IRAQ / DISPLACED UPDATE

The number of people displaced from inside and around Mosul city has more than doubled, bringing the total number of displaced Iraqis to 47,000 since the start of military operations began on October 17. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:06
• Production Date: 14 November 2016
• Asset Language: Arabic
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: IRAQ
• MAMS Id: 1773701
• Parent Id: 1773701
• Alternate Title: unifeed161114d

Description

STORY: IRAQ DISPLACED UPDATE
TRT: 2:06
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 9 NOVEMBER 2016, AL-KHAZER CAMP, KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ

Shotlist

1. Pan left, displaced new arrivals on a truck
2. Med shot, woman waving from bus
3. Close up, Hamda Hussein getting off bus and hugging her sons
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamda Hussein, Displaced Iraqi woman:
‘’No words can describe how I feel now after I saw my children. Give me two hours to spend with them and I am happy to die after.’’
5. Wide shot, Hamda kissing her sons
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hadi, Hamda’s son :
‘’We are very happy to see them. It’s been two and a half years. It was very difficult being away from them. We couldn’t call them; we used to wait for them to secretly call us.’’
7. Tilt down, Hamda’s son to the rest of the family
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamda Hussein, Displaced Iraqi woman:
‘’They killed my daughter’s husband. They took him away for five days and killed him. My daughter came back to me all alone, with no man, and she doesn’t have children.’’
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Etbab, Hamda’s daughter:
‘’I have hope that he is still alive. There is still hope. God is merciful.’’
10. Various shots, ten-year-old Ahmad (who was badly injured while fleeing Mosul) taken into ambulance
11. Wide shot, ambulance car leaving
12. Pan left, Hamda and her family going into the reception area
13. Med shot, newly arrived elderly woman being escorted
14. Wide shot, newly arrived elderly woman being escorted

Storyline

A few days ago Hamda risked her life to make a secret phone-call to her sons in Erbil.

‘’See you in Khazer camp tomorrow,’’ she told them.

The next day, she fled the fighting with her daughters.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamda Hussein, Displaced Iraqi woman:
‘’No words can describe how I feel now after I saw my children. Give me two hours to spend with them and I am happy to die after.’’

The moment of reunion was filled with joy and tears.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hadi, Hamda’s son :
‘’We are very happy to see them. It’s been two and a half years. It was very difficult being away from them. We couldn’t call them; we used to wait for them to secretly call us.’’

But the family’s joy was also mixed with some sad memories.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamda Hussein, Displaced Iraqi woman:
‘’They killed my daughter’s husband. They took him away for five days and killed him. My daughter came back to me all alone, with no man, and she doesn’t have children.’’

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Etbab, Hamda’s daughter:
‘’I have hope that he is still alive. There is still hope. God is merciful.’’

The flight to freedom for families can be treacherous. This little boy was badly injured by a mortar.

Hamda and her daughters are among 54,000 men, women, and children who have been displaced since the start of the offensive. And many more are expected.