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DATELINE: 13 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
13 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary Di Carlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“The devastating Israeli attack on the al-Tabeen school in Gaza City, which prompted this meeting, points once again to the desperate need to reach a ceasefire, free the hostages and scale up humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary Di Carlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“If the slide towards an even greater catastrophe is to be halted, the parties must end all escalatory rhetoric and actions. I reiterate the Secretary General’s call for all to work vigorously towards regional deescalation in the interest of long-term peace and stability.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary Di Carlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, United Nations:
“As the leaders of Egypt, Qatar and the United States emphasized in their joint statement on 8 August, and I quote, “there is no further time to waste, nor excuses from any party for further delay” (end quote). Their call for immediate relief to the people of Gaza and the hostages and their families must be heeded. I urge all parties to prioritize the protection of civilians and promptly conclude this deal as endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 2735 (2024). The United Nations is committed to supporting all efforts towards this goal and remains in close contact with the relevant parties.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Doughten, Director, Financing And Partnerships Division, UN Office For The Coordination Of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The health situation in Gaza remains critical and the healthcare system is barely functional, providing brave but limited support for the injured and the sick; for the women in childbirth; and against rapidly spreading disease. Thousands of patients in critical conditions are on waiting lists for medical evacuations.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Doughten, Director, Financing and Partnerships Division, UN Office For The Coordination Of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“It bears repeating: There is no protection of civilians in Gaza. Alongside the relentless mass displacement within Gaza, many thousands of Palestinians have left and many more are trying. As this conflict persists and lives are threatened daily, civilians must be allowed to seek protection. Those displaced must also be guaranteed the right to voluntarily return. What we are seeing in Gaza is the result of a war waged with pitiful – if any – regard for the requirements of international law. I share the Secretary General’s and others' deep concern about violations of international humanitarian law being committed throughout this conflict.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Doughten, Director, Financing and Partnerships Division, UN Office for the Coordination Of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Access to people in need remains a challenge. The increase in bureaucratic and administrative impediments, such as delays in visa issuance and renewals for broader operational support and management is severely impacting the response. And our concerns for the safety of staff keep growing, with attacks on or near aid vehicles that have been coordinated on the rise. Recently, within a 12-day period, there has been four shooting incidents involving UN convoys s, including on a vehicle carrying children on their way to be reunited with their father.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“We have raised our concerns with Israel, and while they indicated they were targeting senior officials from Hamas and Palestinian jihad, they have an obligation to do everything possible under international humanitarian law to protect civilians. We mourn every civilian lost in this horrific incident and in this conflict.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“Israel has a right to pursue Hamas. Israel has a right to respond to threats. But how it does that matters. We've said repeatedly and consistently that Israel must take measures to minimize civilian harm.”
18. Various shots, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“But let me be clear, our deployment of additional military assets are not a prediction of what is to come. A broader regional conflict is not inevitable. The United States’ overall goal remains to turn the temperature down in the region, deter and defend against any future attacks and avoid regional conflict.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“Do you ever think what if you were born in Gaza? What if the prisoner raped was your son? What if the children starving to death were your own? What if that woman killed was your daughter or your wife? What if the disease was ridden the body of your mother, your grandmother? What if that family that was blown into pieces or burned to death was yours, killed in cold blood after running in desperation and hunger for months to survive.”
22. Med shot, Israeli delegation
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“It became apparent long ago that this Israeli government could care less about them. The hostages know it. Their families know it. You know it In the Security Council. Israel is killing them, abandoning them, playing with their lives. Netanyahu has other priorities, self-serving ones, maniacal ones. He is a maniac. Something terrible is happening in Israel, something that has made justifying genocide, famine and gang rape mainstream ideology. Something horrific is happening, the memory of the Holocaust, instead of serving as an unbreachable barrier against the commission of atrocities has been instrumentalized to justify their commission.”
24. Wide shot, Security Council
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“Wake up. Wake up. How long do you have to remain in denial? Wake up. Stop finding excuses. Stop imagining that you can reason with the Israeli government so it stops killing civilians by the thousands, imposing famine, torturing prisoners, colonizing and annexing our land, all while you appeal to them, call on them, demand them to stop. You have to tell them to stop and you have the tools to make them stop as a Security Council and as nations in your national capacity. You have to decide what do you stand for and what do you stand against. This is not a time for justifications and equivocations. This is a time for clarity and resolve. This is time to shore up principles and morality. Do not abandon your duties. Do not abandon your duties as a Security Council.”
