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to coverage these rarely all these targeting medical themes as it tries to get to treat the wounded and fearless journalism. change of value. grief is unrelenting, and homes are no longer a century the the $10.00 then. yeah, it's good to have you with us. this is the news, our life from bill coming up in the program. the un security council approves the resolutions for more humanitarian aid. the gaza. of the days of wrangling with the u. s. veto. as a russian call for an urgent cessation of hostilities. the real problem is the, the what use ratio he's conducting. visual fantasies is creating massive ops that goes to the distribution of humanitarian. they've eaten side garza carnage and gaza
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. almost 400 people are killed. that is really air strikes in the past. 48 hours. this is the scene in ross that following intense from barton. this house is 0 gains exclusive access to jamalia refugee camp in the north after repeated attacks by israel and walking towards an uncertain future. israel orders thousands of people in central gaza to move further south. the, the un security council has just passed a resolution for increased a to dallas after several delays this week. it called for urgent steps to deliver a to desperate gaza civilians, but not for suspension of hostilities. the us and russia abstained during the vote, and all other members of the council voted in favor. it's just yesterday he manage area in groups,
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release the report on the dark food security crisis in gaza. and the word famine has started to enter the vocabulary of humanitarian leaders. i've met with surgeries are being performed without anesthesia. people huddled in overcrowded you and shelters. others are sleeping in the streets. this resolution speaks to the severity of this crisis, and it calls on this all to do more earlier in the us veto, to russian calls for an urgent and sustained secession of hostilities. supposedly genius with good news. so it is a posters to me in the last few days, the security council i'm the entire world, has bone witness to what type then don't hesitate to describe that shameful, cynical, and irresponsible conduct by the united states. the efforts to evade responsibility for further use of the veto resulting to various means to sabotage this occurs,
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the council's decision on gaza has become apparent the global media and public have been left wondering. why is the votes and the u. a propos dropped repeatedly delayed. the answer is very simple. under various pre tax, the us is drawing out the negotiation process. un secretary general, antonio gutierrez says that israel's indiscriminate military assault on the guys that has so far made it impossible to conduct relief operations. the real problem is that the, what use ratio is conducting these will fantasies use creating massive ops that goes to the distribution of humanitarian. they've eaten side. got so any effective a they'll put ation in guys that required security software can working safety, logistical capacity. and the resumption of commercial look cvt of these 4 elements do not exist. gabriel, let us onto joins us from the united nations headquarters. gabriel, you've been,
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you've been tracking the language in this resolution and in the various drafts since pretty much the beginning of the week. so your best place to tell us exactly what this says and what this does. what do we need to remember from you and security council resolution 10? 29. what does it do? well, the big picture, the big umbrella, if you will, is it is now binding under international law since it passed. and it is calling for a huge ramp up of humanitarian aid into guys, and then a ramp up of its distribution as well. now, that's the big picture. beyond that, sometimes what is not in a resolution is as important as what's in it. and that could be the case here in the final draft resolution that is now was voted upon and is now part of it has binding under international law. it does not call for a suspension of hostilities,
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instead of just cause for a conditions leading to a sustainable cessation of hostilities. and this was a real point of contention, particularly for russia and some other members of the security council who wanted much, much more than that. and you say, why is that so important? because in order to get this aide in safely and ramp up to say, you gotta do that with, with, with, with safety, right? you can't do that as, as a, as in place as being bombarded. so that's key. also, it also calls for the secretary general to a point is the trip i have to jump in because we see the ambassador of palestine at the u. n. who is speaking. so this listening had been killed by is the occupying power. and it's cj and the aggression on the guys trip. so the console is now meeting of the over $20000.00 palestinians have been killed. almost
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half of them, 260000 people have been wounded. and 2000000 palestinians have been forced forcibly displaced. it is meeting as homes shelters, schools, hospitality haven't been destroyed. and as hunger and disease are spreading like wildfire, no one should forget. that's what we are talking about. a 2300000 palestinians who have been fighting for their life and facing death every single day for 75 days. they have been fighting for their lives for their very existence, for over 75 days. mister president, the are up and the oh,
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i see groups with the support to been over. what am a number of you and member states have been mobilizing for the city or objectives? and we said that from the beginning and the economy immediately, immediate, cease, fire, humanitarian assistance at scale, and no force displacement we made today as part of this continuous effort to advance these 3 goals. or mr. president allowing me to onset to pay tribute to all the humanitarian and health care workers who are, who attended to their own lives are struggling every single day to address and alleviate an occupation made to whom money, terry, and catastrophe of unprecedented scapes. they are all put anything under conditions
