UN / YEMEN UPDATE

UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters that according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) “nearly 1,500 civilian casualties in Yemen were reported in the period between August and October of this year.” UNIFEED / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:40
• Production Date: 7 December 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION
• Geographic Subject: YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 2328636
• Parent Id: 2328636
• Alternate Title: unifeed181207h

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STORY: UN / YEMEN UPDATE
TRT: 1:40
SOURCE: UNIFEED / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 07 DECEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

07 DECEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, journalists
3. Wide shot, press room
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Our colleagues at UNHCR tell us that nearly 1,500 civilian casualties in Yemen were reported in the period between August and October of this year. This means an average of 123 civilian deaths and injuries every week during this period. Given the very heavy human cost, UNHCR urges parties to the conflict in Yemen to improve the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure. Homes and hospitals continue to be sites of violence. Twenty-three per cent of all deaths and injuries during this period were reported in houses.”

FILE – WFP - 15 NOVEMBER 2018, HAJJAH / SANAA, YEMEN

6. Driving shot, road between Sanaa and Hajjah
7. Wide shot, village on Sanaa-Hajjah road
8. Wide shot, destroyed bridge

FILE – WFP - 23 JULY 2018, SAADA, YEMEN

9. Tracking shot, destroyed gates of Saada
10. Various shots, destroyed homes

Storyline

UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters that according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) “nearly 1,500 civilian casualties in Yemen were reported in the period between August and October of this year.”

Dujarric said this meant an average of 123 civilian deaths and injuries every week during this period. He said, “Given the very heavy human cost, UNHCR urges parties to the conflict in Yemen to improve the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure.”

Dujarric said homes and hospitals continued to be sites of violence with “23 percent of all deaths and injuries during this period” reported in houses.