Welcome to the press briefing of the UN Geneva.
Here is today is Friday, 19th of July.
We will start immediately with Babar.
I think Babar is the first time I have you on the podium since you came back second.
And you have an update on the situation in Afghanistan for the flood hit communities, Please, you have the floor.
Thank you very much, Alessandra.
Happy Friday to all of you.
We have an update from Afghanistan unit CR.
The UN Refugee agency is supporting humanitarian of efforts in Afghanistan after Monday's rainstorm and heavy flooding in the country, central and eastern regions that left at least 40 people dead, more than 340 injured and many more displaced.
Many roads, bridges, homes and public buildings have been damaged or destroyed.
Sadly, it is expected that figures will rise when more areas become accessible to rescue and assessment teams.
Afghanistan is among the country's most exposed to weather conditions, extreme weather conditions and natural disaster.
It is also one of the least prepared to adapt to the impact of climate change following four decades of conflict, insecurity and instability.
The latest floods follow on the heels of devastating flash flood just few months ago in May, which hit large areas of northern, northeastern and western Afghanistan, killing and injuring nearly 700 people, with widespread damage then to infrastructure, homes and agricultural lands as well.
In response to these latest flash floods and storms this week, joint humanitarian assessment teams, including ours as unit CR and partners have been deployed to the affected areas to determine the impact humanitarian needs and to identify families in need of aid.
Many areas are still inaccessible due to damaged roads and bridges.
Initial estimates suggest thousands of people were affected in the severely hit provinces of Nangarhar, Larman and Kunar.
Some of the worst hit areas are in districts with **** numbers of displaced Afghan and refugee returnees who have recently returned or who have returned in the past where UNICR had been working with others to provide protection and essential services.
UNICR plans to strengthen its existing services to provide mental health and psychosocial support to the flood affected people.
8 interagency humanitarian emergency teams have been deployed in Nangarhar province and six teams in Lagman and Kunnar provinces including Uniciar and our partner staff.
More teams will travel to affected areas in coming days as overall assessment of damage and loss of life is ongoing.
Unit CR has pre positioned stockpiles of emergency and relief items which could be made available for distribution as soon as needed.
The recent flooding incidents are increasing vulnerabilities faced already by the struggling population who have issues to access services.
Afghanistan remains one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with nearly 24 million people estimated to need aid and support during 2024.
Since the beginning of this year in 2024, the UN estimates more than 145,000 people have been affected by natural disasters throughout Afghanistan, with 33 out of 34 provinces experiencing some kind of natural disaster during this.
I understand needs continued attention and support from the international community.
Unity and other humanitarian operations in the country remain severely underfunded.
Thank you very much, Babar.
Any question, Robin, Thank you.
Just just on that final point, do you have the the money that you need in order to to carry out this, this work that?
The needs that we have in the country at least for us for unit CR is more than 200 million that we need for this year so far.
I mean, in July, we are only 44% funded and I assume it's the same on all other sectors and agencies as well.
That's why the appeal to 1 to highlight the situation of ones are in Afghanistan, but also seeking international solidarity and support globally to continue this important work in there.
And hello, nice to see you back at the Geneva coalface.
Could you just tell us what is the current UNHCR strength in Afghanistan?
To what extent you know the UN presence there has been tapped down?
As a result of the international sanctions against.
The the Taliban government.
And secondly, could you also just update us on?
The number of people who have returned to.
Afghanistan from Pakistan and.
Various sort of transit camps.
And refugee camps, that's receiving them.
UNICR has maintained presence in the country throughout the last four decades as Avarans have needed our support and we are very much there even now.
And we have presence in almost all parts of of of the country since the Defecto authorities took over.
Remember there is no widespread conflict as it used to be.
But sadly the humanitarian situation has not stabilised so far, so more is needed rather than than less.
And And sorry Nick, I forgot the second part of your question.
Asking you about the the returns.
Essentially from Pakistan and and what is the stage?
