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Saved - October 19, 2024 at 8:53 AM

@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert

A complete moral collapse. It will stain our history for generations to come. Dr. Mads

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According to the speaker, the situation in Gaza is the worst man-made medical disaster in human history. Israeli occupation forces perpetrated over 1,000 attacks on health care in Gaza and the West Bank in the last year. The speaker claims that the systematic starvation and thirsting of 2.3 million people, especially children, is a systematic genocide. The speaker believes the only language Israel understands is sanctions, economic crisis, and a stop to weapon supplies. The speaker states that this systematic genocide is signed off by the United States of America and Israel, with silent support from EU governments, and is one of the greatest human disgraces and a complete moral collapse that will stain history.
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Speaker 0: It is a complete moral collapse, and it will stain our history for generations to come. Can we begin with this situation in Gaza? Because I know you've been to the enclave. This is, to my knowledge, the worst medical man made disaster in human history. Israeli occupation forces perpetrated more than 1,000 attacks on health care in Gaza and the West Bank during the last year alone. They have plans and procedures to attack health care. But I think the most inhuman part of Israeli politics is the systematic starvation and thirsting of 2,300,000 people of whom have our children. Our children. This is beyond doubt a systematic genocide. The only language Israel is understanding is sanctions, and it is economical crisis and it is stopped in weapon supplies. This is systematic genocide signed off by the United States of America and by Israel with the silent support by the governments of EU. It is one of the greatest human disgraces. It is a complete moral collapse and it will stain our history for generations to come.
Saved - May 11, 2024 at 1:39 PM

@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert

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Hospitals in Gaza are struggling, with Najjar hospital closed and Kuwait hospital only handling trauma cases. There are no beds for critical patients. 45 babies in intensive care units are at risk if Israeli army occupies the area. Moving people from Rafa to Al Narassi is not feasible due to lack of space and resources, with only 3 days of fuel left for health services. Translation: Hospitals in Gaza are facing challenges, with limited capacity and resources. The safety of babies in intensive care is at risk if the area is occupied. Moving people to another location is not possible due to lack of space and resources.
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Speaker 0: There is no hospitals effectively now. An Najjar hospital is out of service, and, the Kuwait hospital just for trauma and for the emergency. We have no, beds no hospitals to repair. It's especially for critical patients. Speaker 1: At the moment, there are 45 babies between the neonatal intensive care unit and the special intensive care unit. Without a doubt, if the Israeli army occupies this space, space, every single one of those babies will die. Speaker 2: This notion that that, you know, a million plus people from Rafa might be able to be moved to Al Narassi is is nonsense, frankly. There's no room there at all. And, of course, it's also important to point out there are no resources there. We only have enough fuel to run health services in the for 3 more days.
Saved - May 3, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Dr. Adnan, a Palestinian surgeon and advocate for Gaza, tragically died in Israeli prisons after being arrested while helping others. Many question why the perpetrators of this alleged torture and war crimes are not being held accountable by the ICC. - Dr. Mads

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Dr Adnan, a dedicated Palestinian surgeon and exceptionally brave fighter for the people of Gaza, died under torture in Israeli prisons after being arrested while carrying out his humanitarian work. Why are the perpetrators not being arrested and tried by the ICC for their heinous war crimes? Dr Mads

Saved - April 22, 2024 at 11:00 PM

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My latest interview with TRT (Turkish TV, English) on the new mass graves uncovered in Nasser Hospital. When are the war criminals to be stopped? Dr. Mads https://t.co/1NuLJLulbq

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A doctor describes the horrific war crimes committed by Israeli forces in Gaza, targeting hospitals and civilians. He criticizes Western governments for failing to stop the atrocities, calling for global pressure to hold Israel accountable. The doctor highlights the resilience of Palestinians and urges the release of detained healthcare workers. The ongoing violence reflects a colonial mindset, with a plea for international action to end the suffering.
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Speaker 0: Hello. And I speak to doctor Mats Gilbert. He's a professor of emergency medicine. Doctor Gilbert has worked for 20 years in Gaza and trained junior doctors. So doctor, great to have you here with us. You are listening to our correspondent, Ashraf Chan, describing the bodies that have been discovered from mass graves. And I think this detail is a bit too distressing for our audience. Some people were found with their heads cut, some without essential organs, and, you know, I just wanna ask you, what do you make of this? Speaker 1: Well, to be honest with you, I I am sick to the bone. I want to throw up when we once more see the result of the Israeli occupation army and their ruthless massacres of unarmed civilian people in the hospitals, in Shefa, in Nasser, in other hospitals. Places of sanctuary to protect life and to give people a shelter when they are wounded, injured or sick. They, the Israeli occupation army, use these places to perform the most horrible, sadistic massacres of the Palestinian people. I'm reminded of the Srebrenica massacre. I'm reminded of the Nazi massacres. This is so abhorrent that I think we are watching now not only an occupation army that has left any humanity, any respect for any international laws or human laws by and large, but we see live a massive moral collapse in the Western governments and in the U. S. Because all of this was avoidable Because Israel could have been stopped by the US. Had they only stopped to provide the bombs and the money, there would not have been these massacres. So this is a huge moral collapse, and it is an attack on all of us because the way the Israeli army is allowed to treat the Palestinian people is an attack on every one of us. And I hope that the few governments in the Global South and the few European governments that that still stand strong like the Turkish government can put more pressure on the United States and the NATO members to stop this insane abuse of power against unarmed people. And as a doctor, to hear that many of the killed, the massacred people are patients with the IV line still inside and with their hands tied to the back and shot at point blank as patients. Of course, these are gross war crimes and Netanyahu is maybe our time's greatest war criminal, and he must be taken to court and to accountability like the perpetrators in Severin Nchavir. Speaker 0: Doctor, as you rightly pointed out, hospitals are supposed to be a place of sanctuary, a place where people can seek refuge. But the fact that some of the most heinous crimes were perpetrated by Israeli forces in hospitals across Gaza. What do you think this tells us about Israel's war strategy and perhaps the current state of humanity in the world? Speaker 1: Well, I listened to the report earlier on your channel from the Euro Mediterranean Human Right Watch, Human Right Monitor, mister Mohammed Shehada. And I think he's right in pointing out that the Israeli occupation army is sending a message to the Palestinian people, not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank that this is what's going to become of you if you try to resist the occupation. And we've seen this, this is nothing new. Israeli occupation forces have been attacking healthcare over the last 20 years. Only during this attack from the 7th October until February, the WHO, UN, recorded more than 600 attacks on health care in Gaza alone. And you have the attacks in Tulkarem, in Jenin, on the ambulances. So this is a modus operandi. And I think the Israeli occupation forces, they cannot control the Israeli popular resistance because the people of Gaza, when you watch the the images we see now, you see great human bravery. They resist. They take care of the wounded. They dig with their hands to find the victims of the bombing. And not only that, but as you said, they dig with their hands to recover the dead bodies to give them a decent burial. So the Israelis, they attack health care in order to dismantle, to destroy the civilian society, of the Palestinians. That's the politics of elimination, and they want to scare the Palestinians from resisting. That will never happen. But I think what this leads to is that more and more people all over the world are seeing now the true character of Israeli colonial occupation project and the genocide they are perpetrating in full daylight on live television every day without United States, without the EU governments, without the UK and without NATO saying, this we will not accept. It could have been stopped. All of these 100 massacres in Shifa and in Nasser could have been alive if, Israel had been controlled. Speaker 0: Doctor, you and I have discussed this before as well, and I'll ask this question again because I believe that the world needs to know what is the stumbling block here. Why a ceasefire cannot be reached? Why countries like the United States have totally failed in stopping Israel's onslaught on Gaza. There is clear evidence out there that war crimes have been perpetrated by Israeli forces. Many independent human rights organizations have corroborated that. Children have been killed in their 1,000, yet Israeli attacks across Gaza continue. Why? Speaker 1: Well, sadly, I think this is in the character of colonialism. This is in the reflexes of the western colonial powers. They've all done this before with Africa, with South America, and for US with the Arab, the Arab states and with the the Asian states. So for them to occupy and to kill the indigenous people and to erase their history and their culture through the epistemic side, to bomb the universities, and to eliminate the people. It is nothing new. This is a prolongation of the European and and American United States colonial strategies to gain more resources, more material, more slaves. So it's nothing new to them, unfortunately. And we need all of us now to take stock and to find out where we are standing with regards to this colonial killing that actually, it's not only that USA has not managed to stop them. They have not wanted to stop the Israeli occupation army. And let me, at the end, remind you that there are still hundreds of health care workers being detained by the Israelis. And you were reporting from Nasser Hospital, doctor Khaled Alsair. He is a young surgeon. He is captured by the Israelis, probably now under torture. And I think I I would really politely ask your president to put pressure on Israel to release all the health care workers that are currently imprisoned in the, concentration camps in Israel and in the Negev desert because we need not to give up hope for life. We need all of us now to fight these criminal atrocities that we're seeing every day as we are sitting safely in Europe or wherever. Speaker 0: Doctor Matt Gilbert, it's always a pleasure talking to you, sir. Thank you very much for talking to us here on TRT World.
Saved - April 4, 2024 at 5:23 PM

@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert

Women and children in Gaza are targeted by the israeli occupation forces in the most brutal ways…

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In Gaza, Israeli forces target women and children, leading to high death rates due to preventable causes like lack of clean water and food. Pregnant women and newborns face serious risks. Menstruating women lack hygiene kits, risking infections and infertility. The situation calls for urgent support to prevent deaths from famine, infections, and dehydration. It's crucial to act now to protect the people of Gaza.
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Speaker 0: In Gaza, the women and the children are targeted by the Israeli occupation forces in the most brutal way. And we know that so far, 9,000 women have been killed and more than 13,000 children. Because of the lack of clean water, the lack of food, and the lack of medical capacity, these women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and these newborn children are at high risk of dying from a 100% preventable causes. There are 77,000 pregnant women in Gaza. All of them need good food, clean water, followed up by midwives and medical system, and a safe environment to delivering. And every day, there are between 170 and a 100 and 80 deliveries in Gaza. In addition to that, all the young women who are menstruating do not have hygiene kits. They do not have sanitary pads, and they do not have the clean water you need to maintain a good hygiene. That will result in infections, and many of these infections will cause abdominal infections, in worst case, which again can cause infertility. So what we see is a massive attack, a massive attack on the reproduction capacity of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We have to stop this because the women of Gaza and the children of Gaza today risk massive death from famine, from infections, from dehydration, and from common diseases. All of you can do something more. All of us need to do something more, because they need our support now.
Saved - April 4, 2024 at 5:11 PM

@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert

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Saved - April 4, 2024 at 5:00 PM

@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert

BREAKING: Shifa Hospital's medical leaders hold an improvised press conference outside the ruins of the totally destroyed tertiary, university hospital, Gaza's most important. Israel is fully responsible for this war crime. We shall never forget! Dr. Mads https://t.co/aE5DV1TWGH

Saved - March 24, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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IOFs war crimes reach new lows with sieges, executions, torture, and abductions at Al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals. World leaders remain silent. Gazan woman Jamila Al Hassi shares a devastating testimony of hunger, thirst, displacement, and bombardment, with no help from the Red Cross during a six-day siege. She recounts burning people alive, se*ual vi*lence, and desecration of corpses, feeling betrayed by the Red Cross.

