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Speaker 2: Media Radio and your host Michael Floggs. You know, just
Speaker 2: the other day I got I saw this post on
Speaker 2: social media talking about how Donald Trump has done such
Speaker 2: a great job at limiting war, ending wars and such
Speaker 2: things as he has done things to end wars between
Speaker 2: India Pakistan, that he has done things to bring about
Speaker 2: the cease fire between Israel and in Iran, and how
Speaker 2: he is putting for the peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 2: And what a great job he's doing because President Joe
Speaker 2: Biden could not have done these the only Donald Trump
Speaker 2: could have done it. And why is this news isn't
Speaker 2: reporting on his success stories and bringing about more peace
Speaker 2: and bringing war to an end on our planet, bringing
Speaker 2: about the end of some of the imperialism attitudes that
Speaker 2: have brought about these wars. Well, here we have it, Okay,
Speaker 2: So as it turns out they do did this stops
Speaker 2: up in the in the news recently dead and within
Speaker 2: the last couple of days as I'm recording this, that
Speaker 2: uh Iran once again fired missiles against Israel. That the
Speaker 2: peace and tease fire that Don Trump is talking about
Speaker 2: may not be so peaceful. That Israel and Pakistan they
Speaker 2: have called the fighting for a little bit, but because
Speaker 2: because the actual problems that exists between Israel in Pakistan,
Speaker 2: it could pop right back up again. And that that
Speaker 2: is this little little country called Kashmir right right now,
Speaker 2: I think it's it's known as the territory, but at
Speaker 2: one time it was its own country. Sovereign countries and
Speaker 2: its role in Pakistan have been in a tug of
Speaker 2: war over this particular territory for quite a number of years,
Speaker 2: and its the tug of war turned into actual military action.
Speaker 2: Who who is has the right to dictate what Kashmir
Speaker 2: actually does? And with these people, however they are going
Speaker 2: to live, who's going to govern them? So we still
Speaker 2: have that out there. Part of the reason why Iran
Speaker 2: has launched as like against Israel is over Gaza, which
Speaker 2: has not been settled yet. That there's still an ongoing
Speaker 2: tension between Palestine and Israel, and most of it has
Speaker 2: to do with Palestinians went their freedom away from the colonialism.
Speaker 2: That is cause that has caused Israel some of these
Speaker 2: people were in the nineteen forties, their families were sent
Speaker 2: into sent away from Palestine, and we're turned into refugees
Speaker 2: sent to Lebanon two because they were bringing Jews from
Speaker 2: the concentration camps as they were being liberated during World
Speaker 2: War at the end of World War Two into the
Speaker 2: area that lives in which is now a totally completely
Speaker 2: Jewish state. It is the government. It is a government
Speaker 2: based on Judaism, the same as Iran's government is based
Speaker 2: on Israel. The leadership there as much okay well, in
Speaker 2: order to help quell the idea of Israel. At one point,
Speaker 2: the United States had negotiated and helped put in place
Speaker 2: a government in Iran that was agreeable with Israel and
Speaker 2: made Israel in Iran's allies. The regime that we're talking
Speaker 2: about that we keep hearing people like Danny Dannon talk about,
Speaker 2: falls away from that friendliness. That there is a directive
Speaker 2: that asks for the end of the colonialism and helps
Speaker 2: the Palestinian people get to their homes back from nineteen
Speaker 2: from the nineteen forties, away from the colonialism that actually
Speaker 2: built Israel. It isn't about necessarily as much about Hey, Palestine,
Speaker 2: we're Palestine we don't ever want to share our land
Speaker 2: with these Jews because the Palestinians, if you scroll it
Speaker 2: back enough tim into the Roman Empire, you discover that
Speaker 2: there will always those people living in Palestine because that
Speaker 2: was a Jewish colony created by the Roman Empire. All right,
Speaker 2: So we're going to hear a lot more about about
Speaker 2: that and other issues. But because we're going to hear
Speaker 2: from Francine alban Age as he is speaking to the
Speaker 2: as a special repertoire to the Human Rights CANCIL, that's
Speaker 2: part of the amazing and her she is an expert
Speaker 2: on what is actually happening between is your own in
Speaker 2: Palestine and what is happening in the Middle East as
Speaker 2: far as human rights is concerned. Some of them remember
Speaker 2: this that ultimately, what do you have when we're talking
Speaker 2: about the situation with war is a lot of times
Speaker 2: we have a government that is doing things they're saying
Speaker 2: that they're trying to protect the people, which we took
Speaker 2: very well. We trow we're not going to we're not
Speaker 2: going to dispute that. If we are going to dispute
Speaker 2: is that are they always doing things that the people
Speaker 2: themselves either one know about or would agree to. Most
Speaker 2: people aren't worried about sending someone to go in Israel.