Where they are and and what kind of funding is available.
So since last year October when Pakistan announced a drive asking all undocumented foreigners to to leave, more than 600,000 Afghans have returned back to to Afghanistan.
Those movements has slowed down for for now.
**** Commissioner Grandi was in Pakistan just last week, meeting the highest level of leadership in in Pakistan, but also visiting refugees and their hosts and also those that have recently arrived after the de facto authorities took over control in Afghanistan in 2021.
Remember, I mean, for the last more than two decades since the Taliban left first time in 2001, we saw big numbers of Afghans returning to to to Afghanistan in the range of nearly 6,000,000 that were refugees and and went back home.
So refugees want to return home when it's possible.
Our ask is where they are being hosted is refugees should not be pushed or pressured to, to to go go back and it just according to their will when they think conditions are right for them.
And as we have been warning, you know, Afghanistan currently has more than 3 million people who are displaced inside the country.
Almost half or more than half of its population needs humanitarian assistance.
So these return movements have to slow down to give people a breathing space.
Lisa Shrine, Voice of America.
I don't need to tell you who the people are from.
Yeah, a couple of questions.
First, you say 44% of your appeal has been funded.
What is the total amount of money that you you're you're asking for and then you?
Fighting has gone down, but the human rights situation is not stabilised.
Also know that the situation.
With women, discrimination against them continues to be discreet, so I am wondering whether the this terrible situation which continues will obstruct your efforts to help the people in Afghanistan get out of this critical natural disaster situation.
Rights situation continues.
Thank you very much, Lisa.
The funding that we need for this year is around 215,000,000 just for, for people inside Afghanistan.
And when we do, when we come out with the funding appeals in the start of the year, you know, so this is, this is without the forecast of what's going to happen next.
And natural disasters like this also affect the, the, the situation in, in terms of human rights and issues linked with women inside the country still remain really, really worrying.
But for our emergency response, we haven't seen any hindrances from the de facto authorities.
They are in charge on the ground.
We have to work with them.
They have to ensure our security and all of the humanitarian workers in, in, in, in the country.
So, so we depend on them in terms of our movements and providing humanitarian support on the ground.
Thank you very much, Babar.
And let me add, Lisa, that the appeal, the humanitarian appeal for Afghanistan, the total appeal for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan is $3 billion.
And to date, we have only received 720 million, which is less than a.
So that's the UNHCR appeal and the global humanitarian appeal, and Yancey's here, if there's any.
Further question on this.
To thank you very much Baba.
I have a question on Sudan No.
But for the moment, let's keep questions on Afghanistan and Sudan.
We will talk about it later on.
We have colleagues waiting in Gaza in, in Amman, in.
Would you mind to wait that when we speak about.
Sudan, I don't have an update, but I I can get it for you from colleagues.
Thank you very much and if you.
Have question on the Sudan.
Talks we'll talk about it in a moment OK thank you very much OK thank you Babar for.
Jeremy is here with a colleague of he's Ajit Sungai or Sunjai.
I'm the head of the Office of the Human Rights **** Commissioner in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Ajit, I think you are coming in, you're calling in from Amman and you have done a recent visit to the Gaza Strip.
So we will hear from Jeremy and then give you the floor.
Yes, good morning, everyone, and thanks, Alessandra.
Over the past week, the people of Gaza have been subjected to a renewed wave of deadly Israeli air strikes and ordered to move yet again to suppose it's safe players, safe places that are anything but safe.
Since the 12th of July, 503 Palestinians have been killed, mostly in central Gaza, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
Three mass casualty incidents on the 13th and 14th of July in the AL Mawasi area in Khan Yunus and the Ashati refugee camp West of Gaza City, and an Anra school at Anasarat killed over 124 people and left hundreds more injured.
These attacks have been followed by further strikes on the 15th and 16th of July, which struck an Anurag school in Al Ramal, Gaza City, another Anurag school in Nuzrat camp, Middle Gaza, and a street in Al Moasi in Khan Yunus, killing 59 Palestinians and injuring at least 76 others.
