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tv   Counting the Cost  Al Jazeera  August 26, 2024 7:30pm-8:01pm AST

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it can be distributed, it's a very complex process and you and it said for, for many months now that it really is about getting the, the people that need it. it's not about how many trucks cross the border crossing or can't so, so that is is very key and it is a very confusing situation on what border crossings are open. what are the bottom line to the, all of this is, and this is really the key to all this is not enough. 8 is getting in and it hasn't been and for many, many months. now that is very clear. and i think it's, it's also worth noting this little untangle here exactly what's happening because events are moving pretty quick when it comes to the us and gaza. right now. you just heard there from to top. officials with unrest, united nations relief and work agency for posting and refugees have been doing work for years in got it. they continue to work in gaza. they continue to, to the best of their ability as you heard from them. there is a we're live on our,
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on our air, giving a briefing to journalist here un headquarters in york. they continue to work on the ground in guys, a distributing any sort of a that they can. however, i'm a senior un official, has also briefed journalist and told us that due to the fact that is eh, un officials have had to be evacuated out of their operations area. and they're out bala because of the is rarely evacuation orders on sunday. the un, or by all intents and purposes, does not have the ability to distribute aid as an organization right now in guys as we speak. and so you're in this situation is very fluid. it's very difficult, but from the senior you want, a fisher has told us that it's unprecedented situation. the person said that they
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are taking a incredible amounts of risk. and that right now at this very moment, the un simply cannot facilitate any a delivery because their staff is having to move essentially to, to our milwaukee under very short notice. so the un itself is also part of this forced displacement. if you will, that we've been reporting about for months now of palestinians in the us at the un had an office big office in gaza city. they were forced to move out of there in the rough or a few months ago when it's rarely official said, everyone needed to get out of a wrap up. that also meant the un, so the un move to darrow bhalla. they'd set up operations in darrow bala and then on sunday these really it was really military said everyone out of darrow bala. so the us that meant the un as well had to move out of darrow bala. they are now in
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some their staff is now in some guest homes in you now my wasi. but because of this constant movement by un key staff members and they are not able to, according to senior un official, at this very moment, to facilitate a delivery in ga. so now this is temporary. we believe the un official said that the u. n is not and i repeat not pulling out of gaza. the u. n is not officially suspending a delivery in gaza, but as of right now practical measures, they cannot do it to. okay, thank you very much. gabriel has on a reporting to us from you in headquarters in new york for now. thank you very much, gabriel. and also i'll just here as end of history joins us on the line now from daryl by the in central gaza. we're hearing about you and official station then now finding it very difficult, they said that they will not be able to deliver aiden. and darrell butler has been
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severely affected by these evacuation or does right with speaking about 100000 people have been displaced probably more than that. and the un it already issued before today, a warning up to a 1000000 people will not get food aid for august. what is the situation facing palestinians now as well? it's miserable and everyone human a, terry and you and worker is people, journalists, everyone is in a state of panic and frustration. we're talking about more than a 1000000 people in the middle area and those who were squeeze into that. but now you and people are humanitarians and there has been 0 protection for them. and that's why they were on able to continue facilitating and continue their operation . there is no protection for them. their warehouses are in the red zone and not only that are warehouses also the best houses and offices where they were. all of
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their operations were based in their, in bella, we're talking about different organizations, like the world food program, unit stuff, you know, and a lot of other u. n. agencies. now this is gonna affect the people deeply, not only that they were unable to their, their displays a couple of times, some people have been displaced for more than 7 or 8 times, but also they are completed by, on food a. so now it's not only the people who do you an agency service, but also the workers in the you and agencies and other humanitarian organizations are also on the move. so it's unbelievable for them to continue their operations. now, the fact that they evacuated outside, um there is but also is not a guarantee because they need to start from scratch. we're not only talking about
