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DATELINE: 26 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ
26 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, speakers at podium and on screen, journalists, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge, Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“To describe the situation here, it's just catastrophic. The last couple of weeks we have had relentless forced displacement orders in the middle area, in the southern area, and also in northern Gaza Strip, and what we're seeing here is hundreds of thousands of people forced to move on a daily basis.”
PLEASE CREDIT UNRWA ON SCREEN - 17 AUGUST 2024, AL MAGHAZI, GAZA
4. Wide shot, displaced people driving in Al Maghazi area
26 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge, Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“People just don't know where to go. If you see the humanitarian area, if you see along the area, you can barely even see the sand of the floor anymore. It is just packed shelter to shelter. People are using the sand and building walls with the sand to stop the seawater coming into their makeshift shelters.”
PLEASE CREDIT UNRWA ON SCREEN - 17 AUGUST 2024, AL MAGHAZI, GAZA
6. Wide shot, displaced people driving
26 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge, Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“There are scorpions, there are mosquitoes, rats, mice, snakes. Among the population who are living in these conditions, we're seeing an increase in spread of disease. As most are aware, we've now had the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza Strip since the last 25 years, and this really just speaks to how dire the conditions here are.”
PLEASE CREDIT UNRWA ON SCREEN - 17 AUGUST 2024, AL MAGHAZI, GAZA
8. Wide shot, displaced people driving
26 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge, Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“The humanitarian operations are also being displaced within these evacuation orders, and the humanitarian response here is being completely strangled and limited our ability of what we can do.”
PLEASE CREDIT UNRWA ON SCREEN - 17 AUGUST 2024, AL MAGHAZI, GAZA
10. Wide shot, displaced person in wheelchair
26 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Rose, Senior Deputy Field Director, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“The humanitarian zone declared by Israel has shrunk. It's now about 11 percent of the entire Gaza Strip, and this isn't 11 percent of land that is fit for habitation, fit for services, fit for life.”
PLEASE CREDIT UNRWA ON SCREEN - 17 AUGUST 2024, AL MAGHAZI, GAZA
12. Wide shot, cars with belongings, UN truck
26 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Rose, Senior Deputy Field Director, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“We're working collectively. All our efforts are now geared on making the polio campaign, which will start this Saturday, into a success. It involves mass human resources. Over 3,000 people in total will be working on the campaign. Over 1,000 of them from UNRWA, which is essentially the largest primary health care provider left in the Gaza Strip. The vaccines have come in. We're calling for calm. We're calling for humanitarian pauses that will allow the vaccination programs to pass and be implemented successfully.”
PLEASE CREDIT UNRWA ON SCREEN - 17 AUGUST 2024, AL MAGHAZI, GAZA
14. Wide shot, displaced people driving
26 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge, Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“Everything seen here, has been unprecedented so far. Everything the United Nations has achieved in the Gaza Strip has been unprecedented. The conditions are unprecedented. Every day is a new challenge.”
PLEASE CREDIT UNRWA ON SCREEN - 17 AUGUST 2024, AL MAGHAZI, GAZA
16. Wide shot, displaced people on the street
UNRWA’s Senior Communications Officer Louise Wateridge said, “Everything seen here, has been unprecedented so far. Everything the United Nations has achieved in the Gaza Strip has been unprecedented. The conditions are unprecedented. Every day is a new challenge.”
Wateridge and Sam Rose, UNRWA’s Senior Deputy Field Director addressed the press virtually today (26 Aug) from Deir Al Balah governorate in Gaza.
Wateridge said, “To describe the situation here, it's just catastrophic. The last couple of weeks we have had relentless forced displacement orders in the middle area, in the southern area, and also in northern Gaza Strip, and what we're seeing here is hundreds of thousands of people forced to move on a daily basis.”
She continued, “People just don't know where to go. If you see the humanitarian area, if you see along the area, you can barely even see the sand of the floor anymore. It is just packed shelter to shelter. People are using the sand and building walls with the sand to stop the seawater coming into their makeshift shelters.”
She added, “There are scorpions, there are mosquitoes, rats, mice, snakes. Among the population who are living in these conditions, we're seeing an increase in spread of disease. As most are aware, we've now had the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza Strip since the last 25 years, and this really just speaks to how dire the conditions here are.”
She highlighted, “The humanitarian operations are also being displaced within these evacuation orders, and the humanitarian response here is being completely strangled and limited our ability of what we can do.”
UNRWA’s Deputy Field Director, stressed, “The humanitarian zone declared by Israel has shrunk. It's now about 11 percent of the entire Gaza Strip, and this isn't 11 percent of land that is fit for habitation, fit for services, fit for life.”
He also said, “We're working collectively. All our efforts are now geared on making the polio campaign, which will start this Saturday, into a success. It involves mass human resources. Over 3,000 people in total will be working on the campaign. Over 1,000 of them from UNRWA, which is essentially the largest primary health care provider left in the Gaza Strip. The vaccines have come in. We're calling for calm. We're calling for humanitarian pauses that will allow the vaccination programs to pass and be implemented successfully.”
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