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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 3: Mister Arrando's reporting out of the US that suggests that
Speaker 3: several Trump officials are concerned that the Nataiahu and his
Speaker 3: administration may abandon this is fire I deal. We know
Speaker 3: the Vice President of the US heading back to Israel.
Speaker 3: Wikoff and Kushner already there. To what extent are they
Speaker 3: there to simply pressure that's a.
Speaker 4: Level Well, it's a real concern for the Americans as
Speaker 4: well as to the whole world that what Matania wants
Speaker 4: is to find a way has been itching to go back.
Speaker 5: To the war, to the genocide, but the Americans team
Speaker 5: to keep him in link. Let's also are trying to
Speaker 5: take stock of what's going in here. Right before Trent
Speaker 5: unveiled his plan in September twenty field, the whole world
Speaker 5: was talking about the establishment of the Beast in the
Speaker 5: state being September eleventh, twentifthe all the way up to
Speaker 5: the twenty third, everybody are somewhat I seen the state.
Speaker 5: Bakers of the countries of.
Speaker 6: The world has already recognized the Persilian state.
Speaker 7: All but five percent of the world two countries actually
Speaker 7: oppose it.
Speaker 8: So the whole conversation has been chosen for Trump's plant.
Speaker 5: That's a great division tactic to go back now and
Speaker 5: talk about the genocide.
Speaker 8: If there has his way, Obviously it's going to be
Speaker 8: a huge setback.
Speaker 7: That everybody would be talking about the inevitability of the
Speaker 7: Parsilian state.
Speaker 5: This whole process, this true plant is trying to delay
Speaker 5: as much as possible the emergence of the Pasilian state.
Speaker 2: What expectations, however, do you have about how.
Speaker 3: The ceasefire will progress, because the expectation is that negotiations
Speaker 3: are going to have to start at some point.
Speaker 9: Regarding phase two.
Speaker 5: The problem with Peas two is that, according to her
Speaker 5: message response to Trump, they could actually be shape the
Speaker 5: release of the captives. They can be shape some certain
Speaker 5: items like how much a those in things the right
Speaker 5: of that sort. They already give up all their cards.
Speaker 5: In other words, whatever leverage they have, which was the
Speaker 5: living hostages as well as the dead ones. Now they
Speaker 5: are at fifteen bodies left. The whole world is of
Speaker 5: about fifteen bodies. What thousands public pens of thousands of
Speaker 5: Postinians bodies have not even been recovered since the genocide
Speaker 5: started two years ago. This just shows the insanity of
Speaker 5: the world heady equipment needed to do that.
Speaker 8: But assuming they do return the bodies, then Hannas has
Speaker 8: lost its leverage, and Hannas says, in the second phase
Speaker 8: of the negotiations, these decisions about the disarmory, about the
Speaker 8: entrance of international force, about the day after all these
Speaker 8: things have too been decided by the collective Pedestinian will,
Speaker 8: not just the faction of two and therefore we're.
Speaker 7: Going to have real difficulty in trying to get any
Speaker 7: kind of disarmament or decommissioning because Hamas would be totally
Speaker 7: opposed to it. But more importantly, the negotiating team does
Speaker 7: not have them in date and of the shaate these items.
Speaker 2: So what does this tell us then, or what does
Speaker 2: it tell you about how this is going to actually
Speaker 2: play out on the grounds, and what are the likely
Speaker 2: scenarios than going forward?
Speaker 7: We have very risky scenarios right now, you know, in
Speaker 7: terms of the Israelis. They want to come back and
Speaker 7: try to have or declare what they call total or
Speaker 7: absolute victory. I don't think the Americans would allow them.
Speaker 7: The Americans are trying to get out of this mess
Speaker 7: by trying to impose some sort of a political settlement
Speaker 7: that will achieve Israeli objectives to political means rather than
Speaker 7: military means that.
Speaker 10: They haven't been able to do.
Speaker 7: And I think that's going to be really tricky. It's
Speaker 7: going to be very difficult. It depends on the mediators
Speaker 7: and how forceful they will be with the is what
Speaker 7: it is. I believe we have probably seen the end
Speaker 7: of the genocide. That's going to be a stalemate. That's
Speaker 7: going to be a very tense situation. They will be
Speaker 7: killing pedestinians. So far over pedescinas have been killed since
Speaker 7: the announcement of the seas fire. We're talking about the
Speaker 7: violations of the Israeli since that came into effect about
Speaker 7: ten eleven days ago. They haven't been allowing the aid
Speaker 7: that they were promised, even though they got all the
Speaker 7: living captures back. And also we're going to have real
Speaker 7: difficulty in trying to rehabilitate, to reconstruct Gaza. All that
Speaker 7: tells us that they're going to be very difficult times ahead.
Speaker 11: When you say that the Israelis are going to try
Speaker 11: to achieve their objectives politically, what are these objectives today?
Speaker 11: And have they changed from two years ago?
Speaker 7: Literally? But not much that the Israelis actually wanted. What
Speaker 7: to ethnically cleans Gaz, try to destroy Gaza to the
Speaker 7: point that they can force the Palestinians to leave. That
Speaker 7: has not been achieved. But now they're trying to also
Speaker 7: make sure that Gaza is not going to be ruled
Speaker 7: by any kind of a hostile forces. A massage a
Speaker 7: ready said, it's not going to rule Gaza. But they
Speaker 7: also want to demilitarize Gaza, and that's not going to
Speaker 7: happen because the people theyre don't feel safe in any way,
Speaker 7: shape or form. They do remember what happened to the
Speaker 7: sub Branchertila camps back in nineteen eighty two, when the
Speaker 7: fighters left and massacres were committed a few days later,
Speaker 7: thousands of people were killed. Also, we remember what happened
Speaker 7: in Sepernitza in nineteen ninety five when in Brasia the
Speaker 7: people were disarmed and then eight thousand people were massacred
Speaker 7: by the Serbs in nineteen ninety five. So all these things,
Speaker 7: all these examples tell the people that any kind of
Speaker 7: disarmament would be suicidal. And therefore what the Israelis want
Speaker 7: to do is to do through military means. But they
Speaker 7: couldn't have already achieved for the Americans know that this
Speaker 7: is going to be a real problem, not just for
Speaker 7: the objectives in the Middle East, but also for the
Speaker 7: Israeli's reputation and image throughout the world, which has tanked.
Speaker 1: Basically, Okay, we'll leave it there a seminari, welcome head
Speaker 1: to policy and rights. Here in Depictions of media Radio,
Speaker 1: I'm your host Michael Cloggs, And well, there was a
Speaker 1: cease fire. Well, we hope that the ceasefire actually will
Speaker 1: be maintained. We're going to remain positive about this. In
Speaker 1: some of the words that jd Vance, which you're going
Speaker 1: to hear in a little bit, he said that the
Speaker 1: media and me included, are already jumping on the fact
Speaker 1: that the ceasefires over, that there were flare ups as
Speaker 1: of Sunday, and which Saul dozens of killed by Israeli
Speaker 1: strikes across the strip. Of course, Israel was also claiming,
Speaker 1: according to the Globe of Mail, that uh the Hamas
Speaker 1: violated the ceasefire agreement and thus the beginning of strikes again.
Speaker 1: In the past couple of days, since the United States
Speaker 1: survived on the scene, UH jd Vance and other diplomats,
Speaker 1: the it has come back down again. But as you
Speaker 1: heard from already heard from a clip from Al Jazeera
Speaker 1: as an expert is saying that there's reasons for all
Speaker 1: the tensions being there. There's are reasons why the Palestinian
Speaker 1: people or or the Hamas more specifically, still have have tensions,
Speaker 1: and why there hasn't been a complete disarmament of the area,
Speaker 1: that it hasn't been completely demilitarized, and that they're still
Speaker 1: weapons in place in Gaza. The expert from Al Jazeera
Speaker 1: is saying that maybe that would be absolute suicide to
Speaker 1: completely disarm and then allow the Israeli forced us to
Speaker 1: just completely overrun everything again. So what is actually happening
Speaker 1: is jd Vance and his team totally accurate that hey,
Speaker 1: we have everything under control and that the occasional flairup
Speaker 1: is going to happen. We just have to keep the
Speaker 1: general peace. There's a lot going on. There's also a
Speaker 1: lot of history there Again, we had to keep keep
Speaker 1: in mind that we're not just going to look back
Speaker 1: to the Zionist movement that actually got the United Nations
Speaker 1: to help form a Jewish state in Palestine called Israel.
