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