Welcome to the press briefing here in Geneva.
the United Nations today is Tuesday, 9th of July.
And I'd like to start immediately by giving the floor to Jeremy for OHCHR.
Jeremy, you have two points today.
Ukraine together with a guest who is reaching us from Kiev, Mrs Danielle Bell, who's the head of mission for the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
And I don't know you would like to start and then we give the floor to Mrs Bell.
Yes, thank you and good morning everyone.
Last night, the UN human rights chief Volka Turk described as abominable the deadly blasts at 2 Kiev hospitals that treat children and women.
The Russian Federation launched a wave of strikes on densely populated areas of Ukraine, including the cities of Kievri, Okravosk and Dinimpro, as well as the hospitals.
We have received reports.
Key energy infrastructure facilities were also hit.
The **** Commissioner deplored the attacks and called on those with influence to do everything in their power to ensure these attacks stop immediately.
Civilians must be protected and the laws of war strictly adhered to.
There must be prompt, thorough and independent investigations into these latest grave attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, and those responsible must be held to account.
The **** Commissioner will be addressing the situation on Ukraine later today at the at the Human Rights Council.
And this morning we we are fortunate to be joined from Kiev by Danielle Bell.
She's the head of our human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.
Thank you very much, Jeremy.
Just just before I give the floor to Mrs Bell, just to remind you that yesterday we have distributed to you the statement of the Secretary General who also strongly condemned the missile attack by the Russian Federation hitting residential and civilian infrastructure across Ukraine.
And he extended his deepest condolences to the families of all victims, but also said that directing attacks against civilians and civilians objects is prohibited by international Italian law and any such attack are unacceptable and must end immediately.
And to hear more about what has happened yesterday in Ukraine, I've given up the floor to Missus Bell.
I will begin with the attack on Omadit Children's Hospital because this is one of the most egregious attacks that we've seen since the onset of the full scale invasion.
Omat DEET is a children's specialist hospital where families from across the country bring their children for treatment of serious medical conditions such as cancer and kidney disease.
My team spent most of yesterday at the incident site yesterday speaking with medical staff, parents of children and residents that live in the area surrounding the hospital.
Analysis of the video footage and assessment made at the incident site indicates a **** likelihood that the Children's Hospital suffered a direct hit rather than receiving damages due to an intercepted weapon system.
Of course, as was said earlier, this must be investigated.
At the time of the attack, 670 child patients, mainly inpatients, were there, together with more than 1000 medical staff.
At least two children were killed, including a female doctor, and at least fifty were injured, including seven children.
Staff had moved the children to a bunker yesterday morning when the air raid sirens first went off.
Otherwise, the casualties would have been much higher.
The explosion destroyed the toxicology department, where children were receiving dialysis only minutes before the missile impacted.
The attack also damaged the intensive care, surgical and oncology wards, and 600 children have been transferred to other hospitals in Kiev city and areas in Kiev province.
This terrible attack shows that nowhere is safe in Ukraine.
Yesterday's massive attack across the country involved at least 38 different cruise missiles and ballistic rockets of various types, as well as drones in multiple waves throughout the day.
30 of the 38 missiles were reportedly intercepted.
So far, my team has verified at least 38 people, including four children, have been killed, and we've received reports that more than 190 have been injured, including at least 10 children.
Of course, we expect these numbers to rise as verification efforts continue.
Most of the civilian casualties occurred in Kiev city, the Nipro city, Kriviri, which is in the Nipro Prochasque region, as well as other parts of Kiev region.
In addition to the horrific explosion at Omatit Children's Hospital, residential and private houses, kindergarten, college, medical facility and a business centre were badly damaged and of course, with terrible civilian casualties.
For example, in Keith city, 9 civilians were killed and five injured after debris from an intercepted missile hit a medical centre.
Additionally, 3 detect transformer substations were damaged or destroyed in Kiev, which is consistent with the coordinated attacks that we've documented in recent months against Ukraine's national power systems.
I'll stop here and welcome questions.
Thank you again for the opportunity to brief.
Thank you very much, Mrs Bell.
And before I give the floor to the journalists, I just would like to leave the floor to Matthew Saltmarch for UNHCR, who also has a short update on the situation in Ukraine.
Thanks, Alessandra, and good morning, everyone.
Just to add to what we've heard, these big coordinated attacks that we've seen across the country and and notably in Kiev demonstrate I think to the outside world that the tragic war is very much continuing relentlessly in Ukraine.
This is the latest big coordinated attack, but people, homes and infrastructure are being impacted almost on a daily basis somewhere in the country.