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people who are displaced by but also about you and people and other humanitarian organizations. to be honest, people indebted bella for the 2nd. they have been concert across the street which seeing people trying to find a place to set up their tents. but unfortunately, as we were talk, you can't even walk in the street to do that and not the, the, the amount of people everyone squeezed into the area of a milwaukee and area is very close to the sea. but at the end of the day, those kind of thing you do not even have to pay to even fish or set up their ton, the situation is miserable. everyone is kind of king. everyone's very frustrated and not only but this is the only place left her a college and he is on a lot of products in news from different areas across the golden strip. evacuated very, but i know the thing is right now. and those kind of thing is even when they evacuate from a place to another, they do not take their food,
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they don't have to time to take any of their belongings. that's why even the people start the their, their food and everything from scratch because everything they use to store, they aren't able to take them do so. so that's why this is adding more busy to the lives of policy is now part of the need to not have even the ability to cook, for example. that's why they complete through the lot on the food, a distribution from the world food program. and you know, now palestinians now are, are, are, are facing a lot of obstacles and challenges, not only strikes, not only are color selling and the costs captured, but it's the continuous displacement. it's the pol yet with the amount of attrition . and it's the ongoing diseases that everyone in the gaza strip is currently facing . and the, the hosting of you and operations is going to make the situation more catastrophic . 1.9000000 people, our population of more than 2000000 has been displaced now and,
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and i, she has been 1111 evacuation orders in august alone. tell us, tell us what it's like inside these overcrowded areas. you would just saying that people are not able to cook, they very much relying on food aid, but they can't get that because the humanitarian work is that a less than gaza are also affected by these evacuation order. so they are unable to do the jobs. so tell us more about the living conditions that policies are facing in, in that the tiny bit of land they've been squashed into. now with every single evacuation oregon, the human a tegan zone is shrinking, smaller and smaller and small. and we're talking about family is children with, with a lot of family members, some people are and then yeah, not only that,
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there are some people who will have chronic diseases. we have been seeing people crowded, squeeze in a tend to are talking about more than 20 family members in one very small tent. and it's not only that we're hearing a lot the phrases where do we go? where should we go? there is no play safe and these are the phrases that policy need every palestinian in the southern parts of god that is actually is telling us, you know, people do not have any place to go. some of those people who are ready minus to find a spot in a milwaukee other people could not find a place so they're literally scattered on the street. got hurt on this side. looks like even met a couple of families that need to be slept all day, did not keep all night long because they did not have any place. and it's not only that, it's the food insecurity, it's the sewage. it's the lack of water and lack of healthy walter and no food a non, no one. no, no families are going to receive any food aid now. so that's why the situation is
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very, very miserable. people did not think that the is there any point to the conked inmate or release any evacuation or gears to that is but because they thought that this is a humanitarian zone, and these are the forces i've been posting and publishing that this area is a safe human terry and zone, but at the end of the day, there has been a more i thought to issue orders. now people believe that the same scenario just right like left the whole happen. they're going to continue squeezing and pushing people into a more into the coast, like every pocket of that and but ahead of me, the area is squeeze and over one these people. i don't know if i could even describe how hard the situation is on those perry is not being able to protect their children, not even able to feed the children the situation. every single 2nd is being more
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where it's getting worse and worse and worse, and it's not only the humanitarian situation, airstrikes continue, and the artillery shutting also continues. uh, okay, thank you very much. and uh, the hoodie reporting to us from gauze are and now mama to unless you professor of media studies that go on see if a graduate studies joins me in the studio. just listening to him the she is describing people who are in so cool. say sons, that just blocks away from life, fire and bombings. the other thing is they've been squeezed into 11 percent of the land. the infrastructure in that tiny bit of land has completely broken down no sanitation services. and now the outbreak of diseases like pony or that causes paralysis and in kids. so how urgent is it for that to be a see sign? well, i mean, for months now, 8 organizations. i had been saying that it's that it's urgent. and so really, i would say that it's, it's many months of overdue. the situation as has been described is absolutely
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catastrophic. and i want to remind everyone that this is in large part by designed to give me profess set, but we're just going to get information about the monitoring situation in gaza with us folks. my rights sherry, who is speaking now, a good afternoon and it's just an update on the secretary general's travel as he is in town. go with this morning, he took part in the opening of the 53rd pacific island pacific islands for him. he praised specific island leaders for their collective commitments to environmental stewardship and regional peace and cold the region for a beacon of solidarity and strength. the world has much to learn from the pacific, he said, but the world must also step up in supporting your initiatives. you underscore the survival plan for a planet is simple ending the exploitation of coal, oil,
