00:00Parte de los conflictos que se viven en el mundo, como el de la Franja de Gaza, el de Ucrania, el de Sudán, generan crisis humanitarias terribles.
00:08El encargado de la Organización de Naciones Unidas de Ayuda Humanitaria, Tom Fletcher, está acá en Davos, en el Foro Económico Mundial. Pude conversar con él. Esto me dijo.
00:30¿Cuál es la situación en Gaza?
00:34As I saw myself a couple of months ago, es still devastating. Enormous amounts of destruction.
00:40And it is just heartbreaking when you drive across Gaza to see people starting to try to rebuild their lives from the rubble.
00:47Now, we've had three months now where there's been a big contrast from before the ceasefire.
00:52We're now feeding over 1.5 million people a day with hot meals.
00:56We've had a big immunization program. We've brought in a lot of shelter.
00:59So that's a big improvement on what we could do before the ceasefire when we were being prevented from doing more.
01:06But we need to do much, much more. Children are still dying of hypothermia.
01:09Inside Gaza, the winter has been brutal. We still don't have all the crossings open.
01:14We need Rafa crossing fully open in two directions for our convoys to move more aid in through there.
01:21Enormous work ahead of us. We need the NGOs to be mobilized.
01:24But we have a responsibility as the world to respond to this massive humanitarian crisis.
01:31The ceasefire is working?
01:33The ceasefire is working up to a point.
01:36It's created the framework for a change in the dynamic.
01:40But still many people are being killed.
01:41As I understand it, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed since that ceasefire.
01:45And there are still limits to what we're bringing in.
01:48So what we have to hope now is, as we move to the second phase of the 20-point plan,
01:53that we can start to generate the positive momentum towards reconstruction, rebuilding,
01:59and ultimately rebuilding hope for Palestinians and Israelis that they can really, truly coexist with security, justice, opportunities.
02:08Yes, you just mentioned it, but the weather is a problem right now, nowadays.
02:14It's been such a tough winter.
02:15And so we've been bringing in a lot of shelter materials, a lot of fuel.
02:19We've just done an agreement to bring in more fuel to try to help people through this freezing, cold, brutal winter.
02:25But when, you know, it's heartbreaking for me.
02:26I can't celebrate the progress we're making when I know that people are still dying of the cold unnecessarily.
02:31And so we have to bring in much more shelter, and ultimately we have to help people rebuild their homes
02:37so that they can cope with these very tough conditions.
02:40Yes, this Board of Peace could contribute?
02:43I hope so.
02:44I mean, it's an important development, as I understand it, that we're waiting for the news this morning.
02:49Its focus will be on Gaza and on that next phase of the Gaza work.
02:54I know that several members of that Board of Peace are insisting that their participation is in order to ensure that we get that humanitarian access we need.
03:02And that's very welcome pressure, because we need that sustained engagement.
03:06We need people to come together and talk about peace.
03:08And so anywhere that's happening, that's useful.
03:11Yes.
03:11Another part of the world that is facing difficulties is Ukraine.
03:15What's going on inside of Ukraine and the humanitarian assistance that they need?
03:20So it's a very, very tough winter there as well.
03:22And you've seen that the attacks on particularly the energy sector are leaving many, many people without the resources, the energy, literally the electricity they need to come through this brutal, brutal winter.
03:33Four years almost of this work.
03:35It's been a long, grueling conflict.
03:38And I was there in Ukraine about a year ago, and I went up to the battle lines, Pokrovsk, Kubiansk, Dnipro, and saw the different areas where we're providing so much aid to those as they are leaving the areas that are being attacked and destroyed.
03:51Often very old people coming out of places they've lived all of their lives and leaving with nothing.
03:57Ukraine is also an interesting example of innovation in aid.
04:01So it's the place where we do most what we call cash assistance, where direct assistance is going to Ukrainians so that they can make choices with dignity as to how they prioritize what they need.
04:14What can Mexicans do?
04:15How can Mexicans support to this work?
04:19So we need Mexico and the Mexican people to be at the heart of this effort.
04:23Mexicans are a people of such warmth and human solidarity.
04:26People who really understand that basic need we have within us to live together, to coexist, to help others.
04:35And I really hope that the Mexican government will be very much part of that.
04:39We need them in that coalition.
04:41But also that we can come and work with the Mexican people too, because we won't get the funding from governments alone to meet the scale of challenges that we face.
04:50Yes, what does UN activists, volunteers are facing right now in these places?
04:58They raise their lives every day.
05:01You have been in these places.
05:03For you that are working for people.
05:06It's so, so hard right now.
05:09And, you know, last year was the deadliest year to be a humanitarian worker.
05:13Two really bad years.
05:14Hundreds killed each year doing their job on behalf of the world.
05:18So these are people who go towards the sound of fighting and gunfire and danger in order to help the survivors.
05:25And they've been killed in huge numbers, including by the most sophisticated technology on the planet.
05:30There must be accountability.
05:32And we must be protected by the international community for doing that work on their behalf.
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