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IOFs war crimes at new horrendous low now: siege, executions, torture and abduction of patients, relatives, staff during new, extreme invasions of Al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals. Where are the ‘world leaders’?? Dr. Mads Jamila Al Hassi, a Gazan woman who was trapped with 65 families in an UNDP building, shares, in an Al Jazeera report, a devastating testimony from the vicinity of Al Shifa' Medical Complex in Gaza. Describing the situation as tragic and beyond words, she talks of hunger, thirst, displacement, and bombardment that have left children wounded and families torn apart. Despite pleas to the Red Cross during a six-day siege with no food or water, help did not come. As they finally leave, without knowing their destination, they walk through a landscape of destruction, under constant threat from drones and snipers. Jamila recounts horrors witnessed within Al Shifa', including burning people alive, se*ual vi*lence against women and the desecration of corpses, expressing an intense sense of betrayal by the Red Cross.

Saved - March 22, 2024 at 5:17 PM

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On ISrael’s systematic and criminal attacks on healthcare in Gaza (and the West Bank) - BBC World yesterday. Dr. Mads https://t.co/V92GTie3CP

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Dr. Mads Gilbert, a volunteer at Al Shefa Hospital, reports on the dire situation in Gaza. Israeli attacks have crippled medical services, with hospitals like Shefa and Nasser Medical Complex out of function. The Israel Defense Force claims to target terrorists but has a history of attacking civilian healthcare. Dr. Gilbert emphasizes the importance of protecting healthcare as a basic human right. Concerns are raised about the lack of international response to Israeli actions.
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Speaker 0: The Reuters news agency, but, let's get more on this. Joining me now is doctor Mads Gilbert. He's been a regular volunteer at the Al Shefa Hospital for 16 years, experiencing firsthand the struggle to provide health care during wars in Gaza. Thank you, doctor For speaking to us here on BBC News. What are you hearing about what's happening? It is very difficult to verify accounts coming out of there, but clearly, you have connections. You know the hospital well. Speaker 1: Yes. I actually had a long conversation with doctor Josef now. There were rumors earlier today that Israelis had bombed the new big surgical block. That has not been confirmed. What is confirmed, however, is that they have abducted 10 medical doctors, 1 nurse, and one medical doctor was shot through the chest when he followed the orders to leave the hospital. He was later operated in another hospital. So the situation is extremely dangerous, and it's very dire because what they had achieved now was to gradually reopen the medical functions in Shefa. So they had started gradually with daycare surgery with the dialysis, which is badly needed, and other functions. So this, new, medical function of Chifa is not lost, no lost. That means that the people in the north of Gaza have, barely no medical services in hospital. And when you add to the fact that Nasser Medical Complex in the South, which is the 2nd largest hospital in Gaza, is also, according to the Minister of Health, totally out of function. That means they have lost 2 very important hospital resources during these attacks the last few weeks. And for the attack on Shifa, we don't know how many of those who have been executed are actually patients or medical staff or relatives of patients or refugees? Speaker 0: We should say that the Israel Defense Force are putting updates out about about the operations that are ongoing. They are talking about the fact that they eliminated, in their words, more than 50 terrorists at the hospital. They said that weapons storage facilities have been located, and they said they are operating while preventing harm to patients, staff, and equipment. Speaker 1: Well, from the army and the government who are known to be liars, I just have to say that because I've been working with Palestinian healthcare since 1980 one. And and it is a pattern of their attacks on the civilian society to attack primary healthcare and hospital healthcare and ambulances. There is no doubt about that. And when they attacked Shefa last time, there was no proof of any military activity in Shefa. And they don't need that excuse because they've actually attacked almost every hospital in Gaza, including the Rantisi, Oncology Hospital for children, the Turkish hospital for adult cancer patients. So all hospitals, And I just read the last WHO report, and they summed up 378 Israeli attacks on health care in Gaza from 7th October until 12th February, 378 tax. And the latest right to health report that comes every year, which is WHO also, they summed up that during 2019 to 'twenty one, there were 563 Israeli attacks on health care. So really, all these attacks that we have seen in Gaza on health care, not only hospitals, primary health care, ambulances, and as we know from the UN numbers, it's almost 400 health care workers who have been killed by the Israeli army. These attacks on health care are attacks on an immune part of society. Regardless of, what else is happening, healthcare should be protected to have a safe place to go when you're sick or injured. And also, everyone has the right to be protected when you're injured, even if you're a fighter. So, these attacks are very worrisome. I'm very worried that EU, my own government also, and the UK government do not signal that there is a red line to how much harm Israel can exercise and how much destruction they can do to the Palestinian health care. The minister of health said today, we have no more function, almost no more function. Everything is destroyed. Speaker 0: Doctor. Mads Gilbert, we will have to leave it there. We are out of time, but we do appreciate your time coming and talking to us here on BBC News. Thank you.
Saved - March 1, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Over 100 Palestinians were killed and 750 wounded by Israeli forces while collecting food aid in Gaza. The attack occurred as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis. The Gaza Ministry of Health called it a "massacre" and part of Israel's ongoing "genocidal war." Hospitals are struggling to accommodate the large number of patients due to fuel and medicine shortages. Aid agencies have been unable to deliver supplies to northern Gaza, putting over 500,000 people at risk of famine. Israel denies delaying deliveries and claims to have taken measures to avert suffering.

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Massacred by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid - 100 killed and about 750 wounded So, The ISraeli fascist army is not satisfied with starving six babies and one 17-years old to death? Now they also shoot to mass kill starving Palestinian civilians hoping for rare trucks with food? How low can they sink? Dr. Mads Massacred by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid More than 100 killed and about 750 wounded after Israeli forces fired at Palestinians trying to get flour for their families as famine stalks the Strip. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis. The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday said at least 104 people were killed and more than 750 wounded, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre”. The ministry said the attack was part of Israel’s ongoing “genocidal war”. It called on the international community to “urgently intervene” to forge a ceasefire as “the only way to protect civilians”. People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area. “We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness. Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said that after opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies. “It is a massacre, on top of the starvation threatening citizens in Gaza,” he said. The dead and wounded had been taken to four medical centres: al-Shifa, Kamal Adwan, Ahli and the Jordanian hospitals. Ambulances could not reach the area as the roads had been “totally destroyed”, said al-Ghoul. “The numbers will rise. Hospitals are no longer able to accommodate the huge number of patients because they lack fuel, let alone medicine. Hospitals have also run out of blood.” Reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith said the Israeli military “initially tried to pin the blame on the crowd” saying that dozens were hurt as a consequence of being crushed and trampled when aid trucks arrived. “And then, after some pushing the Israelis went on to say that their troops felt threatened, that hundreds of troops approached their troops in a way they posed a threat to them so they responded by opening fire,” Smith added. The United States described the killings as a “serious incident”, adding that it was looking into the reports. ‘Beyond words’ One Palestinian man told Quds News Network the military attack was a “crime”. “I have been waiting since yesterday. At about 4:30 this morning, trucks started to come through. Once we approached the aid trucks, the Israeli tanks and warplanes started firing at us, as if it was a trap. “To the Arab states I say, if you want to have us killed, why are you sending relief aid? If this continues, we do not want any aid delivered at all. Every convoy coming means another massacre.” Jadallah al-Shafei, the head of the nurses’ department at al-Shifa Hospital, said that “the situation is beyond any words”, adding that “the hospital was flooded with dozens of dead bodies and hundreds of injured”. “The majority of the victims suffered gunshots and shrapnel in the head and upper parts of their bodies. They were hit by direct artillery shelling, drone missiles and gun firing,” he told Al Jazeera. Systematic attacks The mass shooting was the latest instance of systematic attacks on hungry people waiting for scraps of food. Over the past few days, Palestinians gathered in large groups waiting for aid trucks on Salah al-Din Street near Gaza City have been shot at by Israeli forces, said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah in the enclave’s south. Recently, a truck that was supposed to deliver aid to people in Gaza tragically turned into the truck carrying those injured and killed, he added. With aid agencies unable to deliver supplies to northern Gaza since January 23, many are taking a long trek towards the south by foot. Famine On Wednesday, Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), told the United Nations Security Council more than 500,000, or one in four people, were at risk of famine, with one in every six children below the age of two considered acutely malnourished. “The risk of famine is being fuelled by the inability to bring critical food supplies into Gaza in sufficient quantities, and the almost impossible operating conditions faced by our staff on the ground,” he said. He described dangerous conditions for WFP trucks trying to get food to the north earlier this month. “There were delays at checkpoints; they faced gunfire and other violence; food was looted along the way; and at their destination, they were overwhelmed by desperately hungry people,” said Skau. Aid agencies claim that Israel has been delaying deliveries. Israel denies that charge. It submitted a report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the measures taken to avert suffering in the besieged enclave. Rights groups say Israel acted in breach of the ICJ order issued in January. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said on Sunday on social media that calls to allow food distribution in Gaza amid the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hamas have been denied or “have fallen on deaf ears”. Warning against “looming famine”, the UN official said the situation was becoming a “man-made disaster”. Israel launched a deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip following a Hamas-led attack on October 7. More than 30,000 people are reported to have been killed to date, mostly women and children. SOURCE: AL JAZEERA 🔗 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid

‘Cold-blooded massacre’: Israeli forces kill over 104 aid seekers in Gaza Over 100 killed and 750 wounded after Israeli forces fired at Palestinians collecting food aid in Gaza City. aljazeera.com
Saved - February 28, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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Yesterday, Al Jazeera Arabie posted an English soundtrack of a news-interview. The questions discussed the storming and siege of Nasser Medical Complex by occupation forces, the suspension of humanitarian operations in Gaza by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society due to Israel's attacks on ambulances, and the tragic deaths caused by the siege. The author poses a question to Biden and Blinken regarding their response to deliberate starvation of Jewish children in a ghetto, calling it pure racism.