Speaker 2: People in Israel aren't necessarily in agreement or or or
Speaker 2: are they paying attention to Israel. Sending troops to Iran
Speaker 2: is firing nipples back and forth, other than the fact
Speaker 2: that they can see the nipples being fired and back
Speaker 2: and forth. When you live in a very small country,
Speaker 2: you get to see a lot of things happening and
Speaker 2: the direct result of these things. So but basically, when
Speaker 2: you get down to it that most people on this planet,
Speaker 2: all they simply want to do is live a good life,
Speaker 2: have to be surrounded by those people that they love,
Speaker 2: and they want to keep those who they love comfortable,
Speaker 2: face and healthy. And that's where the whole idea of
Speaker 2: human rights comes about, because if once you're protected, protect
Speaker 2: those rights so that people in general can have a healthy,
Speaker 2: safe life with their family and friends and those that
Speaker 2: they love. So why don't we move forward. We're going
Speaker 2: to hear from Planting Albanis as he talks about the
Speaker 2: value of human rights in areas of course like Palestine
Speaker 2: and Israel, and we're also going to going back to
Speaker 2: their Canada again. We're also going to hear from the
Speaker 2: Federal Minister for as I again talking about things like
Speaker 2: climate change, the Federal Minister of Energy UH Tim Hodginson
Speaker 2: as he announced an investment into an Alberta based carbon
Speaker 2: capture project that will help keep our environment safe. And so.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon everyone, and then thank you for joining us
Speaker 3: at the press briefing today. Our speaker today is Miss
Speaker 3: Francesca Albanisi. She is the Special Rappertor on the situation
Speaker 3: of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty seven. The Special Rapeta just presented her report to
Speaker 3: the fifty nine session of the Human Rights Council titled
Speaker 3: From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide. We will
Speaker 3: begin with brief opening statements from the Special Rapeta and
Speaker 3: she will then take questions over to you, Miss Abanese.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much and good afternoon everyone. Mondo and
Speaker 4: those who are here and those who are following this
Speaker 4: press conference from AFAR. And I'm sure you have heard
Speaker 4: or read through my report, the Malast Report, that reveals
Speaker 4: how corporate profit eating a monetary gain as enable then
Speaker 4: legiti timized Israel's a legal presence and auction in the
Speaker 4: Little that remains of historical Palestine, occupied Palestine and territory.
Speaker 4: What I'm going to tell you paints a very grim
Speaker 4: picture in many respects. I could have written this report
Speaker 4: two years ago and it would have been a fair
Speaker 4: exposure of the economy of the occupation made of two pillars,
Speaker 4: a pillar of displacement, a pillar of replacement, held together
Speaker 4: by an ecosystem of enablers, from financial actors to institutional
Speaker 4: knowledge production actors like universities and even charities. So the
Speaker 4: system is such that today I say Palestine is a
Speaker 4: crime scene, and actually if it were a crime scene,
Speaker 4: it would have the fingerprints of all of us through
Speaker 4: what we purchase, which company we choose to ensure our
Speaker 4: as an insurer for our car or our home, and
Speaker 4: the banks where we put our money, the investments we make,
Speaker 4: and so on and so forth, and even universities where
Speaker 4: we go where we teach, which we are of which
Speaker 4: we are alumni, including those whose silence silence debate around
Speaker 4: Palestine claiming that there is not enough balance when denouncing genocide.
Speaker 4: And by the way, both me and Agnes Kalamara for
Speaker 4: what concerned the appalling decision of the University of Bern
Speaker 4: not to host a debate. I mean, we were open
Speaker 4: to the university to invite any PROSCO pro chinocide scholar.
Speaker 4: They could find. It's their decision just to silence the debate. However,
Speaker 4: if the genocide has not stopped, it's not just because
Speaker 4: there was there has always been an economy.
Speaker 5: Of the occupation.
Speaker 4: It's because the economy of the occupation has turned into
Speaker 4: an economy of genocide. And so there have been people
Speaker 4: and organizations that have profited from the violence, the killing,
Speaker 4: the maiming, the destruction in Gaza and in other parts
Speaker 4: of the occupied Palestian territory. Because it's not that the
Speaker 4: Palestinians in the West Bank and It's Jerusalem are having
Speaker 4: the happiest time of their life as we speak. In
Speaker 4: the past twenty months, while the Israeli army and accompanied
Speaker 4: by settlers was devastating Palestinian lives and landscapes, the Tel
Speaker 4: Aviv stock exchanged sword by two hundred and thirteen percent.
Speaker 4: I must sink over two hundred and twenty billions in
Speaker 4: market gains, including seventy six point eight billion US dollars
Speaker 4: in the past month a loon. So clearly, for some
Speaker 4: genocide is profitable so what has happened is that the
Speaker 4: infrastructure that was profiting from the economy of the occupation
Speaker 4: has transformed and assisted Israel in this evolution. The report
Speaker 4: I just presented builds on a database of over one
Speaker 4: thousand entities that I didn't have the time to investigate
Speaker 4: with the depth and to analyze from a legal point
Speaker 4: of view with the rigor that I have for forty
Speaker 4: eight companies along with their parents, subsidiaries, franchises, licensees, and
Speaker 4: consort partners across the sectors. However, if you read this
Speaker 4: report as a list, as another database, which this doesn't
Speaker 4: my report doesn't intend to be, I would have failed.
Speaker 5: I would fail.
Speaker 4: My report exposes a system, something that is so structural
Speaker 4: and so widespread and so systemic that there is no
Speaker 4: possibility to fix it and redress it.
Speaker 5: It is to be dismantled.
Speaker 4: And you know, had businesses and had the corporate sector
Speaker 4: observed due diligence, had Eon or its commitment to do
Speaker 4: due diligence even before October seven, twenty twenty three, he
Speaker 4: would have disengaged completely and totally from its entanglement with
Speaker 4: Israeli economy. Because, first of all, it's a fiction that
Speaker 4: there is a line dividing separating the good Israel within
Speaker 4: Israel and the bad Israel in the occupied territory.
Speaker 5: No, the economy is one.
Speaker 4: Israel's economy is one and one only and encapsulates the colonies.
Speaker 4: The colonies do not exist because some fringy part of
Speaker 4: the Israeli society is pioneering into the wild wild West Bank. No,
Speaker 4: it's because this is resolving the housing crisis in Israel.
Speaker 4: These people leave and try and within a system that
Speaker 4: is so connected that it's part of the Israeli state.
Speaker 4: And also this is this is you can see that
Speaker 4: evidently when you look at the water grid on the
Speaker 4: electricity greed, the occupied Palestine and charity does not exist
Speaker 4: as separated from Israel. So I mean, member SAIDs can
Speaker 4: continue to reassure themselves that they might al alimit prevent
Speaker 4: settlement goods from circulating in their markets.
