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UN / UNRWA LAZZARINI JORDAN
STORY: UN / UNRWA LAZZARINI JORDAN
TRT: 02:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 21 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
19 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, flags outside UN headquarters
21 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. Med shot, photographer
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ayman Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Jordan:
“Depriving UNRWA from funding means depriving all the Palestine Refugees of the assistance UNRWA provides and depriving more than 256,000 students in Gaza alone from going to schools, and depriving millions of Palestinians from the medical services and other services. The challenges are huge. The difficulties facing UNRWA are complicated and increasing in scope. Therefore, we call on the international community to act to provide the support UNRWA needs.”
5. Wide shot, press room dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General, UNRWA:
“There will be a point where we will reach an inflection point. It has become absolutely unbearable to deal with a situation where the needs of the Palestinian refugees increase, the expectation increase. The region is hit by multiple crisis and at the same time to operate public-like services like providing education, access to primary health care, access to social protection safety net, large-scale humanitarian operation, with decreasing funding.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General, UNRWA:
“I took the decision a few weeks ago to open the school without knowing if yes or not, I will be able to keep the school open until the end of the year. I believe we will. My message to the Member States was, please help us not to fail. The Palestinian refugees will also need to have predictability that they will continue to have access to these critical services.”
9. Wide shot, end of presser
Following a Ministerial Meeting on UNRWA co-hosted by Jordan and Sweden, the Head of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini and Jordan’s Minister of Foreign affairs Ayman Safadi today (21 Sep) called for increased and predictable funding for Palestinian refugees.
Safadi said, “depriving UNRWA from funding means depriving all the Palestine Refugees of the assistance UNRWA provides and depriving more than 256,000 students in Gaza alone from going to schools, and depriving millions of Palestinians from the medical services and other services.”
The challenges, he said, “are huge” and “the difficulties facing UNRWA are complicated and increasing in scope.”
Lazzarini for his part said, “there will be a point where we will reach an inflection point.”
He said, “it has become absolutely unbearable to deal with a situation where the needs of the Palestinian refugees increase, the expectation increase. The region is hit by multiple crisis and at the same time to operate public-like services like providing education, access to primary health care, access to social protection safety net, large-scale humanitarian operation, with decreasing funding.
He told journalists in New York that a few weeks ago he decided ago to open a school “without knowing if yes or not, I will be able to keep the school open until the end of the year.”
He said, “my message to the Member States was, please help us not to fail. The Palestinian refugees will also need to have predictability that they will continue to have access to these critical services.”
UNRWA needs between US$ 170-190 million to sustain core services until the end of this year. In addition, it needs another 75 million dollars to continue a life-saving food pipeline to more than half of the population in Gaza.
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