WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:23.559 Thank you for listening to Pictures Media Radio. Welcome to 2 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:29.600 Policy and Writes, Go Show, god Goltment Policy, Human. 3 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:55.520 Joy plusso to. 4 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.159 Sam was a professor public Affairs and director at the 5 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:01.200 Center for Islam and Global Affairs at is Umbelazim University. 6 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.560 Joining us from Istanbul the Salad. 7 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:03.600 Thanks so much for your time. 8 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.799 Mister Arrando's reporting out of the US that suggests that 9 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:11.000 several Trump officials are concerned that the Nataiahu and his 10 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:14.519 administration may abandon this is fire I deal. We know 11 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.680 the Vice President of the US heading back to Israel. 12 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.439 Wikoff and Kushner already there. To what extent are they 13 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:23.120 there to simply pressure that's a. 14 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:27.920 Level Well, it's a real concern for the Americans as 15 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:31.120 well as to the whole world that what Matania wants 16 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.239 is to find a way has been itching to go back. 17 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:36.599 To the war, to the genocide, but the Americans team 18 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:39.959 to keep him in link. Let's also are trying to 19 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.480 take stock of what's going in here. Right before Trent 20 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:46.840 unveiled his plan in September twenty field, the whole world 21 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:49.159 was talking about the establishment of the Beast in the 22 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:54.159 state being September eleventh, twentifthe all the way up to 23 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:57.480 the twenty third, everybody are somewhat I seen the state. 24 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.439 Bakers of the countries of. 25 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:03.280 The world has already recognized the Persilian state. 26 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.680 All but five percent of the world two countries actually 27 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:07.239 oppose it. 28 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.680 So the whole conversation has been chosen for Trump's plant. 29 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.560 That's a great division tactic to go back now and 30 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:15.960 talk about the genocide. 31 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:19.240 If there has his way, Obviously it's going to be 32 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:20.639 a huge setback. 33 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:22.919 That everybody would be talking about the inevitability of the 34 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:23.759 Parsilian state. 35 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:27.560 This whole process, this true plant is trying to delay 36 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.479 as much as possible the emergence of the Pasilian state. 37 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:35.479 What expectations, however, do you have about how. 38 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:40.599 The ceasefire will progress, because the expectation is that negotiations 39 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:42.560 are going to have to start at some point. 40 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:44.199 Regarding phase two. 41 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.400 The problem with Peas two is that, according to her 42 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.840 message response to Trump, they could actually be shape the 43 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.759 release of the captives. They can be shape some certain 44 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.240 items like how much a those in things the right 45 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:05.039 of that sort. They already give up all their cards. 46 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.759 In other words, whatever leverage they have, which was the 47 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:11.080 living hostages as well as the dead ones. Now they 48 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.080 are at fifteen bodies left. The whole world is of 49 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:17.719 about fifteen bodies. What thousands public pens of thousands of 50 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:22.759 Postinians bodies have not even been recovered since the genocide 51 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:26.039 started two years ago. This just shows the insanity of 52 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:28.319 the world heady equipment needed to do that. 53 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.719 But assuming they do return the bodies, then Hannas has 54 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.919 lost its leverage, and Hannas says, in the second phase 55 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:39.680 of the negotiations, these decisions about the disarmory, about the 56 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:43.280 entrance of international force, about the day after all these 57 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.479 things have too been decided by the collective Pedestinian will, 58 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:49.479 not just the faction of two and therefore we're. 59 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:52.199 Going to have real difficulty in trying to get any 60 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.919 kind of disarmament or decommissioning because Hamas would be totally 61 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.719 opposed to it. But more importantly, the negotiating team does 62 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.360 not have them in date and of the shaate these items. 63 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:04.319 So what does this tell us then, or what does 64 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.560 it tell you about how this is going to actually 65 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.840 play out on the grounds, and what are the likely 66 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:13.319 scenarios than going forward? 