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Michael Cloggs. Let's see the Dutch government has a new coalition government and after
several months the far right PVV won the Dutch elections. The Netherlands finally has
a new government after months of political wrangling and agreement was reached for the new
Dutch government to be led by a surprise pick, Dick Scoof. And Dick
Scoof who is he? The former head of Dutch Intelligence service. He was
the fifth person approach to preside over the eclectic coalition government and among a few
palatable candidates for all four parties, he pushed back a plan retirement to take
over from Mark Rutt, the netherlands longest serving prime minister. What else should
we know about this new government is the coalition mister Schoof will government includes mister
Wilders of the p VV, the largest party. Other members of the coalition
will be Conservative Liberal VVD, the Farmer Citizens Movement and the New took Governments
Central Centrist, New Social contract, which promised to restore public trust in politics.
It's something that we probably all need around the world, is more public
trust in the politicians. Maybe we need more politicians to are actually trustworthy.
Okay, mister Biden is defending his performance in against mister Trump in the debates.
President Joe Biden was blamed for extensive international travel for his poor performance in
the first election debate last week against Republican rival Donald Trump. I didn't listen
to my staff, and then I nearly fell apart on stage, he said.
His remarks at a private fundraiser on Tuesday evening came after a congressman from
Texas became the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to call for him to step aside following
the debate. So far, most has asked about mister Biden's place in the
race has said it was his decision whether or whether to run or pull out.
I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw.
That was from Representative Lloyd Duggett. The big question is is, of
course, if mister Biden does not run, who is left to run?
Replacements could include s Uh of course, Kamalo Harris and there's some several other
UH governors. If we you can go and look look for this information about
who the governors are. Robert F. Kennedy, junior UH independent US presidential
candidate, has responded to allegations of sexual assault and to a recent Vanity Fair
article saying I'm not a church boy. Believe it or not. In many
circles, UH, Robert F. Kennedy is a hopeful in in the campaign.
Even though he is independent. There could be some importance to to his
upcoming popularity that could actually tip the election one direction or the other if he
takes enough votes away from the other two party candidates. So all right,
and in of course the UK, it looks like they are up for an
election themselves, okay, So I would mean that that the UK is bracing
for uh some some sort of change. The Conservative Prime Minister Rishi's Uh Sonech
said he was campaigning very hard for every vote and he his main challenger is
Sir cair Starmer said the Conservative claims his Labor party was on a course for
a huge victory amounted to voter suppression. So there are many many other questions
behind that U. Sir Starmer and his Labor team have been quietly preparing for
government while racked with a paranoid about complacency. Nothing the Prime Minister has attempted,
both during his conventional time in office and during his campaign. There are
some effects that could happen here. For all the noise and hullablo in the
past month and a half, the colossal gap in opinion polls between the Labor
Party and Conservatives have been wildly barely budged, and the Conservatives from the top
down are braced for defeat. So there could be a change from the Conservative
Party in the UK to the Labor Party. So okay, So moving forward,
as we get at from the CNN, Hurricane Burrow is chumming for towards
Jamaica, a dangerous Category five storm, after leaving at least one person dead,
inflicting ruin across the Caribbean islands on Monday. The storm has already ripped
through homes in Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where many still without
power and water. Burrell comes smashing, comes to smash records as it kicks
off exceptionally early hurricane season. We did hear mister Biden yesterday talking about that
they that his administration. We're blaming this, of course on climate change and
saying that it could be the first Category five hurricane to actually make landfall on
the United States. And of course we're still talking about the immunity and the
effects that it could have on the United States. Mister Trump did say at
one point that the president should not be handcuffed by laws, and then we
heard in another statement from mister Biden is saying that it is important that the
president follow the rules, said that there is a balance of power between the
president and he is truly representing the people or on the Supreme Court. The
Supreme Court or Monday, declined to settle major questions raised in a blockbuster dispute
over laws intended to protect conservative viewpoints on social media. The decision dellays final
ruling whether the unconstitutional for states to pass laws preventing online platforms to moderate their
own websites. Republican governors in Texas and Florida previously argued that the laws are
needed to keep such sites such as Facebook and Instagram from discriminating against conservatives.
