UN / GAZA HUMANITARIAN
STORY: UN / GAZA HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 03:52
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 JUNE 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
03 JUNE 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea De Domenico, Head, Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The narrowing space that is left for civilians to conglomerate and leave is becoming more and more limited and more and more crowded. It's impossible as of today to move from Mawasi- where some of our premises are - to go to Khan Yunis or Deir el Beleh without literally navigating through a wave of people that are everywhere.
5. Wide shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea De Domenico, Head, Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The living condition within the tent is so hot during the day, and of course there is lack of water for people within the tents. And so, people basically are going to the sea to find some opportunity to cool themselves down because of the high temperature of the day. And by doing this also they take the opportunity to wash themselves, because there is no other way that people can obtain some decent hygiene.”
7. Wide shot, press room dais
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea De Domenico, Head, Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The rule of the strongest is becoming the only rule that is prevailing simply because there is so little for people to survive that only the strongest can have access to that, and that has eroded and penetrated even the relations within family members.”
9. Wide shot, press room dais
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea De Domenico, Head, Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We estimate more or less there are 20,000 pregnant women that will again lose any point of reference for bringing their pregnancy to an end in conditions that are suitable for, and adequate for a proper delivery for their babies.”
11. Med shot, journalist asking question
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea De Domenico, Head, Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“So, for me the idea of extending this war for another six months or seven months is simply terrible. But we will stay and deliver. We will keep on trying and doing our job day in and day out, to the end of our ability. And the concern for me is how people will cope with this.”
13. Wide shot, end of presser
OCHA - JUNE 2024, DEIR EL BELEH, MIDDLE AREA GOVERNORATE
14. Various shots, community kitchen
15. Various shots, temporary learning space
15. Various shots, water distribution
The Head of OCHA's Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) Andrea De Domenico, today (03 Jun) told reporters in New York that “the idea of extending this war for another six months or seven months is simply terrible.”
Briefing via video teleconference from Jerusalem upon his return from Gaza, Domenico said in Rafah “the narrowing space that is left for civilians to conglomerate and leave is becoming more and more limited and more and more crowded.”
Within the tent, in the camps, he said, it is “so hot during the day, and of course there is lack of water for people within the tents. And so, people basically are going to the sea to find some opportunity to cool themselves down because of the high temperature of the day.”
He said, “by doing this also they take the opportunity to wash themselves, because there is no other way that people can obtain some decent hygiene.”
Commenting on the erosion of civility within Gaza, Domenico said “the rule of the strongest is becoming the only rule that is prevailing simply because there is so little for people to survive that only the strongest can have access to that, and that has eroded and penetrated even the relations within family members.”
The humanitarian official estimated “more or less there are 20,000 pregnant women that will again lose any point of reference for bringing their pregnancy to an end in conditions that are suitable for, and adequate for a proper delivery for their babies.”
He said OCHA “will keep on trying and doing our job day in and day out, to the end of our ability. And the concern for me is how people will cope with this.”
A staggering one million people have now fled Rafah in southern Gaza, the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday, amid fresh reports of overnight attacks in southern, central and northern locations by Israeli forces.
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