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This is the English soundtrack from yesterdays Al Jazeera Arabie news-interview posted earlier below https://t.co/uZ3jqivz2H Briefly, the questions were touching on: 1.⁠ ⁠The occupation forces' storming and siege of Nasser Medical Complex. 2.⁠ ⁠Theurgent press release by Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) yesterday announcing suspension of all coordination of humanitarian operations in Gaza for 48 hours due to Israel’s attacks on a convoy of UN-coordinated PRCS-ambulances evacuating critically needing patients from Amal Hospital to surgical hospital in Rafah, stopped for 7 hours by IOF while mistreating and arresting paramedics. 3.⁠ The starving to death the two-months old boy and a 17 year-old girl, caused by the brutal siege of water, food and medical supplies to Gaza. 4.⁠ ⁠My question to Biden and Blinken: How many Jewish children would you have accepted were deliberately starved to death in a ghetto before you would have reacted? This is pure racism! Dr. Mads

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The Israeli occupation forces displaced medical staff and patients at Nasser Hospital, hindering essential care. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society suspended medical missions due to Israeli forces stopping ambulances for 7 hours. The siege in North Gaza led to deaths from starvation. The international community, particularly the United States and Europe, are criticized for allowing these attacks on Palestinian healthcare. The Western world's response is seen as complacent and complicit in the ongoing crisis.
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Speaker 0: Well, we have seen, the videos from Nasser Hospital where, the Israeli occupation forces have displaced medical staff and patients, relatives, families, and refugees to the oldest building of the Nasser Medical Complex and they are without, as you said, the essential means to give any kind of meaningful treatment, water, electricity, medical supplies. But I'd like to underline that the heroic Palestinian medical staff, they do their best still to try to uphold some sort of care and treatment. But this is an other example of all the endless attacks from the Israeli attack forces on Palestinian healthcare. And I'd like to just point to the fact that the Palestinian Red Crescent Society leadership today announced that they are suspending all coordination of medical missions in Gaza for 48 hours because yesterday night, not only have they attacked the hospital and besieged the hospital, but last night, the Hilau, the Red Crescent Society had coordinated with the United Nations to evacuate some very needing patients from the North, from their hospital in Alamar in Canones to the hospital in Rafa for surgical treatment. This was coordinated. Despite that and despite that it was a convoy of ambulances with paramedics patients, very needing patients. This convoy was stopped for 7 hours by the Israeli occupation forces. The staff, the paramedics were abused and violently abused. Some of them were arrested and there is no longer any security for the needed medical operations even if you have coordination from the United Nations. So, the Israeli occupation forces, they don't respect anything. They don't respect coordination under UN flag. They don't respect the hospitals. Very good question and it's not only about the healthcare breaking down, it's also about the siege denying the people in particular of North Gaza food, clean water and medical care. This has caused a 2 month old child and a 17 year old girl in the north to die from starvation. I think for the international community in this sense, I mean, the United States and Europe, they show a massive moral breakdown in allowing Israel to continue these attacks on the Palestinian health care system and starving the Palestinian civilians to death. And don't forget that the International Court of Justice actually said to Israel that they had to immediately open Gaza for humanitarian support and stop the killing in their first verdict. Despite this verdict in the International Court of Justice, the United States and Europe are doing nothing. And I ask President Biden, what would you have done if it was a Jewish 2 month old baby and a Jewish 17 year old girl who had been starved to death in a ghetto in Israel, then you would have reacted. So this is illustrating the deeply troubling racism of what the Western world is accepting. They would never have accepted this kind of attacks on hospitals and the starvation of civilians if it was European white skinned people. This is all about complacency and the West are complicit in mass formation.

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Interview on Aljaz Arabic today (English arrives tomorrow) Content:  1.⁠ ⁠The storming and siege of Nasser Hospital.  2.⁠ ⁠The press release by Palestinian Red Crescent Society today: They are forced to suspend all coordinations of humanitarian operations in Gaza for 48 hours due to ISrael’s attacks yesterday night on a convoy of ambulances (that were formally coordinated with the UN), arresting and mistreating paramedics and holding them for 7 hours.  3.⁠ ⁠Death due to starvation. About the two-months old girl and the 17 year-old girl that were killed by hunger.  4.⁠ ⁠Biden and Blinken: How many Jewish children would you have accepted were actively starved to death before you would have reacted? Dr. Mads

Saved - February 25, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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The Sami community in Norway, facing threats to their existence, has shown support for the Palestinian cause due to their own struggle for Indigenous rights. The Sami have experienced land seizures, borders, and discrimination, similar to the Palestinians. They have held protests and demonstrations in Oslo, advocating for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The Sami's fight against colonialism and the destruction of their lands has led them to empathize with the Palestinians. They see parallels between their own displacement and the displacement of the Palestinians. The Sami are also facing challenges from climate change and land seizures for natural resource extraction. The construction of wind farms on Sami land without their consent is seen as "greenwashing colonialism." The Sami are reclaiming their cultural identity and resisting assimilation, with a new generation embracing their roots and using social media to educate others about their struggles and the Palestinian cause.

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‘Our bodies know the pain’: Why Norway’s reindeer herders support Gaza Having long endured threats to their own existence, the Indigenous Sami community is protesting Israel’s war on Gaza. Fosen Peninsula, Norway – A herd of reindeer running through thick, white snow sounds a bit like thunder. It is a spectacle that has been replayed for at least the past 10,000 years on eastern Norway’s Fosen Peninsula and one that Maja Kristine Jama, who comes from a family of reindeer herders, is deeply familiar with. Like most Sami reindeer herders, Jama knows every inch of this terrain without any need for a map. Instead of going to kindergarten like most other children in Norway, she was raised living outdoors alongside the migrating reindeer. Reindeer husbandry in Norway is a sustainable activity that is carried out in accordance with the traditional practices of Sami culture. Reindeer also play an important role in the Arctic’s ecosystem and have long been a symbol of the region “Reindeer herding defines me,” Jama says. “We are so connected to nature, we have respect for it. We say that you don’t live off the land, you live within it. But we see our lands being destroyed.” Europe’s oldest and last remaining Indigenous people are under grave threat as a result of borders, land seizures, construction projects dedicated to the extraction of natural resources and systematic discrimination. Yet, that creeping sense of suffocation has made the Sami reach out to another set of Indigenous people nearly 4,000km (2,500 miles) away, whose fight for survival they identify with: the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. Their own struggle for Indigenous rights and self-determination has turned the Sami into vocal advocates for the Palestinian cause. “There is an instant urge to stand up for people who are being displaced from their homes,” Ella Marie Haetta Isaksen, a Sami activist and artist widely known for her singing, tells Al Jazeera. Isaksen had just finished taking part in several months of demonstrations in Oslo for the rights of her own people when Israel launched its war on Gaza in October. As the death toll mounted, anger about Gaza quickly spread through Norway generally and the Sami community in particular. Scores of Norwegians posted images of themselves holding “Stop bombing Palestine” placards on social media while mass demonstrations called for an immediate ceasefire after Nordic countries, with the exception of Norway, abstained from a United Nations General Assembly ceasefire vote on October 27. For the Sami, it was a pivotal moment of two causes tangling into one. The community launched a series of regular protests in Oslo against the war in Gaza, and those rallies continue to take place. In front of the Norwegian Parliament on a cold October day, surrounded by hundreds of Palestinian and Sami flags, Isaksen held a mic and performed the “joik”, a traditional Sami song performed without instruments. Her lilting sounds brought the noisy demonstrators to a standstill, carrying a prayer that she hoped would somehow reach the besieged children of Gaza. “I’m physically so far away from them, but I just want to grab them, hold them and take them out of this nightmare,” Isaksen says. A long struggle For more than 9,000 years, the Sami lived a free, nomadic existence spanning modern-day Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. That began to change in the ninth century when outsiders from Southern Scandinavia encroached into Sapmi, the name given to the broad, untamed lands of the Sami. Christian invaders established a church in the 13th century in Finnmark in northern Sapmi territory in what is now northern Norway. Sweden’s break from Denmark, which had also ruled Norway, in 1542 launched an era of land disputes, conflict and coercion of the Sami that lingers today. A Swedish census that has been preserved from 1591 notes how one Sami community, moving across borders that hadn’t existed for their ancestors, simultaneously paid taxes to Sweden, Denmark and Russia. The creation of Europe’s longest unbroken border in 1751 – between Norway and Sweden – was particularly disastrous for the Sami, restricting them permanently within one country, splitting families apart and forcing their reindeer away from migratory routes. As has been the case for the Palestinians, the imposition of such borders has had a direct impact on the Sami’s fragile existence, says Aslat Holmberg, president of the Sami Council, a nongovernmental organisation promoting the rights of the Sami people across the Nordics and western Russia. He comes from an area on the border between Finland and Norway. “I don’t like to divide the Sami with borders, but we are people now living in four countries,” Holmberg says. Although Sami groups maintain a bond, they believe the borders imposed on them were one of many colonial acts that tore them apart. A ban on speaking their own language under forced assimilation policies, which officially ended in the 1960s in Norway, almost erased their cultural ties. Holmberg warns that Sami languages are now “endangered”. “Without trying to compare situations, Indigenous peoples all over the world have stood up for the Palestinian people because our bodies know the pain of being displaced from our homes and forced out of our own lands,” Isaksen says. He isn’t exaggerating. There are no historical records showing population figures for the Sami through history. Today, however, they are estimated at 80,000. About half that number live in Norway, where just three Sami languages remain in use. There are only 20 remaining speakers of one of them – the Ume language used in Sweden and Norway. In all, there are nine surviving Sami languages, which are related to languages such as Estonian and Finnish. Preservation of these languages is fraught with difficulties. In Finland, 80 percent of Sami youth live outside traditional Sami territory, where there is no legal obligation to offer their language services in government and the judicial system. By comparison, Swedish language services in legal and government administration are mandatory in Finland. Dying languages and disruptions from borders are not the only problems faced by the Sami. Climate change and land seizures for the extraction of natural resources also threaten livelihoods. Small-scale gold mining and forestry, both legal and illegal, are common. The mining of nickel and iron ore, which is considered part of the European Union’s mission for self-sufficiency, have restricted reindeer from roaming and have destroyed their feeding grounds. According to Amnesty International, mining companies are now showing interest in digging up Sami territory in Finland to feed the ever-rising demand for mobile phone batteries. “We live in a settler colonial society,” Holmberg says. “The Sami know how it is to be marginalised and lose our lands. The levels of violence are different in Palestine, but a lot of the underlying mindset is similar. The US and Europe have shown they are not able to fully acknowledge their own colonial history.” Holmberg delivers a stark warning that sounds eerily similar to the voices heard in Palestine. “We are at the edge now. Any more push, and we collapse.” ‘Greenwashing colonialism’ Construction of Europe’s biggest wind farm in the Fosen Peninsula began in 2016. A total of 151 wind turbines and 131km (81 miles) of new roads and power cables are now spread across the winter pastures for local reindeer herders and were placed there without the consent of local Sami. Five years later, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that the green energy construction had been illegal and violated the Sami’s human rights. But it did not issue any instructions about what should be done next. So the Fosen wind farm, which is co-owned by a state-funded Norwegian energy firm, a Swiss company and the German city of Munich, remains operational on Sami land to this day. A compensation deal between Fosen Vind, a subsidiary of the Norwegian state utility Statkraft, which operates 80 of the wind turbines at Fosen, and the southern Fosen Sami was agreed in December. But wind farms owned by foreign companies have yet to compensate the remaining Sami. There is an irony at play for the Fosen Sami here. “Green” energy projects for globalised communities have been prioritised and built at the expense of the very people living sustainably – a process described as “greenwashing colonialism” by Sami activists. “Many talk about the material impact of the landscape destroyed for grazing with the pastures now gone for reindeer,” Jama says. “But any proof of Sami history in the area is hidden now and needs a well-trained eye to see it.” She adds that living in “constant fight mode, in stress or fear of our future” has taken a toll on the mental health of many Sami. The past year has seen the Sami staging sit-ins inside the Norwegian Parliament and blockading the offices of Statkraft, an event that was attended by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Throwing off a shadow of shame Sami resistance is in the throes of a revival, particularly among people in their 20s and 30s born or living in urbanised communities and now embracing their Sami roots, which their grandparents were made to feel shame for, they say. “There’s a wave of people wanting to reconnect with the culture of our grandparents, who themselves wanted to hide it,” says Ida Helene Benonisen, a Sami poet and activist who herself scuffled with police at the October protests in Oslo. Official assimilation of the Sami ended in the 1960s in Norway. But the stigma of having Sami roots left families back then feeling “ashamed”, including her own family, she says. Historical “Norwegianisation” still haunts Sami families today. While navigating past traumas is difficult, Benonisen takes pride in her roots, showcasing her Sami identity on social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. Like Isaksen and other activists in their 20s and 30s, she uses social media to educate outsiders about greenwashing and also shares stories from Gaza as part of “a movement of people standing against colonialism”. “It felt natural for Sami to speak for Palestine, especially since the genocide started,” says Benonisen, co-founder of a slam poetry venue in Oslo with Asha Abdullahi, a Norwegian Muslim. “Social media is giving people a platform to connect with a decolonised point of view. The history we are too often told is the story of the oppressors.” 🔗👇 https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/24/also-forced-from-our-homes-the-norwegian-sami-and-the-palestinian-cause

‘Our bodies know the pain’: Why Norway’s reindeer herders want Gaza peace Having long endured threats to their own existence, the Indigenous Sami community is protesting Israel’s war on Gaza. aljazeera.com
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The northern wall of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis is being demolished by occupation forces, with warehouses in the hospital being burned. The hospital, currently housing over 350 patients, is being urged to evacuate without a safe corridor. The first person to leave the hospital was targeted.

