Imtiaz Sooliman – Gift of the Givers Israel is deliberately blocking aid to Gaza

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.