Imtiaz Sooliman – Gift of the Givers Israel is deliberately blocking aid to Gaza
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The speakers discuss the impact of war and the loss of people on the planet, as well as the shortage of food and the dangerous behavior of terrorist leaders. They emphasize the need for better access to sewage and water, as well as intervention in other countries to prevent future complications. survival is a challenge for the population, but there is a need for more people to die from disease and hunger, which is a major challenge for the population.
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Also want to bring in Dr emitas Suleiman. He is the founder of the
gift of the givers Foundation, a disaster response organization. He
joins me now live from Johannesburg. Dr Suleman, thank
you so much for taking the time to talk to us here on TRT world. Your
organization works with fighting hunger in many places around the
world. How would you describe what's going on in Gaza?
Well, good morning to you. Pat and thank you very much. In this case,
it's very clear in other cases we've worked in it's due to
natural phenomena. We saw famine in Niger we saw famine and hunger
in Somalia. But it was not. It was purely a weather condition where
there was a drought and no water. In this case, in Gaza, it's
sinister because it's a war crime. It's totally orchestrated to make
sure that people die from starvation. If you ask, I ask all
your viewers, just to consider that today is around 174 days of
the war. Let's say for the first 74 days, even though the food was
cut off, you had food from the shops, from the warehouses, from
your house, from your neighbor. So 74 days to survive? Will any
viewer survive? 100 days without food. And let's say all those
people were healthy who tried to survive food without 100 days. But
then came complications. Came no water, no sanitation. One toilet
for 200 to 300 people, you started getting waterborne infections,
hepatitis, all people with chronic disease required water and
support. They got infected, they needed food to survive. What
happens? Then the demand on food becomes much, much greater in in
those kind of conditions. And then, of course, pre the war, you
had close to six or 700 trucks coming into Gaza, but that was a
normal situation where you could access food, you can buy food, and
everybody was fine. Now in a war situation, you need more than
double that amount to come through to take care of everyone, because
people can't buy food, either there is no food available, or
they can't access it, or they can't reach the area, or they have
no jobs and no money, so the number of trucks has to be
substantially increased to bring in inverted commerce, free food
for people to access that food. But the opposite is happening. The
number of trucks coming into Gaza has substantially reduced, and the
trucks all are not carrying food. Some are carrying other suppliers,
detergents, blankets, mattresses. So the food amount that's coming
in is substantially reduced. How are you going to feed 2.3 million
people? The stats that you are receiving are from those that are
visible, people that you can see in the camps, in the streets,
walking around. What about the people that you can't see, those
several 100,000 that are trapped in the north who are too afraid to
come out because they get killed by snipers. They get killed by
tanks. They stay in their homes. How do we know of the situation of
those people in those homes? Most of the vegetable gardens are
destroyed. Most of the sheep and other animals have been killed.
How do they access food? And the other thing that has not been
discussed, I don't know. I'm not on your channel, and I know I'm in
South Africa, so I don't see your channel, but I think that worries
me is what I've seen in other natural disasters, not where it's
a war crime with instigate or, you know, created by men,
specifically, a lot of women in time when they don't have meals,
they don't have breast milk. And you would find what all the new
deliveries they don't have breast milk to feed their children. I
don't know that's been documented anywhere inside Gaza. It's very
difficult to document everything, because everyone's now worried
about survival and the best you can, you know, to do to get food,
medical care. So to me, this is a huge issue. We are getting aiding.
But I mean, three trucks took 20 days to get in. It took 13 days to
cover 30 kilometers from Karam Shalom to to Rafa. And this is a
challenge that we have. It's a systematic plan system to just to
allow, to do not allow excess of food, and that's why the UN has
been bombed. Their workers have been killed. Their funding has
been stopped because they were the main role play, as job
correspondent said earlier, to provide support for Gaza pre the
war during the war, so all the logistics and the capability has
been totally curtailed. And this is a monstrous by terrorist state,
a terrorist government led by a terrorist leader, Benjamin
Netanyahu and his terrorist defense minister, to bring terror
into the hearts of the people of Gaza to destroy them, to slaughter
them.
To style them to do it.
Dr Suleiman, of course, you bring up a really important point there
about these women and the suffering that they're going
through, and what happens when they don't actually get enough
food. Looking long term, if this starvation continues, what do you
think is going to happen to the population of Gaza and future
generations, they're
going to be stunted. Intellectual capacity is going to be affected.
You're going to have more people dying from disease and hunger and
from the bombs. And I think that's actually the actual aim is to have
more people die from disease, because once the body is not
nutritionally fulfilled, occur as the nutritional ingredients. It
can't survive diseases, what normal people and normal children
can. This seems like an all out effort to destroy the intellectual
capacity, the development, the new generation and everything in Gaza
double rated from the face of the earth. That's why medical
personnel have been deliberately targeted or executed or kidnapped
or killed directly. So the intellectual knowledge, the years
of experience, what the people who serve the longest in hospitals, is
gone. So you can have hospitals but no educational, trained people
to deal with the patients. Then you kill the children to make sure
there's no future generation. Then you kill the women to make sure
they can't give birth to new children. And then the children
are dead. You starve them to death. You intellectually impair
them. You give them malnutrition. They can't serve the country
itself. And this is what will happen in the long run. And of
course, you make sure that people don't have access to sanitation
and don't have access to water. Kidney Disease is a big problem
inside Gaza, you know. And with absence of water is going to be a
huge issue. We used to send in teams three times a year to do
many kidney transplants inside Gaza. They are going to have a lot
of kidney infections in that area, and a lot of people are going to
die from that. This is the plan extermination and the total
removal our entire nation, and I mean United Nations. They can
intervene in many other countries in the world. They can send in
troops. They can stop the fighting. They can deliver aid.
There is no will. There has to be well, if you are non white
country, if you don't serve the interests you don't support IP ism
and colonialism, you are not considered important, and you are
left to die in indignity, as the people of Gaza are dying right
now.
Dr Suleman, the founder of the gift of givers Foundation, thank
you so much for taking the time to talk to us here on the NewsHour.