Imtiaz Sooliman – IsraelHamas Conflict updates on humanitarian aid for victims

Staying with the Ismael Hamas conflict. Let's now bring in Dr

Suleman Imtiaz, the director and founder for gift of the givers,

For the latest on the humanitarian aid assistance provided by the

Israel Hamas conflict victims. Dr Suleman, thank you so much for

your time this afternoon. Just talk to us about the challenges

currently that you are facing as gift of the givers and, of course,

other aid organizations in reaching out and assisting those

affected. Because we do understand that much needed. You know, aid is

is required, particularly when we talk about water, fuel as well as

food. The situation is absolutely critical. Right now. The message

has come that because of the strike of the hospital and the

strike of several other hospitals, they were damaged for hospitals

previously this and then they start this hospital last night,

and they believe it threatening to strike further hospitals, the

doctor healthcare workers have said, unfortunately, they don't

have enough medication, they don't have enough support to fix the

patients, expecting hundreds of patients just rely on the floor

and die. We're treating them on the floor now, because there's no

more. Spaces are full, the beds are full, the walls are full,

reception is full. And many cases, they're operating on the patients

without anesthetic because they don't have anesthetic anymore.

They don't they if they don't get any supplies, if the suicide

doesn't take place, many, many many people that want to die,

besides those at the moment died and those they haven't found under

the rug. My teams, of course, they lived, you know, in South Africa,

said these are people from Gaza that been living there for years.

We put that into a permanent position since 2014

it's the first time I ever hear them say that what's happening

here is an absolute massacre, is a genocide. When you tell them, try

to take care of your teams and your family are put in the safe

place, they say that the word safe doesn't exist. Gaza, no place is

safe. You said yesterday, you can see what happened. There were

civilians in the hospital, structure protected by

international law. Residents were taken refuge in hospital, and they

were directly hit from aircraft. They said, what place to say? In

Gaza, we've told them. Unfortunately, it's a hard thing

to say, but we've told them to start helping additional people,

recruit additional people, network additional organizations. The

reality is that they themselves can die, and that happens. No work

will stop taking place. We need continuity. They said, We've

prepared for that. Already, water plants are knocked out. They're

not because no electricity. There's no fuel. We have seen

these as a nation plants. We've managed to collect some

generators. People are taking fuel out of the cars and giving us fuel

from the cars to put in the generator to run the water plants,

which will be running out of bed soon. And of course, in the first

few days, we have attacked white fossils also, which causes a war

crimes. It's a war crime, and it's collected punishment. We've

targeted the homes. They've damaged so many homes. They wiped

out 400 family. The whole family is one. Nobody left, and they said

that in the track last night, most of the pressures that were brought

to other hospitals that are functioning, they were

decapitated. They came with our heads, became without legs and

were badly mutilated.

Dr Suleman, of course, I want to know more about the situation. You

know, at the borders. At the moment, we know that aid trucks on

the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, you know, have been

unable to enter Gaza. Egypt is now also saying that it's concerned

about the potential influx of Palestinian refugees if the Rafah

crossing opens. Can you tell us what the situation on that border

is like at the moment,

from what they've told me, I even spoke to the Egyptian Ambassador

because you asked if you know what in the event, there's a

possibility, we like to bring supplies and we like to bring

medical teams. He said, Look, from our side, the border is open, but

he said, just taking pictures, there's hundreds of trucks there.

Aladdin airport, which is the one hour from Rafa for where the

suppliers go and when planes land, said it soon. We can't we can send

you to the border, but we can't send your cross, you know, because

they've been shocked from the other side. And when I checked

with my teams, they said that's correct, because two days ago,

there was an announcement. Somebody posted an announcement,

there's a ceasefire for five hours. And when we checked with

them, they said they don't know where that came from. There's no

such thing as a ceasefire. Israelis adamant that nobody's

going to leave and nobody's going to come in and the trucks come you

know they were being shot at. They said the trucks have been

shrugged. So all the drivers are waiting outside. We don't know it

is perishable food or non perishable food on items on those

trucks, which means eventually they won't be able to use them

with perishable food. So there's, there's, and people can't come

out. Countries for 750 foreign nationals who need to come out.

Everybody's stuck. One of the doctors who works for us, you

know, who comes a few times a year to do an organ transplant, kidney

transplant, he's stuck inside that he can't come out. You know, we

spoke to anybody. He can't come out. Unlike him, there many other

people stuck inside. So on the board itself, the tax cut moving

as.

Exactly become involved,

Doctor Suleiman, before I let you go, just very briefly and very

quickly. I mean, have you experienced something like this?

We know, of course, that there is supposed to be this ground

offensive by Israel, because they've said they won't stop

bombarding Gaza. I mean, to what end would then, you know, the

people who are living in Gaza then be able to be assisted, because,

as we are talking now, there is a humanitarian crisis happening now.

There's no way you can have these people who right now, all we bring

is buying stuff from inside. When it happened on the four start on

the sixth of October, immediately, I in my teams to buy items inside,

whatever they could find, food, clothing, medicines, equipment,

whatever they could find for the people, because we knew there's

going to be a problem. And they, when I asked them, they said, like

blankets and mattresses are finished. Medical supplies are

almost finished. Desalination plants are not wrong, unless we

have fuel, which people are giving us from the car, your food spots

are running low at some point. I'm actually surprised that it put so

long with the supplies. I can't believe that it went so long. I

was expecting it to be finished already. They've been buying food

and providing factories to different un camps. They've been

assisting that way. But the reality is that sooner or later,

they will tell me, we have nothing here to send out to the people

when the ground troops come. I don't think the Palestinians both

anymore, to be quite honest, because they were even pretty far

our notice. The most illogical, irrational, insensible monsters

type of announcement both 1.1 20 people in 24 hours going the right

man can make such kind of request, and so many people patients are in

the hospital. The doctors can't move critically the patient, they

die on the way. And then the amazing part is, whilst the

people, those who wanted to move, move, they were shot at, and 70

people died in the convoy, cousins have come to the conclusion, and

have decided, neither the civilians nor the medical staff

nor the patients are going to move. They're going to wait there,

and whatever happens, happens. It's no way to tie nos. They

rather distorted and murdered and killed, or they have to remove a