Tom Fletcher

U.N. Relief Chief: Gaza is a man-made famine, the politics is a sideshow | CNN Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tom Fletcher, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, about the “desperate… impossible conditions” inside Gaza and what he says are the “bureaucratic impediments” preventing...

Gaza is starving.

We want to believe sustained international pressure will allow us to save as many lives as possible in Gaza. But so far we’re not seeing the scale of change we need.

My interview on @cnn.com with @camanpour.bsky.social : www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/T...

We're getting ahead of potential drought in #Guatemala – unlocking $4 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund to act before crisis peaks.

With the Government of Guatemala and partners, we’ll support over 51,000 people with cash, food and health interventions.

Thanks to Piers Uncensored for the chance to debate the reality in Gaza.

Enough of the distractions: we need to surge lifesaving aid at scale.

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There's a window now to deliver truckloads of life-saving aid in Gaza. We're mobilized to do it. And we can save lives with it. We've done it before.

Full interview on @aljazeera.com mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/nvYWRRv9…

A step in the right direction but the needs are enormous. Gaza is starving.

We need secured routes and restrictions lifted to deliver life-saving assistance – a ceasefire and full access across all border points.

My interview on @RTERadio1:
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Today - 28/07/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Spoke to BBC Today. Welcome openings on Gaza aid delivery but we need massive and urgent scale up to stop starvation and medical crisis.

From 8:10 👇

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This is progress, but vast amounts more aid needed to stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis in Gaza.

Across UN agencies and humanitarian community, we are mobilized to save as many lives as we can.

Welcome announcement of humanitarian pauses in Gaza to allow our aid through. In contact with our teams on the ground who will do all we can to reach as many starving people as we can in this window.

We need to end starvation in Gaza, get hostages home, secure ceasefire that restores hope of two state solution.

This can be done. For our part we’re relentlessly focused on practical aid delivery.

Here’s why aid isn’t getting through, and what’s needed to save lives. ⬇️

Trying to get the lifesaving convoys moving in Sudan, Gaza, Syria. Navigating disinformation, disruption and smears. Tough staffing choices. Latest interviews and podcasts. Echoes of Live Aid.

New Humanifesto 👇
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Enough. Gaza is starving. Ceasefire now. We must save as many lives as we can – and we have a plan.

My update to UN Member States on the steps necessary to stop this horror👇

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Thanks to team for their courage and humanity, in tough times. Today’s global town hall gathered thousands of colleagues to discuss the brutal choices we have had to make. Tough. For transparency we’ll release my speaking notes.

Protect the mission. @unocha.org

Whenever I despair about the world I reach back to the conversations I had with students from all over the globe at Chevening Awards earlier this month.

When they’re in charge, it will be better.

Massive surge of people returning from Iran to Afghanistan – tens of thousands arriving daily.

I’ve released $10 million from UN Central Emergency Response Fund to scale up life-saving aid and protect most vulnerable from abuse and exploitation.

Just spoken to Jonathan Whittall, our superb head of @unocha.org in OPT.

He’s in Deir el Balah, Gaza, with Israeli airstrikes intensifying. Surrounded by our team, and civilians we stay to help.

Exceptional courage and integrity on humanitarian frontline. They are best of UN.

And all of us.

Great to see you, Yasmine. Thanks for the vital work the Education Cannot Wait do to prioritize education in crises.

I met Mama Nour in Sudan in my first week in the job.
 
People like her remind me what humanitarian work is really about: courage, compassion, and never giving up.

We hold all parties to the standards of international law.

We don’t have to choose – and we must not choose – between ending the starvation of civilians in #Gaza and demanding the unconditional release of hostages.

My remarks at Security Council:

Vielen Dank an @spiegel.de für das ausführliche Gespräch. Die humanitäre Gemeinschaft arbeitet daran, Millionen von Menschen in Not zu helfen. Doch drastische Mittelkürzungen zwingen zu brutalen Entscheidungen über Leben und Tod: t.co/FEDKnaDckt

No fuel in Gaza means no hospitals, no clean water, no food.

Our statement: t.co/so4vPgy56o

Emptiness everywhere you go. No kids in school, no food in warehouses, no medicine in clinics.

What’s missing tells the story of #Haiti’s crisis.

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Thank you @newhumanitarian.bsky.social for challenging and thoughtful questions.

A chance to unpack political dynamics around this moment of flux and uncertainty for humanitarian movement. t.co/ocOgJrln2M

The cholera outbreak in Sudan is accelerating – fuelled by conflict, displacement and collapsing health and water systems.
 
I’ve released $5 million from our emergency fund UNCERF to prevent the spread.

Today's top news: Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia, Colombia

➖ #Sudan: Thousands flee hostilities in North Darfur

➖ #Ethiopia: @tomfletcherun.bsky.social fast-tracks aid for refugees and host communities

➖ #Colombia: UN inter-agency mission highlights needs, response in Catatumbo

Read more:
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Thomas Fletcher, UN-Nothilfekoordinator, zur humanitären Lage im Gazastreifen und dem Wegfall von US-Hilfen Thomas Fletcher, UN-Nothilfekoordinator, zur humanitären Lage im Gazastreifen und dem Wegfall von US-Hilfen

Wichtige Diskussionen gestern in den tagesthemen der ARD über die Dringlichkeit, jetzt lebensrettende Hilfe für die Menschen in Gaza zu leisten — und darüber, wie drastische Kürzungen der weltweiten Hilfsbudgets Menschenleben gefährden:

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Excellent discussion in Berlin with German Foreign Minister @aussenminister.diplo.de on @unocha.org and reform of the humanitarian system.

In #Ethiopia, a surge of refugees from South Sudan is stretching humanitarian response.
 
I’ve allocated $3 million from CERF, the UN Emergency Fund, to deliver life-saving help – prioritizing food, shelter & education, especially to women and children.

Kriege kosten Billionen. Ausgaben für humanitäre Hilfe für die Zivilbevölkerung sind vergleichsweise gering.

Wir fordern nur 1% der weltweiten Rüstungsausgaben 2024 – um über 100 Millionen Leben zu retten.

Mein Gastbeitrag bei @faznet:
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Excellent day in Berlin with Foreign Minister, parliamentarians and media on future of humanitarian action, and Germany’s vital support for it.

@aussenminister.diplo.de
@aa-stabilisiert.bsky.social

L'accès aux populations qui ont besoin d'aide est un élément clé de notre travail et essentiel pour sauver des vies. En RDC, cela signifie avoir accès aux routes, voies fluviales, pistes.

Alors que je termine ma visite, je salue le travail inlassable des humanitaires.