Israel's evacuation order on the 9th of July, 1 of the largest since October 7, has forced families into an impossible choice yet again.
Stay amid active hostilities or risk fleeing to areas still subject to attack and with hardly any space or services.
Nowhere is safe for people in Gaza.
Not the roads, not shelters, not hospitals, not the unilaterally declared so-called humanitarian zones.
We are also seeing the outcome of Israel's dismantling of local capacity to maintain public order and safety.
There is looting, mob justice, extortion of money, family disputes, random shootings, fighting for space and resources, and we see youths armed with sticks manning barricades.
The creation of these conditions has led to the predictable and entirely foreseeable unravelling of the fabric of society in Gaza, setting people against one another in a fight for survival and tearing communities apart.
The **** Commissioner for Human Rights stresses once again that the violence must end, there must be a ceasefire and the hostages must be released.
Reconstruction of Gaza must begin and the occupation must end.
Accountability must be served and the internationally agreed 2 state solution must become a reality.
At this point, I'd like to hand over to Ajit Ajit Sungai, the Head of our Palestine office, who, as Alexandra just said, has just just returned from Gaza.
Colleagues, yesterday I returned from Gaza where I spent a couple of weeks working under the broader Protection Cluster, a broad based group comprising UN agencies local.
And international non governmental organisations with protection mandates in both the Gaza Strip.
And West Bank, It pains me.
To report the picture there is even worse than.
When I last joined the press briefing just over a month ago, the people of Gaza are suffering immensely.
It truly is desperate people are on the move.
From north to South again.
They're making the journey knowing it is fraught with danger.
Motorbike and trailer loaded with personal.
Positions smouldering on the road, there was no.
Body, but it was clear no one could.
Have survived the strike on the same.
Road I saw a ****** donkey cart, also laden with personal belongings.
Why and who carried out these attacks are not clear as people moved from.
Gaza City to Middle Gaza, I observed several humanitarian responders, including protection actors, provide urgent.
Services to the exhausted and repeatedly traumatised population at reception centres on Al Rashid.
Most people moved on donkey.
Carts and horse carts holding white flags many said that they had lost everything to due to Israeli bombing, including their homes.
One elderly woman who fled from Gaza City on 11 July.
Said her husband was detained.
By the by the Israeli Defence Forces.
She had no idea about his fate.
We're also seeing the outcome of Israel's dismantling of local capacity to maintain public order and safety in Gaza.
Our office has documented alleged unlawful killings of local police and humanitarian.
Workers and the strangulation of supplies indispensable.
To the survival of the civilian population, Anarchy is spreading.
The hostile environment due to the war.
And the breakdown in civil?
Raises enormous challenges for any meaningful.
Humanitarian response to the mammoth needs of the people In many of the makeshift IDP shelters, people struggle.
With the bare minimum of.
Daily Essentials tent tents made of plastic.
Sheets we saw in early stages of the conflict remain the only protection from the elements for thousands of Palestinians 10 months into the escalation, some informal.
Education under torpellens and plastic.
Sheets in the sweltering.
Heat has begun these nascent efforts to provide.
Education must be nurtured and supported humanitarian and human rights.
Entities are doing incredible work under impossible conditions.
While trying hard to ensure respect for diversity and inclusion local.
NGOs are supporting an IDP camp that puts inclusivity at the.
Heart of their response, fully taking on board the needs of disabled.
However, they stress that the challenges ahead of them are immense, including chronic shortages of assistive devices and funding.
Civil society groups have provided frontline protection from day one.
The need for accountability for gross human rights violations that have occurred.
One NGO mentioned that while talking.
About the day after and rubble removal seems distant and futile.
It gives them hope that this war will end and that there will be reconstruction.
Rights of the Palestinian people.
Occupation women's rights organisations shared information about sexual.
And gender based violence.
Including in Israeli detention, but stressed that there is no space to talk about.
