OCHA / NORTH GAZA AID

A team from OCHA, WHO and UNICEF visited Shifa hospital in Gaza city, bringing medicines, vaccines, and fuel to help ensure that the medical facility remains functioning. The team also met with people who were among those injured yesterday while seeking life-saving aid in an area west of Gaza City. OCHA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:36
• Production Date: 1 March 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: FOOD SECURITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; HUNGER; WAR
• Geographic Subject: GAZA; PALESTINE
• MAMS Id: 3179278
• Parent Id: 3179278
• Alternate Title: unifeed240301g

Description

STORY: OCHA / NORTH GAZA AID
TRT: 01:36
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 01 MARCH 2024, GAZA CITY, PALESTINE

Shotlist

1. Travelling shot, convoy moving north to Gaza City along Beach Road
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Georgios Petropoulos, Head, Gaza Sub-Office, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“It is one day after the tragic events of the Beach Road checkpoint, where hundreds of people lost their life and were injured. And this is the first UN mission. with WHO and UNICEF colleagues to the north since then, and we have brought fuel, medicine, vaccines and specifically malnutrition food.”
3. Travelling shot, convoy moving north to Gaza City along Beach Road
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Georgios Petropoulos, Head, Gaza Sub-Office, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“As I speak to you, this hospital is treating more than 200 people that were injured yesterday. We have seen people with gunshot wounds. We have seen amputees, and we have seen, children as young as 12 that were injured. Yes. these events cannot be allowed to go on. We need to have safe, secure passage throughout Gaza to reach the people that need humanitarian aid.”
5. Travelling shot, convoy moving north to Gaza City along Beach Road
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Georgios Petropoulos, Head, Gaza Sub-Office, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We need every single crossing into Gaza, opening that we needed, and equipment needed for food. and these people need to have not just food and water. The hospitals needed for me. They need specialized services. They need special machines.”
7. Pan right, interior of Shifa hospital
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Georgios Petropoulos, Head, Gaza Sub-Office, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We hope that in the coming days, large convoys with food will come into North Gaza. And in this way, we can then, reach people, talk to them, and see what other needs they have.”
9. Travelling shot, convoy moving north to Gaza City along Beach Road

Storyline

A team from OCHA, WHO and UNICEF today (1 Mar) visited Shifa hospital in Gaza city, bringing medicines, vaccines, and fuel to help ensure that the medical facility remains functioning.

The team also met with people who were among those injured yesterday while seeking life-saving aid in an area west of Gaza City. 

Shifa hospital has reportedly admitted more than 700 people who were injured yesterday, about 200 of whom are still being hospitalized. By the time of the team's visit, hospital staff told them that they had also received the bodies of more than 70 people who had been killed yesterday.

This is the first time that a UN convoy was able to deliver aid into northern Gaza in over one week.