Speaker 5: But this is not enough.
Speaker 4: Actually, it's just another it would be another phase saving solution.
Speaker 4: Because excuse me, when sanctions were imposed on appartheid South Africa,
Speaker 4: was it because of the crimes that and the violence
Speaker 4: and the racism and the discrimination and the upper tide
Speaker 4: that South Africa was imposing on its non white population,
Speaker 4: or for just what South Africa was doing in the
Speaker 4: band to stand. Do you understand the performance of stupidity
Speaker 4: that we have all been part of for decades and
Speaker 4: now it's the time to stop. If sixty thousand people
Speaker 4: killed do not push us to take in seriously international obligations,
Speaker 4: then we really really beyond the pale. So here's what
Speaker 4: I conclude. There is no possibility, no possibility to stepping
Speaker 4: out of this situation other than for Member states to
Speaker 4: do with the International Court of Justice dem MANS, through
Speaker 4: its ruling and through its provisional measures, imposing an arms
Speaker 4: embargo immediately. It's not about asking for fire. This is
Speaker 4: not a war. This is a general sidal campaign and
Speaker 4: it's clear and now it's cider carried out under the
Speaker 4: pretense of humanitarian food distribution. This is a death trap
Speaker 4: and we should learn really to be honest, including yourself.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've been really, really generous to the media
Speaker 4: because the first corporate entity to be mistigated in this
Speaker 4: mandate was yours and it will come.
Speaker 5: But again, now it's time for an.
Speaker 4: Arms arms embargo, and it's time for businesses to cut
Speaker 4: ties with the very fact of engaging in something that
Speaker 4: concerns and translates in the economic gain and profits. It's problematic.
Speaker 4: Less companies and their executives are ready to face responsibility
Speaker 4: and even criminal liability.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank you, Special Rappetave. She will now take questions.
Speaker 6: We'll start in the room. Uh, this go ahead.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 8: The forty eight companies that you name in your report,
Speaker 8: is there anything that you think the customers of those
Speaker 8: companies ought to be doing?
Speaker 9: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Sorry I should have said before.
Speaker 6: We're going to take about four questions at a time,
Speaker 6: and the Special Rappetive will get to each one sequentially.
Speaker 1: Jeremy, please and the monserity understand just as.
Speaker 2: This is all.
Speaker 1: Okay, would you like to repeat your question?
Speaker 5: No, I'm sorry I was disrupted. I'm sorry I was
Speaker 5: disrupted because apparently I sported.
Speaker 4: A number I have someone I have not desired dyslexia
Speaker 4: in numbers, and I said, seventy seventy six billion. This
Speaker 4: is what has been unmassed in one month. No, it's
Speaker 4: sixty seven billions.
Speaker 5: I read.
Speaker 4: I apologize. So what should consumers of these companies do?
Speaker 4: First of all, I would like to clarify that the
Speaker 4: first responsibility is not on the consumers. I mean, of course,
Speaker 4: I think that we should be We should wake up
Speaker 4: and realize that we are part of a system where
Speaker 4: we are all entangled, and choices that we make in
Speaker 4: the u k. Or in Switzerland have an impact elsewhere
Speaker 4: in Congo and in Palestine, for example. So this is
Speaker 4: it's good to be conscientious, but the first the first,
Speaker 4: and so it's important today to listen to uh those
Speaker 4: in the civil society, the scholars, the lawyers, investigative journalists
Speaker 4: who have exposed the entanglement of the companies we are
Speaker 4: clients of.
Speaker 5: With the occupation.
Speaker 4: But the first responsibility remains with member state and then companies.
Speaker 4: So companies who do not divest should be held accountable.
Speaker 4: I do think that there is a possibility for consumers
Speaker 4: to hold that this company is accountable because we somewhat
Speaker 4: we we vote through our wallet, right and therefore, probably
Speaker 4: this year, it's the most modest contribution not to support
Speaker 4: the the erasure of Palestine is stopping normalizing the occupation
Speaker 4: by a clique. So let's choose other ways to plan
Speaker 4: our holidays that Booking dot com and Airbnb, because they
Speaker 4: have normalized the occupation with a clique they continue even
Speaker 4: at this time to advertise nice neighborhoods in settlements. Settlements
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Speaker 4: in this way, my amount of money laundering, and certain jurisdictions.
Speaker 4: So we we have to choose better. But again many
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Speaker 1: Come the question in the back, and I think we
Speaker 1: have to move to some questions online soon after.
Speaker 7: Okay, yes, thank you very much. My name is Satoko Dachi.
Speaker 7: I work for Japanese Dately newspaper, Your mute symbom, could
Speaker 7: you give us a sense of how many percent of
Speaker 7: the Israeli working population is engaged in either the economy
Speaker 7: of occupation or the economy of genocide.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I've not investigated that, but approximately the
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Speaker 5: Or Israeli Work Federation Sorry, probably I didn't understand.
Speaker 7: You didn't okay, I repeat my question. I just want
Speaker 7: to get a sense of the how many percent of
Speaker 7: the Israeli walking populations engaged in either economy of the
Speaker 7: genocide or the economy of occupation?
Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
Speaker 11: So?
Speaker 4: Looking at the at the surveys, I can tell you
Speaker 4: there is still a lot of support, ideological political support
Speaker 4: for the choices the Israeli government is taking when it
Speaker 4: comes to making when it comes to to Gaza, the
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Speaker 5: While there are there are brave.