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BREAKING! From MOH Gaza just now 12:37pm Oslo, 130224: "The occupation forces are demolishing the northern wall of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis now. The warehouses in the hospital are burned. They call via Quadcopter for the necessity of evacuating the hospital, which now contains more than 350 patients... without giving safe corridor to the patients, and the first person to leave the hospital was targeted."

Saved - February 12, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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Dr. Mohammad El Ron, head of general surgery, was kidnapped and subjected to humiliation and torture. After two months of arrest, he was thrown naked in front of an Israeli crossing. Dr. El Ron is a skilled surgeon and a compassionate human being. It is a disgrace to imprison and mistreat him. Where is the support from medical societies and global protests against these Israeli attacks on Palestinian healthcare workers? - Dr. Mads

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Dr Mohammad El Ron, head of general surgery department in Kamal Edwan hospital, before and after being kidnapped from the hospital. He was forced to completely undress in front of others when he was kidnapped, and he remained that way throughout the period of detention. They gave him a diaper to wear, very little food, no treatment or medicine for anyone, continuous torture for all detainees.” Dr. Mohammad, after two months of arrest, they threw him naked in front of the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing. Dr. El Ron was previously our guest for specialty surgery training in the University Hospital of North Norway in Tromsoe during three months in 2011. He is an excellent surgeon, extremely patient- and student-friendly and a great medical professional and human being. What a shameful disgrace to imprison and torture him, our dear colleague and brother. Where are the medical societies of the world? Where are the powerful protests against these israeli attacks on our fellow Palestinian healthcare workers? Dr. Mads

Saved - February 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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A doctor in Nasser Medical Complex was intentionally shot by an occupation sniper while operating. His condition is critical. The IOF is targeting healthcare workers, IDPs, and patients. This violates international laws protecting hospitals. Urgent action is needed to protect Nasser Hospital and its staff.

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Feb. 8. 2024: This doctor was hit while he was in the operating room in Nasser Medical Complex. The occupation sniper hit him directly and intentionally while the MD was in the middle of his work inside the OR. The sniper hit him directly in the chest and his condition is very critical. The danger is not just inside the hospital targeting healthcare works, the IOF was already targeting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as well as patients. Now they also target doctors even if they are in the operating room. Where is the protection? This is a violation of all the international laws that protect hospitals. Fast and firm action is needed to protect Nasser Hospital and healthcare workers inside Nasser Hospital. Now! Dr. Mads

Saved - January 24, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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According to @UNRWA, the situation in Gaza is dire. UN agencies report that 25,000 civilians, including 17,500 children and women, have been killed by Israel. Additionally, 1.7 million people are displaced, 570,000 face severe hunger due to the Israeli siege, and health facilities are severely impacted.

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“These are not conditions for human beings” - @UNRWA The latest on Gaza from UN agencies: - 25,000 civilians have been killed by ISrael - of which 17,500 are children and women (70%) - 1.7 million are displaced - 570,000 people face catastrophic hunger due to the ISraeli siege - Health facilities are decimated by ISrael

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We urgently request a ceasefire to address the dire humanitarian situation. There is a severe shortage of essential supplies, particularly medicines for chronic illnesses. These circumstances are unacceptable for human beings.
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Speaker 0: We continue to call for a humanitarian ceasefire. Much more humanitarian supplies, including medicines for chronic diseases, which are, in in very short supply. These are not conditions meant for human beings.
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In the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation has committed 20 massacres in Gaza, resulting in 190 deaths and 340 injuries. Some victims remain trapped under rubble, making it difficult for rescue teams to reach them. The toll of Israeli aggression since October 7th has now reached 25,295 deaths and 63,000 injuries. The capacity of medical facilities is overwhelmed, with a shortage of operating and intensive care rooms. Al-Khair Hospital has been stormed by Israeli forces, leading to the detention of medical staff. Citizens are being forced to bury 40 martyrs in a mass grave at Nasser Medical Complex. The health situation in Khan Yunis is described as catastrophic, with a large number of wounded people in need of urgent care. The delay in reaching the medical complex poses a threat to the lives of the injured, and medical teams struggle to treat serious cases due to limited resources.

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Messages from MOH Gaza yesterday and today, Jan 22. and 23. 2024: 🚨 The Israeli occupation committed 20 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 190 martyrs and 340 injured during the past 24 hours 🚨 A number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them The toll of the Israeli aggression has risen to 25,295 martyrs and 63,000 injuries since the 7th of last October 🚨The number of serious infections exceeds the capacity of the operating and intensive care rooms at Nasser Medical Complex. 🚨The Israeli occupation storms Al-Khair Hospital, west of Khan Yunis, and detains medical staff ▪️Citizens are forced to bury 40 martyrs in a mass grave in the courtyard of the Nasser Medical Complex. ▪️The health situation in Khan Yunis is catastrophic and indescribable ▪️ Large numbers of wounded people spread out on the ground in Nasser Medical Complex ▪️The difficulty and delay in the injuries arriving at Nasser Medical Complex poses a threat to the lives of those injured ▪️Medical teams find it extremely difficult to treat dozens of serious cases due to lack of capabilities

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Dr. Muhammad Harara shares the dire situation at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Palestine. Streets are closed, making it difficult to reach wounded individuals. There are also over 10,000 displaced civilians seeking refuge at the hospital. The Israeli bombing and shooting continue. Urgent action is needed to establish a ceasefire, lift the siege, and protect hospitals, patients, staff, and refugees. - Dr. Mads

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My brave Palestinian collegue, Dr. Muhammad Harara, describes horrifying conditions at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis: - The situation is critical: streets and roads to the hospital are closed. Many wounded and martyrs at the door of the hospital, we cannot reach them due to the presence of the occupation snipers. We also have over 10,000 displaced civilians inside the hospital. The Israeli bombing and shooting has not stopped. Immediate ceasefire! Breake the siege! Protect hospitals, patients, staff and refugees! Dr. Mads

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I am Dr. Mohammed Hararawan, currently working at Mossad Hospital after being evacuated from Shitaab. The situation here is dire, with tanks surrounding us and numerous injuries and deaths. We have received 128 injuries and 56 deaths since this morning alone. The hospital is overwhelmed, with 19% of the staff caring for patients' lives. Most cases require amputations. The conditions are miserable, reminiscent of the Shita hospital scenario. We are facing extreme danger.
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Speaker 0: I am doctor Mohammed Hararawan, and the doctor's school served at Shitaab speaker before being evacuated to the south and now working at the Mossad Hospital. The slight tanks are everywhere, and we are completely surrounded. The situation here are more than trouble. We have, received 120 8 injuries and, 56, murders since, this morning. 19% of to conduct the hospital, caring for their lives. And therefore, the remaining of, the doctor have to deal with more than In cases at a time, most of the cases are amputation. The situation here are miserable and The smell of this everywhere. I feel like Shita hospital scenario by repeating itself. We are on another level of danger.
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The Honorable Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, describes the dire situation in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to aggression. He highlights the high number of casualties, damage to infrastructure, and the displacement of people. Zomlot accuses Israel of using starvation and disease as weapons of war, leading to a humanitarian crisis. He emphasizes the need for a political and legal solution, including the International Court of Justice's involvement and the implementation of UN resolutions. Zomlot also addresses the root cause of the conflict, Israel's occupation and colonization of Palestinian land. He calls for massive humanitarian and rebuilding efforts to make Gaza livable again.

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Listen carefully to the Honorable Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK: An apocalyptic situation in Gaza! The only hope is an immediate ceasefire. Comprehensive. Permanent. Stop the aggression. Any other issues are secondary. The normalisation of mass killing of children, mass destruction of homes, schools; the normalisation of starvation, of the use of diseases as a weapon, is the most dangerous thing that has happened since WW2. (Notes from press conference in London, Jan. 16. 2024: full video below, including Q&A) •⁠ ⁠85.000 killed/wounded in a hundred days! •⁠ ⁠850 killed/wounded per day, a large percentage women and children •⁠ ⁠70% of people's housings damaged •⁠ ⁠Civilian infrastructure destroyed •⁠ ⁠Gaza has been made unliveable •⁠ ⁠85% forcefully displaced, still being bombed in “safe areas” •⁠ ⁠The displaced forced to live in tents •⁠ ⁠No running water, electricity or fuel due to the Israeli siege •⁠ Barely food, 2,3 million people are being starved •⁠ ⁠93% now suffer from hunger and malnutrition •⁠ Only eight of 38 Palestinian hospitals are partially functioning •⁠ Infectious diseases are reaching pandemic dimensions Israel uses starvation & and disease as a weapon of war. Destruction of healthcare causes deaths due to lack of regular medical care. Scale and timeframe are unprecedented. Also increased attacks on the West Bank. Deliberate genocide and ethnic cleansing. Israel has shown intent and execution, and talks about Amalek. US/UK are supporting starvation and extermination of an entire population. Israel engaged in a war of vengeance and political survival of Netanyahu. They say “no one will stop them”. Israel will not respect the highest court of the human family. There is no military solution. There is only a political and legal solution. All eyes are on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), thanks to South Africa. This is the first serious international effort to give Palestinians equal rights in 75 years. UN Security Council has for decades failed to implement its own resolutions on Palestine. 80 resolutions stand unimplemented. UN need to implement its resolutions. No negotiations are needed. Remove the US veto on Palestine and allow it to become a full member state. First, address the immediate cause: The aggression on Gaza, this atrocious, murderous campaign. Then the military occupation and colonisation of Palestine. "Address the root cause: Israel's illegal and brutal military occupation of Palestinian land, the theft of our resources the subjugation of our people, the oppression of our people, the apartheid regime they have erected, the besiegement of our entire population in Gaza and all other documented violations for 75 years.” "Who will take a stance for international law? …Anyone who blocks this venue supports violence.” “This is the first time in history that a genocide is recorded by the people who were executed." “The issue is not religion. Religion is innocent. This is not a Muslim-Jewish issue. The issue is the oppression.” “All settlements and settlers are illegal.” Massive humanitarian efforts are needed. A humongous rebuilding effort is required. Want to be able to send children to school, and hospitals, to make Gaza liveable again. On the question on pro-Palestinian demonstrations and the media's headlines regarding arrests: “A few arrests from hundreds of thousands of people. Let's not desecrate the only beautiful thing that happened in the last hundred days, which is the outpouring, raw emotions and solidarity of ordinary people and families." Ambassador Husam Zomlot: @hzomlot Video by Guardian News, @guardiannews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAjdqgDRmqM