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where no plays, and no one is safe. under wide spread an indiscriminate bombing warehouse, but those and shelters and balances are shadowed and with many months to no access to humanitarian supplies, necessity to sustain and save lives. we pay tribute to the palestine bread crescent in which many of you have met them in your trip to the off of crossing to palestinian medical and civilian rescue teams to the better sonata of the united nations and its agencies. notably unable to the members of palestinian and international humanitarian organizations on the ground. and to the i see a seat that work is here at all it and deserves our utmost
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a good condition. and the respects that after that, you should presented by the united auto payment it is to allow them to conduct their set good mission to assist civilians in need to save human lives. as is, the occupying part continues to ignore the global demands for an immediate, too many periods. he's fire and to deprive of the palestine and people of the humanitarian aid they desperately need. so that are thousands of blocks of humanitarian aid on the egyptian side. and egypt for willing, willing willingness and mobilization to these vit. to see this aid deliver you. so those thousands of black clouds from your trip, from my lot,
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each airport to that off crossing that are over $2000000.00 palestinians in desperate need of such aid on the pad. a scene inside this in human and criminal is the only siege this use of the humanitarian, a necessity for the set of miles over the population as methods of war has to end. and it has to. and now mr. president on 4th of november that that'd be at the head of the is about the civil administration stated from inside garza and i quote who i bought it then. who attends here is a 310 here after when did find scorched s no houses? no agriculture. no, nothing. they have no future. and the quotation. this is just one
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statement i'm on far too many demonstrating and shocking terms. that's what we are dealing with is an attempt at the destruction of our people and their displacement for ever from deadline. this is the way it is goal. it's tool objective, a no fuel charter for us damian's in palestine. that is why it is bombing every one and everything. that is why it targets homes, hospitals, schools, bank goodies, a good cut and cut out of fields, water and sanitation networks. so that sustenance of life becomes impossible. and it has become impossible that that is why it targets the landmarks of guys. which done with most of its engine history and
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a lot of routes in the land. a lot of historic churches and mosques, a lot of monuments and our architecture is also targets. the story tellers, those who capture our people's lives, suffering, and dest, including the government, is conveying to the war, the tools about the mass that goes about this grave. an unbearable injustice being endued by palestinian people and their families. but as it is thought, a good is not only the past and the present of our people, but indeed the future. that is why it's kiddos a lot of doctors, engineers play, it's okay that makes out this. this is why it is destroying our cities and
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towns our universities and culture of institutions. that is why it's kids or children. and that arises and tom advises them scouting and disfiguring their futures. we often quote, the number of children could an unbearable tragedy. but we should not forget that 25000 should have been orphaned and the 10s of thousands wounded and amputated at 12 year old fasting again. with the most beautiful of names during yet. which means not a big it means the whole world must. both her parents took
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s has just abruptly oh can is that i is shooting over at her house. she also lost her leg and i believe she was interviewed by the c n. n journalist, that united auto emetic managed to let to enter the gaza strip and to make that important report that she did. and don't you said that was she would love that forget their loved ones. she has to continue living that she wouldn't become a doctor to help children as luck that's headed to but doing yeah. did not leave to become
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a doctor. both remember all eyes the family, the she was the few days ago that that in the psych and the maternity ward of i'm not fussed with that. is it i the once to convince, to convince us that we need to choose between life and our country by making life than our country impossible. our people want to live in that country. they want their children to grow old, safely in the country. there is no simpler dream. there is no explanation more sacred than that. mister president is 3 months old palestinian civilians and it's a pulled and it's a boat on crimes against them. what felt about a stop clearly the after is an can 3 people raising
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a white flag and 3 presenting, know then it later discovered that they were 3. is there any of these who had been had captive in gaza? it good to have saved them. had to be the laws of war, but they thought they were palestinians and shut them in yet another display of total, abject disregard for palestinian lights. this confirms the money of the ports of somebody, executions of palestinians being married though in cold blood. but is it a 80 soul? joseph? gotcha. it has also continued its elite. it is treatment and mass us and human human lation of palestinians in despicable scenes filling by its own soldiers, boasting about the,
