(13 Jan 2009)
1. Wide of trucks loaded with flour and food supplies to be shipped over to Gaza
2. Mid of sacks of flour loaded on truck
3. Wide interior of warehouse full of food supplies
4. Mid of banner on food supplies reading (English/Arabic): "Medicines, food and medical supplies offered by the Brazilian government to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by means of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation."
5. Mid of Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim with Prince Rashid bin Al Hassan, President of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation checking aid supplies, pan right to supplies
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Celso Amorim, Brazilian Foreign Minister:
"These include medicine and food. And these were decided in the first days, actually, of the attacks on Gaza. And because all of us - especially the President Lula, but all the Brazilian people were very shocked, I mean, without going into the politics, were very, very shocked with the attacks, with the deaths, with the killing."
7. Wide of aid stacked in warehouse
8. Mid of worker wrapping boxes with cellophane
9. Wide of truck leaving
STORYLINE:
A Brazilian plane landed in Amman airport on Tuesday, carrying 14 tons of humanitarian aid and medical supplies intended for the beleaguered people of Gaza.
The supplies are to be shipped from Jordan, to Gaza.
Sacks of flour and other vital food aid were loaded onto trucks to reach Gaza's residents, as many as 88 percent now require food aid.
At the warehouse depot Brazilian Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, overseeing the shipment, told reporters the Brazilian government was "very, very shocked" by the Israeli onslaught and the alarming death toll, continuing to rise daily.
Palestinian hospital officials now say more than 900 Palestinians, half of them civilians, have been killed.
Israel has come under intense international scrutiny as the death toll in Gaza spirals.
Amorim was in the Jordanian capital as part of a tour of the Middle East, meeting with various leaders their push to negotiate a diplomacy-led cease-fire.
Israel has allowed some humanitarian aid convoys to enter Gaza, but the shipments and distribution are often disrupted by heavy fighting.
On Tuesday, Israel ceased firing on Gaza for three hours to allow humanitarian supplies through, but aid agencies have said the three-hour lull is not sufficient.
In Brussels, the European Union's aid chief Louis Michel said on Tuesday that Israel has not respected international humanitarian aid during the war.
Meanwhile, in Oslo, Norway, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Karen Abu Zayd, urged the Israeli army to do more to allow supplies into the besieged area.
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