67 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.519 We have very risky scenarios right now, you know, in 68 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.600 terms of the Israelis. They want to come back and 69 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:24.800 try to have or declare what they call total or 70 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.480 absolute victory. I don't think the Americans would allow them. 71 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:29.600 The Americans are trying to get out of this mess 72 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:33.160 by trying to impose some sort of a political settlement 73 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:38.680 that will achieve Israeli objectives to political means rather than 74 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:39.639 military means that. 75 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:40.879 They haven't been able to do. 76 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:43.199 And I think that's going to be really tricky. It's 77 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:45.680 going to be very difficult. It depends on the mediators 78 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.360 and how forceful they will be with the is what 79 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:51.399 it is. I believe we have probably seen the end 80 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:54.120 of the genocide. That's going to be a stalemate. That's 81 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.040 going to be a very tense situation. They will be 82 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.639 killing pedestinians. So far over pedescinas have been killed since 83 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.959 the announcement of the seas fire. We're talking about the 84 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.279 violations of the Israeli since that came into effect about 85 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:11.680 ten eleven days ago. They haven't been allowing the aid 86 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.040 that they were promised, even though they got all the 87 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.160 living captures back. And also we're going to have real 88 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.839 difficulty in trying to rehabilitate, to reconstruct Gaza. All that 89 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.199 tells us that they're going to be very difficult times ahead. 90 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.399 When you say that the Israelis are going to try 91 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:32.079 to achieve their objectives politically, what are these objectives today? 92 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.040 And have they changed from two years ago? 93 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.040 Literally? But not much that the Israelis actually wanted. What 94 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:44.480 to ethnically cleans Gaz, try to destroy Gaza to the 95 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:47.519 point that they can force the Palestinians to leave. That 96 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.120 has not been achieved. But now they're trying to also 97 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:56.160 make sure that Gaza is not going to be ruled 98 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.600 by any kind of a hostile forces. A massage a 99 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:01.800 ready said, it's not going to rule Gaza. But they 100 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.759 also want to demilitarize Gaza, and that's not going to 101 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.879 happen because the people theyre don't feel safe in any way, 102 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:12.680 shape or form. They do remember what happened to the 103 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.560 sub Branchertila camps back in nineteen eighty two, when the 104 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.439 fighters left and massacres were committed a few days later, 105 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:22.079 thousands of people were killed. Also, we remember what happened 106 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:26.720 in Sepernitza in nineteen ninety five when in Brasia the 107 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:31.360 people were disarmed and then eight thousand people were massacred 108 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:33.560 by the Serbs in nineteen ninety five. So all these things, 109 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:36.399 all these examples tell the people that any kind of 110 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:40.120 disarmament would be suicidal. And therefore what the Israelis want 111 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.680 to do is to do through military means. But they 112 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:46.120 couldn't have already achieved for the Americans know that this 113 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:48.560 is going to be a real problem, not just for 114 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:50.839 the objectives in the Middle East, but also for the 115 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:55.240 Israeli's reputation and image throughout the world, which has tanked. 116 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:59.399 Basically, Okay, we'll leave it there a seminari, welcome head 117 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.639 to policy and rights. Here in Depictions of media Radio, 118 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:08.120 I'm your host Michael Cloggs, And well, there was a 119 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.639 cease fire. Well, we hope that the ceasefire actually will 120 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:18.920 be maintained. We're going to remain positive about this. In 121 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.319 some of the words that jd Vance, which you're going 122 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:24.680 to hear in a little bit, he said that the 123 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:31.639 media and me included, are already jumping on the fact 124 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:37.920 that the ceasefires over, that there were flare ups as 125 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:47.759 of Sunday, and which Saul dozens of killed by Israeli 126 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:55.720 strikes across the strip. Of course, Israel was also claiming, 127 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.920 according to the Globe of Mail, that uh the Hamas 128 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:06.240 violated the ceasefire agreement and thus the beginning of strikes again. 129 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.959 In the past couple of days, since the United States 130 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:21.560 survived on the scene, UH jd Vance and other diplomats, 131 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:27.879 the it has come back down again. But as you 132 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:33.200 heard from already heard from a clip from Al Jazeera 133 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.879 as an expert is saying that there's reasons for all 134 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:44.720 the tensions being there. There's are reasons why the Palestinian 135 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:54.960 people or or the Hamas more specifically, still have have tensions, 136 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:02.600 and why there hasn't been a complete disarmament of the area, 137 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:09.320 that it hasn't been completely demilitarized, and that they're still 138 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:18.919 weapons in place in Gaza. The expert from Al Jazeera 139 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.320 is saying that maybe that would be absolute suicide to 140 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:28.720 completely disarm and then allow the Israeli forced us to 141 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:35.840 just completely overrun everything again. So what is actually happening 142 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:43.519 is jd Vance and his team totally accurate that hey, 143 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:51.919 we have everything under control and that the occasional flairup 144 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.600 is going to happen. We just have to keep the 145 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:01.240 general peace. There's a lot going on. There's also a 146 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:06.200 lot of history there Again, we had to keep keep 147 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:10.200 in mind that we're not just going to look back 148 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:16.720 to the Zionist movement that actually got the United Nations 149 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:25.559 to help form a Jewish state in Palestine called Israel. 