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IRAQ / DISPLACED MOSUL
STORY: IRAQ / DISPLACED MOSUL
TRT: 1:51
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 16-17 OCTOBER 2016, DUHOK / DEBAGA CAMP, IRAQ
16 OCTOBER, 2016, DUHOK, IRAQ
1. Wide shot, workers raising tarp
2. Various shots, camp under construction
16 OCTOBER, 2016, DEBAGA CAMP, IRAQ
3. Wide shot, women walking through camp
4. Wide shot, tented camp
5. Wide shot, children walking through camp
6. Close up, Widat
7. Med shot, Widat and children
8. Wide shot, Widat speaking to other women
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Widat, Displaced mother:
“'I left because I have diabetes. There is no treatment there. All the medicines are expired. We were under siege; there was nothing there. I have a disabled son which I left behind. I couldn't carry him. We walked for 13 hours.''
10. Tracking, Jamal walking
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jamal, Displaced Iraqi:
“There were bodies scattered on the road. They were killed by land mines, but thank God, we reached the camp.”
17 OCTOBER, 2016, DEBAGA CAMP, IRAQ
12. Wide shot, people waiting in abandoned school
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Widat, Displaced mother:
“'My disabled son calls us and cries. He wants to come here, and that he wants to have good food. There is no food left there except for bread.”
14. Wide shot, child watching construction of school
15. Med shot, worker mixing cement
16. Close up, worker applies cement
17. Wide shot, Children with families
18. Med shot, child playing with water on ground
The United Nations (UN) refugee agency (UNHCR) said up to a million people could be displaced by a government offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIL extremists. UNHCR said one of the most crucial issues was to provide safe sites to house those expected to be displaced by the fighting.
Currently, the agency and the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan have enough materials to shelter and help up to 400,000 people. Camps like this are being constructed to support the expected mass exodus from Mosul. The almost completed Zelikan camp in Duhok was meant to shelter up to 6,000 people.
UNHCR is preparing more existing camps, like Debaga in the Erbil Governorate, to handle the influx of possibly hundreds of thousands from the offensive to retake Mosul.
Widat arrived from the conflict zone to the Debaga camp last week with three of her sons. For almost two years, under the extremists, she suffered.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Widat, Displaced mother:
“'I left because I have diabetes. There is no treatment there. All the medicines are expired. We were under siege; there was nothing there. I have a disabled son which I left behind. I couldn't carry him. We walked for 13 hours.''
Jamal’s trip out to the camp was also long and brutal.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jamal, Displaced Iraqi:
“There were bodies scattered on the road. They were killed by land mines, but thank God, we reached the camp.”
Many have left family member behind and worry about them.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Widat, Displaced mother:
“'My disabled son calls us and cries. He wants to come here, and that he wants to have good food. There is no food left there except for bread.”
In Debaga construction is underway for a school for displaced children to avoid the the loss of months and years of education. UNHCR said more is needed to do more. It is asking for $121 million for Iraq to close a major funding gap in helping the displaced.
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