Speaker 4: Israelis and international activists the only ones to stand with
Speaker 4: their own body in between the soldiers, the armed settlers
Speaker 4: and the Palestinian villagers attacked. The majority is either inactive,
Speaker 4: indifferent or the There is a significant part of the
Speaker 4: population which supports the most settled, colonized, colonization driven government.
Speaker 4: More explicity, colonization driven government that has ever.
Speaker 5: Led the state of Israel.
Speaker 4: How many participate benefits from the economy in a state
Speaker 4: where there is not one sector other than the NGOs
Speaker 4: that stand against occupation or crimes abarthide I cannot tell you,
Speaker 4: but again today we should, as I said, we should
Speaker 4: stop looking at Israel and occupied Palestine and territory as
Speaker 4: if there were two different entities. And this is why
Speaker 4: I call for sanctions to be imposed on the States.
Speaker 4: And this is something that hopefully would lead to an
Speaker 4: awakening of the of the Israeli society itself. And I
Speaker 4: resent the limited and I have with this society. And
Speaker 4: I want to make the point that the few times
Speaker 4: I've been asked for an interview by ISRAELITYVASE then have
Speaker 4: been canceled. I've been available even when they were late,
Speaker 4: and then they're canceled, So there is no possibility for
Speaker 4: me to pass these messages. But I do firmly believe
Speaker 4: that Israeli society is also with very different sents of responsibility.
Speaker 4: Part of the I mean victimized by these apartheid because
Speaker 4: they are indoctrinated to a point of dehumanizing the Palestinians
Speaker 4: and not recognizing them as their peers. And this is
Speaker 4: unfortunately a state endeavor that comes from Afar.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We're just going to move to some questions online.
Speaker 5: We have you read, yes, thank you.
Speaker 12: I have two questions, if possible, so the first one
Speaker 12: will be about the fact that the US administration it
Speaker 12: seems that they're training to have you out from your mandate.
Speaker 12: Some US medias say that the Trump administration sent an
Speaker 12: official letter to the Secretary General in order to have
Speaker 12: you out. Do you have any comments on that and
Speaker 12: is it true? Because from now we have this only
Speaker 12: through media. And my second question is regarding the creation
Speaker 12: of a special tribunal for Israel. Is it something that
Speaker 12: you will support if it will be pushed by different countries, because,
Speaker 12: for example, when it comes to Ukraine and Russia, the
Speaker 12: western countries are the first that want the creation of
Speaker 12: a special tribunal. Do you see a kind of volunteers
Speaker 12: from these same countries when it comes to Israel? And
Speaker 12: do you think that it can happen one day?
Speaker 4: I I serve with a lot of pain and sacrifice
Speaker 4: this mandate upon requests of the Human Rights Counsel. Not
Speaker 4: just what happened last in the last three months. The
Speaker 4: fact that the Council embraced without challenging it, the decision
Speaker 4: of the the finding of the Coordinating Committee that I
Speaker 4: have not acted in violations of the could have conduct
Speaker 4: was reassuring because the only thing I wanted to do
Speaker 4: three months ago, after engaging so much of my of
Speaker 4: my time, and sacrificing so much of my own life
Speaker 4: to serve this mandate with honesty and integrity. I really
Speaker 4: wanted to present this report because I knew that I
Speaker 4: really believe that while yeah, member States are aware, are aware,
Speaker 4: and people are aware of the violations, it's difficult to
Speaker 4: see the system and many are genuinely.
Speaker 5: Surprised of this picture.
Speaker 4: What I shared and what reassures me, is that what
Speaker 4: I've seen today in that room at the Human Rights
Speaker 4: Counsel is something I've never seen. Forget the applausus, I mean,
Speaker 4: but I've never seen such an almost what we will
Speaker 4: support an endorsement for my mandate before. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: accept that there might be some divergent views, and we
Speaker 4: can live with the fact that we agree to disagree. I'm,
Speaker 4: as you, an a special repperteur, and I should be
Speaker 4: respected as such. If any Member States as issue with it,
Speaker 4: they can talk to their colleagues in the Human Rights
Speaker 4: Council and the creation of a special tribunal. Look, I
Speaker 4: do believe that justice is absolutely necessary. I've often said
Speaker 4: that while the we have international courts, we have the
Speaker 4: International Criminal Court, we have the International Court of Justice,
Speaker 4: we also have universal jurisdictions over the crime of genocide.
Speaker 4: And I do imagine the Palestine trials. I mean, people
Speaker 4: sometimes ask me, do you imagine the Palace the Nuremberg
Speaker 4: trials for Palestine. Yesess, I imagine the Palestine trials, which
Speaker 4: would be the full realization of justice across the border,
Speaker 4: because crimes are across the border. Human rights violations clearly
Speaker 4: show that there are responsibilities across the border, and therefore
Speaker 4: I want to see lawyers and practitioners Barris Tears and
Speaker 4: he invested in supporting civil society and work with judges
Speaker 4: and prosecutor to believers some justice. I'm not given thoughts
Speaker 4: yet consideration myself to the idea of a special tribunal.
Speaker 4: While I do think that the question of Palace time
Speaker 4: is so big, it is so overwhelming the injustice that
Speaker 4: the Palestinians have experience, which doesn't take anything away the
Speaker 4: from the injustices that the Jewish people have endured and
Speaker 4: suffered for centuries, which is also what triggers some moat
Speaker 4: and entered into Palestine. But never one justice, one injustice
Speaker 4: as as justified another injustice. So now it's the time
Speaker 4: to look at what for seventy seven years, actually for
Speaker 4: one hundred years the Palestinians have endured, and probably one
Speaker 4: adult mechanism would make sense. However, however, I also know
Speaker 4: that accountability per se, retributive justice, and even political solutions
Speaker 4: that take into account realize the rights and freedoms of all,
Speaker 4: because this is the only solution that I that I see,
Speaker 4: the only political solution that I see as necessary and vabull.
