Imtiaz Sooliman – Israel Hamas Truce Gaza ceasefire holds, allowing aid to start flowing

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A reporter on the breakfast show discusses the impact of the Israel ceasefire on the people, particularly those who have been living in damaged homes. The reporter also talks about the challenges faced by the people in the aftermath of the war and the need for aid and humanitarian aid. The segment ends with a discussion of the safety of people in damaged homes and the need for aid and humanitarian aid.
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Alright so Doctor MTS, Suleiman, founder of gift of the givers, now
joins us by video link to weigh in on the Israel hummus wall, looking
at AID and the humanitarian crisis unfolding there. Dr MTS, good
afternoon, and thank you for your time with us here on the SABC.
Good afternoon, Lisa, thank you very much. Perhaps you could we
could get your thoughts on the back of the announcement of the
ceasefire, since developments unfolded on the seventh of
October, arguably 48 days ago.
Well, you know, it's a psychological and emotional
support for the people, yes, for the
fire. It sounds very cynical to say,
Bring the water, bring the food in, and after you are nicely fed,
and after you repeat and see about you again, it sounds exactly like
that, but for most people, even five minutes of peace, of
ceasefire is some kind of a relief. For
very stunned to find as many people on Egyptian border, and no
they want to go back inside. And these are outside the country
before the war, and want to go back desperately to know where
family members are, what's happened to homes whose life,
whose way, who's injured because, of course, communication systems
have been totally disrupted. There's a main chaos of the
bombing everywhere you caught a total disorder. So you can't
concentrate on inside, never mind on the outside. And those people
are very keen. And Egypt has announced that the border will
open tomorrow for people to go in. And you can see even those few
hours means so much to those people, even if they allow for
only four days, and the bomb will come back and destroy them and
their homes and the hospitals and the schools and the water plants
and everything humanitarian that will be born by Israel and they
expect, but that that should that few hours of respite. People want
to go to the north. They want to know what's happening in the
north. Contrary to reports that most of the North is empty, is not
true. There's hundreds of 1000s of people still in the north who
haven't left, who haven't gone to the south. People who enter the
south want to know what's up or not, but yes, reprieve for four
days, but it's
very crazy last night and morning. Be honest, Doctor. MTS, thank you
for those sentiments, because now that aid is allowed to also enter.
How has that impacted? Obviously, those who are in dying need, given
the realities on the ground, people looking at what's left to
be salvaged, and what are the needs on the grounds and the
challenges that your team faces as you try to assist as well.
Well, everything is on it. You know, as the photography
spokespot, no matter what comes it's never going to be enough.
Remember, they're talking about 300
the P war requirement was nine extracts a day three war nine in
the
last two weeks was going in. Was 46
so the backlog,
and I'm huge following what you said for the walk. So three, I'm
not going to say hello, but
standard rule is you can't, buddy. Unfortunately, that's
critical. Look at the hospitals functioning again. They're going
to need anesthetic. You can't operate. It's not anesthetic.
People have been pain without anesthetic. Antibiotics easier,
and a range of clients,
of course, six health centers functional after about 34 so
there's another crime. The roads are damaged. You know, there's no
fuel to move us and there's very difficult. It's very difficult to
move on the roads. You see that all those collapsed buildings on
the ground, how fast you get around, then those under the
rubble, how much time they have to take their members out of the
rubble. It's like an earthquake in the angry people everywhere. How
do you get everyone because you can't move around fast enough? How
do you point 3 million people in four days? What all these things?
It's it's nowhere near what needs to be done and performing starts
again. Joining a field hospital, you can feel hospital gonna be in
a safe place, but also any hospital again. Now, what
happened? What happens to water there? What happens to hygiene
needs? It is raining, it's cold.
The rules don't allow you. Israel does not allow you to bring tents
in, so people in the open air, so there's no shout for them. Oh,
I know any clothing they need, hot drinks. All
this. What is now, whatever happens as some sort of reprieve
for those people so and so, in lieu of the developments, we
obviously looking at safety now being a big concern, and we're
wondering how your team has adapted since Ahmedabad here
passed away, how his family's doing and.
And with safety coming to the fore, the concerns about, you
know, regarding that, how has that affected operations under these
circumstances as well?
Nothing has changed.
We told them, be careful and
to save a place in Gaza. What safe place
we predicted that some of them
already sent a message to say, start recruiting people
who may die and exact
but
people don't.
I have their outside, an FTM inside Gaza collective members
outside and inside gap, they've lost.
Dr MTS, we're losing your sound is is not too great. We're struggling
to hear you. At this point, I'm going to leave the conversation
there. But thank you for your time with us on the scbc and at this
hour, of course. Dr MTS Suleiman fund of gift of the givers joining
us via video link, just to weigh in on the Israel Hamas war,
looking at the aid and humanitarian crisis, and perhaps
also on the back of the ceasefire, the temporary ceasefire that had
been announced for the next four days, Of course, that started a
day just after 7am you