The the justices decision means laws will remain blocked for now while lower courts continue
you to sort out the constitutional involvement. Hell, there there is a point
to this with social media that some let these conservative people say what they want,
but we have the ability, we always have the ability to turn off
what people are saying. At the same time that if a group is spreading
hatred and the attempt an attempt to harm others, they should be turned off
because that sort of we shouldn't be allowed to do harm to others. And
we hope that the Supreme Court will make all and all the courts will make
a ruling that will protect others from harm while allowing free speech to continue.
With that being said, we should actually, you know, place ourselves and
make sure that we aren't causing harm to others. Okay, So with that,
we're going to move forward, and we're going to hear from the Canada's
Minister of Energy and he is going to be talking in Alberta about production of
hydrogen fuel and they're going to be putting about eleven million dollars towards the development
of that. Personal my personal feelings feelings are they more should be putty,
be putting into it and they should be looking further into trying to develop the
hydrogen fuel in a real hydrogen fuel program for transportation as opposed to what the
limitations are of electric transportation. That it may be more sensible to go the
way of hydrogen fuel because it may be less impactful on the environment to begin
with, and it also protects our freedoms and our rights to travel where electric
cars may have a limitation. We're also going to hear more about what's happening
in Palestine, as numbers of refugees and popular and the populations that are being
harmed by the fighting that is happening. There is also a mention about phosphorus
weapons being used, and there is no real confirmation of that. It is
rumored and it is very possible. These are extremely mean and nasty weapons,
white phosphorus as it here's your skin, It just keeps burning through you.
Just mean and nasty weapons. And we need to find a way to end
the fighting there and find a peaceful, peaceful resolution that just brings the fighting
to an end and returns hostages back to their homes. So why don't we
push Beforeard, We're going to listen to the Minister of Energy of Canada as
he talks about Alberta's program for hydrogen fuel Hi guys, Thank you Stewart,
good morning and a well a warm welcome to everyone joining us today for this
important announcement. I'm Tanya Carrera from Natural Resources Canada and I'll be here MC
for this event. I'm joined by the Honorable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy
and Natural Resources, as well as Louie Genewick, the CTO and global strategy
lead from New Wave Hydrogen. So to started like to acknowledge that we're meeting
on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty seven region in southern Alberta
and home to the Meetsi Nation of Alberta Districts five and six. We honor,
recognize and respect this in these indigenous people as the traditional stewards of the
lands which we share today, I think we can all agree that climate change
is a major threat to every community on this planet, as the folks in
this region know all too well, Canada and the world need to drastically speed
up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's as simple as that. To
do so, we need to use every tool at our disposal, and one
of the best tools in our arsenal is clean energy To reach Canada's ambitious climate
targets and leave a healthy natural heritage for future generations. We need the ideas,
knowledge and involvement of everyone, and the announcement for which we are gathered
here today demonstrates this. So without further ado, let's get to the matter
at hand. Please join me in welcoming the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources,
Jonathan Wilkinson to the Mikey. Thanks very much, welcome here for this
announcement. I also would like to be and by acknowledging that this event is
taking place on the traditional territories of the Peoples of twenty seven, which include
the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksica, the Bikani, the Kaine, the
Tutsina, and the Stony Nakota. City of Calgary is also situated on the
whole land of the Meti. And thank you, Thank you to New Event,
to Gawlings for hosting us here today for this announcement. We talk a
lot about climate change these days for obvious reasons. Climate change is altering our
world's natural environment in a myriad of harmful ways. Last year's wildfire season was
instructed in this regard, as it showed us what the future will look like
if we fail to tackle climate change, the future we must evidently work very
hard to avoid. At the same time, climate change is also rapidly transforming
the global economy and global finance in ways that are creating enormous economic opportunity for
those who approach the transition to a low carbon future in a thoughtful, a
determined, and a focused manner. The global energy transformation is both an environmental
imperative to protect our planet, yes, but it is also an economic opportunity
on a scale similar to the Industrial Revolution. For Canada to seize the extraordinary
opportunities being created by the transition to a net zero economy, we must first
accept the scientific reality of climate change and then ensure that this informs and shapes
Canada's economic strategy. Le gouvernment dumont antier saints des preuxeentpur numburure de mesu.