Speaker 4: Then it will be up to the Palestinians and Israelis
Speaker 4: to decide in what form of state. Thirty three years
Speaker 4: later the beginning of the this process, they want to
Speaker 4: live in one state to state states, It's up to
Speaker 4: them to decide. However, However, I also think that the
Speaker 4: world that particularly my part of the of the world
Speaker 4: struggles with and it's very necessary both for the Palestinians
Speaker 4: and Israeli, is healing, healing. There is a huge sense
Speaker 4: of trauma and probably we can't even reckon the depth
Speaker 4: of it right now, as the Palestinians in Gaza will
Speaker 4: have to survive, will have to be helped recover from
Speaker 4: what they have suffered, and they will need all our humanity,
Speaker 4: all the humanity that we have been prevented from showing them.
Speaker 4: But also the Israelis will need healing because when they
Speaker 4: will realize what they have done in the name of
Speaker 4: an ideology that has turned into a political doctrine and
Speaker 4: that has sent its youngest citizens into carrying out genocide,
Speaker 4: called the war a war of revenge, they will need
Speaker 4: more support than others in in stainings solid and sate
Speaker 4: mentally saying so this is what I think.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Olivia. I'm also online, thank.
Speaker 13: You, thank you very much. Selon quit about from Royt's here,
Speaker 13: It's just interested in what kind of response you had
Speaker 13: from overport. I think your report mentioned that you contacted
Speaker 13: a number of companies that were named like have you
Speaker 13: had any kind of good.
Speaker 1: Engagements with those companies?
Speaker 13: Have any of them been willing to kind of sit
Speaker 13: with you, have they kind of suggested any potential shift
Speaker 13: and in their in their business models.
Speaker 1: And then secondly, this is just related to something.
Speaker 13: You said in the Council you described the Gods of
Speaker 13: Humanitarian Foundation as a death trap. I'm just wondering what evidence,
Speaker 13: in your role as a special reporteur you've heard in
Speaker 13: terms of the types of injuries that people have been
Speaker 13: sustaining while trying to receive food aid. But also if
Speaker 13: you can maybe help us with clarification, because the GHF
Speaker 13: has consistently said that these deaths are not happening near
Speaker 13: its sites. Do you believe that that is an accurate
Speaker 13: statement by the GHF?
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 4: So, first of all, I've I've notified the old companies
Speaker 4: that have been named in the report, and I've not
Speaker 4: just shared with them the facts that I found in
Speaker 4: violation of national law. For each of them, I've developed
Speaker 4: and this is something that goes beyond what has been
Speaker 4: done in other similar cases. For each of them, I
Speaker 4: have provided a detailed analysis, a case by case legal analysis,
Speaker 4: so where I found their nonconformity with international law translating
Speaker 4: into violation of the right of self determination, other human
Speaker 4: rights violations, and even war crimes or crimes against humanity
Speaker 4: to an extent in which cases they could be embroiled
Speaker 4: in the crime of genocide. So the following this, eighteen
Speaker 4: companies replied. The others didn't. And of these eighteen, I
Speaker 4: can say that only a small number engaged with me
Speaker 4: in good faith, because a number of them reasserted what
Speaker 4: I had said and saying that there was absolutely nothing
Speaker 4: wrong that I was in the sense I was hallucinating.
Speaker 4: I was not reading international law correctly, and that's okay.
Speaker 5: We will see.
Speaker 4: Clearly they don't understand international law. Clearly they think that
Speaker 4: that international law is there to make excuses. And frankly
Speaker 4: they are in good companies because we just come from
Speaker 4: twenty months in which international human rights law violations have
Speaker 4: been justified as compliance with international humanitarian law like first
Speaker 4: displacement renamed, rebranded, like evacuation orders to population moved into
Speaker 4: the safe zones or yeah, safe zone, death zones which
Speaker 4: have become a safe zones, collateral damage humanitarian no human shields,
Speaker 4: and even the Gaza Humanidary Foundation is yet another chapter
Speaker 4: of the of the humanitarian camouflage. And I also think
Speaker 4: they are in good company when it comes to member states,
Speaker 4: because it's incredible how member states, for example, European States
Speaker 4: use the European Union to justify their non compliance with
Speaker 4: their international law obligations. Look, it's very very simple, the
Speaker 4: International Court of justic because you everyone says, no, we
Speaker 4: can't call genocide because there is no court to determination.
Speaker 4: First of all, since January twenty twenty four, the Court
Speaker 4: recognized the risk of a reparable harm to the policyanes
Speaker 4: in Gaza under the Genocide Convention, which means they recognize
Speaker 4: the plausibility of genocide, which means that this is the
Speaker 4: moment that the obligation to prevent kicked in. So if
Speaker 4: one has to be serious about reading international law.
Speaker 5: Literally.
Speaker 4: But you know they say no, but the European Union,
Speaker 4: the European Union doesn't allow. I mean, we are waiting
Speaker 4: for other UM member states to to take measures to
Speaker 4: suspend the agreements. Now you need to suspend your transactions
Speaker 4: with Israel because you have signed international treaties and because
Speaker 4: there's some of the valolations that we are under our
Speaker 4: eyes amount to crimes, so there might be a complicity.
Speaker 4: And therefore it's so sad as a European to see
Speaker 4: that European Union, such a nobel institution has become and
Speaker 4: the index behind which to hide in order to justify
Speaker 4: the non compliance with international law. So it's in the
Speaker 4: United States and the United Nations as well, because when
Speaker 4: I say, yeah, you should disengage and impose and arms
Speaker 4: embargo like member states from the Global Majority are already doing.
Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, the Hague Group is a very
Speaker 4: nobel small but noble attend to to to start from
Speaker 4: addressing the root causes instead of a symptom for for
Speaker 4: a change. So I do believe that nonetheless, the companies
Speaker 4: need to understand. And this is why I was so
Speaker 4: so anxious to have this report presented. And so this
Speaker 4: is the only good thing that I've really the silver
Speaker 4: lining of these past months despital pressure, seeing that this
Speaker 4: would allow this report, would allow people to understand to
Speaker 4: have no further excuses being directly linked to these occupation,
Speaker 4: this unlawful occupation, because the International Court of Justice has
Speaker 4: said the occupation is unlawful. So we have a decision
Speaker 4: of the International Court of justiceing this is unlawful. Member
Speaker 4: states have to disengage, not to recognize as illegal, not
Speaker 4: to aid and assist ensure that the cessation, and even
Speaker 4: and even ensure that there are reparations from Israel to
Speaker 4: the Palestinians in the occupied policy and territory. So in
Speaker 4: the face of all these violations, how can ever be
Speaker 4: argued morally and legally that a private actor is allowed
Speaker 4: to do what a member state is not allowed to do.
Speaker 4: So again, I think that this is a pivotal moment.
Speaker 4: There have been other defining moments, as I was saying
Speaker 4: in the Council in human history, to bring businesses which
Speaker 4: normally escape accountability to account.
Speaker 5: And this is this moment.
Speaker 4: Palestine is really forcing us to that test. The Gauza
Speaker 4: humanitarian foundation is absolutely a death strap. I willn't know
Speaker 4: how to call the six hundred people who have been
Speaker 4: killed while trying to reach aid. Also the very the
Speaker 4: very So first of all, this is the most I mean,
Speaker 4: the term humanitarian absolutely cannot be utilized in a serious
Speaker 4: fashion toward that thing, because humanitarian aid must follow certain principles,
Speaker 4: the principle of humanity, the principle of dignity, the principle
Speaker 4: of protection of even life. So creating no harm. This
Speaker 4: creates harm. It's not a dignified way to distribute food.
Speaker 4: And AID is not providing all the aid that is adequate,
Speaker 4: So what are we talking about, So without even looking
Speaker 4: at it as a killing machine, it's not providing aid.
Speaker 4: And again I restate it's ludicrous. It's ludicrous that international
Speaker 4: community is not.
Speaker 5: Forcing is.
Speaker 4: Breaking the blockade, because this is the only sensible thing
Speaker 4: that should be done right now, Send all the country
Speaker 4: which have a port in the Mediterranean Sea should send
Speaker 4: the Navy with medical personnel under their responsibility under their flag,
Speaker 4: medical personnel, food, and any other necessity sorrysy necessary equipment
Speaker 4: to save life, including baby formula. So this is what
Speaker 4: Member States should do. Instead they stay there, criticizing at
Speaker 4: best the.
Speaker 5: Gaza Humanetarian Foundation.
Speaker 4: Again, this is one of the most sadistic exercises in
Speaker 4: intellectual gymnastics I've ever come across. And then the Gaza
Speaker 4: Humanitarian Foundation are saying that the killing is not happening
Speaker 4: near the site. Well, I've gone through plenty of video evidence.
Speaker 4: Of course, neither you nor I are there. I wish,
Speaker 4: I wish journalists could be allowed in the fact that
Speaker 4: it's not happening, while all the journalists that are available
Speaker 4: in Gaza are Bill Key are being killed one by
Speaker 4: one by one by one, and we have surpassed it
Speaker 4: two hundred and twenty. Now it's evidence that probably Israel
Speaker 4: doesn't want for the testimonies for their witnesses in this.
Speaker 5: What else I can I say?
Speaker 8: Thank you, yes, thank you Robin Millard from AFP. I
Speaker 8: don't know if you've had the chance to see what
Speaker 8: Israel has to say about your report, they said, And
Speaker 8: I'm quoting here that it's motivated by an obsessive, hate
Speaker 8: driven agenda to delegitimize the state of Israel. And they
Speaker 8: say that you're reported again. I'm quoting is legally groundless,
Speaker 8: depameatory and a flagrant abusive office. What is your response
Speaker 8: to what they have to say? Thank you?
Speaker 5: I have no comment, Yes, madame.
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Speaker 16: Thank you miss Abanis for this pressure. I just want
Speaker 16: to return to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and after the
Speaker 16: way you described the organization, I want to ask what
Speaker 16: do you see a need for an urgent new case
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Speaker 4: I'm really reassured by the fact that this company has
Speaker 4: been this entity has been the registered I hope this
Speaker 4: is the right term because I saw it in between
Speaker 4: the interactive dialogue and the press conference. But so I
Speaker 4: see that it doesn't have a protected necessarily protected status
Speaker 4: in Switzerland, in Geneva anymore, and this is reassuring. However,
Speaker 4: there is a need again, there is a need for accountability,
Speaker 4: no question about that. But I think that we need
Speaker 4: to get out of the chronicling approach and mentality. Of course,
Speaker 4: each incident requires analysis and investigation, but it's the we
Speaker 4: need to look at the ensemble, get step away from
Speaker 4: the detail. Everything is happening in the context of a destructive,
Speaker 4: intentionally destructive assault the Israel has launched against the Pas
Speaker 4: Palestinians in Gaza, which is also echoed and mirrored by
Speaker 4: the violence that has escalated and intensified against the Palestinians
Speaker 4: in the West Bank. Really, there is little capacity to
Speaker 4: understand that the two pieces of these fragments are together.
Speaker 4: The Palestinian territory that the Israel has occupied since nineteen
Speaker 4: sixty sevent is one.
Speaker 5: It should be.
