GOOD EVENING, I'M JOHN YANG.

IT'S BEEN ANOTHER DEADLY DAY IN GAZA.

OFFICIALS THERE SAY AT LEAST 33 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ISRAELI STRIKES AND SHOOTINGS.

AMONG THEM WERE PALESTINIANS WHO WERE SHELTERING IN TENTS AND WHO WERE SEEKING SCARCE FOOD.

IT COMES A DAY AFTER A U.N.

BACKED GROUP THAT MONITORS FOOD CRISES DECLARED THAT A HALF-MILLION PALESTINIANS LIVING IN THE GAZA CITY AREA ARE IN THE GRIPS OF A POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING MAN-MADE FAMINE.

WHAT'S MORE, THE GROUP, THE INTEGRATED FOOD SECURITY PHASE CLASSIFICATION OR IPC, PROJECTS THAT BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER, FAMINE WILL EXPAND TO MUCH OF THE REST OF GAZA.

EARLIER, I SPOKE WITH CHRIS MCINTOSH OF OXFAM WHO IS IN GAZA CITY.

CHRIS: RIGHT NOW WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS WHAT WE PREDICTED FOR MONTHS SINCE THE BLOCKADE OF THE BEGINNING.

IN THAT TIME, VERY FEW TRUCKS HAVE GOTTEN IN, LIMITED AMOUNTS OF FOOD, SO WE ARE SEEING PEOPLE THAT ARE GONE, PEOPLE THAT ARE DRAWN AND BONY BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT EATEN BECAUSE THEY ARE FUNDAMENTALLY MALNOURISHED.

THEY'RE NOT GETTING ENOUGH FOOD OR THE RIGHT AMOUNTS OF FOOD.

AND THIS IS ON TOP OF THE DEVASTATING BOMBING ON A DAILY BASIS.

JOHN: IT IS REPORTED THAT IMMEDIATE, LARGE-SCALE, UNOBSTRUCTED HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED.

WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE?

CHRIS: THE CROSSINGS INTO GAZA WOULD BE OPEN AND UNFETTERED ACCESS TO SUPPLIES COMING IN, FOR STARTERS.

SECONDLY, IT WOULD REQUIRE A CEASE-FIRE.

PEOPLE ARE IN NEED OF NEARLY EVERYTHING.

FOOD, ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE, AND THEY NEED TO START LIVING DIGNIFIED LIVES.

AND THAT IS JUST NOT HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

JOHN: PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU CALLED TO REPORT AN OUTRIGHT LIE.

MIKE HUCKABEE SAID TONS OF FOOD HAS GONE INTO GAZA BUT HAMAS SAVAGES STOLE IT AND TO BECOME CORPULENT, SOLD IT ON THE BLACK MARKET.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT?

CHRIS: IT COULDN'T BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

PRIOR TO THE BLOCKADE AT THE BEGINNING OF MARCH, THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 600 TRUCKS BE BROUGHT IN EVERY DAY.

NOW WE ARE LOOKING AT 1/6 OF THAT.

THESE NOTIONS THAT THERE IS TIMES COMING IN, IT ISN'T TRUE.

AND IT IS MISSING CRITICAL NEW ONES, BUT THIS IS HOW ISRAELIS OPERATE.

THEY CREATE CONDITIONS BY WHICH A SIMPLE YES AND NO QUESTION NEEDS TO BE ANSWERED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

IS THERE AID COMING INTO GAZA?

YES.

THEN NEXT QUESTION, IS IT ENOUGH?

I THAT IS A RESOUNDING ABSOLUTELY NOT.

JOHN: IS THERE MORE AID SITTING AT THE BORDER WAITING TO COME IN?

CHRIS: THERE IS FOOD 300 60 DEGREES AROUND THE GAZA STRIP, AND AGENCIES -- 360 DEGREES AROUND THE GAZA STRIP, AND AGENCIES HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF FOOD WAITING AT THE BORDER.

OUR PROBLEM IS OUR ORGANIZATION AND OTHERS WERE TOLD WE ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO BRING IN ANYTHING.

JOHN: HOW IS YOUR STAFF DEALING IN COPING WITH THIS PROBLEM?

CHRIS: WHAT I'M SEEING RIGHT NOW IS OUR STAFF AND PEOPLE ON THE STREET, PURELY AND ON SURVIVAL MODE, FINDING FOOD TO SUSTAIN THEM THROUGH THE NEXT DAY AND THEN DOING IT ALL OVER.

THE AVERAGE GAZAN IS UNDER A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF PRESSURE.

75% OF THEIR DAY IS DEDICATED TO ACTIONS THAT WILL HELP THEM SURVIVE AND THEIR FAMILIES.

JOHN: COULD THERE BE LONG TERM HEALTH EFFECTS, EVEN IF FOOD STARTED FLOWING AGAIN?

HAS DAMAGE ALREADY BEEN DONE TO PEOPLE'S HEALTH?

CHRIS: UNFORTUNATELY, YES.

IF CHILDREN SUSTAIN TIMES OF MALNOURISHMENT, THEY WILL EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENT OF PROBLEMS THAT CAN LAST THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.

THAT IS WHY IT IS SO CRITICAL.

PEOPLE ARE STARTING.

CHILDREN ARE MALNOURISHED.

AND PEOPLE ARE DYING.

JOHN: GIVE US A SENSE OF WHAT IT IS LIKE, NOT JUST THE PHYSICAL PROBLEMS BUT WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE THERE.

CHRIS: HAVING GROWN UP IN NORTHEAST OHIO, I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR WHAT I'M SEEING ON THE GROUND NOW.

THERE IS NO ASPECT OF EXISTENCE THAT IS NOT POLLUTED BY WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.

IN THE MORNINGS I LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW OF THE KITCHEN AND I SEE THAT THERE IS A YELLOW DUMPSTER OUTSIDE THE WINDOW, DOWN ON THE STREET.

LATELY, ON A DAILY BASIS, I SEE CHILDREN INSIDE THAT DUMPSTER, SEARCHING, RUMMAGING ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM FOR A SCRAP OF FOOD, SOMETHING THAT CAN BURN SO THEIR FAMILIES CAN COOK OR SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SOLD FOR FOOD.

IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, AND NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THAT, ESPECIALLY NOT CHILDREN.

JOHN: WHAT CAN BE DONE?

CHRIS: I'M A FIRM BELIEVER THAT PERIODS OF DARKNESS ARE AN INVITATION TO BE THE LIGHT TO CARRY US OUT OF THAT DARKNESS.

THIS IS THE DARKNESS WE READ ABOUT IN HISTORY BOOKS.

AND THAT INVITATION IS TO BE THE COUNTRY THAT WE TELL OURSELVES WE ARE, TO TELL OURSELVES TO BE THE COUNTRY WE WOULD LIKE TO BE AND ULTIMATELY BE THE COUNTRY WE SHOULD BE.

ETITIONING REPRESENTATIVES AND MAKING IT CLEAR THAT WE DO NOT WANT TO BE ON THE BAD SIDE OF THIS AND WE DON'T WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DARKNESS ANY LONGER.

JOHN: CHRIS MCINTOSH THANK YOU VERY MUCH