Our American friends, as folks will know, are making massive investments at a
scale never seen before in growing a clean economy through the Inflation Production Act.
So are the rest of Europe, Japan and South Korea, and beyond our
democratic friends, competitors such as China are also moving aggressively and highly strategically to
seize the major economic opportunities offered through the air energy transition. China is now
the world's largest producer and the world's largest deployer of reneable energy technologies. It
is one of the largest manufacturer of electric vehicles and the largest deployer of those
technologies. It controls critical minerals value chains very much, including processing. Around
the world, China has made a very strategic bet on the energy transition and
has been working on that for years. Here in Canada, we have developed
an energy and resource based strategy and partnership with industry, labor, and indigenous
peoples to create economic prosperity for the future. It includes seizing those key economic
opportunities in new and accelerating sectors such as critical minerals and critical minerals, processing,
battery and eed manufacturing, biofuels, nuclear technology, carbon capture and negative
emissions technologies, and of course, hydrogen production, utilization and export. It
secondly includes having a thoughtful approach to ensuring the competitiveness of Canada's oil and gas
sector in what will eventually be a declining global market. Such an approach requires
aggressive action to reduce emissions from the sector to ensure Canada will remain competitive in
a world that will value the lowest carbon products. It also means enhancing the
focus on non combustions of applications for oil and in the case of natural gas,
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Portan. It involves regulatory and permitting reform that will enable good projects to be
built quickly in this country. Just recently, Minister O Reagan and I launched
a new regulatory and permitting action plan that aims to do just that. And
finally, it very much includes furthering economic participation and economic reconciliation with indigenous peoples
anacasitrarais allancou don toutelepe ec on Alberta an opportunity the leadership a kayable and while
this work is underway right across the country, here in Alberta, the opportunity
for leadership is incredible. We have already seen significant investments in Alberta in the
emerging low carbon economy. This includes the recent twelve billion dollar doll investment in
the world's first net zero petrochemical facility in Fort Saskatchewan. Today I want to
talk specifically about hydrogen. It is something on which the federal government as well
as several provinces very much including Alberta, are focused. It is an area
of significant personal interest to me, having been the CEO of a company in
the hydrogen space for many years. In December twenty twenty, the federal government
released the Hydrogen Strategy for Canada and since then we have seen significant progress.
Numerous projects have been announced and are rapidly advancing, including the Air Product's Facility
in Ebonton which is nearing completion, which is a one point six billion dollar
clean hydrogen facility. O k beec Tes Canada, Constri and POGE did Regen
the Catmiliar de do Lar and in Atlantic Canada, companies including Everwind and World
Energy Hydrogen are making significant progress towards production facilities that will enable export of hydrogen
to Germany and to other European markets. Today, I am pleased to announce
investment of eleven point eight million dollars for eight hydrogen projects in Alberta and two
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ploer commercial Mont. Examples of projects receiving funding today include innovative fuel systems dual
fuel technology that will allow for heavy duty trucks to displace diesel fuel with hydrogen.
This dual fuel technology will reduce diesel consumption by up to forty five percent
on average and can be used in existing engines. ATC aims to develop the
first commercial fully hydrogen heated building in Canada. It will serve as a demonstration
site for technologies that utilize pure and blended hydrogen and trade operators in the installation,
commissioning, use and maintenance of those technologies. And new way hydrogen,
which is using pressure and pipelines to heat gases to temperature is sufficient to it
says here thermally decomposed. But apparently that's not correct. It is to crack
hydrocarbons. The innovation. The innovation uses no water, generates no direct carbon,
is low cost, uses existing infrastructure, and can move to market quickly.
As I said, earlier. Having a comprehensive plan to address climate change
and sees the economic opportunities that will be enabled through the transition to a low
carbon future is important environmentally, yes, but it is also critically important economically.
