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UN / GAZA UNICEF INTERVIEW
STORY: UN / GAZA UNICEF INTERVIEW
TRT: 6:48
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 01 NOVEMBER 2023, AMMAN, JORDAN / FILE
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 28 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA STRIP
1.Various shots, aerial, destruction and people around the rubble
01 NOVEMBER 2023, AMMAN, JORDAN
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Salim Oweis, Communication Officer, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, UNICEF:
“Children really are paying the heaviest price for this conflict and this escalation. So far, over 3,500 children have been killed and over 6,800 have been injured on different levels of injury. These numbers shouldn't pass by as any other number because these are not just numbers, these are kids, children who lost their dreams, lost their futures, and thousands killed shouldn't be a normal thing.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 28 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA STRIP
3. Various shots, injured children are brought into the Al-Shifa hospital
01 NOVEMBER 2023, AMMAN, JORDAN
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Salim Oweis, Communication Officer, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, UNICEF:
“We're talking about children witnessing their parents, their families, their sisters and brothers being killed in front of them, their houses, their communities disappearing in a split second. This has a big toll on their emotional, psychological and mental health and well-being. So these scars can last a lifetime, and it's really important to safeguard them and give them the protection that they need. That's why in the lack of ceasefire, it's really important to uphold international humanitarian law and avoid and protect children and the civilian infrastructures that they depend on.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 28 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA STRIP
4. Various shots, children and people at Al-Shifa hospital receiving treatment sustained from bombardment in the Gaza city
01 NOVEMBER 2023, AMMAN, JORDAN
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Salim Oweis, Communication Officer, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, UNICEF:
“Some aid is coming in, but it's not enough for the children of Gaza and for their needs. It's just a drop in the ocean of massive, massive and immediate needs that the children and their families have now in the Gaza Strip, mainly water is scarce, clean water. And so many families are faced with no choice but to provide unclean water, salt water to the children. And we've heard that firsthand from our colleagues in the Gaza Strip.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 28 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA STRIP
4. Various shots, children and people at Al-Shifa hospital receiving treatment sustained from bombardment in the Gaza city
01 NOVEMBER 2023, AMMAN, JORDAN
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Salim Oweis, Communication Officer, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, UNICEF:
“Whatever is being delivered is not enough. And that's a call to one ceasefire, of course, but also to open all crossings into Gaza and allow all aid to go in and also to guarantee the protection of these aid supplies and the protection of aid workers on the ground to be able to reach all children wherever they are in the in the Gaza Strip.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 26 OCTOBER 2023, SOUTH RAFAH
6. Various shots, a UN truck arrives at a school in South Rafah, Gaza Strip, to deliver water bottles to people seeking shelter there
01 NOVEMBER 2023, AMMAN, JORDAN
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Salim Oweis, Communication Officer, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, UNICEF:
“Unfortunately, what has been again, what has been provided so far is just a drop in the ocean of the needs. Now, children everywhere, including infants, face the risk of dehydration and ultimately death.”
FILE - UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 20 OCTOBER 2023, RAFAH GOVERNORATE, SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP
8. Various shots, children and family filling up water containers from tap.
01 NOVEMBER 2023, AMMAN, JORDAN
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Salim Oweis, Communication Officer, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, UNICEF:
“This fuel is becoming the lifeline for civilians and children in Gaza, especially for health facilities, because without electricity that they usually have, they need the fuel to run the generators and to be able to operate. And this is really running out. Some children, some infants are on ventilators and the new natal wards. And these children can't afford a couple of minutes or a few minutes without electricity because that means that they don't have the oxygen that they need to breathe.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 26 OCTOBER 2023, SOUTH RAFAH
6. Various shots, a UN truck arrives at a school in South Rafah, Gaza Strip, to deliver water bottles to people seeking shelter there
A UNICEF Spokesperson said that over 3,500 children have been killed and over 6,800 have been injured in Gaza, “these are kids, children who lost their dreams, lost their futures, and thousands killed shouldn't be a normal thing.”
UNICEF’s Communication Officer for the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, Salim Oweis, said, “We're talking about children witnessing their parents, their families, their sisters and brothers being killed in front of them, their houses, their communities disappearing in a split second. This has a big toll on their emotional, psychological and mental health and well-being.”
He continued, “these scars can last a lifetime, and it's really important to safeguard them and give them the protection that they need. That's why in the lack of ceasefire, it's really important to uphold international humanitarian law and avoid and protect children and the civilian infrastructures that they depend on.”
Oweis also said, “Some aid is coming in, but it's not enough for the children of Gaza and for their needs. It's just a drop in the ocean of massive, massive and immediate needs that the children and their families have now in the Gaza Strip, mainly water is scarce, clean water.”
He added that so many families are faced with no choice but to provide unclean water, salt water to the children.
Oweis emphasized, “Whatever is being delivered is not enough. And that's a call to one ceasefire, of course, but also to open all crossings into Gaza and allow all aid to go in and also to guarantee the protection of these aid supplies and the protection of aid workers on the ground to be able to reach all children wherever they are in the in the Gaza Strip.”
He reiterated that children everywhere in Gaza, including infants, “face the risk of dehydration and ultimately death.”
“This fuel is becoming the lifeline for civilians and children in Gaza, especially for health facilities, because without electricity that they usually have,” Oweis said.
He explained that the hospitals need the fuel to run the generators and to be able to operate, “and this is really running out. Some children, some infants are on ventilators and the new natal wards. And these children can't afford a couple of minutes or a few minutes without electricity because that means that they don't have the oxygen that they need to breathe.”
UNICEF called for the immediate cessation of hostilities, and for all parties to unconditionally protect children from harm and afford them the special protection to which they are entitled, in accordance with their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law. No place is safe for children while this intense fighting continues. All parties must uphold the rights of all children, including children captured in the course of operations. This includes children perceived to be associated with parties to the conflict. Children’s rights to life and protection from any violence are paramount. Abduction of children by a party to the conflict constitutes a grave violation. Any children in custody of parties to the conflict should be protected and immediately and unconditionally released. The delivery of aid is a matter of life or death for children in Gaza.
UNICEF continues to work on ground in dissemination of bottled water to the most needed people including IDPs in Central Gaza, Deir Balah and Khan Younis provinces in the south. On 26th October UNICEF successfully disseminated 112,896 (1.5L) bottles of water, 81,200 families/ 470,000 IDPs benefited from it.
UNICEF continues to support the temporary restoration of water to an estimated 1 million people in the Deir Al Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah areas of the Gaza Strip including over 560,000 children through provision of fuel and water treatment supplies.
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