OCHA / GAZA KHAN YOUNIS DESTRUCTION

Tens of thousands of people displaced by the war are returning to their damaged or destroyed homes in Khan Younis searching for their belongings. Humanitarians are scaling up services in the area despite constraints on movement and on delivering fuel and other supplies into and within Gaza. OCHA

• Video Length: 00:07:47
• Production Date: 24 May 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
• Geographic Subject: PALESTINE; GAZA
• MAMS Id: 3211574
• Parent Id: 3211574
• Alternate Title: unifeed240524i

Description

STORY: OCHA / GAZA KHAN YOUNIS DESTRUCTION
TRT: 07:47
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 23 MAY 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

Shotlist

23 MAY, KHAN YOUNIS
1 Moving shot, through destroyed buildings
5. Panning shot, flattened WHO facility
6. Various shots, destruction in the city
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmina Guerda, Humanitarian Affairs Officer, OCHA Gaza:
“We came to Khan Younis, a city in the south of Gaza where heavy fighting has taken place over the past few months, and it is all but flattened. Now tens of thousands of people have started to come back to see what's become of their homes, to find their clothes, their photographs, their memories, and to figure out if anything can be salvaged.”
8. Wide shot of Bilal, Khan Younis resident displaced to the coastal area, clearing debris in front of what’s left of his home
9. Med shot, Bilal showing his mangled car
10. UPSOUND (Arabic):
“The tank did this to our car”
11. Various shots, Bilal and family members, using pages of books to light a fire in absence of cooking gas, very hard to come by in Gaza
12. Med shot, Abdallah, Bilal’s fater, going through a bag of clothes and walking to the rubble of his home
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bilal, Khan Younis resident displaced to the coastal area”
“The ground floor was destroyed from the first strike. The second strike hit the building again. The kitchen which was here is now there. The restrooms were located in the back of the house.”
14. Med shot, Bilal clearing debris with his hands
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah:
“My kids have to walk 3 to 4 kilometers to Bani Suheila to fetch water using buckets.”
16. Various shots, men clearing debris in a bakery
17. Tilt-down shot, a damaged bread conveyor belt
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed:
“This machine is a conveyor belt that keeps the bread moving.”
19. Tilt down shot, damaged residential building
20. Various shots of Osama, farmer who recently returned to his home in Khan Younis, entering the building and showing inside
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Osama:
“I will stay here, even if they say there is another incursion in Khan Younis, my place is here.”
22. Moving shot, through destroyed buildings
23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sabrin:
“My house extended from here to there. I didn't expect them to demolish it. It was a beautiful and new house.”
24. Moving shot, through destroyed buildings
25. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sabrin:
27. “I feel shattered. They have ruined our lives. We are alive yet dead inside.”
28. Moving shot, destroyed buildings
29. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sabrin:
“I'm here waiting, hoping someone can assist us or help with rebuilding so we can settle down.”
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmina Guerda, Humanitarian Affairs Officer, OCHA Gaza:
“Humanitarians are scaling up the services that they are providing in this area. But with all of the restrictions and challenges in getting aid and fuel into Gaza, it's just a drop in the massive ocean of need that we are faced with.”

Storyline

Tens of thousands of people displaced by the war are returning to their damaged or destroyed homes in Khan Younis searching for their belongings.

Humanitarians are scaling up services in the area despite constraints on movement and on delivering fuel and other supplies into and within Gaza.