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and gas fairly, and in a way that protects the most vulnerable. all countries have a part to play. he said. he also urged pacific island states then their own dependence on imported fossil fuels and sees the benefits of the clean energy revolution. he also another field visits in tonga, notably uh, officially commissioning a new early warning uh system, uh for uh, tongue guy. and he also met with youth leaders and also visited a c wall and heard from coastal communities impacted by the rise in the sea level. um yesterday, your sort of serious a bilateral meetings with leaders attending the form later today. uh, the secretary don't take part in the leaders dialogue at 11 am local time. we also have a press event to launch the world near to logical organizations report on the state of climate in the south west pacific. and that press event should be a broadcast,
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live via social media platform. as soon as we know which one we will share that information with you. i think you've heard quite a bit today on does both. i'm a senior, you are an official and just now from an onto our colleagues, just a few more updates to share with you a and obviously uh oh, just dresses that the, the repeated evacuation orders that these really have issued have a pen, did a whole live saving humanitarian hub that was set up in darrow bala followed, following the evacuation of the roof, a hub back in may. and it of course is usually for her to severely impacts our ability to deliver a central support in services water production. and darrow butler was reduced by 85 percent due to loss of access to water sources in areas designated for evacuation back it earlier in august and on polio. after the 1st confirmed case,
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our partners on the ground tell us that at least $50000.00 children born since the crisis began, are highly unlikely to have received any immunization due to the collapse of the health system. in garza, yesterday, our colleagues, unicef confirmed the $1200000.00 doses of the polio vaccine type to have been brought in to garza to immunize more than $640000.00 children. together with w. h. show an ottawa for its part the food program says there operations were severely hampered by the intensifying conflict, the limited number of border crossings and damaged roads. in the last 2 months, w f. p is managed to bring in only half of the $24000.00 metric tons of food a required for operation survey. 1.1000000 people in gaza. wsp is also had to reduce the contents of food parcels. it also warrens that the shell craters and debris is making driving slow and it's challenging for truck drivers,
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even in dry weather, any 2 months. it's fear that when the rains returned, flooding is expected, most roads will become unusable. wsp says aid workers grapple daily with slow authorization and frequent refusals. when asked for permission to move on, looting and public order problems are also frequent, especially when tons voice wait for hours and holding points, and then moving to lebanon. you will a seen that on sunday we issued a statement which the secretary general expressed his deep concern at the exchange of 5 that are taking place across the blue line. these actions, he said, put both the lebanese and is really populations of risk as well threatening regional security and stability. he called for immediate de escalation following yesterday's wearing escalation. peacekeepers in unit fell, continue to observe. exchange of fire across the blue line, as una feel continues to carried out. it's mandated activities and these
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challenging circumstances this but the special coordinator for lab and on janine and his passport and the head of the un peacekeeping mission and 11 on general role deluxe out will continue their contacts with the parties in order to uh de escalate . the situation, meanwhile, our humanitarian colleagues tell us that the recent uptake and hostilities has not had a significant humanitarian impact. however, the ongoing conflict continues to serially impact civilians on both sides of the blue line along with our partners. we continue to scale our prof. relief efforts in support of the lebanese government led response. however, humanitarian response efforts are being undermined by funding constraints. so we originally need additional resources. we call on all parties to follow and to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law, emphasizing the need to protect civilians including children and civilian
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infrastructure at all times. moving to sudan, you will have seen that over the weekend, the secretary general spoke with the general abdel photo board. i'm the principal president of the transitional council of sudan, the secretary general judge and the general discuss the movements of humanitarian aid through audrey crossing and agreed to facilitate the movement of you may return supplies to enter the country. okay, well just been getting a further update on the monitoring situation and garza from you in spokesman stuff under jerry speaking from un headquarters in new york, emphasizing that, the repeated evacuation orders that we have seen through the month of august, but particularly in the past few days in darrow, by law in central gauze that has offended you, a un operations hub, that was distributing humanitarian aid so that those humanitarian was unable to do . that was because of the difficult, difficult conditions inside garza but also because of
