 مرحباً my name is Jacques de Maillot and the head of the international community of the Red Cross I have come many times to Gaza in the past 25 years but I have never seen such a devastation so much blood, so much destruction I have never seen so much blood I have never seen so much fear and tears in the eyes of the man, the woman and the children my heart and the heart of all the 140 people Palestinians and the foreigners who are working here is full with grief for the loss of our beloved ones I have come many times to the Red Cross 140 of them are in Gaza they are working in Gaza because of the great loss that has gone to Gaza the power is great and we are coming here at the crucial time for Gaza I want to express the condolences of the international community of the Red Cross for all the people who died and who are dying as we speak I am also here to ask a question Who is responsible for the blood? Who is killing? Who has the power to stop the killing? I am here to ask the Palestinian people with whom the ICRC has been working for the past 50 years all over the world from Palestine to Kuwait to the Maghreb to the whole of the Middle East I am going to ask them to open your eyes before the Palestinians who have known us for many years and have been working with them in Kuwait and in the Maghreb I want to ask them to open their eyes what we are facing as a humanitarian operator is a very challenging time all these discussions all these communications all these conferences about the respect of the Geneva Conventions all these commitments by the states by the parties to the conflict to respect the laws of war and the principle of humanity in war I am asking you where are they now where are these words now they are not in the blood and they are not in the tears of your people and of our people there is a lot of expectation for you and for the rest of the world because you are tired and you are suffering for the rest of the world you are dying هناك فالتاكة ثانية و بتحديد من جنة الدولية كثيرا المنتهيين يطلقوننا بنا لتتسأل بالوصول كثيرا المنتهيين يطلقوننا بنا to stop the war كثيرا المنتهيين يطلقوننا بنا to stop the shelling of the house و لا نستطيع of doing that كثيرا الناس يطلقوننا لتساولهم من ربلاتهم من their house under shelling ولكن نحن نحاول أن نفعل ذلك، ولكن لا نستطيع أن نحاول أن نجاح في كل الوقت والناس ينظرون إلى الأوقات التي نفشفها والذي يجب أن يجعل أمور الأمور من الناس who are under fire ولكن ما نحاول أن نفعل هنا is to try and save people under the given circumstances in the real situation لذا أنا أخبركم الناس بلسطين يمكنكم أن تستطيع أن تحرقنا لن يستطيع أن تتوقع الوضع أو لن يستطيع أن تتوقع الوضع أو لن يستطيع أن تقرأ بكل ما you expect ولكن لا تتأكدنا لأننا لا نحاول أن نفعل ذلك ولكن لا تتأكدنا لأننا لا نستطيع أن نحاول أن نجاح في حق أهم for you في قبل قليل لدينا نحن مستويد المال لأن نقوم بضع أكثر من مليون نحن لدينا أكثر من إمكاناتك في أسفك نحن نساعدة المساعدة لأننا أخبرنا مئة مئة من الناس who would otherwise be dead now نحن نتواجد في هذه المحاولة نحن always hear from us that we call on the parties to respect the laws of war and we are doing this today and every day and we will continue this until war exists but today I'm asking the Palestinian people the mothers, the fathers the Imam I'm asking the journalists to respect our work to help us help you because we are in this together because we are also losing people we are losing sons and brothers I wish we could have a feast in better circumstances and I have been knowing the Palestinian people for more than 30 years now and I know that you are strong people and that in these testing hours you will know who is your friend and who is your enemy and I know that there is a lot of despair and sorrow and I also know that you are capable of hope we want to be part of that hope شكرا okay let's talk about the evacuation first our policy is very clear it is written down in the laws of war as they exist today and as they have been built over thousands of years civilians must be spared and protected that means that nobody should endanger them and no matter what they should not be targeted so we are not in the business of evacuating civilians from their homes we are in the business of ensuring that they are protected in their homes when there are cases like a sick or injured or a pregnant woman or a humanitarian case we do indeed evacuate and we have been doing so for hundreds of people over the past days but we will not be part of a process that removes a population for its homes to facilitate a military operation or to continue to have them in the line of fire and the situation in Gaza where military targets and civilians are so close to one another does not exonerate the parties from their responsibility this is for the evacuation the next thing is about the coordination what is coordination it is about asking both parties to ensure that the people who need help can be reached and that they can be taken out from a given place or that a service can be provided in a given place it is an effort to get from both parties the commitments that are going to respect the ambulance or to respect the human access it is a service to provide for the people who need help to ensure that the people who need help can be provided in a given place and they can be provided in a given place and they can be provided in a given place if the people say no what can we do and if they say yes and then they betray the very word what can we do and this is what has happened yesterday we coordinated to go to one place and we paid the price of blood and we do not accept to be accused of being responsible for the death of our own so when it comes to coordination again look at who is responsible we are responsible for doing the best we can but we cannot be held responsible if somebody shoots at us I don't want to take a laugh I want to inform the Palestinian people that some people are calling hospitals police stations municipalities schools pretending to be ICRC I want to inform the Palestinian people that there are some people who are spreading false rumors against the ICRC some people are calling hospitals municipalities schools saying that they belong to the ICRC and that they are spreading false information about evacuations this is completely false you should not trust everybody that says is from the ICRC and you should beware from the people that want to bring harm to the ICRC thank you