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the in the but the private those are the sort of just overall who are be unhinged and i'm, i'm in followed by the impunity. it enjoys setting that it will not be held accountable anatomy that commit atrocities every single day in the world. so is that it is closest allies, it's indiscriminate bombing, and it's getting rage needs to stop. that means it's grimes need to stop. gaza is like a patient who's wounds. you are trying to treat why the killer keeps shooting at them. you will need to stop the killer, or you will never be able to save the patient. mr. president, this is a very well and guys and it's different manifestations, destruction,
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probation disease, people are starving. they have an or to no food, no medicine or barely any that that, that is illusion that the concert loaded on today is intended to how to address this in humane situation. to alleviate the untold suffering and pain being borne by millions of civilians, we would have come to a decision to establish a you and mechanisms to accelerate the provision of humanitarian relief consignments to guys uncalled for its setup and implementation. the concept also called for urgent steps to immediately allow save and go to an expanded fuel monday, tuesday, and access the secretary general of an old you and agencies as well as you. many
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terry and organizations have all said that this requires an immediate fuel monetary on seized by it. now, back by $153.00 states around the world, it took this concept $75.00 days to finally i thought of the succession of hostilities to author lower sectional possibilities for the days of the general assembly. fast the fed to that objective and tens of thousands of palestinians can blake to that we support that i should amendment and the united auto i'm ever that as art up representative, reflected that support in it's vote of course, that paragraph which was endorsed in the blue form the origin and one by the 83
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co sponsors. that is an ocean is also clear about the n way buddy and commitment to the 2 state solution consistent with international and you under as in ocean that is it musicians. and in this context on the status of the gaza strip as an integrated part of the territories occupied in 1967 as part of the palestinian state and on the unity of the gaza strip and the west bank. but all of the palestinian authority and the complete rejection of force displacement in violation of international law instead of president. let us at now to say of lice to provide live saving assistance and live sustaining hope. this resolution is a step in that direction. it must be implemented and must be accompanied by
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massive pressure for an immediate cease fire. i repeat immediate cease via there is no way to stop the war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide under way. but an immediate cease by it sees why it again, there is no way to start addressing. the occupation may do many petty and catastrophes. but i didn't mean to cease by it seized by it again, there is no way to release those head captive. but an immediate cease fire is this, what is it? losing calls for protection of civilians. deplore attacks against civilians rejects force displacement called for immediate and save you money, daddy and axes. and for humanitarian aid, reaching to about a senior population or that requires an immediate cease via it may
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go to these via as requested and as called for by the secretary general in his famous letter to the security council. you mind if you must be bad in the national laws, law must prevent millions of lives and in the balance. and they thank you very much mister president for those cool looks. and i think the permanent terms of odms, the state of palestine for his statement, i now get the flow to the representative of his room. thank you mister president. just 2 weeks ago, joe, shall i de, carried out the tariff tucking the run in which 11 uranian police officers were killed. within one day, the security council released the statement condemning the act of terror. it took the security council one day to express their condolences in sympathy with the
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families of the victims. it's true, terrorism must be condemned, even if the techs of perpetrated against police offices of erosion and the world's reading sponsor global tara. mister president, 77 days ago. how must intentionally mode it raped and mutilated 1300 these rallies and took 250 hostages. and this council still has yet to issue a single statement condemning from us and that atrocities in addition to the councils inability to condemn how much was a tech, the $150.00 hostages, women, children, and the elderly are still being held in garza and must not be allowed to become a footman, a few minutes here and it is boring into does it every single day the hostages being held, but i'm us. i'm not even allowed visits by the red cross. this is the most heinous will crime imaginable. the hostages must be at the top of his councils. agenda. council members, there is no doubt that humanitarian aid is crucially important. these read is
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already facilitating hundreds of truckloads of age into gaza. every day is really also willing and able to explain entry, increase the entry of age trucks into garza. israel has already opened the car and shut them crossing in order to ensure the entry of more trucks and does also facilitate to the entry of dozens of trucks that arrived from jordan. the only road block flight entry is the u. n's ability to accept them. and on seeing you in monitoring or coordination of eighty's, not the curial. and any enhancements of you in a monitoring cannot be done at the expense of israel security inspections. israel not only has a right but an obligation to guarantee it security. this is why i mention to eliminate comments as capabilities has not changed, and this is why security inspections of aid will not change. his role will not come up the regrouping and reopening of how much as the trustees october 7th can never be allowed to repeat themselves. is real recently exposed. now the huge,
