Luke Fletcher

English language teacher, tired/happy father of 2, Strollers C.C Player of Decade, West Ham fan. Retweets brother's blogs, sports chat etc to huge following.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

“We are seeing a sustained, attritional attack on the rule of law”

UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher says the UK should “stand up for international law” and that he wishes countries like the US were listening to the UN more

#BBCLauraK https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

We have mobilised full humanitarian response across region and will meet this moment.

But humanitarians are being asked to do too much with too little, while politicians pour oil on fire and boast of spending billions on war while aid budgets are slashed.

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

In Akobo, I met Bhan, now an orphan. His grandmother carried him for 7 days through the fighting to us, eating leaves.

We’ve opened up access across lines to reach them. They ask: will help come?

Don’t let politicians get away with boasting about aid cuts.

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

There are so many people out there helping their communities, trom Folkestone to DC to Gaza. We need that humanitarian movement right now.

@chefjoseandres @WCKitchen

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Critical week to get a massive surge of aid to Palestinians in Gaza. A glance of how it played out - with thanks to @ObserverUK.

https://t.co/NzaPEHBOUY

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

If these kids can - somehow - find a way to keep going, then what right have we to despair at the task ahead, or fail to stand at their side.

#Gaza

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Speaking to BBC from Gaza City today: the scale of the needs, the shift in impact we and our partners are having since the ceasefire, the mammoth task ahead.

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Day 4 at #UNGA80. ⬇️

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

The UN aid chief Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief demands Israel opens Gaza border to aid, that the world ends this age of indifference and impunity - the latest Fourcast up now https://t.co/QBWp0x7WeN

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Another alarm call. We need to get masses of food in, through all crossings, urgently. We have a plan, and the world is demanding we be allowed to do our work.

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Thanks to the courageous teams starting to get food and medicine into Gaza, against all the odds. We don’t know how long we’ll get, but we’ll save as many lives as we can with the time the world can get us.
Every truck, every life, every sack of wheat counts. Let us work.

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza.

We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work.

https://t.co/J55f8shIEU

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Here we have a senior British international civil servant of whom we can be proud. Thank you, Tom Fletcher, UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

‘Will you act to prevent genocide? Or will you say instead that we did all we could?’

UN aid Chief, Tom Fletcher, briefs the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Outrageous attack on UN. We grieve with @UNOPS_Chief & colleagues.

We are in Gaza to save lives, not lose them.

International community must defend humanitarians and demand genuine investigation and accountability for violations of international law.

https://t.co/uxJVcvLDkr

[The National @TheNationalNews]

UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher (@TFletcher) tells The National that aid cuts are a ''punch in the gut'' and describes the devastation in Gaza as “worse than anything I’ve seen”

Read the full article below ⬇️
https://t.co/40Zm9a6iPN

[Tom Fletcher @TFletcher]

I talked to @amolrajan @BBCr4today from Gaza this morning, on what I’ve seen and heard here, the challenge of aid cuts, and President Trump’s plan.

(From 7.33)

https://t.co/YKjUhzNuFA

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

Unimaginable destruction in Gaza: homes, schools, hospitals reduced to rubble.

Survivors tell me we have to bear witness.

And that we must do more: to protect them, to deliver lifesaving aid, to maintain the ceasefire, to help them rebuild.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

People in Gaza “are searching for family members… [in] the remains of their homes. And you see the dogs as well, on the rubble. And what you notice is that the people searching are thin, and the dogs are fat – because the dogs are also searching for corpses.”

@UNReliefChief @TFletcher is in Gaza and witnessing the devastation firsthand. “This is the toughest working day of my life,” he tells me.

Yet even amidst the desperation, he says he is hearing “defiance” from Palestinians, as more aid gets in: “This is our home and we’re not going anywhere.”

[Tom Fletcher @TFletcher]

Many thanks for having me on, from Kyiv.

I’ve been a keen listener to @RestIsPolitics from the start, and it was great to have the chance to talk more about what we’re trying to do @UN to save lives in tough times.