Ongoing I heard accounts of women committing suicide due to their desperate living conditions and the terrible deterioration of mental health the continued attacks by Israel, the.
Administrative rules imposed by Israel that impede the entry and delivery of daily.
Essentials permit rejections.
Hostile envoyment due to the.
War and the breakdown in civil order raises enormous challenges for any meaningful humanitarian response to the mammoth.
And provide any protection travelling through Israel I've seen.
Posters all along the roads.
And messages for the release of.
Held in Gaza, the violence must end.
There must be a ceasefire and the.
Hostages must be released.
Reconstruction of Casa must begin.
And the occupation must end accountability.
Must be served and the internationally agreed 2 state solution.
Thank you very much, Ajit, and for this appalling, really appalling update.
I'll open the floor to questions in the room first.
Robin is our correspondent on the French news agency AFP.
Just a question about the, the conditions that that people are living in particularly particularly with regard to to sewage and apparently the fact that that polio is now spreading via the sewage.
Is that is that something that you are concerned about?
I don't know if you want to take this question.
Otherwise, we have colleagues from WHO?
That might want to answer.
Please, what I can say is, I mean sewage spilling and flowing is all over and this is something we have highlighted the dangers of epidemics, diseases spreading is something that we have said many times and stressed in specific on polio.
I would leave it to WHO or UNICEF.
Yes, thank you very much indeed.
Christian, you have here with you Doctor Oliver.
Rosenbauer, who's the communication officer.
I don't know if it's doctor, sorry.
Oliver Rosenbauer, communication officer for polio eradication.
So I don't know if one of you 2 can take this up.
Yeah, Thank you, Alessandra, and thank you for promoting Oliver.
I'm sure you would be happy for.
Me start with some top lines and I have Oliver with me as an as a communications.
Officer for the polio network in order to be able to maybe go more into details in into polio as such, but here's what you have so.
On 16th July, the Global Polio Laboratory Network isolated the virant poliovirus type 2.
In six environmental surveillance samples collected on 23 June from Kanunis and Deral.
Environmental surveillance sites in Gaza it's important to note that the.
From the environment only at this time and there's no.
Associated paralytic case or any cases.
Been detected as part of the.
Efforts, our colleagues of West Joe and the OPT.
Are working with the Ministry of Health, with UNICEF, UNRWA and other.
Partners to conduct the risk assessment to decide the scope of poliovirus spread.
And the appropriate responses necessary to stop any further spread, including from vaccination campaigns.
Available on routine immunisation.
In Gaza were really optimal.
Before the start of this.
Vaccination coverage is primarily primarily conducted through routine immunisation and was estimated at.
In 2023, just according to the latest WHO UNICEF routine routine immunisation estimates, which were just.
Ago also as to put some context here, currently only 16.
6 hospitals are partially functional and 45 of the 105 primary healthcare facilities operational.
Decimation of the health system.
Obstruction, constant population displacement, cramped living conditions, shortages of medical supplies.
Quality of water and weakened sanitation as also.
Just described by the colleagues.
Are decreasing routine immunisation rates and increasing.
Of vaccine preventable diseases, including.
For children and creates.
The perfect environment for diseases like polio to.
Spread to effectively mitigate.
Virus spread in Gaza, The Ministry of Health in the OPT.
Along with WHO, UNICEF, UNRWA.
And partners are urging all.
Stakeholders to support polio.
Eradication efforts by ensuring that all children.
Are vaccinated against polio at every opportunity ultimately.
The rapid scale up of immunisation activities to address.
Gaps created by this ongoing war, indeed.
In the in the OPT while polio virus was.
25 years ago this feat was achieved through diligent use of the oral polio.
Vaccination to stop transmission of poliovirus by building serological.
And gut immunity in children.
I just wanted to mention that James Elder is also online for UNICEF in case he wants to add something.
Would you like to say something more or or just see if there are further?
Thank you very much and thanks to Christian.