150 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:34.200 That it wasn't that originally when this whole process started, 151 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:39.039 that the Palestinian people were very warm and welcoming to 152 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:46.960 uh their European brothers who had been through a massacre 153 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:51.399 and a holocaust that World War two have brought with 154 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:56.120 them with the their Reich trying to commit a genocide 155 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:05.480 themselves and eliminate the European Jewish people. That that that 156 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:12.360 the Palestinian people felt that it was their responsibility to 157 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:17.200 help these people find a new home, and it was 158 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:23.759 done through through the United Nations. And it wasn't just 159 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:32.600 that at that moment that Palestine had had been had 160 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:37.080 had European Jewish people moving in. It had been a 161 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:45.399 process over over one hundred years. They to date, I 162 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:48.960 should say to date, over one hundred years of of 163 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:56.759 what is happening has been this cauldron of boiling hatred 164 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:04.720 against group of people. JD. Vance's is going to call 165 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:13.279 the Hamas a terrorist group. And if you were to 166 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:17.279 ask some of the people in the Arabic world. They 167 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.759 would say that the Hamas are freedom fighters trying to 168 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:32.399 take a stance against colonialism and Israel, trying to settle 169 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:40.240 areas that were agreed that should remained with the Palestinian people, 170 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:44.519 and now they want to take it all back, and 171 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:51.799 that they're using military force to do so. There's a 172 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:55.159 lot of history that isn't going to be solved in 173 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:03.000 just a couple of days, and that compounding that that 174 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:09.120 we've just seen two years of intense fighting and mass 175 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:19.159 destruction of the Gaza Strip. So we can't expect, as jd. 176 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.000 Vance is right, we can't expect this just to be 177 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.440 happened overnight and that they're just going to be peace. 178 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:31.639 We can't expect that. But what we can't expect is 179 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:38.120 a fair shake for all those people who are involved, 180 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:45.440 the Hamas, the Israeli people, and the innocent civilians that 181 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:52.840 are caught between the two fighting factions. That part of 182 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:59.519 the negotiations. Maybe we should be recognizing the Hamas as 183 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:06.000 a legitimate government and not a group of terrorists. That 184 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.440 maybe they have a legitimate voice that should be heard 185 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:15.159 in this area, and we need to stop negating them 186 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:25.159 saying that in jd Vance's open statements, saying that you 187 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:31.600 have the legitimate Israeli government and you have a terrorist 188 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:37.919 group with civilians caught in the middle, delegitimizes the Hamas 189 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:45.759 as a as a possible government faction, and maybe that's 190 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:52.639 a mistake. So there are going to be pockets of 191 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.679 fighting until everybody gets a word that the ceasefire is 192 00:14:55.679 --> 00:15:01.399 out there, And we can't just simply be hot headed 193 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:07.879 and jump to arms every time a gun gunshot goes off. 194 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:17.000 These people have been fighting for two years and under 195 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.960 very uh intense conditions, so we have to be patient 196 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:26.360 and allow things to pull off, and they will. They're 197 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:30.159 only gonna pull off slowly. There's not a lot they 198 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:34.639 can be done to quicken the pace up, but a 199 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:38.039 lot of patience needs to be given to both sides, 200 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:45.399 of with the Israeli forces and of course the the Hamas. 201 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:50.320 So why don't we start when we're gonna start w 202 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:55.120 uh now by listening to statements made in the United 203 00:15:55.200 --> 00:16:00.440 Nations press room, and then we'll hear some other events 204 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:10.120 uh and a press conference held by H. H. J. 205 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:20.360 D Vance and Steve Woodkoff and Jerry Kushner. 206 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:27.759 All right, good afternoon. Thank you for your patience, thank 207 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.399 you for your presence. Just thank you in general. 