Imtiaz Sooliman – . Joins ICJ Protest Advocating for Palestine

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The local Sharies area is limiting staff and causing delays due to people being out of work and lack of supplies. The team is working on a new counseling method and a new facility to provide aid for people in the central area. The NPR discusses the challenges faced by Iranian workers in the field of peace and security, including road issues and resource limitations, and the need for aid for people affected by the recent loss of a pivotal military action. The workers are pressured to act as non military artists and do not want to give up, and they have lost family members and motivated by their desire to destroy the people.

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			What is the current situation in
ithaza, at the moment, with your
		
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			team being on the ground? Well,
the team said it's horrendous.
		
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			They said they limited in every
way. The biggest difficulty is
		
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			people in the North need a lot of
help. And you said today, the
		
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			report came yesterday, that if you
move from the north to the south,
		
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			even though they've asked you to
move from the north to the south,
		
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			they hassle you on the way. They
stop you. They sniper you. They
		
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			bomb you with tanks. All of the
tanks have moved from the North.
		
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			They're on the side on the roads.
If you're trying to come from the
		
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			south to the north, it's a no go.
They kill you on site. People want
		
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			to go back to their homes, but
there is no home to go back to.
		
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			They flatten everything. And even
you go back to the home. There's
		
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			no shops, there's no electricity,
there's no water, there's no food,
		
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			there's no medical care. So it's a
useless situation. The trucks that
		
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			are coming in only 10 a week get
to the north, and there's hundreds
		
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			of 1000s of people there, the food
stores that come from the UN
		
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			compound, and there's no un
compound in the north to
		
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			facilitate that. So there is some
kind of looting that takes place.
		
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			There's there's criminal element
that's taken place. It's
		
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			desperation. So a lot of people
who deserve to get the stuff don't
		
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			get the stuff. Some people sell
the food at high price. Where it's
		
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			more control is Rafa in the south.
But it's not only the people in
		
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			the South. Anytime it's in the
central area or where this is,
		
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			again, 30 hospitals are not
functional. There's no fuel.
		
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			57,000 almost 60,000 wounded,
injured people need urgent
		
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			support. 6000 people have to be
evacuated immediately to outside,
		
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			whoever wants them, otherwise
they're going to die. 180,000
		
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			people have respiratory disease,
density treatment, 140,000
		
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			children, people, more, a large
portion of them under five
		
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			children that have diarrhea that
needs to be treated. There's
		
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			emotional and psychological
challenges. There's starvation.
		
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			Children and adults are dying of
hunger. There's this, there's
		
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			pain, there's suffering. And our
teams themselves and the medical
		
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			care guys don't know who's alive
is not alive. The doctors are
		
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			exhausted. They can't function
anymore, and they need a support
		
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			team to come into support. We want
150 medical personnel to go in. I
		
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			can even double that amount,
because I've got guys from the UK,
		
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			from America, from other parts of
the world, wanting to join us, but
		
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			I don't have to do that. There's
enough South Africans wanting to
		
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			go into support. But whilst we're
doing that, we've our
		
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			psychologists are in training,
talking to the people in in
		
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			Palestine, how should we modify
the counseling method? They're
		
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			going to special courses. So once
you set again 100 days tomorrow,
		
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			we're not wasting time. And even
surgeons. What equipment is
		
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			required. We are ready to if that
border opens up, if we get the
		
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			permission, we're ready to move
in. I was recently in Cairo. I
		
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			spoke to Dr Nasr Sheik as well,
who's very instrumental in the
		
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			logistics of some of the trucks
that go over to the Rafa border as
		
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			well. Are there still trucks being
intercepted, and are we still
		
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			finding that the aid is not
getting to the right people, the
		
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			people of Gaza that need it
desperately? Well, intercepted is
		
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			is being stopped. They're not
being intercepted. They're being
		
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			delayed. It's a difference.
There's a there's a very long
		
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			procedure involved in getting
truck aid to Gaza. There's about
		
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			15 steps. It's very complicated in
terms of bureaucracy. The trucks,
		
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			you first of all have to apply for
permission. Then you have to get
		
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			Egyptian Red Crescent to delivery.
They could arrange the trucks.
		
