requirements. you mentioned the hospitals. i was in shifa hospital speaking to the director there and to some of the staff. they need more medical supplies. more disposables. more drug, the generators are going to shut down because they ve been running effectively only full time and they re very concerned about the safety and freedom of movement of the medical staff and the ambulance staff so that s for the medical sector. for us specifically, we, frankly, have been overwhelmed by the numbers. we ran out of mattresses yesterday. we ran out of hygiene kits. we have been able to keep up with fresh food and water and airlifting right now aircraft is loaded in dubai to fly mattresses and other nonfood items to amman to get them back into gaza as soon as possible. it s not enough to simply return to the situation we had two weeks ago which was untenable and unsustainable. robert turner, director of operations for the u.n. relief agency in gaza. thank you so much for taking
200 countries around the world right now. quick question, your exit strategy from gaza, what is it? sustainable quiet. we didn t seek this escalation, hamas forced it on us. they started rocketing our cities steadily increasing the fire. i called for de-escalation, they refused. i accepted an egyptian cease-fire proposal backed up by the u.n. and the arab league, they refused. i accepted a humanitarian lull proposed by the united nations. they refused. we ll stop our operations when they can bring back quiet to our people. some of your cabinet ministers think the only way to do that is to reoccupy gaza which you evacuated from and gave it up back in 2005. do you support reoccupying gaza? well, i support taking whatever action is necessary to stop this insane situation. just imagine, i mean. imagine what israel is going through. imagine that 75% of the u.s.
this breaking news concerning the conflict in gaza, the armed wing of hamas is now claiming responsibility for capturing an israeli soldier in fighting in gaza. karl penhaul is there in gaza city. he s learned that this capture took place early sunday morning, but it s only been made public through the airwaves there in gaza city just within the past couple of minutes or so taking a very long time to make that claim of responsibility perhaps to help hide or relocate that soldier making it that much more difficult for the israeli defense forces to try to locate their guy. we have now with us karl penhaul in gaza city, also a former israeli ambassador to the u.s. michael orrin and atika shubert
countries around the world right now. quick question. your exit strategy from gaza, what is it? sustainable quiet. i mean, we didn t seek this escalation. hamas forced it on us. they started rocketing our cities, steadily increasing the fire. i called for deescalation. they refused. i accepted an egyptian cease-fire proposal backed up by the arab league and the u.n., they refused. i accepted a humanitarian law proposed by the united nations. they refused. we ll stop our operations when we can bring back quiet to our people. some of your cabinet ministers think the only way to do that is to reoccupy gaza, which you evacuated from and gave it up back in 2005. do you support reoccupying gaza? i support taking whatever action is necessary to stop this insane situation. just imagine, i mean, imagine what israel is going through. imagine that 75% of the u.s. population is under rocket-fire
go back to that cease-fire? i already did. already did. if hamas were to say to you right now we accept the cease-fire would israel raw its forces from gaza? that was the egyptian proposal which we accepted and they refused. if they accepted now, is it too late? i don t know. i don t want to speak about it being too late. i think first thing is a cessation of hostilities but then we d have to would israel withdraw its forces as part of a cessation of hostilities? first we have to deal with this tunnel business because we re not leaving those tunnels. you would stay until those tunnels are destroyed? we re doing that now as we speak. how long is that going to take? it s being done fairly qui quickly but i think the important thing is not to put terms but to end the hostilities and get into a situation where we have a sustainable cease-fire. that means discussing the demilitarization of gaza. they should have been b demilitarized. it became basically an iranian