UN / MOSUL HUMANITARIAN UPDATE

A Spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres said “nearly half a million people have been forced from their homes since the start of military operations to retake Mosul began six months ago.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:08
• Production Date: 17 April 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: IRAQ
• MAMS Id: 1868998
• Parent Id: 1868998
• Alternate Title: unifeed170417d

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STORY: UN / MOSUL HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
TRT: 01:08
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 17 APRIL 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

17 APRIL 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Stéphane Dujarric at the podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“Nearly half a million people have been forced from their homes since the start of military operations to retake Mosul began six months ago, with Lise Grande, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, calling the sheer volume of civilians still leaving the city ‘staggering.’
She said that the worst case scenario is that up to one million people may flee Mosul.
Aid partners are working around the clock to expand emergency camps to shelter hundreds of thousands more people who may flee in the coming weeks and days. The UN estimates that, currently, as many as 500,000 people remain in Da’esh-controlled parts of western Mosul, including 400,000 people in the old city. Ms. Grande stressed that although nearly two million people have received life-saving assistance and families are being reached with aid, Mosul has pushed humanitarian agencies to their operational limits.”
5. Wide shot, Dujaric walks away

Storyline

A Spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres today (17 Apr) said “nearly half a million people have been forced from their homes since the start of military operations to retake Mosul began six months ago.”

The Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said that according to the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Lise Grande, “the worst case scenario is that up to one million people may flee Mosul.”

Dujarric said he UN estimates that “as many as 500,000 people remain in Da’esh-controlled parts of western Mosul, including 400,000 people in the old city.”

He said Grande stressed that “although nearly two million people have received life-saving assistance and families are being reached with aid, Mosul has pushed humanitarian agencies to their operational limits.”

Since the fighting began last October, some 1.9 million people have been provided live-saving assistance, including food, water, shelter, emergency kits, medical support and psycho-social services.