Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Salwa el-Tibi, who's in Gaza. El-Tibi is program director for "Save the Children," a relief organization that delivered aid to people in Gaza during today's three-hour truce.
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LISA MULLINS: Salwa El-Tibi is the Program Director of the charity Save The Children in Gaza. She says she was able to take advantage of today's pause in the fighting.
SALWA EL-TIBI: It was for three hours, from 1:00 to 4:00, and this is the first time – the second time actually to leave the house, to go to our office, to complete our working in distributing food baskets among the people and distribute medical supplies to the hospitals and the clinics as well. And with the other time [INDESCERNIBLE] my way, I went to buy some, you know, food for my children.
MULLINS: So the provisions that you got, were they provisions that had come in recently from Israel or were these food stuffs that had been in storage, in the storage area for Save The Children all along?
EL-TIBI: No. It was actually in Gaza and we store them in our warehouse in Gaza.
MULLINS: So are you getting any deliveries of food or humanitarian aid from Israel?
EL-TIBI: No. No. It was stored in Gaza before, you know.
MULLINS: What is it like when you're out on the road, when you went out today in, presumably a Save The Children vehicle; is that correct?
EL-TIBI: Yes. I was driving a Save The Children car, and I put the logo on the flag, you know, of Save The Children on the top of my car. Yes.
MULLINS: And did you feel safe?
EL-TIBI: No, no, no, no. I didn't feel safe but I have to do, you know? I have to. The people is very needy for food at this time.
MULLINS: What kind of food?
EL-TIBI: It's canned jam, sugar, peas, milk, you know, rice – like this.
MULLINS: Does your family have enough food itself? You have how many children living at home now?
EL-TIBI: Four children plus my husband.
MULLINS: And what kind of provisions do you have?
EL-TIBI: The same. Cans, you know, sugar, peas. I didn't succeed to get, by the way, bread you know, but I succeed to have just a few – a little, you know, quantity of flour so I can make bread inside my house, you know.
MULLINS: So you have electricity?
EL-TIBI: No. We have no electricity since five days. But I can use, you know, the cooking gas.
MULLINS: Cooking gas to make the bread?
EL-TIBI: Yes. Many people they haven't the cooking gas, but I have a small button of cooking gas.
MULLINS: So you have no electricity even now as we speak?
EL-TIBI: Yes. Yes. There's no electricity in all of Gaza Strip, you know.
MULLINS: And one more question. Your children who are home, I think the youngest is 7 years old. How are they doing?
EL-TIBI: Actually, she's suffering from, you know, psychological problems such as start to have bed-wetting, you know? And it's very hard, you know? She's afraid. When she hears the bombing she starts to close her eyes, she starts to close her ears with her fingers, and she tries you know, to shout. And she will follow me even if I go to the bathroom or to the kitchen or to the roof or anyplace in the house, she will follow me because she's afraid. And sometimes she says to me, “Please, mom. Please, mom. Stop the bombing.†This is what's happening with my daughter [INDESCERNIBLE]
MULLINS: Is the bombing continuing now since the cease-fire for today is over?
EL-TIBI: It's continual after 4:15 exactly. 4:15 it starts, you know. We can hear now some shooting and some bombing you know, but now very close to my area, to my house, you know.
MULLINS: That's Salwa El-Tibi of Save The Children. She was speaking from Gaza just after a three-hour truce ended earlier today.
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