David Shearer Quotations

Nothing is going through to Gaza at the moment and private food supplies are drying up.

I can't remember (the West Bank) being that locked down for such a long period of time.

We can do food aid. We can do job creation. But taking over a health ministry is not something that we're equipped to do.

What we were warning before was that stocks were getting low. Today we are saying stocks are gone, and the end-point has been reached.

The situation is extremely serious. In the next day or so all bread supplies will dry up. There is very little else around in terms of rice, which is also short in supply. Bread is the staple diet for Palestinians. It is also the food the poorest people so if that's not available people will start to go hungry.