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almost tear a tunnel that stretches focusing on because i was, was constructed 50 meters underground. this tera tunnel is wide enough for vehicles to drive through. can house hundreds of tourists, the amount of cement and equipment needed to build this tunnel alone is immense. this is just one part of how much the subterranean city of tara, the messiah rocket manufacturing facilities. and service training complexes across garza, it cannot be claimed that is all did not give any warning. for years, we have sent letters outlining comments as terror threats and growing capabilities . we have held countless meetings with officials. we have done everything possible to make it clear that action must be taken without words for it. and if it is mister president, if this council seeks to interest it, it is, it should start by supporting israel's mission of returning hostages and the limited. and you can become us threats at the very least it must prevent from us, is empowerment. just as discounts that he's committed to increasing aid. it should
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also be committed to blocking the smuggling of arms and transport weapons to the how much terrorist and just as his counselor is committed to ensuring a reaches goals and civilians. it should also be committed to ensuring the said aid is not the ability to come up stairs. we do not care about the civilian population . the focus of any resolution should also hold from us accountable, while taking every step to prevent them from entrenching themselves and regaining color. mister president, how much is a genocidal? total organization from us is a direct threat to the security of israel gardens and regional stability. in order to promote security, this council should foot strictly nice promises tara regime and then focus on indignation of its threats. it should be focused on freeing the hostages. it should be focused on preventing from us from explaining a it should be focused on showing how much can no longer expand that to infrastructure. any resolution adopted by this council should be focus primarily on these points. and this is the counsels responsibility. and this is key to security
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. i thank you mr. president. sunday. so therefore, i think the representative of israel for the statement and i get the flow now to the representative of egypt. so could i know say that i use this, you've just been listening to statements following the adoption of a new united nations security council resolution. so we just for the re add mentor, the a palestinian ambassador to the united nations. and just now more recently you just heard the is really ambassador to the us. so there's a lot to get through. let's bring a notion 0 correspondence. gabriel elizondo who was at un headquarters in new york and gave, where do you want to start? maybe with this last speech, israel's reaction to the un security council, unsurprisingly, is not favorable. yeah, no surprise there. diplomatic sources have been telling out just here all week that israel was not happy with these drafts and they are not happy with the resolution
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that was passed. if it was completely left up to israel, it's safe to say they would have not wanted any draft of any resolution. so that's unsurprising. but i think what you heard there from the deputy ambassador who was speaking, he basically said didn't basically, he did say, we reserve the right to inspect all aid convoys going in to god. and so that's why if you read between the lines here, that's why the us would not go for the un, exclusively being in charge of the a going in the guys and why the us push to have the language changed to what it is . now, in the resolution that the secretary general would appoint someone to oversee it, now we're starting connect the dots here, right? i was how this is all playing out i gave just before i
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turned to our guest has been listening to all of this with us, one thing, and i want to make sure make clear with you that i insufficiently broached until now, i think is the language of this resolution calls to the you in to a point, a humanitarian coordinator, that speaks to what you were just pointing out so that you, when essentially has to now name a point, a humanitarian is, are for a going into gaza. how is that gonna work in light of what you just said? well, good question. that's up to the secretary general. now, he's the one that is now going to be test with, with selecting a person that would oversee a going in an, in the resolution that was just passed. it says that person should be given all of the necessary resources to help expedite to a going in and getting it delivered expeditiously. but listen, it's as the russian ambassador said about this specific point here. he said the
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language is in his words, vague and very unclear. so that's how the russians a see if they would have preferred to have it be the 1st overall mechanism. and if you allow me another 20 seconds, if you will. sure. i just want to point out what we just saw from the palestinian ambassador as well. that was probably one of the more powerful speeches if i do say so from the palestinian and bastard in the security council chambers. we've seen in a very long time. he has been speaking almost daily here at the un since this conflict began. right. but he told a very personal story there about a young palestinian girl who wanted to be a doctor. uh, who's featured in a, in a news report, who wasn't killed. and what's powerful is he's,
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he's told the stories in the past, and unfortunately they have to be told right. but i think what you saw there is him choking up. yeah. and you saw the 2 deputy palestinian ambassadors behind him, crying that is a real sense of emotion about what the last 3 months now has been on. so many people, including the diplomats, in this case, the palestinian ambassador, who has been living this from afar here in the us and trying to push through this diplomacy to bring peace, very powerful moment of raw emotion that you often don't see in the halls of the un in that regard, in that way. no, absolutely. thank you for bringing that up. in fact, because that was a notable moment and a highlight that we have mentors. speech was also saying that the is really in his words, do not want to allow for a future in the future state for the palestinians. okay, i'll,
