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UNICEF / GAZA BORN INTO WAR
STORY: UNICEF / GAZA BORN INTO WAR
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SOURCE: UNICEF
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
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JANUARY 2024 , AL-HELAL AL-EMIRATI MATERNITY HOSPITAL, RAFAH, GAZA STRIP
1. Med shot, Al-Helal Al-Emirati Hospital building as seen from outside
2. Various shots, babies in temperature-controlled incubators and health workers at Emirati maternity hospital
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mashael, mother, Al-Helal Al-Emirati Hospital:
”I was three months pregnant and living in the middle of Gaza. There was heavy bombing around us, and we didn’t have proper medicine, or food, I was scared all the time. I had to visit a doctor there and the doctor told me they couldn’t find the baby’s pulse. So, for the last month I have known my baby isn’t alive but there is nothing I could do. Today I finally made it here to the Emirati hospital to get help.”
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman, mother, Al-Helal Al-Emirati Hospital:
“I don’t know her (the other mother), we just met at the hospital. But there are no beds here, so we are sharing a bed and a blanket. I had my caesarean 46 days ago. I have had some infections which is why I am staying in the hospital. The baby is in my tent with my sister.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, UNICEF Spokesperson (English), Al-Helal Al-Emirati Hospital:
“I was just in a ward where two women were sharing the same bed because there is enough space for people. One of those women had given birth yesterday and the other one has had a miscarriage and and is waiting for surgery. So the situation is very desperate. The nurses that we spoke to said that they see 20 times the number of babies coming into the hospital to be born, and many of them are sick because of the air pollution that mothers have had to injury from the bombardment outside. Some of the mothers haven't made it through giving birth. So, it really is a very serious situation here in the American hospital at the moment and everybody looks absolutely exhausted.
FILE - NOVEMBER 2023, RAFAH, GAZA STRIP
6. Various shots, hospital
FILE - NOVEMBER 2023, AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL, GAZA STRIP
7. Close up, footage of babies rescued from Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza relocated to the south of the strip
8. Various shots, babies rescued from Al-Shifa hospital in temperature-controlled incubators
9. Med shot, healthcare workers attend to the babies, a staff is seen wearing a UNICEF shirt
10. Various shots, healthcare workers treating and feeding the babies
FILE – NOVEMBER 2023, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tasmin Obaid, mother:
“Giving birth requires care and attention. There is not enough nutrition for me to breastfeed my child.”
FILE – NOVEMBER 2023, SOUTH GAZA STRIP
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wisam Al Masri, mother:
“I lived through a night of terror. After that, I showed signs of labour. I had a cesarean section and gave birth to a girl. When I woke up from the surgery, they told me that I had to evacuate the hospital immediately.”
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Samar Jabareen, health worker:
“There are urgent cesarean section births amid the war in the Gaza Strip. There are children of wounded mothers and children of dead mothers.”
14. Various shots, UNRWA School in the Gaza Strip
Almost 20,000 babies born into the war in Gaza. Medical care for pregnancy, births and newborns at breaking point with only one maternity hospital left to bear the burden of all deliveries and urgent maternal care.
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