For example, recently we've seen almost daily attacks in the Sumska region, as well as in Nipro, Petrovska, Donetska and Zapariska regions.
UNHCR, of course, very much stands with the people of Ukraine and calls for an immediate respect of international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians.
At the Children's Hospital in Kiev, we're working with our local Ukrainian partner Rokada on the site, providing psychosocial support, legal aid and also emergency shelter materials.
There's also damage in many other districts of Kiev beyond the Children's Hospital.
Reportedly at least 30 multi Storey buildings with apartments and homes, as well as power stations, factories, schools and kindergartens have been impacted.
In Neepro there was also a significant damage.
Residential buildings and medical facility and infrastructure were damaged.
Information on other damaging casualties is currently being clarified there and we're working in NEPRO with our partners Prolyska and Right to Protection, providing construction materials, psychological support and legal advice.
We've also started to provide emergency shelter materials in other parts of the country that are needed after this attack and are ramping up our cash enrollment programme.
I think in general terms though, this is a reminder that the full scale war is continuing relentlessly and the people of Ukraine must not be forgotten.
More support is urgently needed immediately, especially in view of the upcoming winter, which will make the situation so much worse for those who have already endured so much.
And just a reminder that our Ukrainian response situation response appeal, which covers refugees is only one third funded, that's of about 1 billion U.S.
And for the humanitarian response plan, which covers inside Ukraine, the 3 billion appeal is also only around 1/3 covered.
I'll hand it back to you.
Thank you very much, Matt.
And just as a quick reminder that Tariq is also online if you have questions for WHO on Ukraine in in addition to the briefing on Sudan that they will give later on.
So let's open now the floor to questions.
I'll start with Nina, Nina Larson, Miss Bell.
Nina is our correspondent for the French News Agency.
Thank you very much for taking my question for the briefing.
I was wondering when it comes to the Children's Hospital, you said, Miss Bell, that you thought or that it seemed clear that there it was a direct hit.
Have you determined, can you determine who was responsible for that direct hit?
And anything more you can say around around that attack would be helpful.
Yes, we haven't determined.
We've assessed the factors that suggest the likelihood that it was a direct hit of AKH One O 1 missile launched by the Russian Federation.
The factors suggesting that it was a direct hit are based on video footage which shows the technical specification of the type of weapon that was used.
It shows the weapon directly impacting the hospital rather than being intercepted in the air.
And thirdly, my military, our, our military expert visited the site yesterday and observed damages at the site that were consistent with a direct hit.
So, Emma Farge, Reuters, my question.
So we, we you answered 2 questions.
You want other questions from the room?
So let's go to the platform.
Bruce, the correspondent of the New York Times and then Lisa Shine, Voice of America.
If you say it requires an investigation, I'm just wondering if you are aware of of what arrangements are being made to to do that investigation and who's going to do it?
This is that investigations are ongoing both by the Kiev authorities and from the OHCHR side.
We will continue looking at the evidence and information available and we will be including findings in our next periodic report.
Lisa, Lisa Schlein, most of America.
Danielle, I'd like to just on the aspect of the direct hit on the hospital.
Russia is saying that it was a Ukrainian drone which hit the the hospital.
Would you say that this is credible or not credible?
And I've heard that Russia has, throughout this war, hit a number of hospitals.
How would you rate this particular attack against the Children's Hospital?
Is this particularly gross, cruel, horrible event?
And also, if everyone would please send their notes as soon as possible.
Thank you for your question, Lisa.
I mean, as you said, this is a horrific attack.
It's a hit on a hospital serving or treating Ukraine's most vulnerable in children with cancer, kidney disease.
We do not have the competence to make a determination on with 100% certainty whether it was a direct hit or not.
What we are saying is based on the facts that we've received so far, which are video footage that shows this type of weapon or the missile impacting the hospital and the damage to the structure being consistent with a direct hit.
And before giving the floor to Jamie, who has lots of question and Christian, I like to ask Tarek, thank you for putting the the figures in the chat, but the people in the room cannot read it.
So if you could just read what you've just put in the chat for everyone to know.
So yeah, basically I was just putting in a chat, just giving the overall figures from our WHO surveillance system for attacks on health.
As you know, we are mandated by the World Health Assembly to, to verify and to report attacks on health worldwide.
So when it comes to Ukraine, including those attacks from yesterday, we have verified 1882 attacks, 150 deaths, 379 injuries and 1624 impacted health facilities since the beginning of sorry, sorry, people here are saying it's much too fast.