Nothing further to add, that's what.
We know so far, but over to the group if.
There's any any questions?
So I don't see other question on this polio, particular polio issue, but most of us is has a question.
I don't know if it's for Jeremy.
Message Israeli It's take a decision.
The establishment of Palestinian state, I don't know if you are talking about that.
And I'm I'm asking if you have some reaction about this decision.
Are you speaking about the vote that connects it?
Beginning of your question was a bit yes.
So let's say this is you want.
To like it's you want to do Zeta we.
We have a comment on the side of I don't know if you.
The Secretary General 2 days ago talked about the stake being driven through the heart of any prospect for A2 state solution.
What what his spokesperson said yesterday is that the Secretary General is very disappointed by the decision of the.
Knesset to pass a motion.
Opposing the establishment of a Palestinian state West of the Jordan River, as he has said many times, he believes that ending the occupation and negotiating A2 state solution where Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous, viable and sovereign Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security within.
Secure and recognised borders.
Based on the 1967 lines with Jerusalem as the capital.
Viable path to a sustainable.
Peace for the people of Israel and the people of Palestine.
Therefore, the motion passed for us is clearly inconsistent with the UN resolutions, international law and prior agreements, and the Secretary General once again calls on the Israelis and on all.
Anything that takes us farther away from.
The side of the IE Commissioner.
No, very well, very comprehensive.
There is Lisa still online?
Lisa Schlein, Voice of America.
Lisa, you had a question maybe for Ajit or yes, I do for Ajit.
First, good morning to you.
And would you be so good as to send us your notes?
You had a lot to say and it was hard to keep up with all of it.
That would be very good for all of us.
And I have a question regarding relief efforts that is actually getting food.
And medicine and other relief.
I have heard that that the Israelis say that actually there is a pile up of relief trucks that are inside Gaza and they they blame the lack of distribution by UN agencies to get the relief.
What is your view of the situation?
Is relief enough relief getting through?
I think it's not just about.
Bringing goods and relief items at the.
Corner of Gaza and leaving it.
There, and expecting the international community, humanitarian aid workers, UN entities to distribute.
Problem is within Gaza as well, we need permits, we need green lights for coordination of movements or notification of movements, which is.
Move humanitarian aid without security.
We cannot move humanitarian aid, so there are a range.
Issues that come with that, that impact negatively on the distribution of relief item within.
Bring in and leave the items in the corner of Gaza.
So that's where I would stop and emphasise.
Israeli authorities as the occupying power to ensure that assistance reaches those who need it the most and to create the enabling environment for the UN and partners to operate.
Gabrielle Gabrielle is our correspondent of Reuters.
Just a very quick question for Ajit.
On the dates of your visit to.
Gaza, please just, I know you returned recently, but if you could provide us with the exact dates you were there?
Between the 7th of July and.
Yesterday 18th so I returned.
I see you have a follow up about James is racist and maybe he has a something to compliment to the answer that we gave before about the humanitarian aid.
James Elder is our colleague from UNICEF.
Just to compliment what I just said, Lisa.
Yeah, it's, I think it's important to ask these.
We are aware we're looking for the kind of response we just got, but of course not to ask the questions because we're we're unsure.
I think the record is now very, very clear.
For consistency in terms of evidence, in terms of number of trucks allowed.
In in terms of obstructions.
In terms of denials, in terms of utter inconsistencies, and I think this is death.
Once we look at all these things, it becomes.
Been and there is an intentional restriction of aid going in UNRA.
Into the Gaza Strip has not been able to take a.
To the north for many, many months right now.
Of course, whilst we advocated from the highest.
More and more access points into the Gaza.
Strip air is open for 5 minutes before.
Now of course there is one Rd.
There is one single Rd coming from Kerim Shalom and that is done deliberately.
And when WFP sought to to fix another Rd that road, my understanding was was was actually was actually bombed.
So these as as Alessandra made clear, this is the legal.
