UN / LEBANON UPDATE

A UN Spokesperson said that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is “deeply concerned about the continuing hostilities affecting civilians and civilian infrastructure along the Blue Line and beyond.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:15
• Production Date: 6 March 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: HOSTILITY; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: ISRAEL; LEBANON
• MAMS Id: 3181299
• Parent Id: 3181299
• Alternate Title: unifeed240306h

Description

STORY: UN / LEBANON UPDATE
TRT: 01:15
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 06 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

06 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Staying in Lebanon, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs tells us that they are deeply concerned about the continuing hostilities affecting civilians and civilian infrastructure along the Blue Line and beyond. This includes an Israeli airstrike on a health center in Odaisseh, in the south of Lebanon on 4 March. Three volunteer paramedics were killed. The World Health Organization condemned this incident, urging an immediate halt to attacks on civilians and health care in Lebanon.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“WHO reported that, since 7 October 2023, seven attacks on health care facilities in Lebanon have been reported, resulting in seven deaths. Our OCHA colleagues in Lebanon warn that the humanitarian situation in the south of the country remains dire, with more than 90,000 people internally displaced and at least 42 civilian casualties reported because of the fighting.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room

Storyline

A UN Spokesperson said that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is “deeply concerned about the continuing hostilities affecting civilians and civilian infrastructure along the Blue Line and beyond.”

“This includes an Israeli airstrike on a health center in Odaisseh, in the south of Lebanon on 4 March,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters today (06 Mar).

He added, “Three volunteer paramedics were killed. The World Health Organization condemned this incident, urging an immediate halt to attacks on civilians and health care in Lebanon.

He also said, “WHO reported that, since 7 October 2023, seven attacks on health care facilities in Lebanon have been reported, resulting in seven deaths.”

Dujarric concluded, “Our OCHA colleagues in Lebanon warn that the humanitarian situation on the south of the country remains dire, with more than 90,000 people internally displaced and at least 42 civilian casualties reported because of the fighting.