So as of as of today, WHO has verified 1882 attacks on healthcare resulting in 150 deaths, 379 injuries and 1624 impacted health facilities.
Primary Health care was affected by 40% of these attacks and this obviously impedes the access to basic health services.
We also know that first responders and ambulances and ambulance workers are three times more likely to suffer harm from attacks compared to the rest of the healthcare stuff.
Since the start of the Russian Federation's force key invasion of Ukraine, on average 200 ambulances per year are damaged or destroyed in shelling attacks.
And just to remind everyone, what is the impact of, of, of, of these attacks, but also attacks on, on infrastructure, attacks on civil, civil infrastructure, particularly on energy sources and transmission centres are causing power outages and disruptions in water supply.
This increases the risk of waterborne disease outbreaks and puts at risk the surveillance system ability to detect and respond to possible outbreaks of waterborne, foodborne and other infectious diseases.
You have seen, you have seen the video, you have seen the video from that was posted by our country office, our representative Doctor Yarno habit that you know very well was also at the site of, of children Hospital and, and, and he was, he was witnessing well the shock of everyone.
But also what he was telling me when I was chatting with him is that he was impressed by by the number of volunteers who were on the spot who were ready to clean, that there was a a relocation of patients and and that health workers were calm and and trying to do their best.
OK Tarek, thank you very much.
I just wanted to ask you if you could please put these figures in as Penny, as Peter Kenny put it in the in in the chat old fashioned emails that would be useful for everyone.
And then I've got more, few more questions.
Jamie Kitten, our correspondent of Associated Press.
Alessandra, I have a question for Miss Bell and for Tarek.
My question for Miss Bell is, Madam Miss Bell, given the current state of international investigations that are taking place, what is the prospect that Russia, if it turns out the Russia or Russian forces were responsible for this attack, what is the prospect that those forces will be held to account and not just for this attack, but for any attack over the course of the the the conflict on both sides, on both sides.
That's my question for you.
My question for Tarek is, Tarek, you mentioned 150 deaths in the various attacks on healthcare, as Miss Bell mentioned, 38 up to this point directly attributable to the attack yesterday.
Just to be clear on that, would those 38 qualify as victims of an attack on healthcare?
And if so, would that make this one of the most deadly attacks on healthcare over the course of the conflict, given that it's 38 is what, roughly about 1/4 of the total that you have now?
Let's start with Miss Bell.
Thanks for the question, Jamie.
And more importantly, thank you for highlighting the criticality of accountability.
And we know accountability takes a long time.
It can take many years, as we've seen in other contexts.
So what's absolutely crucial is that we keep attention on the situation in Ukraine, on the terrible attacks that are taking place across the country every day.
And we will continue from our side the meticulous documentation that we are doing on the ground every day to ensure that accountability one day will be a reality.
But as you said, it's extremely difficult.
It will take a long time and it's absolutely crucial.
Thank you for your answer and I'll go to Tariq.
Yes, according to the to the Jamie, according to the Ministry of Health, the the information we had, there were reports of two deaths.
It was a health worker and relative of one of the hospital patients and over 50 injuries and WHO has yesterday verified in total three attacks.
So this one and two other attacks in Ukraine and with two deaths those so from the from the Children's Hospital and and others being injured.
When we talk about deaths from these attacks, that includes patients, health workers, caregivers and all those who are the site.
I see Jamie has a follow up.
Thank you very much for that.
I guess what I was trying to get at also was just if you could help us recap the different types of investigations that are going, the various prosecutorial mechanisms that are in place that could possibly get to the bottom of this and bring justice to the victims.
And and again, if I could just also, you know, mention that on both sides, I mean on both sides there are people are are there who's looking into the the the possible justice on for for victims on both sides of this country.
Of course, the Office of the Prosecutor General, as it does with all war crimes and crimes related to this carried out since the full scale invasion, has responsibility and is continuing to investigate.
There are other international accountability bodies working on the ground in Ukraine, such as the Commission of Inquiry, which has been doing fact finding across the country since the full scale invasion.
The ICC is also present in country from OHCHR.
Our role is fact finding on the ground and the work that we do with our daily monitoring and reporting ideally supports these other mechanisms that are taking place and in some cases triggers further investigation and attention.
Christian Eric, DPA German news agency.
My question is either to Miss Bell or to Tariq.
Can you tell us a little bit about the, the, how the hospital is now functioning?
If you say that the intensive care, was it, the oncology ward was it what's going to happen to the children who were in a bunker and come back out now?
