With famine already preying on some of Gaza's 2.3 million people and little sign of a breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, world governments and humanitarian groups have focused on getting more aid into the enclave.
homeless and 30,000 families left their homes because they were damaged. they need help, evacuation, shelter. they need to be rehabilitated. they need supplies, electricity, opening the roads. a lot of work to do but until now there is no aid coming, regarding there is no aid coming, regarding the response to the earthquake. what the response to the earthquake. what ou need the response to the earthquake. what you need more the response to the earthquake. what you need more than the response to the earthquake. what you need more than anything, it seems, is heavy machinery, to move these buildings that are collapsed. yes. we arranged for the country donors, to ask them to request for heavy machines and also spare parts, everything possible to do the job and also for the community. the community before the earthquake had
under a lot of pressure to negotiate, as well. you already introduced that idea. he said no. he s not going to negotiate until certain conditions apply, until he gets the russians out of his country. so there s that parallel, as well. and zelenskyy is facing a new dynamic here in washington, which is tonight he is going to face a congress that is changing hands, a congress that may have different views from the aid that is coming over to his country. koven he s going to thank congress for the aid coming, but that s not going to be the end of it. there is talk they may have to come back and do this again next year, maybe even the spring. that s possible that this money could run dry. and who will be in charge of that? the house republicans will be in charge of spending that money. he will have to make the case to flun republicans who are skeptical. some of them are uncertain about whether more money is needed.
this 40-mile long convoy of russian tanks, i get that. it s a sight to see. you wonder why they have not targeted it for attack. having said that, we know that they re looking at odessa, a crucial seaport, very close to the sea, seizing that and looking at other seaports that have been seized. i m thinking with this talk the president has of more aid coming, it would be coming to points like that that now could be or are already under russian control. doesn t that make this aid and talk of billions more a moot point then? i mean, we run that risk, although we ve still got western ukraine, that front is reportedly still open to us. you re right. even if we get the weapons in through western ukraine, getting them from there to where the fighting is another challenge, this highlights i m sorry to say it, the strategic failure on