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The Palestinian Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and CARICOM is urging regional leaders to maintain pressure for an end to the war in Gaza, saying the humanitarian crisis continues to deepen.

She is also expressing confidence that Trinidad and Tobago's Government will continue to support the Palestinian cause. Urvashi Tiwari Roopnarine reports.
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00:24Behind every number is a child, a mother, a father.
00:30A teacher, a doctor, a journalist like yourself.
00:33A family whose life has been changed and destroyed forever.
00:45All these employees, including ourselves, including our embassies and offices overseas,
00:53we are functioning with almost no salaries, with over 20-some salaries owed to all these employees.
01:03But we know that our country needs us, that our country cannot function if any or each one of us
01:12decides to sit home because we are not paid.
01:16Our country comes first.
01:38The same people that destroyed Gaza and sat on the rubbles,
01:44and soldiers making fun of the suffering and the killing of children.
01:49Are those the same people coming to help in the Caribbean?
01:55Are they coming to wash the blood on their hands of Palestinian families and children
02:03by doing a project here and there to show that they are humane?
02:17Madam Prime Minister, with all due respect,
02:22I come to you and I ask you as a mother,
02:27as a mother, as a woman to woman,
02:29as a woman to woman, as a diplomat to diplomat,
02:32as a human to human,
02:35to continue to advocate
02:39for the liberation of Palestine,
02:42for the creation of two-state solution,
02:45and for a just cause.
02:47Not just in the past,
02:50But we know that,
02:51what is the nomenclature?
02:52No,
02:54you.
02:54You are so lucky,
02:55actually I am the one who is the three-year-old.
02:55I like that when you do.
02:58You are the one who does.
03:04And you do not do not do not do not do.
03:05Uh,
03:06you do not do not do not do not do not do not do not do not do not do
03:07not do not do not do not.
03:12Well,
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