Maybe I'll start and maybe people can can add on.
We interviewed the chief of the Chief Medical Officer yesterday and again this morning to find out what what happened to the 670 children.
600 children have been transferred to other healthcare facilities in different parts of Kiev city and the other seventy were outpatients.
But of course, what the issue is, is these children required specialised care and it may be a challenge to provide it.
We have heard from the medical authorities that the children that have been transferred do have medical treatment, they have their medicine now, but perhaps the colleagues might have some more to add on.
I don't know if Tariq wants to add something on this.
I was going to I was trying to see if UNICEF was connected, but I don't think it's the case.
So I don't know if Tarek you want to add something on that.
No, no, it's, that's just complete information.
I I received from our representative Doctor Fabitoul was on the scene that, that there was a quick relocation, an efficient relocation of of patient.
We have offered together with other but UNICEF and and others to provide assistance if if assistance is, is is required by the by the hospital.
Christian, you have a follow up.
My hospital is out of action now.
Is that, do I understand that correctly if 600 patients were moved elsewhere or is it so damaged that it can't be used anymore?
Or are these 600 children going to come back?
Danielle, you, you were, you were, you were on the spot.
So maybe you have more information.
We've heard that all of the children have been transferred because the the hospital, it's just been hit with a very large weapon.
There's extensive damage, there's debris, there's so much damage.
The children have been transferred.
Of course, I'm sure there'll be efforts on the ground to quickly repair it as soon as possible, but I'll leave that to WHO and the experts to speak to in more detail.
Launch Radio France International, that was the same question.
So we have an answer here.
Antonio Brotto, Spanish news agency.
Yes, My question is for Tariq.
I would like to know if the statistics you mentioned about 1800 attacks, all these attacks are Russian attacks.
We do not have mandate nor we have expertise to determine the, the, the, the cause or the perpetrator.
So the, the, what WTO is doing is, is verifying that actually there was attack on a healthcare, whether it's an ambulance, whether it's a health centre, whether it's a hospital, whether it's a health, health workers.
But we do not investigate who is a perpetrator.
Mrs Badly want to add something on that.
Yes, First, the numbers that have been shared with by WHO are entirely consistent with the information that we've documented and been reporting on.
When it comes to these types of attacks, it's it's very difficult to determine exactly what where they came from.
What we do document is where the attacks take place and the vast majority of the attacks have taken place in government controlled territory, although there has been some damage on health facilities also recorded in occupied territory.
I don't see other questions if this is the case, Missus Bella, I would like to thank you very, very much for for this important update.
Tarek stays with us because as I said before, we have an item to discuss with him.
And I don't know if your colleague is already connected, but maybe not yet, Tarek, but we still have one other from OHP chart.
Hi, Alexandra, and hello to everyone you have seen in the preview.
We wanted to have Doctor Rick Brennan, our regional emergency director for Eastern Mediterranean region.
I was just chatting with him.
Unfortunately, he's meeting the minister.
So he is he's not he will not be able to join today.
So we will we I will share his notes with all of you and we promise that we will have Doctor Brennan one of the next you are in the meeting in the meeting in the meeting in OK, thank you very much So, but stay anyway tuned because there might be more questions for you.
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So Jeremy is also with us to tell us about the situation in Yemen, in particular the situation of the UN NGO staff detained.
I would just like to remind you that yesterday we got some positive news from Yemen, where the Office of the Secretary General Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Krundberg, said that the negotiations held in Oman over the weekend led to a significant breakthrough where the Yemeni parties reached an understanding on releasing Mohammed Katan, A prominent politician who has been held incommunicado by the hoodies in 2015.
There were other also agreements about names of detainees to be let go and arrangements pertaining to the release of Mr Katan.
However, Mr Grunberg called on the parties to agree on more release operations and repeated the demand for the immediate and unconditional release of UN personnel and aid and civil society workers who were arbitrarily detained in Sana and continue to be held incommunicado.
And on this, Jeremy has more.
We remain extremely worried about the well-being of 11 UN staff and the number of NGO employees who have been detained for over a month now by the Answer Allah de facto authorities in Yemen.
We continue to be refused access to them.
We also remain particularly concerned by the situation of two other UN staff members who were already in prolonged detention, one since November 2021 and the other since August 2023.
We emphatically ****** the shocking allegations publicly broadcast levelled against our staff and we urge the de facto authorities in Sana to immediately and unconditionally release them.
Our office calls on those States and entities with influence over Answer Allah to use it to secure the safe and prompt release of all detained UN and NGO staff.