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i'll take this conversation over. thank you very much. gabriel. let us on to new york there, and i'll take this conversation to ignore the milady professor of media and communication at guitar university. and it is true what gave said the re, i'd mentor. but we haven't seen him get emotional um, unless i've missed something since and not in that way since this started this conflict, then as he said, it's 75 days and it took 75 days for the un security council to utter the words cessation of hostilities yes, because um, as i think i think they, um they kind of, they were expecting more, you know, way i think every palestinian whether they agree with how some disagree with how much they've been thought just by the score. because now the community is actually be falling on everyone, including people interested in. i mean, look at some of the reports, for example, that we spoke about today for instance,
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which is supposed to be, um i, i, uh, friday prayer. mm. well, i'm ok so most has been closed for the 2nd week. people have been praying way, far away. the place itself. and at the same time they've been also chase by the, by the is where the army, so the of months or. so i think like a free for the sydney and then especially people in the senate in a, a sort of the position has been very much thoughts with the columbus. you have to define a scene in people and i think he's very much right when he actually repeated what good to us before. also reinforced, which is you need to stop the killer. otherwise you would never be able to save or treat the patient. you cannot deliver aid for 2300000, punish senior people for the next few weeks and provide the needs that make them humans again without stopping the shelling the bombardment,
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the kind of killing or which may happen of the choice of the is where the army in the next few weeks, i mean would be in listening to the is there any representative in the way of this is exactly what he reflects is a he's been calling demick from the stimulus, including the time us for the falls. but his, he didn't say anything about the civilian deaths. he didn't say anything about the bombardment of scores of hospitals, of nurses, or for full of him, for the form of life in the goods that people are sending. and both of the will, speaking about the destruction of every former flight, including he said, the history. yeah. the present. and also the future that he spoke about. his book about the most piece of book about shows you these boxes, the museums he spoke about, every form of the land more than the larger the story tellers who capture the 2nd experience, including that certainly is exactly every form of cultural every, some of memory is being bombarded and destroyed, actually by the x rays. so it's,
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it's, it's, it's rock, a big joke. took about a what the, what the close says now create the conditions closest the nibble a. what condition is they would be the aggressive conditions for a cessation of hostilities is the, is the language to the un security council resolution calls for which i mean, the, we always dressed on the choice of the is really our, me, me what that to do? what they want to do at the, at the right time. so it says what i was going to ask you, what happens now, it's a little hard to predict this. if you listening to this resolution, which is now binding international law, there should be, as of right now, a lot more good, a going into gaza and a lot faster. and once it gets into the strip, it's not enough for just trucks to go through rafa, through current level, sell them to, to border crossings that are currently open. that's not enough. the aid then it has to be able to be delivered to all the palestinians. we need it,
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is that going to happen? because because the practically t of the about to invest on the, on the ground and the ground is still through the different from what people are talking about. i mean, we hear to speak about as exactly what that is actually mentioned when he spoke about the um, the, the, the, the, the, the, the as riley both the crossing and he mentioned the how the trucks they get unload it and then load it. and he speaks about the bureaucratic um, also the hardship of delivering any trucks actually to have the, from the, uh, from that, from buckboard to. now we know, we know, for example, from the other part when we speak about the, uh, beautiful, caustic, also. i mean, the infrastructure when it comes to roads is actually destroyed and there is a very slow movement of trucks and of the dispute that they say a matter of security, of every one actually delivering any form of, of 8. i want to really to, to, if, if you allow me to, to devote also to the double standards of the us that are presented in the web. and
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i'm really shocked the listen to her taking it. well, it's difficult you have in mind. i mean, i mean the, the, the, the, the, the that was done to the locker, see when it comes to talking about all of the civilians, all of these, that's the, the, the, the, the problems of default and go put us in the same time. they don't, they're too cold for a suze fight. they've been blocking every form of these 5. 0 can you deliver? how can you speak about civilian casualties? how do you know that's interesting in the us, towing of? it's the, the us ambassador said look, since the beginning of the war we meeting the us, we helped open the roof of border crossing. we've been helped open the current level, so i am crossing, we helped get a one week ceasefire. so if you listen to what the us and baset are was saying, she's saying essentially they have been you know, the most effective a power in terms of getting a to the palestinians and even stopping fighting for a while. or they may have given a kind of a green light or push the is really