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The speaker discusses the dire situation in Gaza due to Israel's war, highlighting the high number of Palestinian casualties and the extensive damage to infrastructure. They emphasize the deliberate use of starvation and diseases as weapons of war, leading to a humanitarian crisis. The speaker calls for an immediate, sustainable, and comprehensive ceasefire, along with international efforts to address Gaza's urgent needs and rebuild the area. They stress the importance of accountability and the need for a political and legal solution to the conflict. The speaker also mentions the ongoing legal cases against Israel at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. They express hope for a change in international leadership and a renewed commitment to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Speaker 0: Good morning, good day. Before I take your questions, allow me to say a few words. We have just passed a 100 days of Israel's war of choice on Gaza. Some 85,000 Palestinians have been killed or wounded so far. That amounts to 850 people killed or wounded every single day. The vast majority are women and children. This does not even include Innocent people under the rubble, missing or uncounted for. Israel has damaged and destroyed 70% of Gaza's housing stock. The damage to Gaza's civilian infrastructure has been comprehensive. Hospitals, Schools, universities, UN facilities, offices, Shops, water treatment plants, mosques, church churches, and so on. This is the plan Israel began implementing a 100 days ago to make Gaza unlivable. Alas, the plan is succeeding. Some 1,900,000 people, That is 85% of Gaza's population have been displaced to the south of Gaza, primarily Rafah, and are still bombed regularly even though these are supposed to be safe areas. They now They now stay in tents, overcrowded UN facilities, Schools, public spaces, homes of friends and relatives wherever they can. There is no running water anywhere in Gaza or electricity and barely any fuel. Food assistance is only trickling in because Israel's blockage and preventing access under the pretext of security. Gaza's entire population of 2,300,000 is being starved. 93% Face crisis level of hunger and malnutrition. 93% I'm quoting you, International Organizations, UN. Infectious diseases brought about by contaminated water, A lack of hygiene and overcrowding is already becoming a pandemic. A pandemic. Cases of cholera, respiratory illnesses, diarrhea, scabies, Abetitis, chickenpox are all soaring. This will only get worse during the cold winter months. Gaza's ability to treat people is and has been limited. As you all know, Out of the 38 hospitals, only 8 are functioning partially. Israel has decimated the health sector. Combined, these are deliberate policies of starvation and diseases used as a weapon of war, used as a weapon of war. And we have no final count yet of the innocent people who have died because of the lack of health, treatment, health care, starvation, diseases, pandemics, and what have you. The numbers I quoted earlier was only those who have been killed and wounded directly because of Israeli air strikes on fire. But I assure you the numbers of those who have been killed Because they were not treated for their cancer or they didn't get the the dialysis for their kidney failure is going to be shocking. An entire population has been sentenced to death or mass exposure, Exactly as top Israeli officials have been saying since the beginning of this aggression and even before Even before 7th October, using starvation as a weapon of war has happened before. It happened in Ukraine in the thirties. It happened in Sarajevo in the nineties. It has happened in many other places, but never never in history of mankind in such a short span of time and at this scale. Along with the wholesale destruction of Gaza, Israeli onslaught on the West Bank is at a pace. Engineering, in Nablus, in Jerusalem, in Hebrew, Khalil, everywhere. But the whole destruction of Gaza is a deliberate genocide and ethnic cleansing, Very deliberate, the intent and the execution. Despite this unprecedented man made Humanitarian disaster, we see no serious efforts by the most important international actors to bring about an immediate, sustainable, comprehensive, and permanent ceasefire. We do not see efforts to bring about an immediate and comprehensive Blasting cease fire. Without an immediate cease fire, there is no hope. Immediate, comprehensive, permanent. Without that immediate ceasefire, we see no hope of addressing the apocalyptic situation in Gaza. Nothing comes before an immediate ceasefire. All those who want to discuss other issues are missing the point. I'm not helping. This remains our top top priority. In parallel to demanding a an immediate permanent ceasefire, there has to be a massive International humanitarian efforts to address Gaza's acute needs alongside a huge Huge, humongous reconstruction efforts to make the area livable again. So families can send their kids to school again. They can send their children to hospitals to be treated again. Unlike doctor Beseso, who had to operate on his on her on her on her daughter without anesthesia, Amputating her leg, and I'm sure many of you have seen that horrifying image. We must make Gaza livable again and as soon as possible. Unfortunately, countries like the US and the UK I've so far resisted calling for an immediate ceasefire. Do these countries really want to support What I have just described, this is the only meaning of it. Starvation, displacement, extermination, Extermination of an entire population. With the UN Security Council at a stalemate because of the US vetoes, All eyes are now on the International Court of Justice, ICG. South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ is the first serious international effort At ending this appalling situation and demanding accountability After 75 years of being denied, our basic rights equal to all other peoples. This is the first serious attempt. It came about because the international community has failed In its duty to protect civilians as per their own commitments and responsibilities as contracting parties to the international order to the rules based international order. It came about because the UN Security Council has, For decades, failed to implement its own resolutions on Palestine. For decades, More than 80 UN Security Council resolutions, all stand unimplemented. Let's be clear. Israel chose to conduct a war of vengeance, of genocidal rage. In fact, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not only conducting a war of vengeance, but a war for his own political survival. Netanyahu has already plainly stated that No one and nothing no one and nothing, not the ICJ, not any other country We'll prevent him from pursuing this genocidal aggression to its end. He has publicly stated that. In other words, Israel has been clear that it does not intend to respect the findings of the highest Arbitral of international law in the world, the highest court of the globe, The highest judicial authority for our human family. And this is not just in the last 100 days. Israel has refused to cooperate with any international investigations for 75 years. Israel wants to reserve for itself judgment about who is violating international law and international humanitarian law. Israel wants to be the only referee of its own crimes, War crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and the West let it do so. Certain key Western governments have let Israel do so. It is clear from the way Israel has conducted its war, its aggression, that it is regularly and openly violating the laws of war, violating international law, violating international humanitarian law, violating our very basic human values, our universal values. The UK has to be the United Kingdom has to be clear about these violations. The UK and the rest of the world must be consistent about international law, Must be consistent about accountability. Must be consistent about the way forward. Things do not add up. We are working with our people, Our allies, friends, brothers and sisters in the region and in the international community To ensure there will be no forced displacement of Palestinians outside of our homeland, that's a top priority Next 2, followed by an immediate permanent ceasefire. There must be there must not be There must not be another mass expulsion of Palestinians like the Nakba of 1948. Never again. Never again. 70% of our nation were Ethnically cleansed in 1948. We shall not see that experience again, and we will not. Let me assure all of you here the following. There is no military solution to this. Israel has been at it for 75 years. It has failed and will continue to fail despite the backing of the US and other countries. No military solution to this. There is only a political and legal solution. The legal solution is being sought as we speak in the ICJ, in the ICC, the National Criminal Court, and in the Human Rights Council, the UN Human Rights Council, among many other legal institutions. Let me remind you that long before 7th October, the state of Palestine, which I represent here today, Ask the ICC to investigate war crimes during the and after Israel's 2014 Aggression on Gaza. So our case is there at the ICC. We have given full mandate and jurisdiction For the ICC to investigate all war crimes, all crimes committed in the occupied land of Palestine. And the ICC has been dragging its feet since 2014. We also referred the legal situation in the occupied territory for an advisory opinion at the ICJ, at the International Court of Justice, to rule on Israel's illegal occupation just last year, a case is already there. So we have been reverting to international legality. We believe in the power of international law. We need the international judicial system to come in with full force, with equal application of international rules. This is on a very important track. That's why We welcome South Africa's case in the ice seizure because we believe in the legal track to be a key trap because we believe accountability has been missing for 75 years. And short of reinforcing accountability, We will revisit the horrors we are living today. The political solution should come In irreversible and credible steps, irreversible and credible steps, There needs to be a clear decision decision, resolution in the Security Council, in the UN Security Council to implement its own resolutions. Enough. One, to remove the US veto on the state of Palestine, assuming its rightful our rightful Position as a full member of the United Nations. Because of the US veto, we are now a state in the UN system, but a non member state. That has this veto has to be removed. 2, To recognize the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders, and we are recognized by a 141 countries. That's the absolute vast majority of the world. The rest is a club you know very well. The rest is a club you know very well, US, UK, Western Europe. If you are serious about 2 states, and we'll come to the 2 states in the conversation. Either we are serious about these resolutions or the whole foundation of the international system is hollowed out, simply hollowed out. This is the biggest stress test of the international order since its founding in 1940 in the in the mid forties, since the second World War, Biggest stressors, both at the political level, I e, UN Security Council, and the legal level, the ICJ and the ICC. The implementation of UN resolutions can then be addressed at an international conference, peace conference, that will discuss timetables, underwritings, guarantees, security, empowerment of existing national institutions, and enforcement of international resolutions. None of the above none of it Includes or needs a process or endless negotiations. There is a consensus about where we should go. All what we need is implementation and enforcement and international will to do so. For 35 years, my friends, the world has said it It supports the end of Israel's occupation. I'm talking about the world, consensus, from the far west to the far east, from the far north to the far south. Consensus supports the end of Israel's occupation that began in 1967, the establishment of independent sovereign state of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital and a fair resolution to the issue of Palestinian refugees in accordance with international resolutions. What is there to negotiate? What is there to negotiate? Have you do you ever ever recall Any other place where international resolutions have been negotiated. You negotiate when there is a dispute. There is no dispute here. It is time to stop paying lib paying lib service, and I'm addressing the the international community here. Paying lip service and start getting serious. This is the time. Now is the time. The state of Palestine is ready. The state of Palestine is ready to take charge of the whole territory of the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza Immediately. The state of Palestine has the capacity. We do have the capacity and institutions to do so with international support, of course. And I refer you to many international studies in the last many years, including the World Bank, that have said that we have built, Still under occupation, national institutions at the level of middle income, free, independent, sovereign countries. So please don't talk to us about capacity because we can we have it, and we can build it further. However, we refuse any military any military or partial solutions for Gaza. Gaza is an integral part of the state of Palestine, of the Palestinian territory. Any role for the state of Palestine has to come in the context of independence and sovereignty. We do not accept Israel's goal to separate Gaza carve Gaza from the rest of Palestine, that has been a constant goal for decades. Israel wants to spread the conflict, and this is very serious, very real, and very dangerous. Netanyahu wants to drag everyone into his own political calculations and survival, and you've seen what has happened over the last few days weeks. And they want to spread the conflict not only for the surviving of Netanyahu, but because they have no, they they have no political solution. There is no solution agenda on the table so far in Israel. Its allies should not help it in that direction, shouldn't? Its allies should once and for all get serious about addressing the root cause of the conflict, namely Israel's illegal and brutal military occupation of Palestinian land, the theft of our resources, the subjugation of our people, the oppression of our people, The apartheid regime, they have erected the besiegement of our entire population in Gaza and all the violations you will know and record it and document. And as you all know, this has been happening for 75 years. Only that way lies peace. The real question is who is prepared to take a serious stand for international law and for peace? That is a question we are asking at this point in time. And with that, I'll take your Questions? Thank you. Okay, we'll start with Ipa. Our, our issue is not religious. Religion is absolutely innocent of this situation. This is not a Muslim Jewish issue. It's a ridiculous proposition to assume that We have an issue with Israel because of their identity. We have an issue with Israel because of the identity of the oppressors. That's not true. The issue is with the fact of our oppression. It could be any identity, And therefore, we would want to warn any leaders of using such language. As I tried to outline before, Our issue is legal and political. It has nothing to do with relations. I have been seeing The outpouring support here in the UK including the massive demonstrations and I assure you there's considerable number of Jewish brothers and sisters who take part in these demos all the time. So this divisive politics between this religious group and that religious group does not help. Doesn't help. Speaker 1: Hello. It's Yikhan Khomeini from Channel 4 News. I realize it's difficult to contemplate, the day after the war, in the midst of the war, in the midst of my suffering, But I wonder if you could share any insight into the conversations that have been taking place between, particularly, American officials and PA officials About what role there could be for the PA in the future? What's the PA response and suggestions be to that? What kind of suggestions Speaker 0: Thank you very much. Issues of revitalizing Palestinian national institutions is a purely internal matter. Any international intervention would be extremely counterproductive because it's meddling. We have our national institutions. We have our legitimate institutions. We have the PLO that represents all Palestinians inside and outside. The PLO It's not only recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people by the region and the world by but first and foremost, by our people. Not one Palestinian challenges the legitimacy of the PLO. Of course, we are not perfect. Who is? Name me one government that is perfect. We need to make sure that our institutions are at the level that our people expect, but that's a purely Palestinian national matter, internal Palestinian national Matter. Yes. We heard many things from the US in conversations. We had we had many, promises, many vows, And so far, they have been unimplemented. From the US wanting Israel to downscale and Start stopping its aggression, which has not happened. Israel is doubling down. All the way to simple issues Like, Israel stopped the piracy on our own money, you know, the the the tax they collect on our behalf, and they have been withholding For the last 3 months, the US said from day 1, this has to be, repaid. It's your money. It's not their money. Even that, The US couldn't get through Israel. And therefore, this poses a serious question about the US's ability An influence on Israel despite the fact that, the US is the biggest political, legal, material, military Bakr of Israel. Almost most of Israel's weaponry, including all these 2,000 pounds pounds sorry, Towns, bombs that are falling on the heads of our families are American made. So either America doesn't Use its leverage or doesn't know how to use its leverage? Please. Speaker 2: Hi. Speaker 1: Tools in Israel's favor. Speaker 0: There is no way the ICJ would rule in Israel's favor. There is no possible legal way. This was the first time in history that a genocide has been recorded by the people who were executed, transmitted life all over the world. There is no way Israel can hide its intent of committing genocide. There is no way on Earth From the prime minister provoking invoking the Amalek just the first day of the aggression To the defense minister with his hands saying that I've just got water, electricity, fuel, gasoline, everything, all the way to members of the cabinet, Knesset. And therefore, This is a defining moment. Should the ICJ stick to its legal mandate and succeed in its ruling, it have succeeded for itself and for the international order, for the rules based international order. Should it fail, I think it would have failed itself, its mandate and the entire Rules based order. Please, BBC. Sorry, I'll come to all of you. BBC. Speaker 3: It's clearly it's gonna take years before they rule on genocide. It's a legal mountain, for the South Africans to climb. You know that. Everyone knows that. What are your actual practical hopes for the outcome of the ICJ? Are you more interested in what they might do in terms of Issuing provisional orders, in the coming weeks because waiting for 4 years for a genocide verdict is not very useful, is it? Speaker 0: It isn't and that's why the South African case was very clear. They presented a case in 2 forms. The first is provisional measures that the court should issue a temporary injunction to stop the genocide until the merit of genocide is being investigated. I agree that the second part will take some time and the process of courts are usually lengthy. But the first one, as per the very mandate of the ICJ should be very short and should be looked at within days or maximum few weeks. And therefore, it is that part that we are waiting for. We want to see an immediate injunction for Israel to stop. Now many would say that Israel did not heed the ICJ before. Israel may not heed the ICJ now, But the legal and political ramification of an IC decision for an immediate injunction of the aggression and the genocide would have consequences, and we would build on it. This is not going to be maybe a knockdown effect or a knockout effect, but it's a major, major step in the right direction for 2 things. 1st is stopping This carnage because nobody else did. It's not like we have other options. No one else did. And for the sake of accountability. And here, accountability is key, my friend. It's very key. We must make sure that what has taken place over the last 100 These 100 days will never ever happen again, all of us, including you in the media. These atrocities, the normalization of mass killing of children, the normalization of mass destruction of homes, schools, The normalization of starvation, the normalization of the use of diseases as a weapon is the most dangerous thing that happened in our history since the World War 2 and even before. And to ensure that this does not ever happen again, we must make sure that those who has who have done so are brought to justice. That's the best way to do so and perhaps the only way to do so. We need accountability, so we bring justice to the victims, but we also need deterrent. And you tell me what would be the best deterrent. The best deterrent is a nonviolent legal act at the ICJ. South Africa and before the the state of Palestine were using these legitimate legal means, so we don't Give way to others to use different means. You see? This is everybody who blocks that venue Is somebody who is promoting violence? That's the bear that's the actual truth that needs to be conveyed and portrayed there. Now, Okay. I'll come to you. Speaker 2: It's Rafi You expect the UK to be clear about Israel's violations of the laws of war, and you certainly presented a very strong Case and position this morning. In reality, prime minister Rishi Sunak Has, rejected the South African accusation of genocide against Israel. The UK opposes a ceasefire. So do you feel, let down by the UK? And Ulf, do you feel that your message has perhaps failed to penetrate, the U. K. Decision makers? And secondly, if you don't mind, The Home Secretary, as you all know, has, is to ban his batariah, at the end of this week, Almost certainly. I'd like to know your response to that whether you condone that or you Disagree with that, the banning of this group. Speaker 0: Thank you, Rafi. Well, as I said, we want to see a U. K. Policy that is consistent and clear, and we don't see that. On the one hand, we hear the UK prime minister Rishi Sonak and others saying that, you know, the ICJ Has no mandate. Israel's there is the case against Israel of genocide does not stand. They say that. Right? You just quoted them. They appointed the it's a self appointment as international just judges. It's intervention and interven interference in the international Judicial system. But when they are asked, does Israel violate international law, like, only couple of days ago in the parliament, they say, oh, we're not lawyers. We don't intervene. This has to be left to the experts. This is the inconsistency. This is the double standards. This is the selectivity. This is the hypocrisy. Also, the inconsistency in many other, forms. Only recently, the UK government has announced a new policy, significant and welcomed, that they will ban Violent settlers from accessing the UK. They will be both on a blacklist, welcomed. Serious policy. In my opinion, that was a very significant moment because you know why? Not because of the policy itself, but this is the first time in 75 Yes. The UK takes any step that has to do with sanctions the first time Yet and we have said publicly, and I repeat it here, that policy needs to be more comprehensive because there is no such a thing as good settlers and bad settlers. All settlers are illegal. All settlements are illegal. All these entities and those who reside in it are very clearly defined in international law as war crimes. This is not us defining it. This is the 4 Geneva Convention divided defining it. The transfer of the occupying power population to the occupied land is a war crime. Yet I have just said this is this was a significant Development. Where is the inconsistency here? Only last Wednesday, the UK government pushes ahead A legislation using the power of the law, a legislation in the parliament that has been voted in the 3rd and final reading last Wednesday, So they curb public bodies here and perhaps others from divesting from these illegal settlements, from taking any step to actually mark that these for the products of these settlements are illegal. It's such a, it's such a bill that, number 1, gives Another layer of protection to the illegal settlement products, those who work in settlements, illegal settlers, a hue a a new level of protection, shielding. And furthermore, it says, and this law does not apply if a new government comes in office, I. E, because the beginning of the legislation says, any public body, what have you, has to be in line with the the the government policy. Ironically, the government policy does not call for the sanctions on the settlement products and activities transactions. So Israel was unfortunately shielded by the first part, but they go even further to say even if a government changes its policy, Israel remains to be the exception. Unbelievable. Furthermore, they erase any distinction between Israel, the occupied territories, and the Golan Heights. They put it in one sentence, one paragraph, one item as the exception. This is the inconsistency. Where are you exactly? Do you consider Israel's occupation of the 1967 borders to be a military occupation and colonization? Where are you exactly? I tell you, there is such inconsistency in the UK policy That I, as an ambassador here to my country and to for my people, I no longer understand if you ask me what is the UK policy vis a vis Palestine. I don't. Inconsistent. Contradictory. I don't have much details about that. I really don't. Wow. This is a this is to Speaker 2: come as trial. Speaker 0: This this is a this this is this is a UK matter, and, I'll be looking I'll be looking I'll I'll be I'll be, yes. I am the Palestinian ambassador, so I comment on Palestinian issues that has to do with the UK. