The Prince of Wales visited the British Red Cross at its headquarters in Central London where he heard about the humanitarian efforts taking place to support those affected by the conflict in the Middle East. It comes as Prince William issued a statement which called for an "end to the fighting as soon as possible," and spoke of the "terrible human cost of the conflict in the Middle East since the Hamas terrorist attack". Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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01:33 Pascal, good morning or good afternoon.
01:52 And thank you for joining us.
01:53 I'm sorry to hold you up.
01:56 I just wanted to hear a little bit about what's
01:58 going on out there, Pascal, and how you're all coping.
02:00 To admit that what I see here, it's really--
02:07 I don't even have words anymore to describe what we're seeing,
02:10 what we are hearing.
02:12 I'm doing that job for the last 30 years.
02:14 I'm head of delegation for the RCRC for more than 20 years.
02:18 I was the head of delegation in Ukraine last year.
02:20 And in many of the crises, I was in Afghanistan and Syria.
02:23 And this is something that is unprecedented.
02:29 We have a health system that is totally collapsed.
02:33 And a hospital needs not only to be protected as a structure,
02:37 but if there is a-- if you have any questions--
02:40 Thank you, Pascal.
02:43 How are you keeping spirits up in your organization?
02:46 How are you keeping people motivated
02:48 to deliver the support and the humanitarian work
02:53 you're doing in such conditions?
02:57 Because humanitarian alone, we are
03:00 the populace in such a--
03:04 Freeze, freeze!
03:05 You're under arrest!
03:06 Freeze, freeze!
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