Ambassador Riyad Mansour at the un in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the two million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ground for optimism. For example, the israelis say no way will they even countenance a stop to their Military
Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the 2 million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ground for optimism. For example, the israelis say no way will they even countenance a stop to their Military Operations until hamas provides a full list of those hostages who are
We will go to bethlehem, the birthplace of jesus christ. Public christmas festivities have been canceled in the occupied west bank city as israel intensifies it assault on gaza. We will speak to a prominent Palestinian Christian theologian in bethlehem. In United Nations Security Council is preparing to finally vote on a watered down resolution on aid to gaza after the United States repeatedly pushed for the vote to be delayed even though the u. N. Is warning more than 500,000 palestinians, about a quarter of the population, face catastrophic hunger and starvation. It is quite shameful and disgraceful because they are complicit in this genocide. They have the lives of palestinian children on their hands. This is another nakba with a genocide unfolding before our eyes. Amy plus we speak to sonia guajajara, brazils firstever minister of Indigenous Peoples. And so now we need to rebuild and strengthen Public Policies in health, education, fighting racism, and environmental racism, and bei
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