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I think you came late. You came after because I have many hands here. I'm sorry. I have many hands here. Speaker 1: Emma Blanche from CBS News. Yes. In December, the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Manushai, said Hamas is an integral part of the Palestinian holiday. I know again it's hard to talk about the day after and administer The gas of the future, would you still hold that view? Yes. And following on from that, how do you view an administration who will have reformed a mass reform Palestinian authority? Speaker 0: Hamas Is a Palestinian matter, not an international matter? And only a Palestinian national institution, A Palestinian internal process will integrate, will deal with that, not international and external Intervention. Hamas is not just its military wing. Hamas is also an idea, an ideology. And if you want to challenge that idea, you have to present a different idea. And there has been many efforts, many Attempts at reconciliation in the past, only few months before the October 7th in July, there was an initiative by our President, President Mahmoud Abbas, bringing all heads of various factions including the heads of Hamas and El Alamein in Egypt, and the discussion is ongoing. The idea is Hamas needs to be part of the PLO and needs to respect and abide by the PLO's provisions and the PLO's responsibilities. Speaker 2: Just to expand on that question. So would you see HomeAstra's having a kind of specific Legal institutional role in running Gaza after the conflict. Speaker 0: Hamas is a political faction and a military wing. The institutions that should run Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank is the institutions of the State of Palestine, And Hamas needs to be brought to the Palestinian National Institutions in an internal national reconciliation process that ensures that all of us are committed to the very agenda, the principles, the commitments of the PLO for its own people, our agenda which is very clear and for the international law. So issues of governments has got to be in the hands of the state of Palestine and the institutions of the state of Palestine. Thank you, Alberto. And just a Speaker 1: follow-up, can you talk about impact pressure on PA to All these conversations going on, is there pressure being put on the PPA to come up with new names for a prime Speaker 0: I can't share with you compositions, Andrew, but I can tell you the following. I can tell you our position. Our position is the problem is not picking a name and choosing another name. That's not the problem. And the prime minister we have now is a very capable a national figure. This is not about personalities. This is about changing the whole dynamics. In my opinion, if you bring Nelson Mandela back and Hand them the keys. They will not succeed given the dynamics now. So the issue is not to always do what the International community has done for a long time. This is a movie we have seen for a 100 times, for a 1000 times. Whenever the international community fails to pressure Israel, They turned their eyes into Palestinians, and they say, oh, only if you fix this and that you have issues here and have issues there. And remember what have happened with, our late president Yasser Arafat and the decisement and the killing of Yasser under the same pretext. We have our institutions. We have our leaders. We have our people, And our people demand many things. By the way, our the Palestinian people are their expectations is very high, I assure you. And the pressure the main pressure is internal, But the external side of the pressure, is is not very helpful. Why? Because part of that argument, Andrew, is not just to export the crisis and the failure to pressure Israel upon us. And let's see if we have a new government. Maybe things will change. Things will not change unless you tackle the root causes unless you tackle the root causes. And if you want to talk about regime change and if you want to talk about renewal, Did you hear anybody from the international community talking about Israeli government? Seriously? We have the the most renowned members of our cabinet right now, respected and adhering to international law and resolutions and in line with international consensus. Can you apply that on Smotresh or Bangvir, Andrew, or Netanyahu? So stop this. Stop it. And there is another side to this. There's another major side to this, which is a very implicit line all through That for some reason, we are the only exception on Earth, whereby our rights are conditioned upon some sort of behavior. Shall I say it again? Our rights are conditioned upon some sort of behavior, I. E. The Palestinians has they have to behave in a certain manner, which is according to their occupier's judgment For them to be worthy worthy, the right of self determination. For them to be worthy, the right to return. For them to be worthy, a state. This is utter nonsense. Nonsense. We have been behaving, however, but even if we misbehave, Even if we misbehave, our right to self determination is a bad right, has nothing to do with how tall are we, How wide are we? How good are we? How bad are we? How good managed or mismanaged we? I haven't heard this in any other case. So it is very important to call out that logic. And in my opinion, that logic is very designed. It's orchestrated. It's meant. It's in built in the whole process of Israeli led, US led, so called peace processes, And it is meant to block the final outcome. I say it before. I say it again, Andrew. We are not perfect. Who is? And there is a lot that needs to be done. But I assure you, if you now have an initiative Whereby the world is ready to implement its own resolutions, their own resolutions, over a 2 state solution on the 1967 borders, You will find Palestine ready to implement that, and you will find the Israeli government completely and utterly unready to do so. Okay. I'm gonna have to divert here or my friend and my friend. Guardian. Speaker 1: Before the formal statement. Speaker 0: Well, it's clear. It's very clear. They there were 2 agendas for the last 35 years. The first is the Palestinian And with us, the entire international community, that agenda was going towards back rolling Israeli occupation, colonization, and establishing a state of Palestine and resolving all outstanding issues in according to international resolutions, legitimacy, consensus. That's the first agenda, and that's why we went to the Madrid Peace Conference under the US auspices and mediation at the time, if you remember, in other major countries, and then the Oslo Agreements in the also post. The second agenda, which started shortly after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Shortly after so, the whole thing, this first agenda was was lived for a year, a year and a half, and then Isaac Rabeel was assassinated. And who was elected? Benjamin Netanyahu. Remember? 1996. There comes the second agenda. You're talking about a quarter of a century now, 25 years of Netanyahu's government. In and out, but he was the Key sort of decider of the direction of travel Israel was taking and that agenda is an agenda that is anti two state solution that is, based on bypassing the Palestinian issue. Remember all that he has done and the normalization and what have you. Bypassing the Palestinian issue, having us as the biggest elephant in the room, but don't talk about it, And slowly, slowly build what the record charter says, the greater Israel project from the river to the sea. That's the second agenda. And why I'm explaining all that? Because within these within the second agenda, there comes Netanyahu's Israeli successive government's obsession With maintaining Palestinian geographic and political divisions, do I need to give you details? Knows about this more than anyone else. Netanyahu was enabling cash to go into Gaza because he has said it publicly in the case that he wants to see the Palestinians continue being divided, fragmented. That's why we need to empower the first agenda, And that's why the only legitimate entity that takes over is a state of Palestine that is there to protect and provide for its people In Gaza, in Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and in the diaspora in exile, a state of Palestine that is an agent and and and agency for their people. That is the source of legitimacy. Now about the practicality, all what it takes is a bit of political will, and I outlined the process of starting at a global, global decision that sends a clear message in the Security Council, and then we work the little details. But the time of trying to create several authorities, the the time to play on the on the fragmentation is gone It's gone. The entity, the agency that should take care of our people is the state of Palestine. The government of that state is the PLO in interim because the PLO is the sole legitimate representation of every Palestinian, the 13 +1000000 boss, inside and outside. And the PLO will be tasked to convene elections for, for the government of the state of Palestine once elections are possible. Okay. I'll come to Bert Patrick, and then I'll come to Hi. Thank you very much. Speaker 1: It's Patrick. And, thank you, Do you think it's right there will be no negative electoral impact for labor? And what damage is being done to the U. K. Speaker 0: Well, all what I can say about the UK Labour Party is that we are We expect the current leadership to be true to its own base. We know where the labor base is. The labor base is with An international or internationalist agenda, the Labour Base is with a fair, just solution to the issue of Palestine. The Labour Base is with the Labour Party committing to international law and committing to the provision of international law such as the ICJ. The, the labor base is also with sanctions, being enforced on any illegal, transactions, including settlements and the settlers might tell you, the companies working in the settlements, there has been numerous conferences, congresses of the Labour Party, numerous resolutions throughout the last so many years. So we expect the Labour leadership to reflect the depth of feeling and the policies of its own base and its own values. That's what we truly expect. And of a leader of the Labour Party, Sir Kirsztama, who is himself a lawyer specialized in international humanitarian law, so he knows best, and we hope that will be reflected more and more in his and their policies in the time to come. As for the issue of the damage the reputational damage of the U. K, I've said this to senior very senior UK ministers and officials that, as far as the perception in the region, damage has been done. Damage has been done. And, the perception is that the UK It's always quick to shield Israel. The perception is that the U. K. Is Unable, unwilling to focus primarily on the root cause, and the U. K. Has not held in the call for a ceasefire. However, there is a long history here, a very long history, goes back many, many decades ago. And I hope that that perception is going to be fixed, attended to, altered, reversed, very soon. We believe that the UK has a role to play. We believe the UK, was the pin holder of International diplomacy. You have one of the best diplomatic, core diplomatic Capacity in the world, you are a founder of the international system, the post World War 2 international system. I keep reminding myself and others that the 1st UN General Assembly did not take place in in San Francisco or New York. It took place here in London in the Methodist Church in Westminster Square, the first UN general secretary was British. And therefore, We are really hoping that the U. K. Would and by the way, the U. K. Was the penholder up until recently. We are hoping that the U. K. Will return to be that to be a force of enforcing international legality and international rules. And that in itself will take care over the issue of reputational damage. Yes. And and then I'll Okay. We'll take the last three questions. Okay. Well, from day 1 from day 1, we have been warning that the aggression on Gaza, if not stopped, Well spread. The West Bank, including Jerusalem, is on a tipping point. Literally, Israel is invading towns, refugee camps all over the West Bank, and you are following, provoking, killing, maiming, arresting. You're talking about 1,000. So it's a matter of time when pressure will. We have been warning from this becoming regional because we know Netanyahu would want to make it regional, And we know, that, his allies, might have to actually be dragged into his walls and his calculations. So we warn that the spread of this is going to be damaging, And the only way, the only way to stop the spread is to stop the aggression on Gaza, a ceasefire immediate. And we need to stop as an international community to deal with the symptoms symptoms. We have got to go straight to the cause, not the symptoms. The the immediate cause Is the aggression on Gaza, this atrocious, murderous campaign? That's the immediate cause. As for the actual cause, it is, as I have described, the military occupation and the colonization. Okay. Please. And then Speaker 1: And how can you explain to us the the the answer between the British a call for ceasefire. How can you explain this to us? Speaker 0: What was the first question, sorry? Speaker 1: About the International Center of Justice Speaker 0: I don't have the details about the International Center For Justice for Palestinians. I'll leave it to them to comment on that, but I can assure you of our complete support for the legal track. We need to leverage, utilize, benefit from the legal track, from the court system everywhere possible. So we hope that courts, judicial institutions will be a place where we stop the Madness, the carnage, the atrocities. As for the, as for the public, the British public, I very much Agree that this is the most empowering, inspiring, and strategic, development that happened since a 100 days, Seeing 100 of 1,000, millions, not only in London, but all over the UK and the world, is a scene that reminds us of the anti apartheid movement. And like that of South Africa anti apartheid movement, some governments came very late in supporting the anti apartheid war. It is often the people who actually start A movement. It is often the people who side with justice. It is often the people, not politicians, who actually create dynamics, Power pressure to change the course of history and to free Nelson Mandela. Remember? So I take what happens in the streets of London very strategically very strategically. You know why? And I believe Britain is the most strategically relevant place for our movement for Palestine because the anti apartheid movement emanated from London. It was the British people who led the anti apartheid movement. And I believe given the history, given the Balfour Declaration, that colonial Declaration. The arrogance of the British Empire, promising our land without consulting us and turning us the natives that who have lived there for millennials, for millennia, the birthplace of Christianity And almost every other civilization, the crossroad of civilizations turned us into non Jewish minorities. Therefore, the the historic, Legal, political, moral relevance of Britain cannot be overstated on the one hand. On the other hand, the British people are known for their, quest for justice, fairness, Exposed and very well read, London is known for its being the hub of international activism, The hub of international civil society, you you very, very complex set of institutions. The hub of international media, look at you here. And therefore, we are in the right place at the right time with the right people to Be with this movement, be part of this change, and I, for one, believe that this is the best hope we have to change the positions of the government here and elsewhere. I'll delay the behind, and then we will Okay. BBC wants to come back. Thank you. Paul. Speaker 1: Christine, TV news. There's a lot of support, in the public, especially here in London with, pro Speaker 0: Thank you, Christina, and thank you for being here from GB. I have taken part in almost every demonstration, and I was a speaker in in most of them, if not. I mean, the central words. I haven't seen, you know, chantings that people are accusing these people. I have seen love. I have seen love. I have seen commitment to international legality. I have seen diversity. I have seen unity. I have seen all colors, all religions. I have seen many, many Jewish brothers and sisters in these demos and not just for the last 100 days, but for the last 75 years with us. I have the I have seen the best Britain offers. The way Britain did this to the South Africans is is the way British people are doing it to Palestine. And attempts to conflate And to use 1 person here and 2 individuals there to conflate and to actually frame Millions is a very bad exercise. We should focus on the millions, not the 2, 3 individuals. The millions are calling out For an immediate ceasefire, that is something so humane. That is something so British. That is something that should be hailed and respected. The millions are demanding an end of Israel's occupation. That is the policy of the UK. That is the international consensus resolutions. And the millions are promising to create an agency to put pressure on all that to happen. So let's not defame and defile and desecrate the most beautiful thing that happened over the the only beautiful thing that happened in the last 100 days, which is the outpouring raw emotions and principal solidarity of ordinary mother. You know, I was walking last Saturday. How many how many mothers with their babies with their, you know, iPads, playing around? It was Britain there. It was ordinary families. And the media here are I've seen all the headlines. The media would start 6 arrests at you see, the framing? 6 arrests. Okay. There were half a1000000. There is always an attempt to focus on the French, not the bark, not the heart. We need to stop that, Christina. We need to really, really give these people what they are what they are oath of respect, admiration because so far, they are the best hope we have. Okay, I will have to choose Paul and our friend from Memo, Nassim, and that's it. Speaker 3: Ambassador, before October 7th, the case of Palestine almost vanished from the international agenda. The the the phrase, the 2 state solution, had almost entirely disappeared. Now it's back every day, day in, day out. You have the Saudis The case before, do you feel that this is actually a moment of opportunity? Do you feel any optimism But out of the dreadful things that happened in the last 3 or 4 months, something bad will emerge? Speaker 0: Yes. With a capital letter. Yes. Because anybody who thought that they could bypass the Palestinian issue has at least stopped thinking so. And any anyone who thought that Israel's military might is the solution, And I mean anybody including in the Israeli ranks and files have to think again. Anybody who thinks that the Occupation could turn into a permanent reality has got to rethink. Anyone who thought that that biggest elephant in the room Could be simply abracadabra disappearing, has to think again. So, yes, with that comes an opportunity for seriousness, for political will, for a momentum. It does. It does. And I believe that, we could do it, but I have my fears. I have my reservations. And the main reservation I have, the the main fear I have, this tragedy that happened since the 7th October, Most horrific tragedy in modern history, a scar in our humanity for generations to come, could be turned into a momentum, a positive momentum, but it requires one thing, International leadership. Now, Paul, you name me if we have international leadership now. You tell me. My fear is this moment will be wasted by the lack of a serious, powerful, determined, consistent, principled, international leadership. My fear is we will go back to the last 30, 40 years of ops. There is elections in the US. Ops, there is election in the UK. Oh, the let's wait for elections in Israel. Always the sharing, always kicking the ball to the other side, always buying time. And I assure you one thing, if we buy time this time, time will be our enemy. Time will be our enemy, not our friend. So I hope my fears are not accurate, And I hope because all the ducks are lying now. And I'm saying international leadership because forget it. To to wait for an Israeli government that will be Perfectly ready to, bring the majority of their population towards and implement international consensus, I'm not so sure if this will happen in you or in my lifetime. Palestinian institutions could be easily empowered, supported by an international System, international alliance, could bring it to the best level there is, and they do exist, and we have them. The missing point is the role of a third party. That's the missing role. And our issue was started by a third party. That's your country, Paul. That's the UK. Was sustained by a third party since then. That's the Plus, our issue is international, and name me one conflict that was resolved without a strong sustained international intervention, a third party role. One conflict. South Africa, Ireland, the Balkans, well, East Timor. Every and each one of those were resolved because of a sustained, credible, international, external mediation and credible and, intervention. And, therefore, I hope that part of the of the equation It's not going to be missing in the coming weeks months. Okay. Thank you, Nasim. Thank you very much. Biden and the 100 days statement, it's very regrettable. It's extremely, extremely painful Unregrettable to see the president of the US, that has been one thing to be the sole mediator in the peacemaking that poses itself as a guarantor of international legality that host the UN Mentions 100 days with failing to mention the 10,000 children who have been slaughtered, The 85,000 who have been killed and injured, the lives taken without any Consideration of any profession. It's very painful, and I believe this has more to do with the US than us, and it does speak volumes about the US policies and standings in the world, and lots needs to be done there. And I'm not gonna comment further. As for, clear sir Sergei Stomer and the reported news yesterday that he may reverse his policies. We have sent a letter to the Labour leadership requesting clarification about this. We are yet to receive it. It was late last night that that thing came out. Once we do, we will comment on it. For now, we expect Demand that the U. K. Labor continues to have its very clear policy of immediate recognition of banning the illegal settlement products, of supporting international legalities ICC and ICJ, and of supporting a political resolution That includes the ending of the occupation, Israeli occupation. Any change of that policy, would be seen as rewarding Netanyahu just when he had just committed the most horrific genocide in recent memory. So I thank you all for this. Thank you very much, And we'll see you again.
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@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert

