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GENEVA / GAZA CHILDREN
STORY: GENEVA / GAZA CHILDREN
TRT: 2.20
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 AUGUST 2014, GENEVA / RECENT
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1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
08 AUGUST 2014, GENEVA
2. Wide shot of briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jen Laerke, Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
“There are thousands of explosive remnants of war, that’s a technical description of basically unexploded ammunition, that is lying around in the rubble and elsewhere. It’s a particular concern for children. It’s of concern to farmers, who are trying to go back to tend to their land; also for humanitarian aid workers and obviously for those IDPs who are trying to return home.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Tidey, Spokesperson, UNICEF:
“Sadly child casualties now exceed the combined number of children killed in the two previous conflicts in Gaza, which was 350 in 2008/9 and 35 in 2012. No children have been reported killed since the announcement of the 72 hour ceasefire. However the number of child casualties continues to rise as children are recovered from the rubble of houses and due to ongoing verification processes.”
6. Close up, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Tidey, Spokesperson, UNICEF: “Between 8 July and 5 August at least 447 Palestinian children were reportedly killed. The child casualties include 277 boys and 170 girls, aged between 10 days and 17 years old. Of the 447 children, at least 305 or 68 percent were 12 years old or younger.”
8. Close up, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Tidey, Spokesperson, UNICEF: “There’s no safe space for children to go. It’s a very small geographical area with a lot of fire power being directed towards it. And where children are reasonably supposed to go to stay safe from everything that’s coming their way, and when homes are collapsing and shells are coming through walls and things like that, I think that that’s the reality of the situation that children just have no safe place to go and that’s why the numbers are so high.”
The number of Palestinian children who have been killed by air strikes on Gaza is now more than the number of children killed in the two previous conflicts between Israel and Gaza.
Chris Tidey, a spokesperson for UNICEF told journalists today at a press conference in Geneva that between 8 July and 5 August at least 447 Palestinian children were killed. Of those who died, 277 were boys and 170 were girls, aged between 10 days and 17 years old.
At least 305 or 68 percent of the number of children who’ve been killed were 12 years old or younger. In the conflict between Israel and Gaza in 2008 to 2009, 350 children died, 35 children were killed during Israeli/Palestinian fighting in 2012.
He said the number of children who have been killed is so high because there’s no safe space for children to go to in Gaza, as their homes are being destroyed amid constant shelling.
Tidy said that the number of children who have lost their lives will continue to mount as more bodies are found in the rubble.
There are also warnings that unexploded ammunition, lying around in the ruins of Gaza, is another threat to the safety of Palestinian children.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that there are thousands of ‘explosive remnants of war’, the technical term for unexploded ammunition. Children, farmers, humanitarian aid workers and internally displaced people who are trying to return home are said to be particularly at risk.
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