GENEVA / GAZA GRIFFITHS HUMANITARIAN

UN’s top aid official said, “We're not running away from Gaza, at all.” UNTV CH
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STORY: GENEVA / GAZA GRIFFITHS HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 03:22
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 JUNE 2024 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

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1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Geneva flag alley
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“My response is very clear, it’s not an ultimatum. We continue, as we have done for these many, many months to negotiate with the Israeli authorities and others with a lot of help, by the way, from the US, as you know, to get the right conditions to allow it to be delivered safely and securely. So we're not running away from Gaza, at all, but what is true now - and I think that's the basis for this story - is of course that we are particularly concerned about the security situation in Gaza, and it is becoming more and more difficult to operate.”
3. Wide shot, exterior, UN Geneva flag alley
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“Aid can make a difference. That's why we need to get all these crossings open, that's why we need safety and security, that's why we need the pier to restart and get that aid off the beach if that can be done too. We need all hands on deck for this.”
5. Wide shot, UN Geneva flag alley, Palais des Nations
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“We'll keep on at it. But we fail them daily every time we're not able to get aid through to the people who need it.”
7. Wide shot, UN Geneva flag alley, Palais des Nations
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“The problem is a political one, that's the real effort, that must be the focus of all our efforts. And indeed, one of the interesting aspects of the Middle East is that there is a lot of political diplomacy, a lot of mediation going on. By the way, I wish we could see that elsewhere, like in Sudan, but we need to see it bring results.”
9. Med shot, UN Geneva flag alley
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“But it's not about whether the UN aid agencies are ready, it's about whether the world is going to pitch in to stop this going south.”
11. Wide shot, UN Geneva flag alley facing broken chair sculpture.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“We delivered aid to 144 million people last year, that's two-thirds of what we hoped to reach at a time when funding was problematic. The aid agencies - and it goes back to the point I was making earlier about Gaza - the aid agencies are doing an extraordinary job, and in particular within a global aid agency, the frontline deliverers.”
13. Wide shot, UN Geneva flag alley
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“I had the privilege of meeting representatives from the emergency rooms; the Sudanese civil society organizations from across the country, by the way, came out to visit to brief and who then went back and are still working on those front lines back in Khartoum, across the country. They don't go away, they are, you know, they are the standard I think, for all of us to be able to say, yes, this is definitely worth it.”
15. Wide shot, UN Geneva flag alley
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“I believe this fundamentally from my, life, one life saved - one life saved - makes it worthwhile. And I am amazed by the resilience of communities. And I am amazed by the courage of aid workers.”
17. Med shot, UN Geneva flag alley
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“The disparity between the amount of money, you know, more than $2 trillion a year spent on war and the amount of money spent on humanitarian aid for peace-making is an astonishing disparity. And it's a shameful one.”
19. Wide shot, UN Geneva flag alley

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UN’s top aid official said, “We're not running away from Gaza, at all.”

Martin Griffiths, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said today (26 Jun) that UN aid teams and partner organizations remain deeply committed to delivering lifesaving aid into Gaza, despite the many and dangerous obstacles workers continue to encounter.

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