Speaker 4: Treated as a territorial territorial unity, and so Israel is
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Speaker 4: and with all means possible, clearly, and I do believe
Speaker 4: that it's necessary to see that this is not the
Speaker 4: first genocide that consists of several of other crimes. And
Speaker 4: it's in the in the inter real and interplay of
Speaker 4: all these conducts and of all these crimes, that one
Speaker 4: can also see how abandoned the Palestinians feel to this
Speaker 4: criminal design and to their destiny in their situation.
Speaker 17: Isabelle, yes, good afternoons. Thank you very much for this
Speaker 17: press conference.
Speaker 18: And you said that only sorry, only a small number
Speaker 18: of companies accepted engaged with you after receiving your report.
Speaker 18: But I would like to know if any any.
Speaker 5: Company or a few companies.
Speaker 18: Told you that they will reassess or analyze their businesses
Speaker 18: in Israel or businesses that affects the occupy Palestine and territories.
Speaker 18: And also as second part of my questions, I am
Speaker 18: sorry if I focus on one company, but you mentioned
Speaker 18: a trying building a Spanish company, and I would like
Speaker 18: to ask you because you mentioned in the report that
Speaker 18: they participate with other companies in the to expand the
Speaker 18: traum the public transport in Jerusalem. But I would like
Speaker 18: to to pres to be precise, if these expansions are
Speaker 18: touched to is Jerusalem, why what is the problem in
Speaker 18: this case and if this company has replied something to.
Speaker 5: You thank you?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: As I said, only a small number of companies really
Speaker 4: engaged in good faith, and one in particular, Uh till
Speaker 4: the point, till the last conversation where I realized that
Speaker 4: there was probably not much good faith because clearly there
Speaker 4: was an interest in not having their their name on
Speaker 4: the on the report, which I understand. But but no,
Speaker 4: I've seen no sign whatsoever of readiness to disengage. Rather
Speaker 4: the contrary, which doesn't mean that this will not happen.
Speaker 4: I think it will happen.
Speaker 2: And uh.
Speaker 4: But even if you think of the for me the
Speaker 4: most shocking one, and it's a part peculiar, uh, not
Speaker 4: a peculiar, but it is a it's particularly serious for
Speaker 4: me that the Norwegian pension funds staysm engaged in the
Speaker 4: in the Occupied Palestine and territory by supporting businesses because
Speaker 4: I've really engaged with the government of Norway, with which
Speaker 4: I've always had really good and solid, respectful engagement. But
Speaker 4: again the Norwegian Pension Fund, I mean, the engagement I've
Speaker 4: had so far with their governing body and their Ethnic
Speaker 4: Council suggests indicates that there is clear misunderstanding of international
Speaker 4: law obligations. So I truly hope that this report will
Speaker 4: give the possibility also to the civil society, to the
Speaker 4: international lawyers in Norway, like in other countries, for for
Speaker 4: the other companies and the other entities named, to engage
Speaker 4: with the with the government and otherwise if this doesn't cease,
Speaker 4: well there should be accountability and.
Speaker 5: So for example against staying in Norway.
Speaker 4: I've seen parliamentarians for example starting to uh to to
Speaker 4: take to confront the government more robustly. I've also seen
Speaker 4: in recent hours the divestment from two companies, which I
Speaker 4: welcome and this needs to continue to continue. For what
Speaker 4: concerned the company The ask company you mentioned is the CAFF.
Speaker 4: The CAFFE participate with other companies in expanding the public
Speaker 4: transport in Jerusalem, and it's the Jerusalem light Rail Consortium,
Speaker 4: which is also mentioned in the h c h R database.
Speaker 4: In the sense the consortium that CAFFE has established is
Speaker 4: with with companies mentioned with at least two companies mentioned
Speaker 4: in the in the database.
Speaker 5: So at the time.
Speaker 4: The first problem is that at the time other companies
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Speaker 5: CAFF as not has not done it.
Speaker 4: But also the lines that caff is In is involved
Speaker 4: in in building include part of the part of their
Speaker 4: their their their trucks in the in the West Bank.
Speaker 4: And these lines connect colonies colonies with Jerusalem. The colonies
Speaker 4: are connected through through through this transport through transportation lines
Speaker 4: with Israel, and as I said, this is illegal, it
Speaker 4: shouldn't happen.
Speaker 5: This company is helping.
Speaker 4: Israel facilitate the replacement of the Palestinians and the strengthening
Speaker 4: of them of the colonies which are in and of themselves,
Speaker 4: as I said, many times were crime and violation of
Speaker 4: the International Humanitarian Law framework.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I think that's all the questions.
Speaker 4: We have another another element that I should add because
Speaker 4: it also shows how the businesses are connected. There are
Speaker 4: other companies that I've mentioned in the report, like the
Speaker 4: sun Involvo Excavators machinery that I've been used and there
Speaker 4: the materials that other companies, like how the Heidelberg I've
Speaker 4: provided I've been used to supply the building of these
Speaker 4: of the light rail bridge.
Speaker 5: So game, it's a system, It's really a system.
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Speaker 20: dollars in federal funding for five innovative CCUS projects right
Speaker 20: here in Alberta. These five projects are developing cutting edge
Speaker 20: CCUS technologies, from advancing CO two storage sites and subsurface
Speaker 20: analysis technologies to cleaner diesel fuel engines. This will drive
Speaker 20: emission reductions and create new opportunities for Canada's innovation on
Speaker 20: the world stage. They will allow us to show our
Speaker 20: peers across the country and around the world that Canadian
Speaker 20: energy is the best energy in the world, innovative, reliable,
Speaker 20: and responsible. First, we're investing ten million dollars right here
Speaker 20: in Bow Valley Carbon for the design and installation of
Speaker 20: a state of the art CCUS system, which you just
Speaker 20: heard about. This system aims to capture forty thousand tons
Speaker 20: of CO two emissions per year, equal to taking over
Speaker 20: twelve thousand cars off the road every year. This is
Speaker 20: being done with the Enter Pipeline Cochrane Natural Gas extraction plant.