26. Various shots, Security Council
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“Let me be clear, Jerusalem will never fall again. Jerusalem, united Jerusalem will never fall again. No matter how many times our enemies attempt to destroy us, no matter how many times the UN slanders us and distorts reality, we will stay in our homeland and we will prevail.”
28. Wide shot, Security Council
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“I simply cannot comprehend that the United Nations Security Council would hold an emergency session based on jihadist propaganda. Once again, the Council falls for terrorist narratives, amplifying them and neglecting its obligations to the truth.”
30. Close up, Palestinian Ambassador at the Council
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“You know what, the most unbelievable thing is your inaction to condemn and stop the biggest danger and threat to the entire region, Iran. Right now, as we speak here now, millions of Israelis are preparing for a direct Iranian attack, just as they did in April. Iran's aggression threatens the entire region with war, a regional war, yet you are here wasting time on falsehoods spread by the words of terrorists.”
32. Wide shot, Security Council
33. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“I have been immensely, immensely proud to represent my country here, the most moral country in the world, the most moral country in the World. You listen? Palestinian Representative? In this warped place. I hope one day you will also see the bias and perversion of morality here and pray and I pray that you will see the truth the terrorist organization that this guy represents here and tyrannical regimes should be condemned, not protected. and that Israel should be praised. We are today the vanguard of civilization. We are the vanguard of civilization.”
34. Wide shot, Ambassador Erdan leaving the Council
35. SOUNDBITE (English) Representative from South Africa:
“We reiterate that the international community cannot proclaim the importance of international law, including the respect for the UN Charter in some situations, but not in others, the ability of Israel to simply ignore binding decisions from international organizations with no consequences is unacceptable.”
36. Wide shot, Security Council
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, said,
“The devastating Israeli attack on the al-Tabeen school in Gaza City, which prompted this meeting, points once again to the desperate need to reach a ceasefire, free the hostages and scale up humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
Speaking at a Council’s emergency meeting on the situation in the Middle East today (13 Aug), Di Carlo said, “If the slide towards an even greater catastrophe is to be halted, the parties must end all escalatory rhetoric and actions.”
The UN chief of political affairs reiterated the Secretary General’s call for all to “work vigorously towards regional deescalation in the interest of long-term peace and stability.”
Di Carlo also noted that as the leaders of Egypt, Qatar and the United States emphasized in their joint statement on 8 August, “there is no further time to waste, nor excuses from any party for further delay,” their call for immediate relief to the people of Gaza and the hostages and their families “must be heeded.”
The Under-Secretary-General urged all parties to “prioritize the protection of civilians and promptly conclude this deal as endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 2735 (2024).”
She concluded, “The United Nations is committed to supporting all efforts towards this goal and remains in close contact with the relevant parties.”
Lisa Doughten spoke on behalf of the Acting Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
She said, “The health situation in Gaza remains critical and the healthcare system is barely functional, providing brave but limited support for the injured and the sick; for the women in childbirth; and against rapidly spreading disease. Thousands of patients in critical conditions are on waiting lists for medical evacuations.”
Doughten also said, “It bears repeating: There is no protection of civilians in Gaza. Alongside the relentless mass displacement within Gaza, many thousands of Palestinians have left and many more are trying. “
“As this conflict persists and lives are threatened daily,” she continued, “civilians must be allowed to seek protection. Those displaced must also be guaranteed the right to voluntarily return.”
Doughten reiterated, “What we are seeing in Gaza is the result of a war waged with pitiful – if any – regard for the requirements of international law.”
She shared the Secretary General’s and others' deep concern about violations of international humanitarian law being committed throughout this conflict.
“Access to people in need remains a challenge,” Doughten highlighted.
She continued, “The increase in bureaucratic and administrative impediments, such as delays in visa issuance and renewals for broader operational support and management is severely impacting the response.”
The OCHA official added, “our concerns for the safety of staff keep growing, with attacks on or near aid vehicles that have been coordinated on the rise. Recently, within a 12-day period, there has been four shooting incidents involving UN convoys s, including on a vehicle carrying children on their way to be reunited with their father.”
