very difficult for us to get to the Rafah Crossing, but we're hearing from an Egyptian stringer that we managed to get up there that they are seeing now 40 other trucks that are on the other side of the Rafah Crossing from Egyptian authorities and waiting to get through. The difficulty is the checks that are being imposed on those convoys by Israeli authorities. Now, we have been hearing also from the Israeli military over the course of the weekend saying -- the course of the last few hours, Jake, I'm sorry, saying, 'Look, we're going to hope to get more aid trucks in, but it's extremely slow, and we're wanting to check every aid truck that's going in, because we're concerned about what is getting into the Gaza Strip.' And I think that gives you an idea of why this process is so painstakingly slow, Jake."