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The United States asks Israel to provide answers and ensure safe aid delivery after dozens were killed in a scramble for aid in Gaza, calling the situation "desperate." SOUNDBITE
Ten children in Gaza are "losing one leg or two legs" every day, says Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, as he delivers a press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
US Central Command anchored a long-awaited temporary pier, aimed to boost aid deliveries into war-ravaged Gaza, to a beach in the besieged Palestinian territory, says Pentagon's spokesperson Sabrina Singh. SOUNDBITE
Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip "only have enough fuel to run health services...for three more days" says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who blames closed border crossings for the shortage. "Fuel that we expected to be allowed in today has not been allowed in" he says, explaining that, if supplies are not able to get into Gaza, the WHO "cannot sustain our life-saving support." SOUNDBITE
The US military has completed construction of its Gaza aid pier, but weather conditions mean it is currently unsafe to move the two-part facility into place, the Pentagon says. SOUNDBITE
The Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings, whose closure by Israel is cutting off aid to Gaza, must be reopened "immediately", urges UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. SOUNDBITE
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