Rafah Invasion Means 'Catastrophe Upon Catastrophe' - w/. Unicef's James Elder
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
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Gaza is already in a state of catastrophe. What will Israel's invasion of Rafah mean? UNICEF's James Elder tells us the hideous truth: we have a responsibility to listen, and to act.
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| 0:00.0 | Now I spoke to James Elder, who spoke to |
| 0:02.5 | person for UNICEF, who I'm sure you all know all about, |
| 0:05.0 | last month and he was in Raffer at the time, |
| 0:08.4 | which is obviously in the south of Gaza |
| 0:10.5 | where most of Gaza's population have been forced to flee. They were told that was a safe zone. |
| 0:14.8 | That was a safe place for them to go. |
| 0:16.7 | Rafin now is under assault by the Israeli states. The Rafa for Kossing, the key point |
| 0:21.6 | for where aid comes in, has been captured by them. |
| 0:25.2 | James, you're a busy man, so just get straight to the point. |
| 0:28.0 | Just talk us three firstly, you know, this was, you were there in Raffa, what were the conditions there as was and just that idea |
| 0:36.5 | that most of the people there most of guys are population fled to Raffer on the |
| 0:40.5 | basis it's a safe so. Well exactly on so people who have come to Raffer I mean most of them have lost a home so let's start |
| 0:48.0 | with the basics that they've done what people around the world do which is save up |
| 0:51.4 | save up sometimes for generation put it in brick and mortar, that's been destroyed to rubble. |
| 0:56.0 | So they've come to this realization that their home, their earnings, everything, quite possibly a loved one killed at the same time. |
| 1:02.0 | So with all that trauma they've moved |
| 1:04.0 | three or four times been told, right go here. Then they live in a tent. Okay, they're living a tent in a |
| 1:08.9 | sandy block. It's a day long wait for a for a shower, so for a teenage girl or a grandmother or a pregnant woman, |
| 1:15.8 | three and a half thousand people to a shower. |
| 1:18.4 | So they wait all day for that. |
| 1:20.4 | And they've moved from a three bedroom house this was their home now they're |
| 1:24.3 | an attempt now every night remembering in Rafa still this does not just happen now |
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