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a physical destruction. it's very difficult to distribute the aides that does exist . the also mentioned that some 50000 babies, children who has been on since the start of the wall are an urgent need of immunization has not been any immunization and gaza because of the war. and that's causing a great deal of concern. it's threatens many lives, particularly the lives of children in the vulnerable, within the wake of polio now being identified in gaza for the 1st time in 25 years. so gabriel is on the is it to you and headquarters in new york and tell us what we learned from this? we've got a bit more information from stuff under jerry gay, but he was also mentioning the obstacles and mass of obstacles that have been that for a very long time actually when it comes to being able to get the aide to those who need it or yeah, i think that's right and you know, uh,
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just to put this in some bigger context here, then i'll get into a little bit more details to try to untangle everything that's going on. but i think in october, november the u. n. was operating on a very much a month to month situation during the beginning of this. and then i think it went to sort of a week by week as a conflict continued. and as israel's bombardment of guys a continued henri less leslie. and then i think it got to a point where it was almost day to day. and i think what we're starting to see now is that it's almost getting to a point of un operations, hour by hour. now why do i say that? because we've heard from a senior un official who has briefed a correspondence here at un headquarters in new york. who told us that the u. n. a is on able to deliver any aid today due to the fact that
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you and staff that had an operation center in darrow by law have been forced to move. that is clearly very significant that the un and this senior you want officials saying they simply cannot deliver a said, that doesn't mean that they're leaving guys, that doesn't mean that they've officially suspended 8. it's just means that they cannot, for all practical purposes because their own staff, some he said, are sleeping in their cars at this point. now we're also hearing from under of the united nations relief and work agency that has a huge presence in guys under very difficult circumstances. they are telling us, and this is important, that their shelters remain open, that they are delivering water to people that need it in their shelters, and that their health clinics remain open. so the facilities that under a has a are operating as best as they can today under incredibly difficult circumstances
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. but we can, to recap, we are also hearing from a top you unofficial. that is saying, officially the un is not able to distribute any new aid. today, and they're not sure when they will be able to resume. so i hope that clarifies things just a little bit. of course, in the past couple of days, we'd already had a warning from united nations, which was reiterated in the briefing that we've had today, that they wouldn't be able to reach up to a 1000000 people in the month of august because of these repeated evacuation order . so, and even, even if the u. n is, is a great pains to emphasize that they don't even garza as simply not able to, to do that job. that's absolutely right. the senior un official said that the, the, the situation they're facing guys right now are in their words, unprecedented. the senior un official says that we have to be so careful that we,
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uh, we are pushing the limits of our risk assessment. this top un official said now the un says they have a 90 international staff that have been moved to 5 safe houses in l. my y c. they have a $140.00 international staff including $400.00 dependence. these international staff, this un official said, are scrambling to find some sort of housing with relatives with friends, summer living and in any shelters. and in this, you stop, you unofficial said that some are actually having to sleep in their cars. very poor to point out here that you and later this week was supposed to roll out their polio vaccine campaign and gaza at this point, it's unclear if that will be able to move forward. okay, thank you very much. gabriel. as all the reporting to us uh, the, from the un headquarters in new york. and um, how much the last repressor media studies are the dough on the street for graduate
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studies still with me now. and it's past pops was reflecting on some of the figures that you know, you had actually before october 2023 before the war started. this is already a densely populated bit of land in gaza. $1200.00 people, $1200.00 people per square could on me to now in, in this month, august 2024 up 234000 people per square kilometer. and we're hearing that it's not just the violence and the bombing that is threatening people's lives, but also now on a massive humanitarian and public health. does aust uh, one of the messages from that un briefing appears to be that this is something that is in tiny preventable me. absolutely. and, and as we sit here in august, now the 2024, we have to remind everyone that this is part of a repeat pattern. this is not something new. this has been ongoing since since october and to your point because it was already impoverished. right?