Speaker 1: That it wasn't that originally when this whole process started,
Speaker 1: that the Palestinian people were very warm and welcoming to
Speaker 1: uh their European brothers who had been through a massacre
Speaker 1: and a holocaust that World War two have brought with
Speaker 1: them with the their Reich trying to commit a genocide
Speaker 1: themselves and eliminate the European Jewish people. That that that
Speaker 1: the Palestinian people felt that it was their responsibility to
Speaker 1: help these people find a new home, and it was
Speaker 1: done through through the United Nations. And it wasn't just
Speaker 1: that at that moment that Palestine had had been had
Speaker 1: had European Jewish people moving in. It had been a
Speaker 1: process over over one hundred years. They to date, I
Speaker 1: should say to date, over one hundred years of of
Speaker 1: what is happening has been this cauldron of boiling hatred
Speaker 1: against group of people. JD. Vance's is going to call
Speaker 1: the Hamas a terrorist group. And if you were to
Speaker 1: ask some of the people in the Arabic world. They
Speaker 1: would say that the Hamas are freedom fighters trying to
Speaker 1: take a stance against colonialism and Israel, trying to settle
Speaker 1: areas that were agreed that should remained with the Palestinian people,
Speaker 1: and now they want to take it all back, and
Speaker 1: that they're using military force to do so. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of history that isn't going to be solved in
Speaker 1: just a couple of days, and that compounding that that
Speaker 1: we've just seen two years of intense fighting and mass
Speaker 1: destruction of the Gaza Strip. So we can't expect, as jd.
Speaker 1: Vance is right, we can't expect this just to be
Speaker 1: happened overnight and that they're just going to be peace.
Speaker 1: We can't expect that. But what we can't expect is
Speaker 1: a fair shake for all those people who are involved,
Speaker 1: the Hamas, the Israeli people, and the innocent civilians that
Speaker 1: are caught between the two fighting factions. That part of
Speaker 1: the negotiations. Maybe we should be recognizing the Hamas as
Speaker 1: a legitimate government and not a group of terrorists. That
Speaker 1: maybe they have a legitimate voice that should be heard
Speaker 1: in this area, and we need to stop negating them
Speaker 1: saying that in jd Vance's open statements, saying that you
Speaker 1: have the legitimate Israeli government and you have a terrorist
Speaker 1: group with civilians caught in the middle, delegitimizes the Hamas
Speaker 1: as a as a possible government faction, and maybe that's
Speaker 1: a mistake. So there are going to be pockets of
Speaker 1: fighting until everybody gets a word that the ceasefire is
Speaker 1: out there, And we can't just simply be hot headed
Speaker 1: and jump to arms every time a gun gunshot goes off.
Speaker 1: These people have been fighting for two years and under
Speaker 1: very uh intense conditions, so we have to be patient
Speaker 1: and allow things to pull off, and they will. They're
Speaker 1: only gonna pull off slowly. There's not a lot they
Speaker 1: can be done to quicken the pace up, but a
Speaker 1: lot of patience needs to be given to both sides,
Speaker 1: of with the Israeli forces and of course the the Hamas.
Speaker 1: So why don't we start when we're gonna start w
Speaker 1: uh now by listening to statements made in the United
Speaker 1: Nations press room, and then we'll hear some other events
Speaker 1: uh and a press conference held by H. H. J.
Speaker 1: D Vance and Steve Woodkoff and Jerry Kushner.
Speaker 9: All right, good afternoon. Thank you for your patience, thank
Speaker 9: you for your presence. Just thank you in general.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 9: In a short while we will be joined by our
Speaker 9: guests from UN Women, Nyarana zaib z Vanda, who is
Speaker 9: a Deputy Executive Director for Normative Support on You AND's
Speaker 9: Coordination at UN Women, and Sarah Hendricks, a Director of
Speaker 9: Program Policy and Into Governmental Division, also at UN Women.
Speaker 9: They'll be here to brief you on the Secretary of
Speaker 9: General's Report on Women and Security as well as the
Speaker 9: twenty fifth anniversary of Security Council Resolution thirteen twenty five. Tomorrow,
Speaker 9: we will have another guest, and that will be Luke
Speaker 9: David Irving, the Chief of the UN Mine Action Service
Speaker 9: in the Occupied Palacian Territory. He will be briefing you
Speaker 9: virtually from Jerusalem to discuss the situation with unexploded ordinances
Speaker 9: in Gaza. Some travel to share with you. On Wednesday morning,
Speaker 9: the Secretary General will arrive in Geneva to participate in
Speaker 9: a special session of the World Meteorological Congress commemorating the
Speaker 9: seventy fifth anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization. The session
Speaker 9: will spotlight the early warnings for all Initiative, where the
Speaker 9: Secretary General is expected to reiterate his urgent call for
Speaker 9: universal access to life saving alert systems. Immediately following this event,
Speaker 9: he will proceed to the palid Nacion to attend the
Speaker 9: sixteenth session of the UN Conference of Trade and Development.
Speaker 9: Following the Sessionara General will be joined by Carlos Querpo,
Speaker 9: Spain's Minister of Economy, Trade and Enterprise, and they will
Speaker 9: officially launch the Severe Forum on Debt. The form is
Speaker 9: a key milestone in advancing the commitments May Juring the
Speaker 9: fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, which took place
Speaker 9: in Sevilla in Spain. On Thursday, the Secretary General will
Speaker 9: head to Hanoi to participate in a high level event
Speaker 9: marking the opening for signature of the UN Convention against Cybercrime.
Speaker 9: The Convention was adopted by the General Assembly in December
Speaker 9: of last year. The landmark treaty is the first comprehensive
Speaker 9: global framework to address cybercrime, offering states a robust set
Speaker 9: of tools for prevention and enforcement. The Convention will enter
Speaker 9: into force ninety days after the deposit of the fortieth
Speaker 9: Instruments of Ratification. While in Vietnam, the Secretary gener will
Speaker 9: also hold bilateral meetings with senior Vietnamese officials. On Unday,
Speaker 9: October twenty fourth, will participate virtually via video link to
Speaker 9: excuse me, participate in the Security Council Session commemorating the
Speaker 9: adieth anniversary of this organization. The official name of that
Speaker 9: Security Council Session is United Nations Looking into the Future.
Speaker 9: On Saturday, the Secretary General will head to Kuala Lumpur
Speaker 9: while he will attend the Asian UN Summit which it
Speaker 9: will be chaired by Malaysia. This will on the sidelines
Speaker 9: of the summit, he will also engage in a number
Speaker 9: of bilateral discussions with counterparts at the Asian meetings as well,
Speaker 9: of course as the Malaysian hosts. We also expect a
Speaker 9: press conference schedule during that visit to Asian We expect
Speaker 9: the Secretary General back in New York on the twenty
Speaker 9: eighth of October. And I think as you are well
Speaker 9: aware and you saw the note that we issued earlier
Speaker 9: today where we were informed by our team in Yemen
Speaker 9: that all fifteen UN intern national staff are now free
Speaker 9: to move inside the UN compound in Sana and they've
Speaker 9: also been in contact with their respective UN entities and families.
Speaker 9: This follows the October eighteenth incursion into our compound by
Speaker 9: the de facto authorities. Also, the five national staff that
Speaker 9: had been detained during that raid on October eighteenth have
Speaker 9: also now been released. As a reminder, fifty three of
Speaker 9: our national colleagues in Yemen continued to be arbitrarily detained,
Speaker 9: just one of a flag. A number of phone calls
Speaker 9: the Secretary Generals made this morning all on the situation
Speaker 9: in the Middle East, including the specific situation in Yemen.