Responsibility of Israel, not just to facilitate.
Aid getting in, but then to.
Facilitate the safe distribution of that none of these things have been happening for nine months, so it's just a.
Plea that we we understand.
That and we move away from, he said, she said.
The evidence is unfortunately.
Very clear and it is a disservice to Palestinians.
United Nations, those people on the ground in one of the most difficult operating environments of all time.
To think that this is somehow because there are inefficiencies on the ground.
What there are is disease on the ground and bombs from the sky and a deliberate, consistent the willingness of authorities who have the legal and military power to prevent life saving aid going into Gaza.
Thank you very much James And Christian, you also have a point on this.
I just want to add our voice to what?
Our colleagues, because it is.
Very important to get exactly what James said away from the he said.
Look at the evidence on ground.
Let journalists go into Gaza and let them see for themselves what's going on.
Compare the evidence with the words and the rest speaks for itself.
First follow up for Ajita, you were talking about anarchy in Gaza.
Could you elaborate on how?
This is manifesting itself and specifically.
Since I asked the question about the pileup of aid trucks inside Gaza, whether there is a lot of.
Looting going on, Whether?
This is also a problem that that is occurring there, and James, thanks so much for.
You too Christian always, I'd like.
Been any reference during this briefing about the situation of famine probably breaking out in in Gaza, whether children, adults are dying from this, what the food situation is and whether enough fuel specifically is getting into Gaza in order to run the hospitals and well do everything that needs to be done?
Evident when you go in there that there are.
10s of barricades as you move around, especially in Khan Eunice in northern.
Gaza, in Gaza City, these are.
People, youth with a lot of energy, not knowing what to do.
There is no law enforcement.
Has been disbanded as as I mentioned in this scenario.
Of course there is looting.
Some opportunistic, some in the north more because they're hungry and what people have been saying as.
So it is a combination of these things, but beyond that you also have.
Gaza itself, where relatively people have been living.
Without much of bombardment.
IDF and and the Palestinians within these communities there is chaos.
There's no one enforcing.
Because there is no law at this.
So this is the anarchy that we talk about.
And it's extremely dangerous as well, and we need to.
Pay attention here, we want the police to be back on the street.
Going to be very difficult indeed with two one point million Palestinian in the midst of an epic humanitarian catastrophe.
There is indeed desperation and scarcity.
Breakdown in law and order.
I will now pass the floor to James to answer Lisa's question.
Look, so in let's for famine we have to we can only lean on of course the IPC and in that most recent evaluation which was last month.
The classification still was quote.
So and that that **** risk is is the highest, highest possible margins of course, because the aid restrictions are continuing.
But yes, it has stopped short of classifying conditions as famine as we all know.
Whilst that declaration is very, very important, particularly when it comes to, I guess, to media attention and particularly, particularly funding.
Different right now because you have a man made situation on top of of course, as we've heard today very clearly, the utter devastation of water of sanitations as hospitals of all the things that may may enable aid workers to prevent reaching that catastrophic level.
The fact remains at the moment, Lisa, yes, children, children are dying based on nutritional factors, children are malnourished and then as we know, any malnourished child is 10 times more likely.
Severely malnourished child, rather, is 10 times more likely to die of a common illness and.
That sewage is flowing through places like Derry Bala, then yes, that is occurring.
And unfortunately, from my most recent visit, talking to families, many, many families don't take children who are sick with malnutrition, with diarrhoea to hospitals.
So few of those function.
Hospitals are functioning as we know, 2/3 of hospitals are not functioning in any capacity and families know taking a malnourished child who's also sick from a waterborne disease is something of a fool's errand to a hospital when you're talking about children there with the wounds of war.
Why we're seeing children die?
And right now we have a number, Lisa, of more than 14,000 children having been killed.
That number hasn't been updated for three months and that number does not not take into account children who are dying from the the the kind of causes that we're speaking about now.
Satoko Adachi Yumi Rushi Moon.
Thank you very much for doing this this question.
