00:00I just want to ask you, first of all, about a warning issued by the president of the ICRC.
00:07She's warning of, quote, irreversible and catastrophic consequences of this ongoing conflict
00:14and says that the Middle East is a step towards a point of no return.
00:18I just wondered what you read into that.
00:21What are the specific dangers that she's referring to?
00:23I mean, when essential services are hit, what's really hit is the backbone of civilian life.
00:30When a power plant is hit, hospitals and medical facilities lose electricity.
00:37When water infrastructure is hit, communities suffer health consequences and disease outbreaks.
00:43So there is a chain reaction that happens when essential infrastructure is impacted
00:47that goes well beyond the precise moment of a specific strike.
00:52And these are the kinds of consequences and reverberations that we are really warning about as the ICRC.
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