Speaker 9: He spoke to the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal
Speaker 9: bin Fahan al Saud. He spoke with the Foreign Minister
Speaker 9: of Iran, said Abbas Arakshi, and he spoke twice with
Speaker 9: the Foreign Minister of Oman sit By bin Hamad bin
Speaker 9: Hammud Albu SAIDI turning to Gaza, I can tell you
Speaker 9: that we are encouraged that the parties have reaffirmed their
Speaker 9: commitments to implementing the ceasefire in Gaza and commend the
Speaker 9: steadfast efforts of the mediators. We do, however, remain concerned
Speaker 9: by all acts of violence in Gaza and the reported
Speaker 9: attacks and strikes that took place yesterday. We urge all
Speaker 9: parties to honor all of their commitments to ensure the
Speaker 9: protection of civilians and avoid any actions that could lead
Speaker 9: to a renewal of hostilities and undermine humanitarian operations. We
Speaker 9: reiterate the Secretary General's call for the release of all
Speaker 9: the remains of all deceased hostages. The Under Secretary General
Speaker 9: for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, has been in the region.
Speaker 9: As you know. He wrapped up his visit to the
Speaker 9: Gaza Strip over the weekend just to flag that. On
Speaker 9: Saturday he visited a nutrition center in Gaza. He also
Speaker 9: visited a hospital and Guys City. He witnessed some road
Speaker 9: clearance projects run by the UN Development Program and a
Speaker 9: community kitchen run by our partners at the World Central Kitchen.
Speaker 9: Also on Saturday, he left Gaza through the Kareem Shalom
Speaker 9: Karrimabu Salem crossing, and on Sunday he was in Ramala
Speaker 9: to meet with the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mamouda Bas.
Speaker 9: They discussed the massive humanitarian needs in Gaza, the sixty
Speaker 9: day eight scale up, the importance of sustaining the ceasefire,
Speaker 9: and of course the situation in the West Bank and
Speaker 9: the long term prospects for Peace. Today in Jerusalem, mister
Speaker 9: Fletcher met with our humanitarian country team in the occupied
Speaker 9: Pascian Territory, which brings together about fifteen un entities and
Speaker 9: representatives of about two hundred NGOs. Also today, mister Fletcher
Speaker 9: announced that the Mindaru Foundation of Australia announced its contribution
Speaker 9: of ten million Australian dollars from the foundation for humanitarian
Speaker 9: efforts in Gaza, delivered in close coordination with the sixty
Speaker 9: day Plan. If Michelle was here, she tell us how
Speaker 9: much ten million Australian dollars is in US dollars. With
Speaker 9: the ceasefire in places, more areas become accessible. UNA said
Speaker 9: yesterday they are expanding the number of temporary learning spaces
Speaker 9: set up in community shelters for displaced people and in Darryl,
Speaker 9: Bala and Khanyunis our partners. Our partners resumed the distribution
Speaker 9: of food parcel to thousands of families for the first
Speaker 9: time for the first time in months, and over the weekend,
Speaker 9: we along with our partners continue to collect aid from
Speaker 9: the Kareem Shalom and Casufium crossings. This included postpartum hygiene, kids,
Speaker 9: medical supplies, water and food and also I'm just sorry
Speaker 9: I missed this. I want to flag that in the North,
Speaker 9: preparations are also underway. To sorry, I'm getting confused by
Speaker 9: by own notes here, I'll start again. Over the weekend,
Speaker 9: we and our partners continue to collect aid from the
Speaker 9: Cream Shalom Kisuffim crossings. This included postpartum hygiene kits, medical supplies, fuel,
Speaker 9: food and water, and yesterday, for the first time, Israeli
Speaker 9: authorities allowed the United Nations to deploy monitors at the
Speaker 9: Kissufim crossing. This is of course a welcome development as
Speaker 9: it will provide us with much needed visibility into that
Speaker 9: segment of the pipeline. And just want to flag the
Speaker 9: situation on the West Bank. OCHA tells us that between
Speaker 9: the seventh and the thirteenth of October it documented seventy
Speaker 9: one settler at tax, half of which were related to
Speaker 9: the ongoing olive harf this season. The incident which affected
Speaker 9: Palestinians in twenty seven villages, including attacks on harvesters, theft
Speaker 9: of crops, harvesting equipment, vandalism of olive trees resulting in
Speaker 9: casualties and property damage. When a flag your a number
Speaker 9: of humanitarian situations, none of which are good first with
Speaker 9: Sudan or Humanitarian colleagues on the ground warned that the
Speaker 9: ongoing violence across Sudan is putting civilians at graver risk
Speaker 9: and forcing even more people to flee their homes. In
Speaker 9: recent days, fighting is escalated in North and West Darfur states,
Speaker 9: were drone strikes and clashes reported across several areas. On Sunday.
Speaker 9: A drone strike on sarf Omrah's main market in North
Speaker 9: Darfur reportedly killed at least seven civilians. Strikes in El Jinana,
Speaker 9: the capital of West Darfur, also cause casualties. The International
Speaker 9: Organization for Migration estimates that more than three thousand people
Speaker 9: were newly displaced in North dark for last week alone,
Speaker 9: including fifteen hundred from El Fasher and another fifteen hundred
Speaker 9: from Abu Gamra following renewed fighting in that village. Tensions
Speaker 9: are also rising sharply in Kordofan. Nearly a thousand people
Speaker 9: were displaced from Lagawa town in West Kordifan state on Saturday.
Speaker 9: That's due to height insecurity. Meanwhile, in South Kordafan, the
Speaker 9: town of Dilling and the state capital of Kadugli remain
Speaker 9: under siege, with supply routes cut off and shortages of
Speaker 9: basic goods are worsening by the day. In Blunile State,
Speaker 9: classes between armed groups displaced six hundred people from bout
Speaker 9: Town in a Tadamon locality last week. Civilians across Sudan
Speaker 9: continued to bear the brunt of this relentless violence. Despite
Speaker 9: the numerous challenges, our humanitarian colleagues continue to provide vital
Speaker 9: assistance to displace people in areas that we and our
Speaker 9: partners are able to reach safely, and once again we
Speaker 9: call for the immediate cessation of hostilities, the protection of civilians,
Speaker 9: and for us to be allowed to have unimpeded humanitarian
Speaker 9: access wherever it is needed. Turning to the Democratic Republic
Speaker 9: of the Congo, our colleagues and the Office of the
Speaker 9: Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs are sounding the alarm over the
Speaker 9: collapse of health systems in North and South Kivu, where
Speaker 9: hostilities continue to impact civilians and devastate critical civilian infrastructure.
Speaker 9: These two provinces, eighty five percent of health facilities are
Speaker 9: affected by shortages in medicine, while nearly forty percent have
Speaker 9: seen an exodus of health staff and further undermining their
Speaker 9: delivery of services in North Kivu alone, Our partners working
Speaker 9: in Health report that about a third of all health
Speaker 9: facilities in the province conflict zones have been destroyed, looted,
Speaker 9: or abandoned, leaving millions of people with extremely limited access
Speaker 9: to health care. The remaining facilities are overwhelmed and face
Speaker 9: critical shortages of essential supplies, including kits for survivors of
Speaker 9: sexual violence, collar treatments, and just basic routine vaccines. This
Speaker 9: is happening as the province battles at deadly epidemics. Since
Speaker 9: the beginning of this year, health partners have reported eight
Speaker 9: six hundred cases of cholera, eight thousand cases of impos
Speaker 9: and more than ten thousand, five hundred cases of measles,
Speaker 9: all of which has already claimed dozens of lives. Our
Speaker 9: partners on the ground estimate that without urgent action, more
Speaker 9: than six thousand preventable deaths could occur between now and
Speaker 9: the end of the year. They also project a potential
Speaker 9: forty percent increase in maternal mortality in the hardest hit areas.