I would say, with some concern and somebody who entered politics to address
the climate corgnesses, I would say that the importance of having such a plan
is not necessarily shared by all political leaders at the federal level in this country.
And I would just simply reiterate that to have a relevant plan, relevant
economic plan for the future, we must acknowledge the reality, the scientific reality
of climate change and focus on those opportunities that will come through this transition.
I would also caution folks to be careful about relying on folks who tell you
that we can simply rely on technology. As a former clean Tech CEO,
I can say pretty confidently that while technology is clearly very important, technology on
its own will not drive billions of dollars in new investments and bring new opportunities
to countless communities. Technology on its own will not allow us to successfully address
the challenge of climate change. To do this, we have to put in
place the conditions that will enable technology development, that will enable demonstrations of technology,
and ultimately that will enable commercial deployment to close. Hydrogen presents a massive
opportunity, a clean energy source that can build on existing strengths and simultaneously support
energy security and climate objectives. I see enormous potential for Canada through ongoing innovation
an act of collaboration. I am confident that as leaders, we can and
we will ensure that the Canadian hydrogen will decarbonize industry, It will strengthen economies,
it will enhance and energy security, not just in Canada, but for
our friends in Japan, South Korea and Europe. And it will create good
jobs and economic opportunity as we transition to a sustainable and prosperous low carbon future.
So messit tulemon that thank you for joining us today. Thank you,
mister Wilkinson, and now I'll turn the mic over to Lowie Gunawick from New
Wave Hydrogen. All right, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to
be here today, and I would just like to reemphasize as the importance of
funding programs like the one that is being announced today. These types of programs
are absolutely critical to the companies that are working in the clean tech ecosystem in
Canada and beyond, and they provide support and vision for where we need to
go as we work hard to decarbonize are hard to decarbonize industries and systems in
Canada and beyond. I believe that new wave hydrogen is a great example of
the kind of technology that we're trying to build and develop and implement. As
was mentioned earlier, it produces no CO two, it uses no water,
and doesn't require any new infrastructure. By capturing that pressure energy that already exists
in natural gas pipelines, we can separate the carbon and the hydrogen into two
very valuable products. The hydrogen, of course, can be used to clean
up existing processes, for example fertilizer production or greening up the refining of petroleum
products by replacing steam methane reforming for example. It can also be used as
a blended fuel where we put hydrogen into natural gas and generate power with a
much lower carbon footprint. And so this is a great transition forward for us
to be able to do this, and again we couldn't do it without the
funding that's being made available from our governments here in Canada. It's absolutely critical
to us, and so I really appreciate the opportunity to be here today for
today's announcement to hear the continued investment in what we're doing to build out our
clean tech economy here in Canada. Thank you, thank you Lowie, and
thanks again for coming today. And we'll now turn to the media Q and
a please welcome Caroline Smunkan from Minister Wilkinson's office. Hello, good morning everybody.
As Tanya said, we will now move to the media Q and a
portion of the event, I will walk around and pass the mic. So
if you have a question, if you could just raise your hand and then
I can move move through the audience as well. We will have time for
one question, okay, I mean there is not very big, so it's
okay. We'll have time for one question and one follow up per reporter,
and if you could please you state your name and your outlet before you ask
your question. Some polls are Western standard. I'm just wondering if you had
any comments on the decision from North Bolt. Apparently they're scaling back and there's
some question over what the future viability of the Quebec plant is going to be
and also the efficacy of subsidizing these supply chains without any kind of certainty of
whether or not they're actually going to work. So I guess maybe let me
start with the second one. The world is transforming in terms of transportation.
As you will know very well, transportation is one of the largest single sources
of emissions in Canada, but also in other countries around the world, and
the move towards electrification is rapid in many parts of the world. You see
it actually in advance of Canada. Certainly in China you see enormous deployment of
electric vehicles, but the same thing is true in Europe and here in Canada.
