What Israel's new war means for Gaza
The Guardian's chief Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, tells Nosheen Iqbal that the killings in Gaza have by no means stopped and that many aid experts believe the current food distribution system, based around an opaque organisation called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has been doomed from the start.
The pair also discuss the so-called Popular Front, a Palestinian criminal group that Israel is arming in Gaza, and the impact that Israel's conflict with Iran will have on the situation in the strip.
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