Mr. John Whyte:

There are a couple of sources, by and large, for water. The Israelis have three major pipelines called Mekorot lines which bring water into Gaza. They turn them on and off strategically as per their decision. We have ground water which is accessed through wells. Many of these wells in the north have been systematically destroyed. We have wells up in the north in Jabalia 8 which can now no longer be used. Water is, of course, the critical issue; food comes close after that. We have been water trucking and using partners to help us with supplying water in water tankards, driving them around to our different shelters in Gaza City. Beach camp is where many have been displaced to, but those contractors have left the north and have now gone to the south, so our ability to provide water is very limited other than where we have wells, where we can actually pump and we still have generators, because as we lose ground, we are trying to relocate our precious assets. Generators cost a fortune in Gaza because you cannot get them in. We have many outside but we cannot get them in. We have to try to retrieve whenever we lose control of an area or it is not safe for us to continue operating in an area. We need to try to bring the assets back to somewhere else. We are continuously trying to do this but we are trying to at least serve people where they are.

This is all about forced displacement of people from Gaza and the north. It is explicit Israeli policy. If people are not allowed to return to an area where they are being displaced from, that is ethnic cleansing. That is a categoric and textbook definition.

Regarding robotic tanks, this is just the latest iteration of a highly technical war that we have seen increasingly mechanised and fought remotely. You have drones in the sky, you have unmanned aerial vehicles, and you have everything. Obviously, for the weapons industry, Gaza has been a testing ground for a long time.