For her part, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that the United States is deeply concerned about reports of civilian casualties following the August 10 strike by the IDF on the compound in Gaza that included a school and a mosque sheltering desperate, displaced people, including women and children.
She said, “We have raised our concerns with Israel, and while they indicated they were targeting senior officials from Hamas and Palestinian jihad, they have an obligation to do everything possible under international humanitarian law to protect civilians. We mourn every civilian lost in this horrific incident and in this conflict.”
Ambassador Greenfield also said, “Israel has a right to pursue Hamas. Israel has a right to respond to threats. But how it does that matters. We've said repeatedly and consistently that Israel must take measures to minimize civilian harm.”
The US Ambassador reiterated, “let me be clear, our deployment of additional military assets are not a prediction of what is to come. A broader regional conflict is not inevitable.”
She said, “The United States’ overall goal remains to turn the temperature down in the region, deter and defend against any future attacks and avoid regional conflict.”
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad H. Mansour asked the Council members, “Do you ever think what if you were born in Gaza? What if the prisoner raped was your son? What if the children starving to death were your own? What if that woman killed was your daughter or your wife? What if the disease was ridden the body of your mother, your grandmother? What if that family that was blown into pieces or burned to death was yours, killed in cold blood after running in desperation and hunger for months to survive.”
On the hostages that are held by Hamas, Ambassador Mansour also said, “It became apparent long ago that this Israeli government could care less about them. The hostages know it. Their families know it. You know it In the Security Council. Israel is killing them, abandoning them, playing with their lives.”
He continued, “Netanyahu has other priorities, self-serving ones, maniacal ones. He is a maniac. Something terrible is happening in Israel, something that has made justifying genocide, famine and gang rape mainstream ideology. Something horrific is happening, the memory of the Holocaust, instead of serving as an unbreachable barrier against the commission of atrocities, has been instrumentalized to justify their commission.”
“Wake up. Wake up. How long do you have to remain in denial?” the Palestinian Ambassador told the Council members.
Ambassador Mansour continued, “Stop finding excuses. Stop imagining that you can reason with the Israeli government so it stops killing civilians by the thousands, imposing famine, torturing prisoners, colonizing and annexing our land, all while you appeal to them, call on them, demand them to stop.”
He added, “You have to tell them to stop and you have the tools to make them stop as a Security Council and as nations in your national capacity. You have to decide what do you stand for and what do you stand against. This is not a time for justifications and equivocations. This is a time for clarity and resolve. This is time to shore up principles and morality.”
“Do not abandon your duties. Do not abandon your duties as a Security Council,” the Palestinian Ambassador concluded.
For his part, Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan reiterated, “Let me be clear, Jerusalem will never fall again. Jerusalem, united Jerusalem will never fall again. No matter how many times our enemies attempt to destroy us, no matter how many times the UN slanders us and distorts reality, we will stay in our homeland and we will prevail.”
Ambassador Erdan also said, “I simply cannot comprehend that the United Nations Security Council would hold an emergency session based on jihadist propaganda. Once again, the Council falls for terrorist narratives, amplifying them and neglecting its obligations to the truth.”
He said, “You know what, the most unbelievable thing is your inaction to condemn and stop the biggest danger and threat to the entire region, Iran.”
“Right now, as we speak here now, millions of Israelis are preparing for a direct Iranian attack, just as they did in April. Iran's aggression threatens the entire region with war, a regional war, yet you are here wasting time on falsehoods spread by the words of terrorists,” the Israeli Ambassador added.
Ambassador Erdan concluded, “I have been immensely, immensely proud to represent my country here, the most moral country in the world, the most moral country in the World. You listen? Palestinian Representative? In this warped place. I hope one day you will also see the bias and perversion of morality here and pray and I pray that you will see the truth the terrorist organization that this guy represents here and tyrannical regimes should be condemned, not protected. and that Israel should be praised. We are today the vanguard of civilization. We are the vanguard of civilization.”
Representative from South Africa also spoke at the meeting.
He reiterated, “the international community cannot proclaim the importance of international law, including the respect for the UN Charter in some situations, but not in others, the ability of Israel to simply ignore binding decisions from international organizations with no consequences is unacceptable.”
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