Speaker 9: The two point five billion dollar humanitarian needs and Response
Speaker 9: plan for the Congo is currently just sixteen percent funded,
Speaker 9: with just four hundred and ten million US dollars received
Speaker 9: so far. Our Health Parker oartners urgently need six million
Speaker 9: dollars to procure central supplies and maintain these life saving services.
Speaker 9: Urgent measures are needed to ensure the continued functioning of
Speaker 9: health care facilities in all affected areas by christ excuse me,
Speaker 9: in all areas affected by crisis in the eastern part
Speaker 9: of the DRC. Additional funding is required to prevent a
Speaker 9: greater tragedy. We also call on the parties in this
Speaker 9: conflict as well to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian
Speaker 9: law to protect civilians, protect civilian infrastructure, including health facilities,
Speaker 9: and to ensure the safe and unimpeded access of humanitarian
Speaker 9: aid wherever it is needed. And in Haiti, just off
Speaker 9: the coast of Florida, the Office of the Coordination of
Speaker 9: Humanitarian Affairs warns that are resurgence of cholera in West
Speaker 9: Department over the past months. Since September eighth, health authorities
Speaker 9: have reported new cases in the Commune of Petunville, following
Speaker 9: eleven weeks with no cases confirmed in the country. In
Speaker 9: just a single week between the fifth and the eleventh
Speaker 9: of October, one hundred and thirty nine suspected cases were recorded,
Speaker 9: including more than twenty lab confirmed cases. Five deaths were
Speaker 9: also reported. Betjonville, as well as the capital Port of Prints,
Speaker 9: including the Commune of Cite de Solet, remain on red
Speaker 9: alert and made concerns that cholerasts spreading at sites that
Speaker 9: is hosting internally displaced people, and there are a lot
Speaker 9: of internally displaced people in that area. Haiti's Ministry of
Speaker 9: Health was support from the Pan American Health Organization and
Speaker 9: other humanitarian partners have stepped up disinfection campaigns, community awareness activities,
Speaker 9: and the distribution of chlorine safe order and hygiene kits
Speaker 9: in the areas that are most impacted. This outbreak is
Speaker 9: unfolding amid a severe deterioration of basic services in Port
Speaker 9: of Prints, where only eleven percent of the health facilities
Speaker 9: within patient capacity remained fully operational. Our colleagues at OCHE
Speaker 9: and our partners continue to support national authorit these efforts
Speaker 9: to strengthen disease surveillance, expand response capacities and contain the
Speaker 9: spread of cholera. And today is besides that. If you
Speaker 9: count your world, if you count your world days, which
Speaker 9: day is today?
Speaker 10: World Statistics Day?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 13: Get it?
Speaker 9: Which is observed every five years to recognize the vital
Speaker 9: role of data in addressing today's global challenges. In his message,
Speaker 9: the Secretary of General says that a reliable data drives
Speaker 9: progress and recovery, and he calls for greater investment and trustworthy,
Speaker 9: timely and impartial statistics to help shape better policies and
Speaker 9: advance sustainable development for all. And once you finish celebrating
Speaker 9: World Stics Statistics date, this is not my day. You're
Speaker 9: all invited to attend a launch at six PM of
Speaker 9: the global exhibit Shared Lives, Shared Future, on the occasion
Speaker 9: of the eightieth anniversary of this August organization that will
Speaker 9: be in their General Assembly lobby. The Secretary journal is
Speaker 9: set to make opening remarks, followed by those of the
Speaker 9: Permanent Representatives of Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, with whom the Department
Speaker 9: of Global Communications is co organizing the event. The project
Speaker 9: is comprises more than two hundred stories from one hundred
Speaker 9: and ninety three countries and three other territorial entities, showcasing
Speaker 9: the impact of the UN systems on people's lives everywhere,
Speaker 9: including in the global North, often an invisible way. And
Speaker 9: there's more information on the back on that there is
Speaker 9: no money today, there's no quiz so I will go
Speaker 9: to you furnishe you're sitting in the ap seat, Yes.
Speaker 14: All alone, but it's fine. I have two questions. I
Speaker 14: wanted to first start with Yemen. Is there any additional
Speaker 14: details you can share about the SGS conversations with the
Speaker 14: Iranian and yemen foreign ministers? Are they facilitating access or
Speaker 14: helping negotiate the release.
Speaker 9: Of the I mean, I mean obviously, as we do
Speaker 9: in similar cases, it is normal for the Secretary General
Speaker 9: to speak to those Member states who have special influence
Speaker 9: over the situation, who are engaged in the region. So
Speaker 9: this was in that context. It's very important that when
Speaker 9: staff of the United Nations, who work on behalf of
Speaker 9: all one hundred and ninety three members face situations like
Speaker 9: the ones we do we're facing in Yemen, that those
Speaker 9: Member States who can help help and that's why the
Speaker 9: Secretary General have these phone calls with these three foreign
Speaker 9: ministers in a very positive manner.
Speaker 14: And then secondly on Gaza, Israeli officials have told AP
Speaker 14: that the flow of aid is supposed to return today,
Speaker 14: but as of this afternoon, it was not clear if.
Speaker 15: That AID had restarted.
Speaker 14: Can you give a status on what the AID situation.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't have b on the information I shared
Speaker 9: with you just a few minutes ago. I don't have anything.
Speaker 9: I don't think have anything more, but my colleagues will
Speaker 9: let me know while we're briefing if I get something else.
Speaker 9: Abd Alhamid, thank.
Speaker 16: You, Sefan. On Friday evening, the family of Aban was
Speaker 16: traveling back to their homes in Hizaton and Gaza. Ashall
Speaker 16: had their car, killing all eleven members, seven children, three
Speaker 16: women and one man. And yet the you and did
Speaker 16: not say one word about this.
Speaker 9: We've expressed I think the Secretaryihnal expressed his Uh expressed
Speaker 9: his very serious concern about the continuing violence that we're
Speaker 9: seeing in Gaza.
Speaker 16: For violence, it's a crime against a family.
Speaker 10: Why there were I.
Speaker 9: Think I think we have been extremely vocal about the
Speaker 9: play and the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza, and
Speaker 9: I think we are working to end that suffering as
Speaker 9: quickly as possible. Uh farnush I am told sorry, I
Speaker 9: had the language here that while the crossings were close Friday,
Speaker 9: Sunday and Monday. Sorry that AID entered from Gaza today.
Speaker 9: The crossing was closed, was closed on Saturday. No, I
Speaker 9: do not have numbers. Okay, yes, Abdhamad, you're sure you
Speaker 9: have a second question.
Speaker 16: Yeah, my second question. And I have noticed lately that
Speaker 16: you don't mention Karim abu Salm, the Arabic name for.
Speaker 9: The cross Abdahamid, With all due respect, I just wish
Speaker 9: you would listen to what I said, because I specifically
Speaker 9: said Kareem abu Salem karm shalm in my first reference
Speaker 9: to this crossing today. So I'm happy for you to
Speaker 9: parse the language that I use. But all that I
Speaker 9: asked is that you listen to what I said. Gabriel,
Speaker 9: thank you.
Speaker 6: Step Speaking of border crossings, do you have any update
Speaker 6: on Rafa that the UN has been given on when
Speaker 6: it might reopen?
Speaker 17: Okay?
Speaker 6: And you said that you have Israel's allowed monitors, and.
Speaker 17: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 6: How many other border crossings do you have monitors at
Speaker 6: at this point?
Speaker 9: At this point, it's the only one where we have
Speaker 9: those types of monitors, okay.
Speaker 6: And last question is why are those monitors important for
Speaker 6: you guys?
Speaker 9: It helps us get visibility on the kind of aid,
Speaker 9: on the aid that actually is going in. Not only ours,
Speaker 9: but the bilateral aid and the private sector that's going in.
Speaker 18: Yes, Madam Xena from IM and Free and Homeland News.
