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IRAQ / XMAS CRISIS
STORY: IRAQ / XMAS CRISIS
TRT: 2.32
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /KURDISH /NATS
DATELINE: 18 DECEMBER 2014, ZAHKO/ FAYSH KHABUR /IRBIL, IRAQ / FILE
18 DECEMBER 2014, IRBIL, IRAQ
1. Wide shot, front of the mall
2. Pan left, flooded interior
3. Various shots, displaced in the mall
17 DECEMBER 2014, FAYSH KHABUR, IRAQ
4. Various shots, Peshmerga military base, near Faysh Khabur
7 NOVEMBER 2014, FAYSH KHABUR, IRAQ
5. Various shots, Kurdish forces airlifting Yazidis from Mt. Sinjar
17 DECEMBER 2014, FAYSH KHABUR, IRAQ
6. Various shots, Peshmerga military base, near Faysh Khabur
17 DECEMBER 2014, ZAHKO, IRAQ
7. Various shots, displaced Yazidis living in unfinished buildings
8. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Kamila, displaced Yazidi from Sinjar:
“A lot of children died from hunger, but that is not as bad as the capturing and raping of our girls. We can stand almost everything that happened in the genocide, but taking away our girls. That is the most painful thing.”
9. Close up, Kamila’s hands
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marwa Awad, WFP Spokesperson:
“If they do get out and they are lucky enough to escape the threat that they have been facing at home then they move into these open unfinished buildings or actual camps and there we are able to reach them and provide them with the food that they need to keep warm and continue to live.”
11. Pan left, group of displaced in the backyard
12. Various shots, woman making bread
13. Close up, little girl holding a piece of bread
Around 1600 displaced Christians, mostly from Mosul, are living in this unfinished shopping mall. There are no walls and the ground floor is filled with water. Temperatures drop below freezing at night.
Here they are trying to prepare for Christmas the best they can with a makeshift nativity scene. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) provides them food vouchers and food like rice, cooking oil and pasta. More than 1.8 million people from different groups have fled the militant attacks in Iraq since June 2014.
Some 300,000 Yazidis have been displaced as well from Sinjar since August 2014, when the army airlifted most of them to safety.
Now, they are living in unfinished buildings in Zakho, in Kurdistan.
Militants captured Kamila and her family in early November. She managed to flee with the male members of her family but, her daughters are still being held. She says they are being raped and held for ransom.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Kamila, displaced Yazidi from Sinjar:
“A lot of children died from hunger, but that is not as bad as the capturing and raping of our girls. We can stand almost everything that happened in the genocide, but taking away our girls. That is the most painful thing.”
WFP provides them food vouchers and food like rice, cooking oil and pasta.
SOUNDBITE (English) Marwa Awad, WFP Spokesperson:
“If they do get out and they are lucky enough to escape the threat that they have been facing at home then they move into these open unfinished buildings or actual camps and there we are able to reach them and provide them with the food that they need to keep warm and continue to live.”
Throughout the country, more than 1.8 million displaced are living in precarious conditions – many without access to food, water or other basic essentials.
The UN food agency plans to increase its food assistance to reach all of 1.8 million displaced Iraqis per month by March 2015. To do that it will need US$26 million until March and all of US$250 million for entire 2015.
At the moment, WFP reaches a maximum of 1.4 million displaced Iraqis per month.
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