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a government to do that. but actually it is where the government was the one who's got the agency to do what they want to do at the same time. and we know the whole, it was new when we had a short says fine, what happened? exactly. and there was a huge shortage of everything. $100.00 per day were delivered for $2300000.00 people. i mean, all the observers they've been talking about these when will suffice only for when the 10000 people are 20000 people. if you talk about the people to talk about 4300000 people in terms of food, in terms of sunny 30 single point terms of this sort. i mean it's 2 to 2.3. if you talk about thousands of trucks has to be allowed to go in today. so i'm really, i'm really surprised that the un representative speaks about a jumping up and somebody attain 8 at the same time under what conditions you would
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rump them up. you at the same time, you, boy, you continue bombarding indiscriminately, people in different parts of a heads up, but at the same time, talk about delivering aid for them. so you feed them at the same time, you tell them. so if these are all and all the amazing, i said i find it very, very hypocritical. yeah, no, didn't the id? thank you very much. i'm going to follow up on that point with one of the actors that is currently still operating on the ground in gaza. and that's the palestine red crescent and about 5 south joins us now. you're spokesperson and of all of the palestine red crescent, you're joining us on the phone from, from ramallah, your reaction 1st of all, to this new un security council resolution. or we hope that this is a new shiny means more face to face, sustained and on. i'm that the, the humanitarian in, into the, this is about a warehouse about the kind of crescent along with other community korean agencies
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to deliver nazi that is included foods, water really i some medicines and medical supplies to the people who are in need of that c p official, we who also that, that this me and to deliver it to them areas a god including does the city and the north with have been completely denied access to getting an aide. hundreds of thousands of civilians. there have been left without food without a keen water, and he both even medical services since own hospital went out of service. this is a lucian, comes in a time like the people are going crazy over to let him civilians now are likely to clean water and even very basic humanitarian e. because basically, 85 percent of palestinians have been internally displaced, either a screen or sensors for hospital,
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or even in tens and know they are making that condition, but can't easily be surprised. no food, no water, no electricity. and even, and you know, very basic giving it to their needs and concerns like the blankets, messages and warm eclipses as what know about what change do you expect to see now in gaza and, and in what timeline? i know what the tech says. it calls for a massive surgeons, humanitarian aid, and expedited, so it should be a lot faster. that's what this text, that's what the international law now says. what do you actually expect to see as we have been calling for the best on and for the human nature and aids from the beginning of the war? unfortunately, since the beginning of the were out, the food can eat trucks that have been allowed to get into gods, but it doesn't even need 10 percent of the need. that's why we are seen on the
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ground a failure to just work on board. the end of the day, we hope that there's a new one factor to see the entry of a human being at a fastly. and that me more, it would be allowed to get n, as most people could be. as i just mentioned, to i know the delivery of the 2 old areas who are in desperate need of that, including gods and the north which have been completely denied access to aid because of the police report to refuse to allow the issue of a it could be just a areas from what can you see on the ground? people are not currently going hungry. no, they burned. you can't afford housing one in a day. 9 out of 10 families. they don't even know what when their next meal is coming from. people are just at over at talks and sensors, and we are seeing people are just getting even infection busy because of the lack
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of water, the lack of hydrogen. and the lack of every single base is unity in immediately and doesn't have you made any preparations. um, you know, ahead of this resolution when we got a sense that it was going to pass that it was going to call for more aid. i wonder, did the palestine red crescent make any preparations for this? do you think it's going to impact the way your teams operate on the ground of what things are working day? i'm nice all the time to receive the 3 i need through the crossing border include the nation with the egyptian for the crescent, as well as other you. and as it is and optimal, the once a best, a resolution will take place. our teams, along with other humanitarian interest to auto body, will cause her to receive the aid and the started distribution is add up to the average. and as it relates to the policies and how much of the lesions that didn't
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pause from the is there a up to fusion forces and hopefully when everything wasn't going. and i mean like we wouldn't necessarily receive and more easily have been calling for the since the beginning of the escalation. and unfortunately, nothing had happened, as i mentioned by him. and it says, because the worst thing, why the international humanitarian law, and connect to the clear as an, as an occupying power, has a responsibility to 40. and the basic is human. it's already on a offices. and unfortunately, as an, as you, as the young age, as a tool to pronounce your kind of stands and put them in on for a couple of punishments. and this is, have been going on for over 2 months. they should be put an end. and hopefully it's but next to the new sion will be a ceasefire because we also want app, please access to deliver the aid to the people who are needs and we want people
