Philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. You run the unwra relief agency. You have 13,000 staff inside gaza. You currently are not able to visit gaza. What is it like when you hear that, as yesterday, wednesday, six members of your staff have been killed in an israeli bomb attack? this is always absolutely devastating. Yesterday i was boarding the plane coming from cairo to london, when i heard the news. And this happened in a school which was also sheltering at that time 12,000 people. And they are in this school because they still believe that the united nations flag can protect them. Yesterday, six staff working in the shelter, providing assistance, organising, in fact, the lives of these families, have been killed. Now 220 staff since the beginning of the war. The worst, stephen, is to know that maybe tomorrow we will even have more staff being killed. And the question is, when will this end? not only staff is being targeted, but we have also the united nations
Really sunny on the channel coast, East Anglia and into lincolnshire. Most of the North Sea Coast as well. The wind will change direction, by saturday they will come in from the south west. Through sunday, the milder air will have established itself across the uk, so temperatures once start to nudge up to about 20 or so. Some of us will pay for it, in the South Westerly is we often get Weather Fronts so there will be a few showers on sunday, not everywhere, and certainly some sunny spells. 18 in belfast once again, 17 in aberdeen. To the east of the pennines, not far off 20 celsius. High pressure expected to build across the uk on monday, which means Light Winds, prolonged spells of sunshine, which are expected to last for the days ahead. Monday, tuesday, wednesday across the bulk of the uk, bright and fairly warm. Goodbye. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. When israel fires missiles on gaza, it describes them as precision strikes aimed at hamas targets. What results is often cat
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philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. well, it is a pleasure to have you in the studio, but i am very mindful thatjust a few days ago you were in gaza looking at your unrwa relief operations on the ground. you ve come out, you ve had a chance to reflect on what you saw. what were your overriding impressions? it was the second time i went to gaza since the war started, and my impression was that the humanitarian situation has significantly deteriorated. as you said in the introduction, we have 1.7 million people who have been displaced. among them, one million are sheltering in united nations schools or warehouses and premises across the gaza strip. i visited one of these places in khan younis. it s a vocational training centre. we have 35,000 people there. it looked, in a certain extent, like a prison because people shut the door of the compound to prevent new people to come in this shelter. hang on. just let me get my mind around this. 35,000 disp