We are also deeply worried about the conditions in which they are being held.
It is crucial that the de facto authorities ensure that those detained are treated with full respect for their human rights and that they are able to contact their families and legal representatives.
Further targeting of human rights and humanitarian workers in Yemen must cease immediately.
I might just add, this morning, just this morning, the **** Commissioner told us that he starts and ends every day thinking about these detained staff and that they must be released now.
Thank you very much, Jeremy, for this update.
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The Human Human Rights Council resulted in three meetings on the following country situations.
Libya with the **** Commissioner for Kotok.
This has started this morning at 10 AM the Central African Republic with the independent expert on this country, Yao AK Betsy, starting at 11:30 soon and then Ukraine, the **** Commissioner took will intervene and that is going to start at 5:00 PM.
The Council is also holding this afternoon at 3A panel discussion on best ways to implement recommendations from the UPR mechanism.
Tomorrow morning at 10:45, the Council will discuss the human rights situation in Colombia.
And starting tomorrow afternoon, the Council will take action on 26 draught decisions and resolutions put forward by member states until the end of the session scheduled on late Friday afternoon.
A total of 30 amendment proposals have been submitted.
And for more details, of course, you can always contact them since I'm finishing with human rights.
And then we will go to the hurricane.
I just wanted to also remind you that the Human Rights Committee will begin this afternoon.
It's review of the report of Maldives and the Committee Against Torture, which opened yesterday, Its 80th session is beginning this morning, the review of the report of Ecuador.
And and that's it for my announcement on human rights.
So now let's go with Vanessa to the situation in with the hurricane burial and the responsible humanitarian community.
So I have a very short update for you today on the response after hurricane burial, our team, OCHA team and our United Nation disaster assessment and coordination team and that are on the ground and supporting the effort on national authorities partners and the response.
Right now the response efforts are focusing in Grenada on Cariacou, but it Martinique in Northern Grenada, in Saint Vincent and Grenadines, on Bekia, Canuan, Mehu, Moustique and Midland Saint Vincent and in Jamaica.
It's really the South and coast that has been most affected and particularly the parish of Clarendon, Manchester, St Catherine and Saint Elizabeth.
The first assessment indicate that shelter, food, health, water and sanitation are the key needs identified so far in Jamaica.
Initial report points to continued rain and debris obstructing access and delaying aid delivery and assessment.
We also had a joint visit to the South and western part of Jamaica by OCHA, UNICEF, World Food Programme AO our WANDEC team.
We met with families and again the same need arise which is water, food, reconstruction, supplies for their homes and also psychosocial support.
So the assessments are still continuing.
But the worries with the logistic that have been damaged, power and Commission communication services.
We also had the reports that on some of the islands the airstrip have been damaged.
So the only way to reach some islands is to go with smaller boats, which is further hampering the logistic efforts.
But of of course also the response and the the assessment.
Despite all these challenges, aid is picking up and our colleagues are also telling us that the removal of debris is a big priority, as you know, after all the damages.
And if I have any more updates, I will come to you.
But for now, it's what I have.
Thank you very much, Vanessa.
Let me see if there's any question to utter in the room or online.
And before we leave the issue of the climate and the situation with a humanitarian situation, I have an update for you from the World Food Programme.
And this is about the draught fuelled by a strong and new event which is threatening food security for millions of peoples across Southern Africa.
So we've moved to Southern Africa, but still on climate and humanitarian situations.
Our colleagues from the World Food Programme are telling us that shifted rainfall partners and long dry spells during the critical planting season left large part of the region with insufficient rainfall and above all, average temperatures.
This combination of factors wiped out half the expected crop production in Malawi and Zambia and nearly all of Zimbabwe's crop, with 80% of the expected harvest decimated Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe declared national draught disasters.
Others are expected to follow as the full severity of the crisis unfolds.
World Food Programme field offices are reporting that the household granaries are empty and that maize, the region most important crop and the most common source of calories, is now priced out of many people's hands.
This is a situation we expect will worsen given production shortfall and wingling supplies.
The hunger crisis is long drawn at this impact wider as more and more families are forced to make survival decisions.
Children and women face heightened protection risks.
There is need for a comprehensive and multi sectorial response.
So the response that's coming from the World Food Programme is that they first of all, they, they, they welcomes the role played by various governments in driving coordinated multi sectorial actions, expanding existing national protection schemes with the support of partners.
This government LED responses will cover a part of the needs.
However, coordinated collaboration among humanitarian and development partners is essential to immediately scale up the response that it's urgently required to avert large scale loss of life.
