Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)

I will direct this to Mr. Clarken because he answered a few questions on it. I will take the opportunity to raise the situation in Gaza.

On what is happening on the ground at present, I agree that the approach being taken by this new organisation, backed by the US Administration, is about control. It is a weaponising of it. To have a starving population, this situation on top of it and the deaths that have now followed in the mishandling of it all, is terrible. Will the witnesses give an insight into when organisations such as theirs and UNRWA were channelling aid, say, five or six months ago? I know that is not necessarily right but I picked an intermediate point when the humanitarian situation was severe but was in advance of the blockade of aid. How many people were being served by UNRWA and the likes of the organisations here? What is the equivalent now? Do they believe that people, either individuals or groups of people, or particular locations, are being deliberately deprived of aid for political reasons or whatever?