Speaker 18: I want to ask about the you and staff held
Speaker 18: in Yemen. Are you satisfied with the fifteen they got
Speaker 18: released and they are just still in the compound, that's how.
Speaker 9: They am I what?
Speaker 19: Sorry?
Speaker 9: Am I satisfied? So can you repeat your question?
Speaker 20: I'm sorry?
Speaker 18: Is it okay that you and stuff they are released
Speaker 18: and in the compound they didn't get to free the.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's totally that's that's a true fact what
Speaker 9: you said. It is a step in the right direction.
Speaker 9: We hope that they will be free to leave the
Speaker 9: compound as soon as possible.
Speaker 18: My second question why there is a lot of ambiguity
Speaker 18: surrounding their their capture. There not too much information about
Speaker 18: how they were.
Speaker 21: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 9: To us, it's pretty clear armed elements from the Huti
Speaker 9: de Factor authorities entered the compound at gunpoint from what
Speaker 9: I understand, uh, and they were detained in their room.
Speaker 9: You know what. We updated you on the situation earlier
Speaker 9: in the week, and now the situation seems to have
Speaker 9: moved in the right in the right direction.
Speaker 17: Okay, Ahmed, thank you. Step with regard to the repeated
Speaker 17: incidents of capturing un personnel both local and international, this
Speaker 17: time is Actuary General considering contacting the Iranian government since
Speaker 17: they have significant beverage.
Speaker 9: Can I just stop you. I don't know if there's
Speaker 9: a problem with the sound system, but I actually listed
Speaker 9: the phone calls the Secretary General that including the Foreign Minister,
Speaker 9: so bad I have. I have zero attention span. I
Speaker 9: just hope you have a little better attention span than
Speaker 9: I do. Yes, please.
Speaker 13: Iran says that it has informed you and that its
Speaker 13: resulation two two three one is formally added as a
Speaker 13: corporation deal with the IAEA is terminated, and also Pakistan
Speaker 13: and Abuanissan have agreed on a two A ce spy
Speaker 13: or any comments on both of these.
Speaker 9: Well on the Afghanistan and Pakistan. We hope that the
Speaker 9: ceasefire will hold and that all of the outstanding issues
Speaker 9: will be dealt diplomatically. We have received the Secretary General
Speaker 9: has received letters from the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic
Speaker 9: of Iran, and China on Resolution twenty two thirty one.
Speaker 9: What I can just refer you, what I can say
Speaker 9: to that is I would just refer you back to
Speaker 9: the note to correspondence and the steps we took on
Speaker 9: September twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, and that note was
Speaker 9: shared with you on the twenty eighth. The Secretary Journal
Speaker 9: continues to call upon the parties to demonstrate renewed political
Speaker 9: will towards meaningful negotiations and to explore all avenues for
Speaker 9: the continued diplomatic engagements on the Iran nuclear issue. Frank,
Speaker 9: what see where the U N Can you put your.
Speaker 22: Micro low to see whether event draws a distinction between
Speaker 22: detainees and hostages, because one would obviously involve a non
Speaker 22: state actor and the other would involve a government.
Speaker 1: Where do you draw along?
Speaker 9: No, I think UH. We are in the midst of
Speaker 9: discussions to get ensured that our international colleagues are allowed
Speaker 9: to leave. We are also UH very much involved in
Speaker 9: discussions to ensure that the fifty three national colleagues from
Speaker 9: our release from arbitrary detention. UH. Currently we are not
Speaker 9: using UH the H word UH to describe the situation.
Speaker 22: Just to follow up, within the UN Security Management System,
Speaker 22: there is a berieve that was put now back in
Speaker 22: twenty twenty two saying that under no circumstances. And maybe
Speaker 22: you can confirm this that the UN will not pay
Speaker 22: ransom in these situations.
Speaker 17: That is correct?
Speaker 9: Okay, Verry please and then and I'll go to your Stefani. Yes,
Speaker 9: please go.
Speaker 23: Ahead, Thank you so much. My name is Bruce Paheiri.
Speaker 23: I'm a reporter from Goma Istan, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Speaker 23: I have two question is The first is DRC is
Speaker 23: cutio in fight against climate change, but it's eastern part
Speaker 23: is facing conflict that impacts really on its biodiversity. What
Speaker 23: is a UN doing to help dr C to grapple
Speaker 23: with such a situation, especially regarding biodiversity.
Speaker 9: Your your very correct prosperence saying in linking conflict to
Speaker 9: the vulnerability of biodiversity, notably in the in the d
Speaker 9: r C. Our focus right now in the Congo, especially
Speaker 9: in the eastern part of the Congo, through where our
Speaker 9: peacekeeping mission remains and where it is not, through our
Speaker 9: humanitarian work is to help bring some relief to people,
Speaker 9: to help to try to help bring people back to
Speaker 9: their farmlands, to get people's back lives back on track.
Speaker 9: It is challenging often for member states to deal with
Speaker 9: the immediate crisis like conflict and the long term crisis
Speaker 9: like the loss of biodiversity. But we will continue to
Speaker 9: work with the government of the Democratic Republic of the
Speaker 9: Congo to address both things at once.
Speaker 23: And as the second question is, since twenty twenty three,
Speaker 23: you and I mean MUNUSCO and a DRC have signed
Speaker 23: an agreement about a gradual disengagement of MUNUSCO from Congolese soil.
Speaker 23: But over the last months you have seen the security
Speaker 23: situation depleted was really deteriorating. So have you anything to say?
Speaker 23: What is the future of MUNUSCO in the Republic of Congo.
Speaker 9: MONUSCO will continue to draw down as mandated by the
Speaker 9: Security Council. At the same time, we will continue to
Speaker 9: work with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and certain
Speaker 9: parts of its security and military apparatus to ensure that
Speaker 9: they can pick up and fill the void that may
Speaker 9: be left by the departing UN forces Stefano and Islam.
Speaker 24: Yes, from MINUSCO to minorso. Given the United States has
Speaker 24: circulated a draft resolution on Western recognizing Moroccos two thousand
Speaker 24: and seven Autonomy Plan, does the Secretary General believe these
Speaker 24: initiative alliance with the UN principles of self determination and
Speaker 24: how does he view Washington proposal to limit Minorso's mandate
Speaker 24: to just three months.
Speaker 9: Look, the Security Council members, in their wisdom will make
Speaker 9: a decision on the mandate of Minorso. I have nothing
Speaker 9: really more to add than to say that both Minorso
Speaker 9: continue its work and the personal Envoid continues his work.
Speaker 24: But in the resolution, the United States proposed that the
Speaker 24: Secretary General will within three months will propose is AD
Speaker 24: for MINUSO and eventually proposing United States proposing to dismantled.
Speaker 9: Basically that you know how it works. The Security Council
Speaker 9: decides and the Secretary General does so let's wait for
Speaker 9: the resolution. Okay, yes, sorry Islam, Please.
Speaker 19: Thank you Stefan. Since the since fire was put on
Speaker 19: effect since October tenth, according to the reports that are around,
Speaker 19: the AD sees fire violations by Israel, and I think
Speaker 19: last port was ninety seven Guzan's diet, if not more.
Speaker 19: At the moment, I just would like to know does
Speaker 19: you went any part monitoring disease fire in Gaza and
Speaker 19: what is the mechanism other than news reports? Who wires
Speaker 19: disease fire?
Speaker 9: No, we are not part of a ceasefire monitoring mechanism.
Speaker 9: Our focus in Gaza currently is on humanitarian assistance. Obviously,
Speaker 9: in the process of doing our work, we are witness
Speaker 9: to things, and I think, as I did earlier today
Speaker 9: we speak out against it, but we are not part
Speaker 9: of an official mechanism of which monitors or cease fire.
Speaker 9: That's up to the mediators.
Speaker 25: You have a terrorist organization on one hand that murdered
Speaker 25: a lot of innocent people. You've got an Israeli army
Speaker 25: that was defending itself on the other that has learned
Speaker 25: a lot over the past couple of years. And then
Speaker 25: of course you have an innocent civilian population in Gaza.