Jeremy, I'm wondering when are you planning to release a Leopold on the condition condition of Palestinian detainees?
Or yeah, I I can jump in.
It's the report is very close.
I'm happy to report that it it hopefully with will be within the next couple of weeks.
John 0 Costas Francois, Catherine de Lancet.
Ajit, if your office is still collecting and doing independent assessments.
Of the civilian casualties or or you've given up because of difficulty in collecting data and if you could share?
And secondly, also to James, do you have an update, James, on the number?
Of children that have died under 5 due to severe acute malnutrition from the.
And centres that you're collecting information.
We have not given up on independently verifying the.
It's extremely difficult for 100 reasons.
Communication, prioritisation, trying to get the right.
People, the partners that we work with, who are also victims of the conflict, it's not.
Easy to get them, plus just general conditions and people moving around.
But we have not given up.
I will not be able to give how far we have gone today, but I will make.
Efforts to communicate that in one form or the.
Other either in some upcoming reports or perhaps in in.
Short answer is we don't.
Just the the medical situation and the decimation of the medical situation simply simply doesn't allow for it.
But I mean, to give you a sense, UNICEF with partners on the ground was getting to a point of the sort of response, at least in the South that we wanted to see around severe acute malnutrition.
The North is much, much harder.
But in the South, we were.
With stabilisation centres in Rafa, they.
Of Rafa occurred and again, we've spoken about this before, but it's it's related to how I was speaking to Lisa's question on on why evidence matters.
We all will remember that that invasion of Rafa.
Was called a limited invasion.
Which has now meant a million people 1,000,000 out of 1.1 million people.
And so that stable those.
Stabilisation centres, John shut in an instant.
Who were being cared for at that time?
When I was last in Gaza, we were again trying to recreate and have been able to recreate one in communities.
Of families who need that support is is again spiking, but we won't have numbers at least for a couple of weeks in terms of new malnutrition rates among under fives.
Just one more question on polio for Mr Rosenbaum.
Spreading in Gaza, how could an outbreak possibly be combated in these conditions which exist on the ground at the moment?
Situation with insecurity it makes.
It all the more difficult to to.
Reach children with polio vaccination.
Following the programme long enough to know that we saw, we saw that in the outbreak situation.
In in Syria about 10 years ago, if you remember.
There's definitely much, much more complicated, I think for now.
The the the focus is on doing.
Investigations determining if there is a spread of the virus.
If so, how far is the spread and?
I think back over to you.
Yes, it's a follow up to James.
Some of these stabilizations close in an instant.
Do we know how many are still operating in Gaza and how many children?
That are being cared with.
Last count it was 11 operating.
And I don't have a number.
I'll get you a number for the last 30 days.
You know that those stabilisation.
Formal settings because of the fluid nature nature of populations and because there's just no.
Consistency in terms of where?
Attacks will occur next and so populations are moving more than stabilisation.
That is the kind of large formal response we would like most of our work.
Outreach, so I saw or even in my short time there.
Community outreach outreach projects which have a a similar role of state of stabilisation in terms of doing muack assessments and giving ready to use.
Therapeutic food, but without that additional that additional.
Layer of support for those severely acute malnourished children.
So there's a lot, there's a lot of that.
But again, that is particularly in Derry, Bala and Almawasi, and we are very, very.
Restricted in terms of what?
We're able to do in the North.
Sorry, thank you very much.
I don't see other questions on this subject.
Thank you very much Jeremy just a Christian had something more to add on a on Wolverine Day and then I will take a son to his question on Sudan Christian.
Yeah, thank you very much.
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Thank you very much, Christian.
Don't see question on this.
Lots of requesting in the chart to all the speakers to send out their notes, please as soon as possible.
Otherwise I don't see questions on this.
It's important day and event.
All those who have briefed Taha, you want to ask?
You a question about Sudan.
I've I've heard today the last.
Negotiations between two parties Sudanese Did two parties reach any agreement or compromise?