208 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:32.159 Uh. 209 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:36.600 In a short while we will be joined by our 210 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:44.639 guests from UN Women, Nyarana zaib z Vanda, who is 211 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:48.600 a Deputy Executive Director for Normative Support on You AND's 212 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.759 Coordination at UN Women, and Sarah Hendricks, a Director of 213 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.159 Program Policy and Into Governmental Division, also at UN Women. 214 00:16:56.679 --> 00:16:58.600 They'll be here to brief you on the Secretary of 215 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.799 General's Report on Women and Security as well as the 216 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:07.279 twenty fifth anniversary of Security Council Resolution thirteen twenty five. Tomorrow, 217 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:09.160 we will have another guest, and that will be Luke 218 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:12.200 David Irving, the Chief of the UN Mine Action Service 219 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.519 in the Occupied Palacian Territory. He will be briefing you 220 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:21.519 virtually from Jerusalem to discuss the situation with unexploded ordinances 221 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:26.119 in Gaza. Some travel to share with you. On Wednesday morning, 222 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:29.279 the Secretary General will arrive in Geneva to participate in 223 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:34.000 a special session of the World Meteorological Congress commemorating the 224 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:39.279 seventy fifth anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization. The session 225 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:42.000 will spotlight the early warnings for all Initiative, where the 226 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:45.880 Secretary General is expected to reiterate his urgent call for 227 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:51.519 universal access to life saving alert systems. Immediately following this event, 228 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.240 he will proceed to the palid Nacion to attend the 229 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:58.240 sixteenth session of the UN Conference of Trade and Development. 230 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:02.400 Following the Sessionara General will be joined by Carlos Querpo, 231 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.160 Spain's Minister of Economy, Trade and Enterprise, and they will 232 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:10.599 officially launch the Severe Forum on Debt. The form is 233 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:13.720 a key milestone in advancing the commitments May Juring the 234 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:17.960 fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, which took place 235 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.960 in Sevilla in Spain. On Thursday, the Secretary General will 236 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:25.279 head to Hanoi to participate in a high level event 237 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:30.160 marking the opening for signature of the UN Convention against Cybercrime. 238 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.759 The Convention was adopted by the General Assembly in December 239 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.319 of last year. The landmark treaty is the first comprehensive 240 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.799 global framework to address cybercrime, offering states a robust set 241 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.720 of tools for prevention and enforcement. The Convention will enter 242 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.359 into force ninety days after the deposit of the fortieth 243 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:54.039 Instruments of Ratification. While in Vietnam, the Secretary gener will 244 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:58.279 also hold bilateral meetings with senior Vietnamese officials. On Unday, 245 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:05.160 October twenty fourth, will participate virtually via video link to 246 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:09.559 excuse me, participate in the Security Council Session commemorating the 247 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:14.759 adieth anniversary of this organization. The official name of that 248 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:19.319 Security Council Session is United Nations Looking into the Future. 249 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:23.000 On Saturday, the Secretary General will head to Kuala Lumpur 250 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.279 while he will attend the Asian UN Summit which it 251 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.599 will be chaired by Malaysia. This will on the sidelines 252 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:31.440 of the summit, he will also engage in a number 253 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:36.640 of bilateral discussions with counterparts at the Asian meetings as well, 254 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:40.279 of course as the Malaysian hosts. We also expect a 255 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.759 press conference schedule during that visit to Asian We expect 256 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.160 the Secretary General back in New York on the twenty 257 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:50.119 eighth of October. And I think as you are well 258 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:55.920 aware and you saw the note that we issued earlier 259 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:58.279 today where we were informed by our team in Yemen 260 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:01.960 that all fifteen UN intern national staff are now free 261 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.400 to move inside the UN compound in Sana and they've 262 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:09.559 also been in contact with their respective UN entities and families. 263 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:14.119 This follows the October eighteenth incursion into our compound by 264 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:17.759 the de facto authorities. Also, the five national staff that 265 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:21.599 had been detained during that raid on October eighteenth have 266 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.079 also now been released. As a reminder, fifty three of 267 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:31.039 our national colleagues in Yemen continued to be arbitrarily detained, 268 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.799 just one of a flag. A number of phone calls 269 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:38.559 the Secretary Generals made this morning all on the situation 270 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:42.960 in the Middle East, including the specific situation in Yemen. 