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just to take a life. we don't keep them to die. why their, their stomachs are well important also to support and, and support this hunger, but also to put an end for thousands of civilians who are losing their life since the beginning of the escalation and unfortunately over 20070 as have been killed. okay, 20000 studies being and 70 percent of them are still doing well for the moment. they really the you mentioned the need for a ceasefire for a moment, for as you will know for the moment, there is no agreement on a ceasefire at the security council. the un secretary general reminded everyone that he has called for one repeatedly. he wants to see a ceasefire, but when the russians tried to introduce and amendments calling for association of hostilities that did not make it into this resolution, they both are suck,
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spokesperson that the palestine red crescent. thank you for joining us on the program. right now let's take a look at what's happening on the ground in gaza. israel is further expanding its ground, defensive and central does a despite calls to scale back. it has ordered palestinians in the area to move further south to the city of darrow bala and continuous air strikes and res. across the strip on friday killed dozens of people in the past. few hours of current carrying civilians was struck in rasa in the south. according to the palestinian health ministry, nearly $400.00 palace to indians were killed in the last 48 hours is really army is carrying out its most intensive operations. yet in gauze, the 2nd largest city fun eunice. earlier in the war, israel had declared it a safe zone, but now it has doubled troop numbers and it's conducting house to house operations . as the bombing continues, food and water are becoming even more scarce. the u. n. is wanting of
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a famine. if the war continues in humanitarian aid is allowed in, that was the subject of this you and security council resolution that has just been passed. and the world food program says nearly 600000 palestinians. that's a quarter of the population are starving power. capitalism is in rafa in southern, gaza at target. i want i beg your pardon, tara, i'm going to have to put you on hold because the un and basset or the us and basset, or to the united nations, is speaking. we need to listen it. so believe the council must continue to support the resumption of humanitarian pauses. israel is committed to reaching another agreement. and now how mouse must agree to additional passes. still, there is no doubt that today was a massive positive steps. of course, there's so many challenges facing us all over the world and all happening at once.
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and so we must be able to advance multiple solutions all over the world and just about all at once. so while i'm here, i also want to talk about what else the counsel accomplish. what else, united states leadership and diplomacy accomplish what we contributed to this week . and that's a financing resolution almost a decade in the making that will help the african union ensure peace. i'm a confident face, with many, many security threats, a resolution that cements a better vision for african security, putting african leadership at the forefront and african people at the center. this was a massive priority, and it is a big deal. it's a big deal to haven't gotten this done at the end of the year. and i want to
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express the united states gratitude to god in all 3 african member, all 3 african members of the security council for helping us. but our shared principles to paper. the resolution adopted today and the resolution adopted less than 24 hours earlier, are bound by more than just they both timing together. they paint a picture of american resolve that no matter how hard diplomacy is and no matter how cynical others both inside that room and beyond it may be. we will continue to lead to help alleviate suffering and work a toward lasting piece. it's as simple as that. this past week, the united states work with security council members to provide a vision leadership and a glimmer of hope. and now the real work continues. because now we must provide
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results. we must get more essential humanitarian aid into the hands of innocent godson's and get hostages in the arms of their loved ones. we must empower african leaders to combat growing threats to security and to protect civilians from the horrors of war. and we must build toward a lasting peace in the middle east, in africa, and across the globe. finally, as we were approach the end of the year, i want to express my profile and gratitude to albania, brazil, capital gonna, and the united arab emirates for their leadership during their time on the council . and i want to congratulate my new colleague from ecuador for his successful presidency, for ecuador this month,
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during the counsel to all of them. and to all of you, happy holidays. and here's to the more important work that we will continue to have to do in 2024. and with that, i'll take a few questions about the best. but thank you very much. i'll just do an english. what do you say to critics is to think that the resolution just passed by the security council is still almost disconnected from what the un bodies calling for almost 15 minutes off to the console. positive resolution. this extra general, once again, cool for an immediate humanitarian sees by a but the resolution did not. what do you make of this disconnect? but there is no disconnect here. we are all working to address the humanitarian needs on the ground and we're working to address those needs immediately. that's what this resolution is about. and it's about working with the you in and helping the you in to do the critical work that they are doing on the ground.