Well, it's not true in every province and territory provinces that actually have
partnered with the federal government to work on this, including provinces like British Columbia,
you see very very high adoption of electric vehicles. So there will be
a market. Canada needs to ensure that we are a participant, that our
auto supply chain that employs hundreds of thousands of people in this country actually continues
and we actually augment that grow it in terms of the number of people that
are working on it, and we use that all the way up the value
chain in terms of critical generals minds, critical minerals processing. So I am
very very positive in terms of the work that's been done to secure the mandates
to do on the earlier stages of it, which is opening new minds and
actually getting the processing facilities in Canada. In terms of Northfold, I'm not
sure exactly what you're referring to, but certainly there have been some challenges in
Quebec with respect to the environmental permit that exists for Northfold, and that is
an issue that they have been working through with the Government of Quebec, which
is the relevant government in terms of jurisdiction, and I expect to see that
project movement. I have basis luch to believe that it's not. Apparently the
CEO gave an interview to Swedish media that they're doing a strategic review and they're
refocusing. They're also building a big plant, a giga plant in Germany,
and apparently the Quebec plant is part of that review. But that's just companies
go and do strategic reviews all of the time, and I would just suggest
that a company like Northwold is going to need somewhere to actually produce these kinds
of things in North America. One of the reasons why Norfold and Volkswagen and
others have actually located facilities have chosen to do so in Canada is actually because
Canada has a relatively clean electricity grid, which the Americans do not. It's
a competitive advantage for Canada and that's one of the reasons why we need to
move forward with things like the clean Electricity regulation. Okay, and then as
a follow up, you were talking about technology not being a silver bullet for
reducing emissions. Just wondering if you had any comment on the Shell announcement on
the Carbon capture quest program. Seems to be that we're talking multi billion dollar
investments in this technology. Dude, think that there's that this particular technology will
be able to contribute to Canada's missions reduction goals. Yeah, I mean,
I certainly welcome the Shell announcement. I think it was a big step forward,
and I think that what shall would tell you is the catalyst for that
was the finalization of the investment tax credit federally, which actually pays a significant
portion of the upfront capital costs. That is an important first step. We
see a significant opportunity to reduce emissions in the oil and gas sector and in
other heavy industries through the use of carbon capture, utilization and storage. And
I expect that you are going to see some other announcements in the relatively near
term. Let's move forward to the United Nations, and we're going to hear
more about what is happening in Palestine and about the number of civilians that are
really being affected because of the prolonged fighting. Andrea, can you hear us
louding here? Excellent, good morning, You've got We've got some people here,
We've got some people who will be joining online very shortly, but I
think in the interest of time, i'd like you to go go ahead.
We're obviously delighted to welcome our friend and colleague Andrette do Domenico, who is
the head of OCHA for the occupied pasty in territory, who is briefing us
from Jerusalem, if I'm not mistaken, to give us an update on the
situation there and also on some new population estimates that will come out today.
So Andrea, please go ahead, Thank you, thank you very much,
the fun and good morning everybody. I will start saying that you know,
here we are again at the crossroad where the Johanna United Nations and his partner
has to reset the operations. You might have seen that the latest information from
Gaza, with an evacuation order that has impacted a third of the strip one
hundred and seventeen square kilometers, much less impactful in terms of the people because,
of course, unfortunately, people are already concentrated in other areas and some
of the areas covered by the evacuation orders are indeed have been already either subject
to previous evacuation order or fighting that has happened in the previous months, so
the population has already left. But what we saw the last two days,
since Monday afternoon when the evacuation or the war was issued, we had seen
a constant flow of people moving out. Were estimated up to two hundred and
fifty thousand people could be affected by this evacuation order. But we are trying
to monitor and it's very difficult for us to be on the ground in all
places trying to monitor the different patterns and be more precise in terms of the
number of people that currently are moving. And that leads me to the point
on the over situation and the numbers around populations that we wanted to brief you
about today. At the moment, we estimated that nine of every ten people
in Gaza Strip have been internally displaced at least once, if not up to
ten times unfortunately since October. And you know, I was speaking with colleagues
that we have recently recruited to scale up our operations, and they were telling
me themselves that they've been with their family moving nine ten times, you know,