Listen carefully to the Palestinian voices - all of you calling them ‘voiceless’. They are MADE voiceless! Dr. Mads

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On October 22, 2023, Israel bombed my home, killing most of my family, including my father, siblings, nieces, and nephews. Only my 3-year-old nephew, Omar, survived. Determined to challenge the Western media's portrayal of Palestinians, I shared my family's story online. Western media outlets interviewed me, but their questions were demeaning and dismissive. They called my family's deaths collateral damage and blamed Hamas. They even questioned the reality of my loss. The Western media always justifies Israel's actions and portrays Palestinians as terrorists. I will never forgive them. Palestinians are using social media to defy this narrative, but it's also the responsibility of people in the UK, America, and the free world to share our stories and convey our message. We won't forgive them if they don't.
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Speaker 0: My story is an old one, but it ended with the 22nd of October 2023 in the war. When my family were sleeping in their home at 4 AM when Israel bombed my home and killed my family. In my home there was my father, my 2 brothers, my 3 sisters, and 14 of my nieces and nephews actually 15 of my nieces and nephews. All of them were killed except for 1 nephew. His name is Omar, and he's a 3 years old. He was injured, and he was retrieved from under the rubble. And Omar is only 3 years old. I always think of Omar. Omar lost his father. Omar lost his grandparents. Omar lost 4 of his uncles, 3 of his aunts and 14 of his cousins, and he was injured himself. So when this happened to my family, I decided not to stay silent. I decided to challenge the western media and how they talk about the Palestinian people. Because I know the theme of today is about the fall of the empires, and I believe that the biggest empire that have been subjecting the Palestinian people to humiliation and subjugation and oppression is the empire of the Israeli propaganda and media. So I decided to talk about my family and to post about them, and they wrote about them and they posted about them day and night and tell people get to know my story, get to know my family. And there, where the Western media came, they started calling me every now and then to have me interviewed by one of their anchors. And unfortunately, their interviews were more humiliating and descending than I ever could imagine. I'm giving you an example. In one of the interviews, I told one of the anchors, the hosts, that I lost 21 family members, including 14 kids, my nieces and nephews. And he told me there's just collateral damage. It's okay. Another person, another anchor told me that Hamas killed my family. Well, I know who killed my family. Another one asked me if my brothers and sisters were close to me. Another one told me that I shouldn't get into a war of war of war of words and hate while I was criticizing the Western media coverage. One of them told me that the international law doesn't matter. They don't care about the international law because the international law says the occupation is wrong. And one of them told me that the UN is a spin force. And in the comments, many questions the reality that I lost 21 family members. And one of them asked me if I condemn Hamas only a few days after I lost my family, and one of them insisted that I should call Hamas a terror organization. And this is why I believe that the Western media is responsible for the killing of my family. Because no matter what Israel does Because no matter what Israel does over the past 75 years, no matter what Israel does, It is always their actions are justified by the Western media that the Palestinians are terrorists, that the Palestinians are anti Semite, that the Palestinians didn't deserve democracy or life, that the Palestinian should never have their own sovereignty over their own own lands. It is always the Palestinians die, and the Israelis are killed and massacred. It is always the Palestinian people are collateral damage. There's always the Palestinian innocent that children don't matter because they're not white. And that's why I will not forgive the Western media. I will never forgive the Western media, and I believe us, the Palestinians, we have been defying the Western media for a long time, and now we are using social media to defy the narrative of the Western media, and we are making a huge success. But I also but I also believe that it's not only the seniors who have the responsibility to share their stories and to talk about their suffering and send their message to the world. I believe it is you, the people who live in the UK and America and the free world, you have even a bigger responsibility towards the Palestinian people to share their stories. And allow me to be harsh with you a little bit. We will not forgive you if you do not tell our stories and convey our message. We will never
Saved - December 2, 2023 at 2:48 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
Israel and the US persist in making Gaza unlivable for civilians, targeting healthcare and innocent lives. Similar to the past, Hamas is used as an excuse, just like Fatah and PLO were in the 80s. Resistance means immediate execution by Israel. UNICEF speaks the truth.

