UN / SYRIA EASTERN GHOUTA UPDATE

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said, according to humanitarians on the ground, military operations continued in eastern Ghouta “resulting in the deaths of at least 30 people, including women and children” over the last 48 hours. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:00
• Production Date: 26 February 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 2099730
• Parent Id: 2099730
• Alternate Title: unifeed180226d

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STORY: UN / SYRIA EASTERN GHOUTA UPDATE
TRT: 01:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 26 FEBRUARY 2018, NEW YORK CITY

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

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26 FEBRUARY 2018, NEW YORK CITY

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General:
“Turning to the situation on the ground in Syria, according to our humanitarian colleagues, over the last 48 hours, military operations continue to be reported in besieged eastern Ghouta in Syria, resulting in the deaths of at least 30 people, including women and children. Attacks on Damascus from eastern Ghouta are also continuing.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General:
“The United Nations has mobilised and is ready to immediately support life-saving aid convoys to several areas in eastern Ghouta as soon as conditions allow, as well as hundreds of medical evacuations. In addition, the United Nations is ready to access other besieged areas and hard-to-reach areas in Syria.”
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Storyline

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said, according to humanitarians on the ground, military operations continued in eastern Ghouta “resulting in the deaths of at least 30 people, including women and children” over the last 48 hours.

Speaking to reporters in New York today (26 Feb), Dujarric noted that attacks on Damascus from eastern Ghouta also continued adding that a Syrian Arab Red Crescent warehouse in the Damascus suburb was reportedly struck by shelling yesterday.

The Spokesperson said escalating hostilities had resulted in 500 deaths and some 1,500 injuries in eastern Ghouta since 19 February with a total of 24 health facilities in eastern Ghouta reportedly impacted by shelling and airstrikes, in addition to three humanitarian sites. He said attacks on Damascus city and the Governorate resulted in 14 deaths and 214 injuries during the same period.

Dujarric told reporters that the UN had mobilised and was ready to immediately support “life-saving aid convoys to several areas in eastern Ghouta as soon as conditions allow, as well as hundreds of medical evacuations.”

He said the UN calls on all parties in the conflict to facilitate unconditional, unimpeded, sustained access to all people in need throughout the country, and to take all measures to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including schools and medical facilities, as required by international law.