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UN / EARTHQUAKES OCHA PRESSER
STORY: UN / EARTHQUAKES OCHA PRESSER
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 FEBRUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
21 FEBRUARY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2.Wide shot, press briefing room
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Ghada Eltahir Mudawi, Deputy Director, Operations and Advocacy Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Since February 9, we have a total of 265 trucks carrying aid from six UN agencies that crossed to northwest Syria from Türkiye through Bab al-Salama, Bab al-Hawa, Bab Al-Rai. These assistance including food, shelter, cholera testing kits and high-energy biscuits. Our local partners and national partners as well are distributing aid on the ground. Rapid assessments found that shelter, weatherization and cash are the top priorities for the displaced people. Health care needs are also urgent, as we've seen that 20 percent of over 600 communities that have been assessed, they have no access to health care as we speak.”
4.Wide shot, press briefing room
5.SOUNDBITE (English) Ghada Eltahir Mudawi, Deputy Director, Operations and Advocacy Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“I give you a bit of figures of what's happening only yesterday from earthquake. We had 195 civilians who had been reportedly injured from Aleppo and Idlib according to the initial reports, and there are further damages that had been caused to buildings, which have been affected by the first two earthquakes before. The UN and our partners, we're continuing to scale up our cross-border aid operation from Türkiye into the northwest of Syria. Earlier today, 38 trucks from World Food Programme, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration had crossed through Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salama into the northwest of Syria delivering food and other supplies.”
6.Wide shot, press briefing room
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Ghada Eltahir Mudawi, Deputy Director, Operations and Advocacy Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Just to mention on the funding aspect of the flash appeal that had been launched to the respond to the earth in Syria, 17 percent only had been funded so far, so injection of funds and resources are definitely needed.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
A top UN Humanitarian official said that since February 9, there have been a total of 265 trucks carrying aid from six UN agencies that crossed to northwest Syria from Türkiye through Bab al-Salama, Bab al-Hawa, Bab Al-Rai.
Ghada Eltahir Mudawi from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) briefed journalists today (21 Feb) remotely from Gaziantep, Türkiye on the humanitarian situation in Türkiye and Syria following the earthquake. She said that the 265 trucks delivered aid including food, shelter, cholera testing kits and high-energy biscuits.
She said, “our local partners and national partners as well are distributing aid on the ground.”
Mudawi also said, “rapid assessments found that shelter, weatherization and cash are the top priorities for the displaced people. Health care needs are also urgent, as we've seen that 20 percent of over 600 communities that have been assessed, they have no access to health care as we speak.”
On the numbers of the earthquakes on Monday (20 Feb), she said, “we had 195 civilians who had been reportedly injured from Aleppo and Idlib according to the initial reports, and there are further damages that had been caused to buildings, which have been affected by the first two earthquakes before.”
Mudawi continued, “the UN and our partners, we're continuing to scale up our cross-border aid operation from Türkiye into the northwest of Syria. Earlier today, 38 trucks from World Food Programme, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration had crossed through Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salama into the northwest of Syria delivering food and other supplies.”
On the flash appeal that had been launched to the respond to the earthquakes in Syria, “17 percent only had been funded so far, so injection of funds and resources are definitely needed,” the OCHA official said.
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