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the diplomacy as worked. it was an intense few days of nearly uh, 24 hours a day work. lots of phone calls. lots of text messages, my fingertips are tinder from texting over the course of these few days. and as i always say, diplomacy is hard. but when you get the results, the results are worth every minute of the hard work. and i really do think the u. a e, i think egypt, i think all of the members of the council for working with us to get this important resolution pass. thank you. and you have just been listening to linda thomas
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greenfield, the us ambassador to the united nation. she was reacting just a short while after the un security council adopted a resolution 1029 on the war in gauze. and now the main thrust of this resolution is to allow in a lot more humanitarian aid into the gaza strip and a lot faster on this trend. debrief all of this with gabriel. let us onto. it was joining us from un headquarters in new york gave. we've got a few minutes to try and, and bring our viewers up to speed. we haven't been with us the last hour and also understand what, what we're, what we're hearing here. so i'd like to actually address 1st the, the question that the, our producer ask um, which was very pertinent about this disconnect between what's in the resolution that was just approved by the un security council. and then what the secretary general said. moments afterwards he was calling for a ceasefire. that is not in this text. it's not in
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the best text and it's not even close to in this text. uh and so well it, well. busy then to thomas greenfield, the us ambassador to the un can say there is no disconnect kind of the proof as into words, right? diplomats especially here, the un really liked to parse words. so let's do that. initially this draft called for association of hostilities that's about as close as you can get to a cease fire without saying ceasefire. write us a meeting. we said no to that. that was earlier in the week. then they changed the wording to suspension, right? the us won't even go for that. so in the final version here, it has none of that. it was both taken out there noticing conditions for association of hostilities, right. and then the secretary general and the palestinian and bass are both saying within the last half hour you can ramp up aid without a ceasefire. secretary general himself, the world,
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stop diplomat saying cease fire ceased piracy is part of, that's what we're calling on. that's the only way to get the 8 in and get it in safely. gabriel and syria. what are we supposed to see happened on the ground now and gaza as well? you're going to have the secretary general, a point to point to humanitarian, a coordinator, to start the process of ramping up the aid. that's number one. and then you're going to start to see a little bit of accountability. and what i mean by that is that this resolution that was just passed gifts in 20 days. the secretary general needs to report back to the security council about implementation. so implementing things like starting to ramp up this age starting here. but it's, it's, it doesn't happen overnight and that's why the language that they wanted was immediate. so say sion of hostilities that really is stronger language and that's, it's not in there. so. ringback in theory, there's
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a lot that can go on in the ground, but it's going to take a minute if you will. but the clear thing is, is there is a, there is clear direction by the security council at least to start getting more rating. what are israel's obligations in the context of this ramping up of humanity, or in a, what is real, have to do because it does say safe. looking for the exact language, immediate, and safe, and humanitarian aid, that does mean that it is, at least in part the conflict. and this strikes and bombardments have to be down scaled. don't they as well. i'm going to be completely frank with you here. uh, israel can, can choose to ignore this and such as me saying that they've ignored the security council resolutions in the past. and i'll just say that the, the, the, the is really deputy ambassador to the un spoke after this resolution was passed
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voicing his frustration in it. and he said his words, we reserve the right to continue to inspect all 8 going into guys as we see fit, period, end of discussion. so that is israel's position. and so now they're, the real issue becomes, is this coordinator going to be able to help push back against that or, or not. all right, gabriel, as on the reporting from un headquarters in new york, thank you very much for all of that. you carried us through the last 2 hours where we saw and yours were with us will of seen as well. uh, the events unfolding uh the un security council. there you go. when we had a show of hands and the result was the approval of the resolution $1029.00, which provides for an exploit expedited ramping up of the humanitarian aid in the
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gaza strip. we'll have a full debrief and a continuing coverage of israel's one gaza at the top of the hour with fully bucks the the, the, i'm lucky my a lovely thought about left hands on the left again, left the shuttle place. my go ahead and as if i come in and so
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the, [000:00:00;00] the on for the back to boy, you're watching ology 09 from bill coming up in the next 60 minutes. the un security council, the food is a resolution for more humanitarian, a to gaza after days of rounding. but the us vito's,

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