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			Then you gotta give a manifest of
what you want to put in. And they
		
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			can suddenly look at the list, and
they say they don't like number
		
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			four, not them, desireless number
four, number five, number 10. You
		
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			gotta unpack. You're gonna prepare
a new list. You can't put in
		
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			tents, you can't put in certain
medical supplies. You can't do
		
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			this, that and the other the
bigger countries have been
		
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			fortunate. They managed to get
some tents inside. NGOs are having
		
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			a battle to get that in the trucks
then go to our Arish. They have to
		
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			wait there to get permission to
join the con point. Only 20 to 30
		
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			trucks are sometimes at a good
day, 50 trucks can go, but that
		
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			they cross into Karam Shalom. It's
on the Israeli side. They can stay
		
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			there for three days. They go to
the old truck. That distance from
		
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			Rafah to Karam Shalom is 30
kilometers. It took my trucks 13
		
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			days to cross 30 kilometers. Then
they come back to karafa and they
		
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			go to Qatar house. Qatar house is
a stopping point controlled by the
		
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			UN there they have to offload.
Then the Palestinian trucks to
		
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			come and fetch them. The
Palestinians don't have enough
		
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			trucks, and they don't have enough
fuel. And then they're going to
		
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			move that stuff to other parts of
the country where it's possible.
		
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			The roads are not functional.
There's bombing everywhere. It's
		
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			difficulty. People are in
desperate need so and the aid is
		
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			so limited it can't get to
everybody. We got in another seven
		
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			trucks yesterday. It's at Karim
Shalom. I don't know it is you
		
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			will take to come back in, but
even you get in to answer your
		
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			question, there's a deliberate
policy to obstruct. They don't
		
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			intercept. They allow the trucks
to go through, but they if they
		
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			decide they don't want the five
items of truck, they'll send it
		
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			back. One last question, you
recently lost a pivotal member of
		
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			your team on the ground in Haza as
well, which we want to say that
		
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			all of us at Hillel TV feel for
yourself and your organization as
		
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			well. But.
		
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			This happens to so many other
organizations in and around that
		
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			provide aid, and it can obviously
put a damper on some of the work
		
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			that is needed in Gaza at the
moment. What is your message to
		
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			all those NPOs that are assisting,
even though they're going through
		
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			so much right now? Well, let's,
let's, rather my Palestinian
		
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			people, answer that question in
the way they said it. So on the
		
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			seventh of October, we call them
and said, Netanyahu is gonna bomb
		
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			the LRW guys. His ego as we
dented, and he's gonna go crazy,
		
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			because desert teaching at home,
the gods destroy him. He makes me
		
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			at first classical example right
now. And we said, be ready. They
		
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			said, We know the people. We're
ready. Five days later, I said,
		
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			oops, you guys are in serious
trouble here. They said, We know
		
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			this is the worst. This is
genocide. I said, expand the team.
		
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			In case somebody dies. We need to
replace you guys. The work was
		
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			carry on. They said, We already
did that. We anticipating to die.
		
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			So we will not give up. You know,
we will fight at the end. We're
		
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			not leaving here on the 12th of
November, as I mentioned earlier,
		
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			he said the personal skill said,
and I got a premonition around the
		
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			same time that he was going to
die. And he said,
		
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			I will not move. Stay in the
north. I'm taking my wife and my
		
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			three children and my 30 family
members. We're going to stay in
		
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			our own apartment, in our own
house, and we're going to wait for
		
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			the bombs to die, afford on us. We
will die as non military artists,
		
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			but we will not suffer the
indignity of being pushed from
		
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			political post. We rather die in
dignity. My family can be in the
		
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			house. I will deliver what I've
been mandated to do as a
		
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			Palestinian. I know my
responsibility. I will be I will
		
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			not give up. I'm on the 16th
coming out of the mosque. He was
		
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			booked, murdered by the Israeli
force, occupation forces, and his
		
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			brother, doctors also killed
instantly. We removed that. We got
		
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			our teams in Gaza. We are here.
We're not there. We got them to
		
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			move to 30 family members, the
wife and the three children. They
		
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			are in relative safety, if there's
such a thing in Gaza. For now, you
		
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			know, it's from the 16th of
November. We grateful that it's
		
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			still alive. And the other, other
family member, another team
		
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			member, lost 100 family members.
The other family team members
		
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			together lost 50. So we've lost
150 family members, but they are
		
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			so motivated by what they see
here, what they see in South
		
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			Africa. And they say, your
protest, you're standing up the
		
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			government going to iCj,
Palestinians from the ISPA said,
		
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			we salute you. Thank you. You're
keeping obstacle alive. So to
		
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			answer your question to all NPRs,
it's the Palestinians that are
		
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			driven and desperate. Can never be
broken. You can kill Gaza, you can
		
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			destroy a building, you can cut
water, but you can't break the
		
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			spirit. Thanks so much. Doctor
India, from the gift to beginners.
		
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			Have a great afternoon. Thank you
very much. Bye.