@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert

True words from a clear UNICEF-voice. ISrael and the US continue their plan to render Gaza unlivable for all civilians. Healthcare and civilians all in the crosshairs. Hamas is the excuse just as Fatah and PLO was in 1981-1983 during the brutal Israeli invasion of Lebanon, siege and massive bombing of W-Beirut to kill the armed resistance at that time. Anyone choosing any resistance over total submission and surrender will have an immediate Israeli execution order -

@1james_elder - James Elder

Ceasefire over in #Gaza. Attacks v near this hospital. Bombing consistent. Has humanity given up on the children of Gaza?! 😔 https://t.co/dsyvQeBEWx

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The ceasefire is over and the bombing has resumed in Gaza. I am at the largest functioning hospital, which is already overwhelmed at 200% capacity. The health system here cannot handle any more children with war injuries. There are children everywhere, some sleeping, after a bomb exploded just 50 meters away. The hospitals have been severely impacted in the past 7 weeks, unable to treat more children with burns, shrapnel wounds, and broken bones. The inaction of those with influence is allowing the killing of children. This is a war on children.
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Speaker 0: The ceasefire is over. We can already hear the bombing and I'm at a hospital. There was a hit about 50 meters from here. This is the biggest still functioning hospital in Gaza. It's at 200 per kit percent capacity. Yes. This is a hospital. The health system here is overwhelmed. This hospital simply cannot take more children with the wounds of war. There are children everywhere. These children are sleeping. There was a bomb Literally, 50 meters from here. I cannot overstate how the capacity has been reduced of hospitals in last 7 weeks. We cannot see more children with the wounds of war, with the burns, with the shrapnel littering their body with the broken bones. Inaction by those with influence is allowing the killing of children. This is a war on children.
Saved - November 11, 2023 at 10:31 PM

@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert

BREAKING: Israel commits new horrible hospital massacres! Shifa hospital bombed this morning! https://t.co/VrpF38Zgi5

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President Biden, Mr. Blinken, and European leaders, please listen. Innocent people, including refugees seeking safety, are being bombed by Israeli forces inside hospitals like Shefa and Alauders. These hospitals are meant to be sanctuaries for humanity. When will you put an end to this? Your inaction makes you complicit.
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Speaker 0: President Biden. President Biden. President Biden. Mister Blinken, mister Blinken, can you hear me? Prime ministers and presidents of the European countries, can you hear me? Can you hear the screens from Shefa Hospital, from Alauders Hospital, can you hear the screens from innocent people, refugees sheltering, trying to find a safe place, being bombed by the Israeli attack forces this morning inside the hospital, hospitals that are the temples of humanity and protection. When are you going to stop this? You're all complicit.
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