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2023-10-24 14:34:00
Amal Allam wrote Tuesday, October 24, 2023 05:34 PM confirmed Global Health OrganizationIt is still unable to distribute fuel and basic health supplies necessary to save lives in major hospitals in northern Gaza due to the lack of necessary security guarantees, calling for an immediate ceasefire for humanitarian reasons so that health supplies and fuel can be safely delivered to all parts of the Gaza Strip.
Among the facilities awaiting the organization’s supplies and fuel in northern Gaza is Al-Shifa Hospital, whose bed occupancy rate has approached 150%. As for the Indonesian Hospital, it was forced yesterday to stop some vital services due to a lack of fuel, and it is now operating with limited capacity. There is also the Turkish Friendship Hospital. It is the only oncology hospital in the Gaza Strip, which is no longer fully operational due to a lack of fuel, putting regarding 2,000 cancer patients at risk.
In addition to the hospitals that were forced to close due to damage and attacks, six hospitals have so far stopped operating across the Gaza Strip due to fuel shortages. Unless critical supplies of fuel and more health supplies are quickly delivered to Gaza, thousands of patients will die. The vulnerable will be threatened by death or medical complications due to the cessation of vital services due to the lack of electricity. Among these, there are 1,000 patients who depend on dialysis, 130 premature babies who need different forms of care, and patients in intensive care or who need surgery, and their survival depends on Availability of electricity.
Yesterday, the organization, with support from UNRWA, delivered 34,000 liters of fuel to four main hospitals in southern Gaza and to the Palestine Red Crescent Society to support the ambulance services it provides, but this quantity is only sufficient to continue the operation of ambulances and vital functions in hospitals for 24 hours or A little more.
Some of the medicines and health supplies provided by the organization were received by four major hospitals in southern Gaza, as well as the Palestine Red Crescent Society, for distribution to two of its health facilities and ambulance crews. The WHO teams delivering the supplies say health workers were so relieved that the supplies arrived, taking boxes of them from trucks directly to operating rooms where doctors were performing surgeries without anesthesia or other basic surgical supplies.
The people of Gaza are living in a miserable situation, and it will reach the point of disaster unless more fuel, health supplies and humanitarian aid can continue to be delivered safely. The organization reiterates its call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in order to safely deliver health supplies and fuel to all Gaza hospitals.
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2023-10-24 11:01:47
More than 700 military personnel from around the world mobilized once morest illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, during the Multinational Maritime Authority Exercise GALAPEX II 2023. Between September 18 and 30, representatives of navies and guards coastal areas of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States, France, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Peru, United Kingdom and the European Union, trained in the city of Salinas and in Santa Cruz (Galapagos Islands) , in Ecuador.
Activities included maritime interdiction, boarding, tactical maneuvers and communications. The objective was to “strengthen operational capabilities, maintain interoperability and strengthen collaborative ties,” the Ecuadorian Navy, host of the exercise, reported in a statement.
The participants formed a Multinational Task Force to combat IUU fishing in waters surrounding the Galapagos Islands.
Rear Admiral Oscar Novoa, commander of Naval Operations of the Ecuadorian Navy and commander of the GALAPEX II 2023 Multinational Task Force, recalled that the Galapagos Islands were declared a Natural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 1978, for their unique biodiversity in the world.
“However, our enchanted islands also face considerable challenges, such as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, which threatens migratory marine species and the biodiversity of the region,” said Rear Adm. Noboa at the opening ceremony. “Hence, the primary objective of this exercise lies precisely in addressing this problem and devising concrete strategies to confront it more effectively.”
The multinational force was made up of a frigate from the Peruvian Navy, two ships from the US Coast Guard and six surface units from the Ecuadorian Navy, as well as two naval aero units from the Naval Aviation Command.
“GALAPEX 2023 is not only a naval exercise. “It is a testament to the ability of nations to come together in the fight once morest common threats and to protect our environment,” said Rear Adm. Noboa.
“It is important that the security and defense forces do this type of exercises, to have practice in coordinating operations and share learning and methodologies. In this way, experiences are shared that have taken each of the forces many years to acquire,” he told Dialogue Milko Schvartzman, expert in marine conservation and IUU fishing at the Argentine NGO Círculo de Políticas Ambientales
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In the first four days of the exercise, the phase called Work Up (Preparation), with combined communication maneuvers 24 hours a day and tactical training (monitoring of surface units), reported the Argentine site Military zone.
Then came the Scenario phase, where the different participating units carried out a cooperative and non-cooperative approach exercise. “In this stage, a collision circumstance was simulated of a ship located in the strip of sea adjacent to the territory where inspections are carried out as part of the routine procedures, as well as responsibility as a maritime authority,” he concluded. Military zone.
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In his speech to the participants, Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander of the Ecuadorian Navy Sebastián Gallardo Romero, warned regarding the threats of IUU fishing. “It is well known that IUU fishing activity in the sector is present through a foreign flag fishing fleet, which normally travels throughout the Southern Cone, from the coasts of Argentina to the coasts of Costa Rica in the north,” said Capt. from Corb. Gallant.
According to the official, last year alone more than 250 vessels fished off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador. Likewise, between January and December 2022, approximately 400 vessels were seen sailing from west to south of the Galapagos Islands, of which only regarding 180 transmitted their identification daily. These vessels put at risk the more than 7,000 endemic species of the Galapagos Islands, including the hammerhead shark, essential for the region’s ecosystem.
“Our proposal [es] of union and coordinated work with the rest of [las] armed forces, so that in the future there will not be a single naval unit that is protecting these resources, which at the end of the day belong to humanity, and that the materialization of a multinational maritime task force is the appropriate response to these acts,” concluded Chap. from Corb. Gallant.
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2023-10-24 11:28:56
The Minister of National Defense, Yaşar Gulerand their counterparts Zakir Hasanov of Azerbaijan and Sherali Mirzon of Tajikistan attended the “Select Observer Day” of the military exercise “Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 2023” at the Centenary of the Republic of Türkiye, held by the Armed Forces of Türkiye and Azerbaijan.
The missions carried out during the “Distinguished Observer Day” held at the military training zone near the capital Baku were literally real war scenes.
The maneuver began with the fall of the enemy positions to the Turkish and Azerbaijani commando troops. Turkish F-16 aircraft destroyed representative enemy air defense units.
In the exercise, in which tank units attacked enemy positions following firing with missile and artillery units, Bayraktar TB2 armed drones destroyed the enemy’s representative missile systems “Iskendar” and “Tochka-U” with precise fire. Turkish and Azerbaijani special troops apprehended high-level commanders carrying out landings behind the enemy.
The military maneuver, which has 3,000 personnel, 130 tanks and armored vehicles, 100 cannons and missile systems, 20 airplanes and helicopters, is carried out in Baku, Nakhchivan and the region liberated from the invasion.
Tomorrow the “Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 2023” exercise will end, which aims to increase interaction and coordination between the Turkish and Azerbaijani armies.
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