Speaker 20: As you know, then Enbridge's open access Webbaman Carbon Hub
Speaker 20: will receive four million to characterize deep saline reservoirs in
Speaker 20: central Alberta, an important storage and transportation solution for local
Speaker 20: carbon capture projects in that region. Another investment of five
Speaker 20: million dollars will allow enhance energy to support hub development
Speaker 20: in new geological locations without access to the usual sandstone reservoirs.
Speaker 20: The Opticized Solutions Project will receive over five hundred thousand
Speaker 20: dollars in funding to improve the cost effectiveness of existing
Speaker 20: technologies for measuring, monitoring, and verifying underground CO two storage.
Speaker 20: And finally, more than two million will go to Oakham's
Speaker 20: Technology to investigate and test the modification of digel engines
Speaker 20: with the goal of developing economically viable capture processes for
Speaker 20: things like rail transport, marine shipping, and heavy duty truck
Speaker 20: it These are not just investments in Canadian companies. These
Speaker 20: are investments in the people of Alberta, in the long
Speaker 20: term future of the oil and gas industry, and in
Speaker 20: the technologies of tomorrow. These are investments in a tide
Speaker 20: that will lift all Canadian boats. The world is changing,
Speaker 20: It's an uncertain place right now, but Canada has always
Speaker 20: been a country of builders, dreamers and doers. So let's
Speaker 20: rise to that challenge, not with hesitation, but with boldness.
Speaker 20: Let us turn this moment into an opportunity. We will lead,
Speaker 20: we will innovate, and we will power our country and
Speaker 20: the world. The Canadian your way, if that's your vision,
Speaker 20: and for those here today and across this great province,
Speaker 20: I think it is. Your government is right here with you.
Speaker 20: Thank you, MERSI, thank you miniature and aunction. I would
Speaker 20: now like to introduce Paul Hawksworth, President and chief executive
Speaker 20: Officer of Injured Pipeline.
Speaker 21: Thank you Corey, Thank you minister. It is my honor
Speaker 21: to welcome you all here today on behalf of both
Speaker 21: Injured Pipeline and the Full Bow Valley Carbon Hub team,
Speaker 21: which includes our partners Entropy, a global leader in modular
Speaker 21: cond recapture and storage solutions. At inter Pipeline, we are
Speaker 21: a premier provider of essential energy, infrastructure and products that
Speaker 21: improved people's lives for decades to come. We are one
Speaker 21: of Canada's largest midstream companies with over twenty billion of
Speaker 21: acid value. Our extensive transportation pipeline network supports the movement
Speaker 21: of close to half of Canada's strategic oil production. Our
Speaker 21: State of the Arc Heartland Petrochemical complex produces valuable polypropylene,
Speaker 21: a recyclable polymer, enhancing the value of abundant Canadian natural
Speaker 21: gas resources. Right here in in Alberta, Canada, we also
Speaker 21: operate one of Canada's largest natural gas liquid extraction facilities,
Speaker 21: producing valuable products such as ethane and propane right here
Speaker 21: as an example of the Cochrane Extraction Plant now Cochrane.
Speaker 21: The first phase was built over fifty years ago through
Speaker 21: collaboration between government and industry, and it was based on
Speaker 21: a vision that Canada could do more with our natural
Speaker 21: resources and has been banded and modernized several times since then.
Speaker 21: Beginning under the leadership of then Premier Peter Laid, that
Speaker 21: vision took hold, becoming the facility that you know today,
Speaker 21: a critical piece of Alberta and Canadian infrastructure that ultimately
Speaker 21: delivers value locally, nationally, and now globally. It is a
Speaker 21: clear example of what strategic investment and long term thinking
Speaker 21: can deliver. Fifty years later, standing here today, those same
Speaker 21: principles are guiding us again. With the support of Natural
Speaker 21: Resource Canada, we are advancing the first phase of the
Speaker 21: Bow Valley Carbon Hub This project is right here at
Speaker 21: Cochran and we will be capturing sequestering CO two from
Speaker 21: existing operations that will be safely and permanently stored four
Speaker 21: kilometers underground. That There are many different opportunities right across
Speaker 21: the province, but one benefit here is this is one
Speaker 21: of the deepest formations that would be storing, providing an
Speaker 21: unprecedented level of safety. Combined with our innovative monitoring technologies,
Speaker 21: the Bow Valley Carbon Hub brings together into pipelines, safety record,
Speaker 21: our project execution, and our deep commitment to our communities.
Speaker 21: It is further strengthened by enter Piece subsurface specialization and
Speaker 21: their operational expert expertidens that they bring to us. It
Speaker 21: is supported by the innovative work from across Canada's research industry.
Speaker 21: We look forward to working with our industry partners, indigenous
Speaker 21: communities and other stakeholders to build even stronger relationships that
Speaker 21: can drive our energy industry forward in Canada and shape
Speaker 21: carbon capture storage as it's deployed more rapidly across this province.
Speaker 21: Thank you again, Minister for joining us today. In your
Speaker 21: comments about Canada becoming an energy superpower, I've heard you
Speaker 21: say many times, how critical it is that we continue
Speaker 21: to demonstrate our commitment globally and to our fellow Canadians
Speaker 21: that we are responsible industry. Bow Valley Carbon demonstrates that commitment.
Speaker 21: It is a tangible step forward, proving how government, communities
Speaker 21: and industry can work together to deliver real, tangible and
Speaker 21: measurable results.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
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