Speaker 10: That's caught in the middle.
Speaker 25: But we're here on the other that is learned a
Speaker 25: lot over the past couple of years. And then of
Speaker 25: course you have an innocent civilian population in Gaza that's caught.
Speaker 10: In the middle.
Speaker 25: But here at the Civilian Military Cooperation Center, which we
Speaker 25: are announcing the opening of, you have Israelis and Americans
Speaker 25: working hand in hand to try to begin the plan
Speaker 25: to rebuild Gaza, to implement a long term piece and.
Speaker 10: Actually ensure that you have security forces.
Speaker 25: On the ground in Gaza not composed of Americans who
Speaker 25: can keep the piece over the long term.
Speaker 10: So we've got a lot of work left to do.
Speaker 25: This is going to take a very, very long time,
Speaker 25: but I think See Woodcoff, Jared Kushner and Admiral Cooper
Speaker 25: behind me have done an incredible job. I want to
Speaker 25: say just a couple of quick things, and I would
Speaker 25: to turn it over to see Woodcoff. Number one, the
Speaker 25: Israeli government has been remarkably helpful in this. I want
Speaker 25: to thank them, thank our Israeli partners, and all the
Speaker 25: folks particularly who are working hand in hand with their
Speaker 25: American friends here at the CMCC.
Speaker 10: And number two, I want to say that there is
Speaker 10: this weird attitude.
Speaker 25: I've since in the American media, in the Western media,
Speaker 25: where there's almost this desire to root for failure, that
Speaker 25: every time something bad happens, that every time that there's
Speaker 25: an act of violence, there's this inclination to say, oh,
Speaker 25: this is the end of the ceasefire, this is the
Speaker 25: end of the peace plan. It's not the end. It
Speaker 25: is in fact, exactly how this is going to have
Speaker 25: to happen When you have people who hate each other,
Speaker 25: who have been fighting against each other for a very
Speaker 25: long time. We are doing very well. We are in
Speaker 25: a very good place. We're going to have to keep
Speaker 25: working on it, but I think we have the team
Speaker 25: to do exactly that. So with all thanks to our partners,
Speaker 25: both in Israel but all across the Golf, Arab States, Indonesia,
Speaker 25: the Turks. We are doing an amazing thing here, and
Speaker 25: I'm particularly proud of the American troops working at the
Speaker 25: Command center who are coordinating this effort and making it possible.
Speaker 25: So with that, I want to thank Ambassador Steve Whitkoff
Speaker 25: and turn it over to him to say a few things,
Speaker 25: and after.
Speaker 10: Everybody's said a few words, we'll take some questions. Thank
Speaker 10: you guys, se.
Speaker 26: Well, thank you very much, mister Vice President. We're really
Speaker 26: proud of what's happened here. It's an amazing effort, great
Speaker 26: coordination between our partners.
Speaker 10: We have a great team.
Speaker 26: Signing this deal up was a challenge in and of itself,
Speaker 26: but the implementation where that's where it really is going
Speaker 26: to be the most important. And I think we are
Speaker 26: exceeding where we thought we would be at this time.
Speaker 26: I think the Vice President has come out here, he
Speaker 26: sees that the Secretary of State will be out here.
Speaker 26: I can't tell you what a privilege it is to
Speaker 26: work with the team that we have with Jared, who's
Speaker 26: an extraordinary the President of course, and the Vice President
Speaker 26: and Admiral Cooper. I would also say this, we're learning
Speaker 26: so much here. This cm that we are CMCC that
Speaker 26: we're setting up now, this is going to be used
Speaker 26: in other conflicts as we figure out all the intricacies
Speaker 26: of how to modulate a peace deal go from war
Speaker 26: to peace. Lastly, in closing, I want to speak about
Speaker 26: the the uh mourning that me and Jared had. We
Speaker 26: met with ten hostages and their families and it was
Speaker 26: really an emotional moment and I felt I felt blessed
Speaker 26: to be in that room. Lots of tears, lots of
Speaker 26: people really really grateful to President Trump for getting their
Speaker 26: children home and h and you of course missed the
Speaker 26: Vice President, and I want to I want to observe
Speaker 26: that I didn't see any victims in that room.
Speaker 10: I saw strong.
Speaker 26: People who have come out under very difficult circumstances. Their
Speaker 26: families are reunited and they are so grateful, and it
Speaker 26: was just my privilege as an American to be there.
Speaker 27: Thank you, great, thank you, sure, thank you, thank you
Speaker 27: Vice President.
Speaker 19: Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 27: First of all, we really appreciate your visit here. It's
Speaker 27: given a great boost of energy to everyone here, and
Speaker 27: your support through this whole effort has been really tremendous.
Speaker 27: What you've see here today is really the opening of
Speaker 27: the CMCC. This has been something that's been envisioned by
Speaker 27: Sencom Admiral Cooper will speak about that in a bit,
Speaker 27: but we always knew that the deal that we were
Speaker 27: working on would kind of have two phases to it.
Speaker 27: The first phase was obviously getting the live hostages out.
Speaker 27: We're currently making progress on the hostages the bodies that
Speaker 27: are still there. I think almost half are out now,
Speaker 27: and good, very good meetings with the Israelis. I know
Speaker 27: the Vice President's here to put a lot of effort
Speaker 27: into that today to hopefully make sure we can complete
Speaker 27: that mission in phase two. At the same time, the
Speaker 27: humanitarian aid there's actually been a surprisingly strong coordination between
Speaker 27: the United Nations and Israel, which is something that we've
Speaker 27: been able to help synthesize, get each other to air
Speaker 27: their concerns and to find out how we can.
Speaker 10: Do it better.
Speaker 27: Is that the aid reaches the people in Gaza and
Speaker 27: doesn't go into the wrong hands there. Finally, I'll say
Speaker 27: that there has already been a lot of efforts over
Speaker 27: the last years by really concerned people to think about
Speaker 27: what happens next in Gaza, and a lot of great
Speaker 27: things happening here. More will be released in the coming days,
Speaker 27: but the most important thing here is to figure out
Speaker 27: how you really get a good deconfliction coordination center. This
Speaker 27: really has been a startup. There's been a lot that's
Speaker 27: been done. It's amazing to think it's only been a week.
Speaker 27: But I actually with the pace of work and the
Speaker 27: commitment of everybody, I think in a week from now
Speaker 27: you'll see even more progress. I want to echo what
Speaker 27: the Vice President said about how a lot of people
Speaker 27: are getting a little hysterical about different incursions one way
Speaker 27: or the other, but what we are seeing is that
Speaker 27: things are going in accordance. Both sides are transitioning from
Speaker 27: two years of very intense warfare to now at peace
Speaker 27: time posture, and really thanks to Admiral Cooper Sencom and
Speaker 27: the CMCC to try to build that deconflection mechanism in
Speaker 27: order to make sure that we can get to a
Speaker 27: proper de escalation. We have some flags that we've put
Speaker 27: up here. This is not fully representative of the countries
Speaker 27: that are here. It's happening very rapidly that people are
Speaker 27: agreeing to come on board, agreeing to help. People really
Speaker 27: want to be a part of this, and it's just
Speaker 27: happening very very quickly. So we'll try to continue to
Speaker 27: give the updates as it progresses, but really just thank
Speaker 27: you to the entire team here who's made all this possible.
Speaker 27: It's been a lot of sleepless nights, around the clock
Speaker 27: effort and it's really been great coordination because everyone believes
Speaker 27: that it is possible to create something better in Gaza,
Speaker 27: and we have to believe it.
Speaker 10: We have to work hard for it.
Speaker 27: And if we all work hard to do that, then
Speaker 27: I do believe a great outcome is possible.
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Speaker 21: Thanks Sair dam.