271 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:47.079 He spoke to the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal 272 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:51.599 bin Fahan al Saud. He spoke with the Foreign Minister 273 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.640 of Iran, said Abbas Arakshi, and he spoke twice with 274 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:59.000 the Foreign Minister of Oman sit By bin Hamad bin 275 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:06.359 Hammud Albu SAIDI turning to Gaza, I can tell you 276 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:08.880 that we are encouraged that the parties have reaffirmed their 277 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:12.839 commitments to implementing the ceasefire in Gaza and commend the 278 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:17.720 steadfast efforts of the mediators. We do, however, remain concerned 279 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:21.200 by all acts of violence in Gaza and the reported 280 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:25.759 attacks and strikes that took place yesterday. We urge all 281 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:29.440 parties to honor all of their commitments to ensure the 282 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.559 protection of civilians and avoid any actions that could lead 283 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:37.200 to a renewal of hostilities and undermine humanitarian operations. We 284 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.799 reiterate the Secretary General's call for the release of all 285 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.839 the remains of all deceased hostages. The Under Secretary General 286 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.039 for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, has been in the region. 287 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:50.319 As you know. He wrapped up his visit to the 288 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:53.240 Gaza Strip over the weekend just to flag that. On 289 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:58.359 Saturday he visited a nutrition center in Gaza. He also 290 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:02.039 visited a hospital and Guys City. He witnessed some road 291 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:05.440 clearance projects run by the UN Development Program and a 292 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:09.599 community kitchen run by our partners at the World Central Kitchen. 293 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:14.200 Also on Saturday, he left Gaza through the Kareem Shalom 294 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:18.119 Karrimabu Salem crossing, and on Sunday he was in Ramala 295 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.920 to meet with the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mamouda Bas. 296 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:27.759 They discussed the massive humanitarian needs in Gaza, the sixty 297 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:31.319 day eight scale up, the importance of sustaining the ceasefire, 298 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:34.960 and of course the situation in the West Bank and 299 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:40.920 the long term prospects for Peace. Today in Jerusalem, mister 300 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:44.720 Fletcher met with our humanitarian country team in the occupied 301 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:49.400 Pascian Territory, which brings together about fifteen un entities and 302 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:57.000 representatives of about two hundred NGOs. Also today, mister Fletcher 303 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:04.519 announced that the Mindaru Foundation of Australia announced its contribution 304 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:08.960 of ten million Australian dollars from the foundation for humanitarian 305 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:12.839 efforts in Gaza, delivered in close coordination with the sixty 306 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:15.759 day Plan. If Michelle was here, she tell us how 307 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:20.359 much ten million Australian dollars is in US dollars. With 308 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:25.200 the ceasefire in places, more areas become accessible. UNA said 309 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:28.680 yesterday they are expanding the number of temporary learning spaces 310 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:33.000 set up in community shelters for displaced people and in Darryl, 311 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:40.559 Bala and Khanyunis our partners. Our partners resumed the distribution 312 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:44.240 of food parcel to thousands of families for the first 313 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.920 time for the first time in months, and over the weekend, 314 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:52.200 we along with our partners continue to collect aid from 315 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:59.279 the Kareem Shalom and Casufium crossings. This included postpartum hygiene, kids, 316 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:03.480 medical supplies, water and food and also I'm just sorry 317 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:08.640 I missed this. I want to flag that in the North, 318 00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:15.279 preparations are also underway. To sorry, I'm getting confused by 319 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.920 by own notes here, I'll start again. Over the weekend, 320 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:21.119 we and our partners continue to collect aid from the 321 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:26.839 Cream Shalom Kisuffim crossings. This included postpartum hygiene kits, medical supplies, fuel, 322 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.359 food and water, and yesterday, for the first time, Israeli 323 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:33.759 authorities allowed the United Nations to deploy monitors at the 324 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.519 Kissufim crossing. This is of course a welcome development as 325 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.920 it will provide us with much needed visibility into that 326 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:44.599 segment of the pipeline. And just want to flag the 327 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:49.000 situation on the West Bank. OCHA tells us that between 328 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:53.200 the seventh and the thirteenth of October it documented seventy 329 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:56.440 one settler at tax, half of which were related to 330 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.720 the ongoing olive harf this season. The incident which affected 331 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:05.599 Palestinians in twenty seven villages, including attacks on harvesters, theft 332 00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:09.920 of crops, harvesting equipment, vandalism of olive trees resulting in 333 00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:15.480 casualties and property damage. When a flag your a number 334 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.960 of humanitarian situations, none of which are good first with 335 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:24.400 Sudan or Humanitarian colleagues on the ground warned that the 336 00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:28.799 ongoing violence across Sudan is putting civilians at graver risk 337 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:32.440 and forcing even more people to flee their homes. In 338 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:36.480 recent days, fighting is escalated in North and West Darfur states, 339 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:42.519 were drone strikes and clashes reported across several areas. On Sunday. 