a few times in then all, a few times in Communis, then
go back to Rapha now up again to hand units in their Bala, so
it's a constant movement. We were looking at the injections of the overall population
data that the Palestinian Center of Statistics Bureau of Statistics is publishing based on the
natural growth of the population in Gaza, and that was situating the overall population
in Gaza at two point three million people roughly it's a bit less than two
point three in reality. Then we thought that now nine months in this crisis,
we had to look into some numbers that are the only safe numbers and
known numbers that we have. That includes the one hundred and ten thousand people
that have been able to exit Gaza according to the border Authority and the recordings
of those movements since October. We also have to take into account the thirty
seven thousand people that have been killed more than thirty seven thousand people that have
been killed according to the Ministry of Health. And so based on these two
fundamental data in consultation with the partners in Gaza and for the sole purpose of
humanitarian programming, so it doesn't procrude the ability and the possibility in the day
in which those who have left Gaza will possibly come back into Gaza, but
just for our programming purposes as humanitaring community, we estimate that the population present
in Gaza comprises about two point one million people, and we have said since
the beginning of the war that basically all of them, unfortunately, are in
need of assistance. Out of the current Gaza population, we also estimate that
one point nine million are internally displaced multiple times. So for example, the
patterns of movement that we have registered in the last two days, they are
not necessarily adding to this number because some of those or many of those were
already displaced and then they moved in different areas, and now they're moving again
trying to find a safe space if there is any or such. Before we
were estimating one point seven. But remember since that number we had the operation
in Rafa, so we had additional displacement from Rafa, and Rafa was not
one of the areas that regionally was displaced, so the residents of Rafa.
And then we had also operations in the north that has also moved people,
particularly the Javalier area and then in recent days also the Susjahia where we had
new displacement. But again those were people that were already displaced in the past
and they have been moving back and forth into the areas. And just to
be very clear, this is not the result of a census or or a
survey. This just represented the sort of a dynamic as that we produce based
on several sources including you know, interant usage, mobile phone usage, UH
and try and also to cross check with with colleagues on the ground when this
is possible. But beyond the numbers, there are people of course, men,
women, boys and girls, doctor students, cooks, artists, journalist,
teachers, mom's dads and people that have fears and grievances and they had
probably dreams and hopes. The less and less I hear today. Unfortunately,
people who in the last nine months have been moved around like homes in a
board game, forced from from one location to the next location, to the
next location to the next location, irrespective of our ability of support them and
irrespectively of the availability of services wherever they lent they have to. They've been
forced to move because of the patterns of the world heavy fighting that has of
course impacted them whenever they took the risk to stay where the houses were or
there where their tents and huts and makeshift shelter was built up, and they
moved in an overcrowded area. What we're seeing, unfortunately, is a patterns
that more and more resemble and go back to the originally identified area where the
government of Israel and the Idea told us that they want to concentrate all the
people, and that's what the patterns that we consistently see unfolding in front of
our eyes. With some people remaining in the north. Out of these two
point one million people, we estimated three hundred, three hundred and fifty thousand
are in the north and those cannot come to the south. The strip is
completely broken into as of today, and there are military presence that is blocking
movements and impeding movements for the civilians and frequently unfortunately also obstructing our ability to
move. These people have been forced to completely reset their lives over and over
again. I was talking with some people that moved again after the rough operation
and we're telling me, you know, it's very difficult for us to you
know, over and over again restarted the learning of where we are and how
we can access basic services. You know, after a while in this makeshift
shelter or tents that they had, that they figure out where the food could
be found, where the water could be found, where the portable water could
be found, where the medical point was, and they start getting acquainted with
their neighbors if they don't have the family with them, and that is you
know, stripped apart again and again and again, and people have to reinvent
and the ability to cope with conditional lives that are beyond imaginable. In the
recent days, we've seen these placed people moving once again from place like Sudrahia
for example, and even the the so called or the unilaterally declared zone has
been targeted by by military operations and forcing people again to leave the areas.
