IRAQ / MOSUL DISPLACED

More than 300,000 people who fled fighting in the Iraqi city of Mosul last week have reached Iraq’s Kurdistan region seeking refuge. UNHCR has delivered close to 1,000 tents to a new camp for 3,000 people under construction at Garmawa, near the north-western city of Duhok. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:36
• Production Date: 16 June 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: IRAQ
• MAMS Id: 1127280

Description

STORY: IRAQ / MOSUL DISPLACED
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / KISWAHILI / NATS

DATELINE: 14-15 JUNE 2014, ALQUSH AND GARMAWA IDP (INTERNALY DISPLACED PERSONS) CAMPS, NEAR DUHOK, NORTHERN IRAQ

Shotlist

15 JUNE 2014, ALQUSH, NORTHERN IRAQ

1. Med shot, internally displaced Iraqi children in a school
2. Wide shot, internally displaced women
3.Med shot, internally displaced women
4. Med shot, Fawzya Abbas (centre) talking to other women
5. Wide shot, child on the floor
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fawzya Abbas, Internally Displaced Iraqi Woman:
“My children were all crying and frightened as they did not want to leave their home, some were sick, could not even walk. But we insisted to leave.”
7. Various shots, internally displaced Iraqi men in the school
8. Med shot, Taqi Ali drinking water
9. Wide shot, men resting
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taqi Ali, Internally Displaced Iraqi Man:
“I’m saying to you that there’s nothing worse than being a refugee and to be forced to leave everything behind. All what I obtained in my life is gone.”
11. Wide shot, man resting
12. Wide shot, Taqi Ali sitting with others
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taqi Ali, Internally Displaced Iraqi Man:
“It’s not all about me, the future of my kids is gone too; they will have to start from scratch. They have nothing left. Our previous life is gone.”

14 JUNE 2014, GARMAWA TEMPORARY SITE, NORTHERN IRAQ

14. Various shots, UNHCR tents being erected
15. Wide shot, internally displaced Iraqi boy
16. Med shot, Amal Mahmood Ismail talking to UNHCR staffers
17. Wide shot, temporary camp site
18. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Amal Mahmood Ismail, Internally Displaced Iraqi Woman:
“We were not rich, neither poor. We used to live in a rented house, we had our good daily life, we had breakfast together every morning… but now my family is torn apart.”
19. Wide shot, girl crying
20. Tilt down, boy carrying relief items
21. Wide shot, IDPs talking to UNHCR staffers
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Erdogan Kalkan, UNHCR Protection Officer:
“Have a space for 1000 tents, but for the moment, some 400 or 300 tents have been erected. There are already 9 families are in the camp who could not find shelter anywhere else within the Dohuk governorate with their relatives or friends.”
23. Various shots, displaced
24. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Amal Mahmood Ismail, Internally Displaced Iraqi Woman:
“My daughters are here, but my son is somewhere else. My husband is sick, and heart is broken.”
25. Wide shot, IDP site
26. Pan left, family walking
27. Wide shot, machinery levelling the ground for more tents

Storyline

In the past week, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled the violence in the northern city of Mosul to seek shelter in Iraq's Kurdistan region.

In Alqush, near Dohuk city, the village’s school now provides shelter for 150 people.

Fawzya Abbas, a mother of ten, left her home in the middle of night, with only an identity card in her pocket.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fawzya Abbas, Internally Displaced Iraqi Woman:
“My children were all crying and frightened as they did not want to leave their home, some were sick, could not even walk. But we insisted to leave.”

The 20 families now living in the school left behind everything – houses, cattle, and crops in the fields.

They worry that they will lose it all, leaving them with no income, and nothing to return to.

Farmer Taqi Ali never thought something like this could ever happen to him.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taqi Ali, Internally Displaced Iraqi Man:
“I’m saying to you that there’s nothing worse than being a refugee and to be forced to leave everything behind. All what I obtained in my life is gone.”

Faced with this reality, Taqi’s biggest concern is the future of his seven children.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taqi Ali, Internally Displaced Iraqi Man:
“It’s not all about me, the future of my kids is gone too; they will have to start from scratch. They have nothing left. Our previous life is gone.”

Hundreds of those who couldn’t find other shelter are now residing in this tented camp. Garmawa was built in less than a week.

Situated close to the road connecting Mosul and Dohuk, this temporary camp is just one of the locations where displaced Iraqis can find shelter.

UNHCR has provided a thousand tents, as well as essential relief items like blankets to the displaced.

For 44-year-old Amal Mahmood Ismail and her family of seven, this is now home.

SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Amal Mahmood Ismail, Internally Displaced Iraqi Woman:
“We were not rich, neither poor. We used to live in a rented house, we had our good daily life, we had breakfast together every morning… but now my family is torn apart.”

There are thousands of Iraqis with similarly tragic stories. All in urgent need of emergency support, which UNHCR is working to meet.

SOUNDBITE (English) Erdogan Kalkan, UNHCR Protection Officer:
“Have a space for 1,000 tents, but for the moment, some 400 or 300 tents have been erected. There are already 9 families are in the camp who could not find shelter anywhere else within the Dohuk governorate with their relatives or friends.”

To live in a camp is never easy, but few here believe it’s yet safe to go home.

SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Amal Mahmood Ismail, Internally Displaced Iraqi Woman:
“My daughters are here, but my son is somewhere else. My husband is sick, and heart is broken.”

Work continues on preparing the ground for more tents, as the displaced continue to arrive.

For now, the future of the region remains very uncertain.