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so 8 organizations say that about half of thousands were suffering from extreme food in security. this is before october 7th. so when we talked about the need for you know, $500.00 trucks per day that was already in some ways in sufficient guidance, were already mounted malnutrition. on a separate suffering from malnutrition, even with $500.00 trucks. so now as the representatives that we were listening to were saying only about a 100 trucks per day are, are getting in. so the situation is, is dire. and i also think we would be remiss if we didn't remind everyone how dangerous things are for these deed workers who are doing quite a real work work on the ground. but many dozens of them had been killed by hello sir. tell us about that. what you make is the international reaction, because not only is there any minute trees, not any obstructed humanitarian missions, and goes up actually a work because of been attacked. those who's actually shed the precise coldness and
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the location with the military right. there are been numerous documented cases and this is documented in the to some of the human rights reports that have been released over the last few months. but this real has intentionally targeted aid workers and 8 organizations. they've also intentionally targeted journalists. we've had, we've set the world record now for most killed journalists and most killed aid workers in a, in a single conflict. so is real and many ways has accomplished one of the things that have set out to do which is to make gaza uninhabitable. to create in the words of one top is really high security official humanitarian crisis. and so they succeeded where they failed militarily. militarily, what about the sci fi adults? it's does this mean i'm disclose the urgency for that to be a cease fire? supposed even if it's a temporary one, might just generate some of the mental i don't think so. i don't think we're gonna
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see momentum until the united states applies serious leverage um to israel or against israel. the reality is that israel does not want to cease fire every time there seems to be a bit of momentum toward a cease. fire is real, says and does things that would make a ceasefire. absolutely impossible. they assassinate the top uh, you know, cease fire negotiator for the palestinians. they introduce impossible conditions to a to a deal, but they had already allegedly agreed to and so on. and so for so that's going to be just a little scratch up again in a couple of minutes. but of course you've had a breaking news story this out. united nation saying that it is unable to carry out a distribution inside garza following the force evacuation or does that we've had really an etc ration of, of accusation, orders through the weeks. and elizabeth,
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particularly over the past few days in darrow, by the, in the central gaza, which puts millions of lives at risk. one that in a couple of minutes the, the, the thunderstorms are returning or becoming more frequent in engine easy. it was, java still looks fairly dry, borneo sort of ways. yeah. across the buttons or i could probably go to west pop. you are going to see big cheryl's once again, but still the width is rather ought to be to the knolls. mima, i'm tied on bangkok is going to have 3 days of sundry weather. junction is the latest type food which is still strengthening, actually is stronger. so i think during when say in the smaller onto the v, you q chain, then it starts to turn around and to us, catch cima. at the same time, the right and that's been quite heavy around. beijing is moving southwards and become a week of a couple of days in shanghai. see mom, because is again,
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still human and occasionally rising. how call john john itself gets very close to kind of female, most likely during 60, by which time is will have lost a lot for women strength. but it brings with a big waves, i still massaging across heavy right. and right is still the story in bangladesh. to become a week ago, so the feds can dissipate some degree. but look, what's happening in good, you're not run just on ends and province in southern impact is down to that's going to continue on this almost a certainty of funding from this cause. that circulation is quite notable. so we see the range returned to not just something, but even central and northern practice that the
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view and size, it's all unable to conduct a to operations in gaza, off the israel's evacuation or it is. but instead it's not printing out from the strip. the no, i'm r m i z, this is out. is there a life from don't also coming up on the program, a series of coordinated attacks and focused on pollution starting prevents kills at least 74 people rescue assets around the way and so done off to, to run,
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