UN / SYRIA YARMOUK UPDATE

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric called for “unimpeded humanitarian access” to people in need after some 7,000 people were displaced due to military operations in Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:53
• Production Date: 7 May 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 2145965
• Parent Id: 2145965
• Alternate Title: unifeed180507c

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STORY: UN / SYRIA YARMOUK UPDATE
TRT: 00:53
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 07 MAY 2018, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

07 MAY 2018, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“The UN and partners stand ready to deliver inter-agency humanitarian assistance to people in need in those areas, as well as to Yarmouk, as soon as the conditions allow and access is granted. The UN calls on all parties, and those with influence over them, to ensure the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, and to allow safe, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access to all in need in line with their obligations under international humanitarian law. The United Nations further reminds all parties that any evacuation of civilians must be safe, voluntary and in strict accordance with the protection standards under international law.”
5. Wide shot, press room

Storyline

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric called for “unimpeded humanitarian access” to people in need after some 7,000 people were displaced due to military operations in Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp.

Speaking to journalists in New York today (07 May), Dujarric said humanitarian workers on the group reported that some 7,000 people, 70 percent of whom are Palestinian refugees, were displaced to the towns of Yalda, Babilla and Beit Sahem in Rural Damascus. He said hostilities in southern Damascus since 13 April have resulted in civilian deaths and injuries, as well as the displacement of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure.

Dujarric said the UN and its partners were ready to deliver assistance to people in need those towns, as well as to Yarmouk, “as soon as the conditions allow and access is granted.” He called on all parties, and those with influence over them, “to ensure the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, and to allow safe, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access to all in need in line with their obligations under international humanitarian law.”

The UN spokesperson reminded all parties to the conflict that any evacuation of civilians “must be safe, voluntary and in strict accordance with the protection standards under international law.”