Many U N offices and and n G offices were along the Mawassi are in
Rafa, so in the south in front of the sea. And and people
look at us as a parameter or a barometer of the situations, and if
they see that we move out from those areas, they fear that something is
happening. What we've seen is the RAF operation progressively moved toward the sea and
progressively approach the safe zone again through the unilaterally declared serve zone, and fighting
has been happening there. Uh. And of course this is carrying people out
and and many have past the little the level belongings that they had to move.
Others look at us and see if we're still there, means that they
maybe are safe staying there. We calculate that around where there were probably eighty
thousand people, and we colleagues were telling me that they were estimating the twenty
five percent of the people around our offices have been moving while others are still
hanging in there because they know that there is not much space to move to.
These words has also been and continues to be characterized by several obstructions.
Of course, it continued generating more pain and suffering and more monetary needs.
You know, people need water, food, shelter, healthcare, edging protection
and we struggle to deliver this. We you know, there has been in
the recent days our USGS, as mister Griffiths has repeated again, we are
there to to stay and deliver and to help people. But delivering for us
is a daily struggle. Literally, we have to you know, make gigantic
efforts to to sustain some lifelining of our services. You know, the delivery
of fuel. One thing fuel is why would that be so important? But
fuel allows hospitals to to continue providing services, life saving, life sustaining services
in hospitals. Fuel allows water to be you know, de salinized and and
and and provide basically drinking water to people. Fuel allows us to move food
around uh and and bring to the multiple number of NGOs that are you know,
cooking in tekias and offering food and meals to to to people that is
desperate in need. Just like the displaced people. Our monetary operational subject to
continuously reset. You know, before the war, our humanitarian app was in
Gaza City in the north. Then you might remember the night between the eleven
and twelfth of October in the middle of the nineties, where authority order us
to abandon those facilities and move south. We had to comply to protect the
lines of our staff, leaving behind warehouse supplies, vehicles, equipment, and
bring with us whatever we could, you know, rubbing those things, you
know, in between bombardment that was unfolding all around. We left with the
feeling of guilt because we knew that we were leaving behind civilians. And since
then we have been quite determined too, you know, not being pushed every
fine by the conditions to to move unless really the safety becomes into it comes
into line, and in that case, of course, we have to to
make sure that our colleagues stay safe. But we really need to draw a
line of you know, enough for for for the people, enough for this
war that ships on tearing apart of the life of people. We were forced
to re establish our entire monetary mechanism from scratch in the South, identifying new
facilities, funding new staff, or or helping our colleagues to come back to
work because they were all traumatized, all and lost, you know that the
homes that many have lost their family members, and it was a difficult journey
and we did it, but then again was the you know, part of
the operation at some point were based on fig units and then Raugha and then
miss operation came in, and again we had to reinvent our footprint and our
operations. And today our hub was in Brapha again is gone UH and and
there you know, the military operation or pushing again and flipping against complit of
the table. In the last weeks we have been discussing a lot with the
with with with Israeli and the Hunanitarian community how to resume our ability to to
bring assistance in from Karamabusalem so inside Gaza and distribute throughout the strict and we
have been engineering a lot of solutions and trying and testing and improving and failing
at times. And and now with this evacuation order, all this has been
again wiped out by the way as of yesterday with with the Monday evacuation order
UH, the Gaza European Hospital has been impacted. Yesterday we were busy in
ev creating the patients remaining in the Gaza hospitals, but in the meantime many
including patients, doctors, nurses, staff have left already on Monday, and
then late in the evening he is already said that we did not intend to
evacuate the hospital or ask the evacuation of the hospitals. But first of all,
they didn't tell us, they didn't communicate these to people. But then
when they told us, people have the memories of what has happened in ship
Bay, in Naser and other hospitals where you know, doctors and patients and
nurses were you know, once the hospital was invaded by the the IDEF,
they were arrested, interrogated, some of them them were found days after into
mass graves. So people is fear, the fear is dominant, and so
people have left. And with the loss of the European Gas Hospital, we
lost one of the last hospitals that has some fundamental services. It had the
last cities scan available, fully functioning was in in that hospital. This is
gone. We will be able to re establish somewhere some something similar, I