Speaker 28: Well, mister Vice President, thank you for joining us here
Speaker 28: today at the CMCC. Consistent with our Commander in chiefs direction,
Speaker 28: this facility will be the hub for the delivery of
Speaker 28: everything that goes into Gaza as we look at the future,
Speaker 28: delivering on the Commander in Chiefs commitments.
Speaker 10: Two hundred of America's.
Speaker 28: Sons and daughters who wear the cloth of the nation
Speaker 28: have stepped up and are serving here. I just couldn't
Speaker 28: be prouder and I know that you are as well.
Speaker 28: Thank you so much.
Speaker 10: Great Thanks Addam Roland.
Speaker 25: Gentlemen, we'll take a few questions now, sure.
Speaker 17: And who they have who that.
Speaker 5: Will unerground here?
Speaker 25: Boss Well, I think first of all, what troops are
Speaker 25: on the ground that Israel is going to be a
Speaker 25: question the Israelis have to agree to, and I'm sure
Speaker 25: that Prime Mister Netanyahu will have opinions about that.
Speaker 10: But we think everybody has a role to play here.
Speaker 25: Some of that's going to be financial, some of that's
Speaker 25: going to be in reconstruction. Some of that's just in
Speaker 25: communication with the various parties to ensure that this deconfliction
Speaker 25: process actually works and is implemented. We're not going to
Speaker 25: force anything on our Israeli friends when it comes to
Speaker 25: foreign troops on their soil, but we do think that
Speaker 25: there's a constructive role for the Turks to play, and frankly,
Speaker 25: they've already played a.
Speaker 10: Very constructive role.
Speaker 25: We're very grateful for that, and you asked they've supported
Speaker 25: himas in the past. No one who is a party
Speaker 25: to this conflict can look in the past and not
Speaker 25: point at something.
Speaker 10: That they don't like or that they disagree with.
Speaker 25: Everybody who's been involved in this conflict can point at
Speaker 25: one other person one of these flags, can point in
Speaker 25: another flag and say we hate that person for various reasons.
Speaker 25: The way that we're going to get to peace is
Speaker 25: to focus on the future, which is what the President
Speaker 25: of the United States has asked us to do, and
Speaker 25: we think everybody here is very willing to do that
Speaker 25: and it is very eager.
Speaker 10: To engage in that effort.
Speaker 21: Ma'am.
Speaker 25: Well, Jared's the investor here. I'm not going to give
Speaker 25: you a percentage, but look, what we've seen the past
Speaker 25: week gives me great optimism.
Speaker 10: The ceasefire is going to hold.
Speaker 25: And if we get from where we were a week
Speaker 25: ago to a long term, durable peace between Israel and Gaza,
Speaker 25: there are gonna be hills and valleys. There are going
Speaker 25: to be moments where it looks like things aren't going
Speaker 25: particularly well.
Speaker 10: But given that, and given.
Speaker 25: The history of conflict, I think that everybody should be
Speaker 25: proud of where we are today. It's going to require
Speaker 25: constant effort. It's going to require constant monitoring and supervision.
Speaker 25: That's part of the reason that Admiral Cooper and his
Speaker 25: team is here is to mediate.
Speaker 10: These disputes, to mediate.
Speaker 25: These disagreements as they come up. But look, right now,
Speaker 25: I feel very optimistic. Can I say with one hundred
Speaker 25: percent certainty that it's gonna work. No, But you don't
Speaker 25: do difficult things by only doing what's one hundred percent
Speaker 25: certain You do difficult things by trying. And that's what
Speaker 25: the President of the United States has asked us to do.
Speaker 12: Sir, are still.
Speaker 9: Today if you.
Speaker 25: Want, Yeah, so, Steve, I'm gonna ask you to follow
Speaker 25: up here, But let me say just a couple of
Speaker 25: words about the deceased dosages. I mean one of the
Speaker 25: stations that I met with, one of the groups that's
Speaker 25: working on this, that I met with earlier, they actually
Speaker 25: have a photo of the fifteen these sausages who are
Speaker 25: still in Gaza.
Speaker 10: It is a focus of everybody here.
Speaker 25: To get those bodies back home to their families so
Speaker 25: that they can have a proper burial. Now that said,
Speaker 25: this is difficult. This is not going to happen overnight.
Speaker 25: Some of these hostages are buried under thousands of pounds
Speaker 25: of rubble. Some of the hostages nobody even knows where
Speaker 25: they are. That doesn't mean we shouldn't work to get them,
Speaker 25: and that doesn't mean we don't have confidence that we will.
Speaker 25: It's just a reason to counsel in favor of a
Speaker 25: little bit of patience. This is going to take a
Speaker 25: little bit of time. And look, our warning to Mos
Speaker 25: is very straightforward. The terms of the twenty point plan
Speaker 25: that the president put out.
Speaker 10: There is very clear.
Speaker 25: It's supported not just by Israel, by all of our
Speaker 25: golf Arab friends. It's that Hamas has to disarm. It's
Speaker 25: that Hamas has to actually behave itself, and that Hamas
Speaker 25: while all the fighters can be given some sort of clemency.
Speaker 25: They're not going to be able to kill each other,
Speaker 25: and they're not going to be able to kill their
Speaker 25: fellow Palestinians. Now, again, that's going to take a little
Speaker 25: bit of time. We're talking about how to set up
Speaker 25: the security and humanage, terarian apparatus to put all this
Speaker 25: in place. But right now where I stand, I feel
Speaker 25: confident that we're going to be in a place where
Speaker 25: this piece lasts, where it's durable, and if a Maas
Speaker 25: doesn't cooperate, then, as the President of United States have said,
Speaker 25: Hamas is going to be obliterated.
Speaker 10: Steve, you want add anything the hostages?
Speaker 21: Okay, great, ma'am.
Speaker 7: How much do.
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 11: Look?
Speaker 25: The President actually put out a truth this morning that
Speaker 25: I thought was very instructive. We know that Hamas has
Speaker 25: to comply with a deal, and if a mass doesn't
Speaker 25: comply with a deal, very bad things are going to happen.
Speaker 25: But I'm not going to do what the President of
Speaker 25: the United States has thus far refused to do, which
Speaker 25: is put an explicit deadline on it. Because a lot
Speaker 25: of this stuff is difficult, a lot of this stuff
Speaker 25: is unpredictable. You basically have two regions in Gaza, one
Speaker 25: of itch is relatively safe, I wouldn't say very safe,
Speaker 25: and one of which is incredibly dangerous. And part of
Speaker 25: an ensuring that we get to a durable peace is
Speaker 25: to broaden the scope of the area that's safe, and
Speaker 25: the International Security Force is a big part of that.
Speaker 10: We don't yet have the.
Speaker 25: International Security Force set up. That's something we're working towards.
Speaker 25: We have a number of volunteers who want to participate
Speaker 25: in that International Security Force. So my point is, I
Speaker 25: don't think it's actually advisable for us to say this
Speaker 25: has to be done in a week, because a lot
Speaker 25: of this work is very hard, it's never been done before,
Speaker 25: and in order for us to give it a chance
Speaker 25: to succeed, we've.
Speaker 10: Got to be a little bit flexible. I think what
Speaker 10: you're seeing.
Speaker 25: From our golf Air friends, certainly from our Israeli friends,
Speaker 25: is a certain amount of impatience with Hamas. But we're
Speaker 25: going to keep on working at this process, and we're
Speaker 25: going to keep on trying to bring the deceased Hossages
Speaker 25: home but also make sure that all Gosans are able
Speaker 25: to live in a prosperous and safe place.
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Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, Jared, you want to say a few words
Speaker 10: about that.
Speaker 7: Great.
Speaker 27: So first of all, no reconstruction aid, no reconstruction funds
Speaker 27: will be going into areas that Hamas still controls. And
Speaker 27: as far as the demilitarization goes, once the ISF is up,
Speaker 27: there needs to be a security force that they can
Speaker 27: feel safe from that in order for it to be
Speaker 27: the transition to be complete.
Speaker 10: So that needs to happen.