340 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:45.880 A drone strike on sarf Omrah's main market in North 341 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:50.720 Darfur reportedly killed at least seven civilians. Strikes in El Jinana, 342 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:55.200 the capital of West Darfur, also cause casualties. The International 343 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:58.960 Organization for Migration estimates that more than three thousand people 344 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:02.519 were newly displaced in North dark for last week alone, 345 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:07.519 including fifteen hundred from El Fasher and another fifteen hundred 346 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:13.200 from Abu Gamra following renewed fighting in that village. Tensions 347 00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:17.000 are also rising sharply in Kordofan. Nearly a thousand people 348 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:21.960 were displaced from Lagawa town in West Kordifan state on Saturday. 349 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:26.319 That's due to height insecurity. Meanwhile, in South Kordafan, the 350 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:29.319 town of Dilling and the state capital of Kadugli remain 351 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:33.000 under siege, with supply routes cut off and shortages of 352 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:37.319 basic goods are worsening by the day. In Blunile State, 353 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:42.079 classes between armed groups displaced six hundred people from bout 354 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:47.400 Town in a Tadamon locality last week. Civilians across Sudan 355 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:51.119 continued to bear the brunt of this relentless violence. Despite 356 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:55.559 the numerous challenges, our humanitarian colleagues continue to provide vital 357 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:59.200 assistance to displace people in areas that we and our 358 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:02.839 partners are able to reach safely, and once again we 359 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.799 call for the immediate cessation of hostilities, the protection of civilians, 360 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:10.759 and for us to be allowed to have unimpeded humanitarian 361 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:15.079 access wherever it is needed. Turning to the Democratic Republic 362 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:19.440 of the Congo, our colleagues and the Office of the 363 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:23.200 Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs are sounding the alarm over the 364 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:28.119 collapse of health systems in North and South Kivu, where 365 00:27:28.119 --> 00:27:33.599 hostilities continue to impact civilians and devastate critical civilian infrastructure. 366 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:37.279 These two provinces, eighty five percent of health facilities are 367 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:41.640 affected by shortages in medicine, while nearly forty percent have 368 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.880 seen an exodus of health staff and further undermining their 369 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:48.839 delivery of services in North Kivu alone, Our partners working 370 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:51.519 in Health report that about a third of all health 371 00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:55.119 facilities in the province conflict zones have been destroyed, looted, 372 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:59.319 or abandoned, leaving millions of people with extremely limited access 373 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.920 to health care. The remaining facilities are overwhelmed and face 374 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:08.680 critical shortages of essential supplies, including kits for survivors of 375 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:14.079 sexual violence, collar treatments, and just basic routine vaccines. This 376 00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:18.039 is happening as the province battles at deadly epidemics. Since 377 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:21.200 the beginning of this year, health partners have reported eight 378 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.599 six hundred cases of cholera, eight thousand cases of impos 379 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:29.920 and more than ten thousand, five hundred cases of measles, 380 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.000 all of which has already claimed dozens of lives. Our 381 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:35.839 partners on the ground estimate that without urgent action, more 382 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:39.200 than six thousand preventable deaths could occur between now and 383 00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:41.839 the end of the year. They also project a potential 384 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:46.240 forty percent increase in maternal mortality in the hardest hit areas. 385 00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:50.359 The two point five billion dollar humanitarian needs and Response 386 00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:54.400 plan for the Congo is currently just sixteen percent funded, 387 00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:58.400 with just four hundred and ten million US dollars received 388 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:02.000 so far. Our Health Parker oartners urgently need six million 389 00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:06.519 dollars to procure central supplies and maintain these life saving services. 390 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:10.000 Urgent measures are needed to ensure the continued functioning of 391 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:14.839 health care facilities in all affected areas by christ excuse me, 392 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:17.720 in all areas affected by crisis in the eastern part 393 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.359 of the DRC. Additional funding is required to prevent a 394 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:24.519 greater tragedy. We also call on the parties in this 395 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:29.200 conflict as well to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian 396 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:33.839 law to protect civilians, protect civilian infrastructure, including health facilities, 397 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.279 and to ensure the safe and unimpeded access of humanitarian 398 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:43.039 aid wherever it is needed. And in Haiti, just off 399 00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:45.279 the coast of Florida, the Office of the Coordination of 400 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:49.680 Humanitarian Affairs warns that are resurgence of cholera in West 401 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:53.640