WFPN Partners triggered anticipatory action unlocking payouts worth $14 million for half a million people across four countries of Lesotho, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
These funds enable early action to improve global sources and disseminate warning messages.
Governments have also requested World Food Programme to provide direct assistance and on demand services in transport, logistic and food procurement.
In response, WFP is scaling up to provide emergency food and nutrition support to 5 million people between now and March 2025.
And the conclusion from WFP is that approximately 409 million U.S.
dollars is needed immediately to support approximately 4.8 people, million people in the most impacted countries, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
So this message is coming as I said from the World Food Programme.
Ishita could not be reading and being with us today.
But of course she is available should you need further information on this dire situations in in these three countries.
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I was wondering if Tariq is still online.
If not, I'll reach out to him directly.
I was wondering if you're going to contact Mr Rick Brennan, if he could also provide the latest information from EMRO on the number of children who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Gaza.
This continuing reports of very, very dire images coming out of Gaza, reminiscent of what we saw in Yemen a few years back.
If you could give us the number of children that are being treated for severe acute malnutrition and are you successful in getting some out of Gaza for treatment in neighbouring countries?
It's really pity that that Doctor Brennan was was was not able to to join because obviously he would be answering some questions on Gaza as in his position of regional director.
He's covering all the all the crisis and there are so many crisis in Eastern Mediterranean.
What I have here is that according to the Ministry of Health, 34 people have died of malnutrition and dehydration so far and then Kamaladwan hospital alone, 60 cases of severe acute malnutrition were detected last week and two patients admitted to the stabilisation centre.
You, you remember Kamaladwan is, is a paediatric hospital that is partially functioning.
So, so yes, indeed the situation is very difficult.
I think we, there was no evacuation since we had the evacuation of cancer patients that was led by Saint Jude Hospital.
And now we, we, we, we, we keep appealing for opening of all crossings into Gaza.
More than 10,000 people need to receive specialised medical care outside of Gaza.
These people cannot wait.
We need the we need to have them get out and receive the care.
This is really question of life and death for many of them.
Tariq Kasiam has a question.
Derek, just if you could give an idea, 30 or so children have died directly from malnutrition.
But do you suspect that the children who have died from malnutrition indirectly is much higher, for example, making them more vulnerable to disease or maybe not surviving the war injuries?
Can you give us, like, a rough idea of the scale and tell us how malnutrition can **** indirectly?
Well, indeed, we, it's really difficult to have exact figures, but but number of deaths that are not directly related to, to, to, to shelling, to bombardment, people who don't have access to their and it's not only about children.
So that you are really talking about everyone in Gaza who doesn't have access to basic health services, pregnant women who can't get a prenatal care, people who have diabetes, people who have cancer, people who have had hypertension, who may not have access to their treatment, injured people who are not treated on time, children who are living in a very difficult conditions with no access to clean water, with no access to sanitation, with increase of water bond diseases.
So it's really difficult to give a number, but everyone is at risk of, of getting sick and eventually dying because we, you have all these, all these factors and malnutrition is, is definitely one of the factors that reduces the immunity, especially at the vulnerable population, elderly and, and children who then can't really cope with the, with the, with the any disease, any, any pathogen that they can get.
So it's really it's a vicious circle of, of not having access to enough of food to clean water, to clean sanitation, not having access to basic health services.
And again, with so many injuries due to bombardment and and military operations.
We are just looking into, into, to into everyone in Gaza facing increased risk of of, of, of having health, health issues.
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I will, I will send the notes just in case.
May find some of the information useful.
If there is any further interest, contact us.
And we will definitely try to get Doctor Brennan and he, he asked me when, when would be the next time we could we could have him.
So we'll try to to get him.
But in the meantime, we will send the notes because there are some figures there that could be of interest.
So, but just to be very clear, this is about the the situation of Sudanese refugees in every neighbouring countries of Sudan.
So thank you very much to you all.
Just a reminder that we have distributed the message of the Secretary General for World Population Day, which is commemorated on the 11th of July and where the Secretary General reminds us that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population Development Programme of Action.
And central to this programme of action is the recognition that women's sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights are cornerstones of sustainable development.
Secretary General reminds the progress that have been done, but also the challenges and concludes by saying, as the theme of this year's World population there reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions and driving process progress.
I urge countries to make the most of the summit of the future this year to unleash affordable capital for sustainable development.
And you have this in your e-mail.
Thank you very much and have a nice day and I'll see you on Friday.