Speaker 27: There are considerations being happening now in the area that
Speaker 27: the IDEF controls, as long as that could be secured
Speaker 27: to start the construction as a new gaza in order
Speaker 27: to give the Balistinians living in Gaza a place to go,
Speaker 27: a place to get jobs, a place to live. So
Speaker 27: that's one of the many things being considered right now. Again,
Speaker 27: there's been several workstreams that have occurred over the last years.
Speaker 27: Those are all being synthesized and updated here at the
Speaker 27: Center and then they'll go before President Trump and the
Speaker 27: board piece to get recommendations on what to build, how
Speaker 27: to phase it. But that's definitely something now that's being
Speaker 27: very strongly considered.
Speaker 25: Great sir, Oh sorry, why don't we do the guy
Speaker 25: in the back of them. We'll do you in the
Speaker 25: blue jacket?
Speaker 10: Thank you good? Could you speak up for me? Yeah?
Speaker 25: Well, you know, I think Steve put it best, which
Speaker 25: is that this model, I think could serve for a
Speaker 25: foundation for normalization not just in the Middle East, but
Speaker 25: across the world, because what we're taking again is a
Speaker 25: long term, protracted conflict with two enemies who really don't
Speaker 25: like each other, and we're actually creating a model that
Speaker 25: can lead towards sustainable piece. Now, we know that a
Speaker 25: lot of our golf Air friends would like to have
Speaker 25: normalized relations with Israel. We know that getting this piece
Speaker 25: on a sustainable pathway is sort of the critical first
Speaker 25: step of that. But look, I feel very optimistic about
Speaker 25: where we are. Knock on wood, you never know how
Speaker 25: this stuff is going to go. But given what I've seen,
Speaker 25: given the incredible talent and effort that's going in to
Speaker 25: the reconstruction of Gaza, to the long term security of
Speaker 25: the Gazans in that.
Speaker 10: Territory, I feel very good about where we are.
Speaker 25: And again, if we get this right, I really do
Speaker 25: think it's going to be a domino that leads to
Speaker 25: a lot of further peace all across the region. Sir,
Speaker 25: the first question, No, my visit had nothing to do
Speaker 25: with events in the.
Speaker 10: Past forty eight hours.
Speaker 25: We had actually tried to plan this visit frankly months ago,
Speaker 25: and now we thought this would be a good time
Speaker 25: to do it. It ended up working out, as you know,
Speaker 25: sometimes calendars are difficult, especially when you're the Vice president
Speaker 25: of the United States.
Speaker 10: But I wanted to come.
Speaker 21: I wanted to check in on things.
Speaker 25: I wanted to, you know, talk to the troops who
Speaker 25: are working very hard to coordinate this massive relief effort.
Speaker 25: And I wanted to just see how things are going
Speaker 25: and put some eyes on it so I could call
Speaker 25: the President the United States, and actually, you know, it's
Speaker 25: one thing to read about it. It's one thing to
Speaker 25: talk with Jared and Steve on the phone about what's
Speaker 25: going on on the ground. It's another thing to actually
Speaker 25: shake somebody's hand, to look them in the eye and
Speaker 25: to understand what are the challenges, what are the things
Speaker 25: they need from me. I mean, I heard from relatively
Speaker 25: junior troops very simple things that would make their lives
Speaker 25: easier than I'm going to take back to Washington and
Speaker 25: hopefully help them with.
Speaker 10: That's why you do a visit like this.
Speaker 25: Not because of anything that's happening on the ground. On
Speaker 25: your question about what does the ultimate you know, authority
Speaker 25: in Gaza look like, I don't know the answer to
Speaker 25: that question. And I think what's so cool, what's so
Speaker 25: amazing about what these guys have done, is that we're
Speaker 25: creating a governance structure that is very flexible to what
Speaker 25: happens on the ground.
Speaker 10: In the future.
Speaker 25: We need to reconstitute Gaza. We need to reconstruct Gaza.
Speaker 25: We need to make sure that both the Palestinians living
Speaker 25: in Gaza but also the Israelis are able to live
Speaker 25: in some measure of security.
Speaker 10: And civility.
Speaker 25: We're doing all those things simultaneously, and then I think
Speaker 25: once we've got to a point where both the Gazas
Speaker 25: and our Israeli friends can have some measure of security,
Speaker 25: then we'll worry about what the long term governance of
Speaker 25: Gaza is. Let's focus on security, rebuilding, giving people some
Speaker 25: food and medicine. If we get to the point where
Speaker 25: we're arguing exactly what the governance structure in Gaza is
Speaker 25: long term, then we should pat ourselves on the back.
Speaker 25: That's a very good problem to have. But I won't
Speaker 25: anticipate that problem before we actually have it. I'll take
Speaker 25: a couple more and then we'll get moving. Ma'am, can
Speaker 25: you speak up?
Speaker 9: Thank you?
Speaker 25: Well, the incentives are that unless the MOS disarms in
Speaker 25: accordance with the agreement, very bad things are going to happen,
Speaker 25: right And also the incentive is that if they disarm,
Speaker 25: there is a better future for everybody on the other
Speaker 25: side of it.
Speaker 10: But in terms of the International.
Speaker 25: Security Force, Steve and Jared Admiral Cooper are working on
Speaker 25: that very issue right now. Remember this peace deal was
Speaker 25: struck under the President's leadership literally a week ago. The
Speaker 25: hostages were turned what six days ago, five days ago.
Speaker 25: So we're in the phase now where we're actually starting
Speaker 25: to conceptualize what that international security force would look like.
Speaker 25: I think it's important for Americans to know a couple
Speaker 25: of things. Number One, there are not going to be
Speaker 25: American boots on the ground in Gods That. The President
Speaker 25: of United States has made that very clear. All of
Speaker 25: our military leadership has made that very clear. What we
Speaker 25: can do is provide some useful coordination. How do you
Speaker 25: take you know, the golfare of States plus Israel plus
Speaker 25: you know, plus the Turks plus the Indonesians. How do
Speaker 25: you actually get those folks to work together in a
Speaker 25: way that actually produces long term piece The only real
Speaker 25: mediators are the United States of America, and so that's
Speaker 25: the role that we're going to play. I think the
Speaker 25: American people should be proud of them that they should
Speaker 25: know that there are going to be no American boots
Speaker 25: on the ground in Gaza. Well, I'm not going to
Speaker 25: make any announcements here today. The President of United States
Speaker 25: has been very clear about our policy with regards to Iran.
Speaker 25: It's that he actually wants Iran to be prosperous. He
Speaker 25: wants to have good relations with the Iranians, but they
Speaker 25: cannot have a nuclear weapon, and so we're going to
Speaker 25: keep on using and exhausting every diplomatic means possible to
Speaker 25: try to ensure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 25: That's our focus, and that will remain our focus for
Speaker 25: the indefinite future. Let me just leave us with one
Speaker 25: final thought here. So I've been Israel once in my
Speaker 25: entire life. I came for about thirty six hours. And
Speaker 25: as a Christian, I think the world's Christians will know
Speaker 25: that this country, that this region of the world, means
Speaker 25: a great deal to me.
Speaker 10: And at some point today I hope to go. At
Speaker 10: some point in the next couple.
Speaker 25: Of days, I should say, I hope to go to
Speaker 25: the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which Christians believe is
Speaker 25: the sight that Jesus Christ was crucified in. And I
Speaker 25: know that Christians have many titles for Jesus Christ, and
Speaker 25: one of them is the Prince of Peace.
Speaker 10: And I'd ask all people of faith, in particular my fellow.
Speaker 25: Christians, to pray that the Prince of Peace can continue
Speaker 25: to work a miracle in this region of the world.
Speaker 25: I think that we have made incredible strides over the
Speaker 25: past week. We're going to have to make a lot more,
Speaker 25: but I think with your prayers, with God's providence, and
Speaker 25: with a very good team behind me, I think we're
Speaker 25: gonna get it done.
Speaker 10: Thank you all, take care.
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