IRAQ / MOSUL DISPLACED PREP

UNHCR has five camps ready to shelter 45,000 thousand Iraqis diplaced by the Mosul Offensive but it could handle up to 120,000 if the agency finds sites for more camps. The UN high commissioner for refugees said that the key is to protect civilians during the fighting. There could up to a million people displaced by the offensive.​UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:49
• Production Date: 17 October 2016
• Asset Language: Arabic
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEE CAMPS
• Geographic Subject: IRAQ
• MAMS Id: 1743162
• Parent Id: 1743162
• Alternate Title: unifeed161017f

Description

STORY: IRAQ / MOSUL DISPLACED PREP
TRT: 01:44
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 17 OCTOBER 2016, DEBAGA CAMP, NORTHERN IRAQ / RECENT

Shotlist

17 OCTOBER 2016, DEBAGA CAMP,IRAQ

1. Various drone aerial shots, Debaga camp
2. Various shots, people lined up by gates at Debaga camp

RECENT - 16 OCTOBER 2016, DEBAGA CAMP,IRAQ

3. Med shot, reception area, food distribution
4. Med shot, displaced women lining up
5. Med shot, volunteers helping with food items
6. Med shot, mother and her kids picking up boxes.
7. Med shot, mother putting a box of food on another woman’s back
8. Close up, mother’s face

17 OCTOBER 2016, DEBAGA CAMP,IRAQ

4. Med shot, HC Filippo Grandi arriving into family tent
5. Med shot, Maali and her children inside a tent in Debaga camp
6. Close up, baby
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maali, Iraqi displaced:
“When we left, my baby was four days old. I couldn’t take all our belongings. We just started moving.”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Filipppo Grandi, Filippo Grandi High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
"Tell them that I am very happy that they are in a safe place with some assistance."
9. Med shot, HC walking with Erbil governor
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Filipppo Grandi, Filippo Grandi High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“The more civilians will feel protected inside Mosul, the less they will be displaced. And for those who feel they have to go because it is dangerous, they have to be treated with dignity, with respect in full respect of their rights.”
11. Med shot, mothers and children in the school
12. Close up, mothers and children in the school
13. Various shots,drone of Debaga Camp

Storyline

Rows of UNHCR tents line the dusty plain. This is the Debaga complex of camps for displaced people, nearly 30,000 now.

The camps are filling up and this is before the expected flow of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, as a result of the Iraqi government offensive on Mosul.

More IDPs arrive every day, lining up for emergency food and health kits. Almost all spoke of near starvation in the conflict zone, hunger that drove them to make the dangerous trek to safety along roads sown with mines and IEDs. Here they have safety, shelter and food.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi arrived at the camp today (17 Oct) and heard one family’s plight.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maali, Iraqi displaced:
“When we left, my baby was four days old. I couldn’t take all our belongings. We just started moving.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Filipppo Grandi, Filippo Grandi High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
"Tell them that I am very happy that they are in a safe place with some assistance."

Grandi stressed that as the government offensive to retake Mosul begins, special attention must be paid to protecting civilians.

SOUNDBITE (English) Filipppo Grandi, Filippo Grandi High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“The more civilians will feel protected inside Mosul, the less they will be displaced. And for those who feel they have to go because it is dangerous, they have to be treated with dignity, with respect in full respect of their rights.”