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UNICEF / NORTHEAST SYRIA DISPLACED
STORY: UNICEF / NORTHEAST SYRIA DISPLACED
TRT: 3:30
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 14 OCTOBER 2019, TAL TAMER, SYRIA
14 OCTOBER 2019, TAL TAMER, SYRIA
1. Various shots, internally displaced people arriving into Tal Tamar
2. Med shot, internally displaced people waiting outside school shelter with belongings
3. Wide shot, truck carrying belonging of displaced people
4. Wide shot, children playing outside school shelter
5. Various shots, children walking inside school shelter
6. Wide shot, children having snacks
7. Wide shot, children playing
8. Wide shot, mother and child walking inside school
9. Wide shot, internally displaced family setting up a classroom
10. Close up, baby being held
11. Wide shot, elderly man inside classroom
12. Med shot, elderly woman inside classroom
13. Med shot, children inside classroom
14. Wide shot, group of children inside classroom
15. Wide shot, mother and two children inside classroom
16. Wide shot, mother and child sitting in hallway
17. Med shot, children
18. Various shots, women and children collecting water in school shelter
19. Wide shot, women and children
20. Wide shot, child checking on washed clothes
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) said one week into the escalation of hostilities in northeast Syria, at least 160,000 people continue to flee their homes, nearly 70,000 of them are children.
Most of those displaced are from Ras al-Ain and Tal Abiad. Displaced families and those on the move are heading towards Tal Tamar - 75 kilometres southeast Ras al-ain and 42 kilometres northwest Hasakeh city - as well as Hasakeh city and Ar-Raqqa to seek refuge.
While many of the internally displaced have reached relatives within host communities, UNICEF said those left to stay at collective shelters, like schools, are staying under basic conditions lacking access to urgently needed services including health, nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene.
The Fund said as the escalating violence continues, at least 170,000 children are feared to become in need of humanitarian assistance.
In Hasakeh, the water situation is critical following the targeting of Allouk water station servicing over 400,000 people in the area.
Technical staff have reached Allouk water station, but as further damages were identified, interim solutions have been put in place and the teams are planned to return to ensure the station is operational.
In Tal Tamar and Hasakeh city, UNICEF and partners are reaching families in collective shelters with safe water supply through water trucking. In Hasakeh, much needed health and nutrition services and supplies are being provided to women and children, including nutrition screenings, high energy biscuits -400 families reached- and primary health consultations - 315 women and children reached.
UNICEF said it was also working through partners on foster arrangements for 13 separated children identified in collective shelters.
UNICEF continues to maintain presence in Qamishli through its staff, facilitators and partners and has stocked up WASH, Health and Nutrition supplies covering the needs for 45,000 children and women for one month in addition to seasonal clothes for children under the age of five, with additional supplies in the pipeline.
UNICEF reiterated that the only solution to the brutal conflict in Syria is a political solution. The protection of children, and the civilian infrastructure they rely on, not only in northeast Syria but also across the country must be prioritized at all times.
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