amy: plus we speak to sonia guajajara, brazil's first-ever minister of indigenous peoples. >> and so now we need to rebuild and strengthen public policies in health, education, fighting racism, and environmental racism, and being able to have more specific measures to reduce the emissions that are causing these changes. amy: all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. palestinian officials report 390 people have been killed and more than 700 injured in israeli strikes on gaza over the past two days. in one of the latest attacks, an israeli air raid killed four people, including bassem ghaben, the director of the israeli-controlled karem abu salem border crossing, who'd been working to bring desperately-needed aid into gaza. this comes as the united nations reports more than a half a million palestinians are starving amid israel's siege and unrelenting bombardment of the gaza strip. arif hussain is chief economist with the u.n.'s world food programme. >> the world right now, there are 130,000 people who are in ca

sÔnia guajajara is brazil's first indigenous cabinet minister. the minister of indigenous peoples. i asked her what she wanted to see come out of this u.n. climate summit. this is what she said. >> for the indigenous peoples, we need to prepare for the road we need to head down in order to reach cop30. that will be held in belÉm. we also need to prepare so we can have a direct impact on the debates that unfold here at the cop. oftentimes, we're not even close to it. it is very important we indigenous peoples participate in these forums and there is a group directly on top of this. so we are here so indigenous peoples can have more space in decision-making and the general message is we have little time left to make leaders, government leaders, need not only to take on commitments here but also to understand we are in a state of emergency. in order to emerge from the state of emergency, investment is needed. financing is needed and protection so we can all protect the planet. amy: president lula still has plans to do massive offshore oil drilling.