I have an update on the talks that have been taking place as you all know.
In Geneva under the UN facilitation.
So you are right, the discussions are indeed concluding today, 19th of July.
As what I can tell you is that looking back at these days, from 11th to the 19th of July, the personal envoy of the Secretary General, Ramtan the Mamre and his UN team has held a total of around 20 sessions with the party's delegation.
Both parties, as you know, these were parallel talks.
So engaging with one party at the time, the personal envoy is encouraged by the willingness of the delegations to engage with him on critical matters related to the situation in Sudan, on which he seeks the necessary cooperation of the warring parties.
He now counts on the parties to promptly translate their willingness to engage with him into tangible progress on the ground, both in the implementation of existing agreements and through possible unilateral commitments.
The discussions held in Geneva have been an encouraging initial step in a longer and complex process.
The Personal Envoy will remain in close contact with the leadership of the two warring parties.
This is what I can tell you.
On the outcome of this, of these discussions that as I said, they've not concluded yet, they're concluding.
Robin, you had a question and then I go.
Will will there likely be an update once these talks have concluded?
You mean some kind of I don't know why your mic is green and not red and I can't hear you now?
Those talks at the end of today if there might be a further update with with any possible conclusions which have been agreed.
For the moment we don't have any media opportunity planned, but it is possible that we get some kind of statement or written outcome that's possible and we will get you informed might be late tonight, but it is possible.
We'll we'll check for you Antonio.
I just want to ask if United Nations has been affected by the IT outage that.
In all the war affecting many companies and many institutions.
Sorry, I don't think I've catched what what has affected us.
Can you repeat Chipa company global cyber outage?
That's what you were asking.
Is there there is a general problem related with?
Microsoft updates that is affected.
All over the world and many airports, supermarkets, many, many, many things.
So I just want to ask if.
United Nations is affected in some way.
I don't have any information on that, but I can ask if there has been any, any effects on our operations.
But for the moment I don't have any, any on that anything on that.
I had seen another hand up but it is gone.
Let me give you the our final announcements, as usual, an update and announcement on behalf of the Human Rights Council, which asks me to announce that the 14th session of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards to the International Convention on the Elimination.
Discrimination will be held from the 22nd of July to the second of.
The meeting will take place in Room 20.
It is a public meeting, but there is no webcast, so if you want to to follow the the proceedings, you will have to go to Room 20.
The colleagues sent you an immediate advisory on Thursday afternoon, but you can contact Matt Brown if you or David Diaz Martinez if you have further questions.
No public meetings today and Monday for the Human Rights Committee and the and the Committee against.
3rd of July The Committee Against Torture will hold the public meeting with Mrs Suzanne.
President of the Subcommittee of the Prevention of Torture.
The Human Rights Committee will end its session also on the 23rd of July.
It will then publish its concluding observations regarding the country's reports.
Examined during the session which were related to Croatia, Malta, Honduras, Maldives, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic and India.
And finally, the press conference is just a reminder that on Monday 22nd of June 1st of all at 10 AM, you may remember this, the press conference of UN AIDS that Ben has UN AIDS press conference from Munich.
I think that Ben has announced to you.
A reminder also that at 11, so one hour later of Monday 2220 second of June, there will be the media launch of the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the world.
It's also called the Sofia Report.
The press conference is for you, is for the Geneva press corps, is given by Maximo Torreira, who's, as you know, the FAU chief economist.
But Please remember that the embargo.
Report goes until the 24th of July at 2:00 PM.
And finally, a press conference by the colleagues of the Office of Disarmament Affairs.
Of June at 1:15 PM, His Excellency Mr Akan Rakmatullin, who is the 1st Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Chair of the second session of the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty Preparatory Committee.
We'll brief you on the preparatory committee session that is starting on the 22nd of June.
We sent you a media advisory on this matter.
I think I have told you everything I had if there is no other question, no.
Weekend, I'm bon, appetit and mercy.