hope so, but again to restart and we have to, you know,
in a very challenging environment. Some of the concrete adult structures that we I
think is important to mention electricity and fuel Israeli authority. If you remember they
had of electricity in October and since then, of course, there has not
been electricity. So electricity is fundamentally provided and solidly provided by adosoil planets,
but that were soly during the day because there are not many batteries left or
feel through generators. But fuel import, as you remember, also has been
initially panned and now heavily controlled. But even to import that we need a
functioning caruns along carimebustyle and an ability to bring them the fuel where it is
needed. It's just not to let him in. It's also how this fuel
could be distributed where it is it is needed. Without power, water become
scarce, bakeries cannot operate by being creator are turned off in hospitals, and
ambulances remain grounded. Not mentioned the fairy. Many ambulances, unfortunately, have
been been hit during this nine months of war. Safety and access has been
always a concern for us, for our staff, for our personnel uh and
and and for the civilians that are caught in the fighting nowhere and no one
is saving us. We keep on saying this. We have seen over and
over, you know, military operation in Bombard and happening also in the heart
of the humanitarian safe zone in El actually declared by Israel two hundred and seventy
four workers and volunteers. Our colleagues, my colleagues have been killed so far,
you know, and many of them were killed on duty. Others were
killed at home with their families, when their family members there is their life
every day, and there is no humanitarian installation that has been all very rare
manitary installations that have been spared when the front line moves. So despite our
effort of you know, notifying those locations, the reality on the battle on
the ground that it is frequently those those places are hit. You've seen the
incidents affecting you know, WFP Ungrad many many times and other ANGEO colleagues and
other GEO entity. The security of humanitary worker is closelyli reated to and unfortunately
accompanied by those campaigns that call aid organization to pastimes for inability to deliver.
We have a dialogue with Israeli daily literally multiple times of it actually, and
we explain our challenges, we try to find solutions, We work out understanding
that of course, you know, war is war, and it might have
is logic and is objectives, but you know, humanitarian assistance is an obligation
that all the parties have to respect Israeli and other our groups, and we
keep on calling them all to help us to deliver the assistance that is so
dearly needed, to desperately needed to Palestinians. Humanitary locations and movement are are
of course an effort. We do a lot of effort to notify to the
fighting parties in order to protect them but also protect our colleagues, I mean,
but also because it's a way for the parties to fulfill their obligations.
Our role is helping the parties to fulfill their obligations. And so I really
hope that we can you know, continue this dial or building more trust among
the parties in order to be able to serve people because the conditional people are
degrading day by day. You have seen the the recent integrated Phase classification that
is, you know, fundamentally it telling us that ninety six percent of the
population in Gaza, ninety six percent is from emergency food, insecurity or catastrophic
for insecurity status. This is simply unacceptable. We need to move the dial
on this. And this is not only about bringing food. It is about
health, it is about water, it is about sanitation. We have a
growing problem of sanitation. We cannot pick up garbage and bring it to the
landfill because the landfill are not accessible, and we keep on insisting, day
in day out. Finally, the last point and I wrap up. We
have made an appeal for three point four billion for the response in Gaza.
As of now we have only thirty five percent covert And you might tell me,
but you're describing so many challenges to deliver, so why would you appeal
for more money. The reality is that if we will be able to reach
the situation where our set by will be pulled or even opposed, we will
not be able to scale up our operation to the level necessary unless those resources
are mobilized. So it is absolutely important to invest and mobilize those resources now
to make sure that when this will happen, we'll be able to scale up.
And in the meantime we'll spare no apple, day in day out to
increase our ability to believer, stay and remain and protect the civilians. Final
thoughts, and I do want to thank you for listening to us today here
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no wonder that some countries are saying, well, how well, how in
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trust the political system? How do we trust that a political resolution is going
to come about, is going to stop the fighting that is happening in Palestine
and the the fighting that's happening between Russia and Ukraine. How do we f
know that our politicians are truly working towards those goals? How do we trust
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we have said, hey, we want to give you the job, are
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