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STORY: UNHCR / LEBANON DISPLACED
TRT: 09:11
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 - 06 OCTOBER 2024, BEIRUT, LEBANON
SHOTLIST:
05 OCTOBER 2024, BEIRUT, LEBANON
1. Various shots, displaced Lebanese, reception center yard
2. Various shots, displaced Lebanese on the floor with mattresses, Hassan Hussein and his kids on floor in school designated as shelter
3. Various shots, displaced Lebanese, courtyard, reception centre
4. Various shots, windows, man hugging his son, family walking at reception centre
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Hassan, displaced Lebanese:
“In the end, we are adults. We can handle sleep deprivation, hunger, and thirst. But our children can't bear this.”
6. Wide shot, displaced Lebanese, reception center yard
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Hassan, displaced Lebanese:
“We let the children sleep in the car we came in and stayed on the sidewalk. What happened to us is a heart-breaking sight. We were mentally exhausted by the sights we saw on our way. We saw things that are difficult for any human to bear.”
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan Hussein, Displaced Lebanese:
“The children fell sick, with fever, like everyone else There's nothing else we can do. If there were a solution, we would've found it. There's no solution. Either we return home and die, or we stay here.”98. Various shots, displaced Syrian woman on balcony, folding clothes
9. Various shots, displaced Syrian woman looking out her balcony
10. Various shots, woman inside, sitting on couch, with family, pictures on cell phone
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shaza Faris, Syrian Refugee:
“My eldest daughter said “get us out of the war. There’s war here and we don’t want to stay”. They were scared of the noise, and they saw a lot of smoke. They saw how people on the streets were running left and right. They witnessed everything, and we tried to calm them down but we couldn’t. Because they lived this experience with us.”
12. Various shots, Syrian woman, kitchen, balcony
13. Various shots, woman with family, living room, watching news
06 OCTOBER 2024, BEIRUT, LEBANON
14. Various shots, High Commissioner Filippo Grandi, National Emergency Response Coordinator and Lebanese Environment Minister Nasser Yassin arriving at shelter school
15. Various shots, High Commissioner meeting with displaced families
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“This is a school in central Beirut. It should be a place where children learn. And yet, in the past few weeks, it has become a shelter, a makeshift shelter for hundreds of people displaced from those areas of Lebanon that are impacted by the current conflict, mostly by Israeli airstrikes.”
17. Various shots, High Commissioner meeting with displaced families
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“But meanwhile, of course, we need to help the displaced people. The United Nations systems and other aid agencies working very closely with the government are trying to bring this help. We need supply lines for all the goods that need to be distributed to people; to be cleared and this is a big challenge in a situation of war.”
19. Med shot, High Commissioner meeting with displaced family
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“My primary message is a message of solidarity with the people of this country that once again have to endure such an ordeal. In this this particular instance, due to the air strikes that are impacting so many civilians, civilian infrastructure around the country, and particularly in some parts of the country.”
21. Med shot, displaced family
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We spent time visiting a school in in central Beirut, but also families in the community. People are sheltered both in public buildings and, as you know, and inside the community and by the way, also outside in the open. So, we tried I tried, you know, colleagues tried to give me a sense of this terrible emergency. And I think I do have that sense. I do have the sense of the magnitude of needs. So, one big role for me here visiting is also to highlight that it is important to get more support from the international community.”
23. Wide shot, High Commissioner meeting with displaced families
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“The government has asked the U.N. to mobilise resources. The The U.N. humanitarian agencies issued an appeal for about half $1 billion for three months only. So, this is really only the beginning, because we don't know what will happen next.”
25. Med shot, High Commissioner meeting with displaced families
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Our appeal and I say our consciously, the U.N. as a whole, has appealed for a cease fire in Gaza for a long time and now also in Lebanon is directed, of course, to all the parties, to the conflict, but it is directed also to the states that have to donations to the governments that have influence over the parties to the conflict. So that appeal is for everybody to do the utmost, not to fuel or not to perpetuate, but to stop this carnage that is happening both in Gaza and in Lebanon today.”
27. Various shots, High Commissioner meeting with displaced families
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called today (6 Oct) for greater international support to stem the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing Lebanon.
UNHCR said that 2 weeks of Israeli airstrikes have killed hundreds and forced over a million people to flee their homes.
Grandi was visiting Beirut to express his solidarity with Lebanon and to mobilize more support for all those affected.
The conflict ravaging the country is disrupting urgently required supply shipments.
Supply routes within and into Lebanon must be preserved, so the flow of relief items continues to reach those in need.
During his visit, Grandi met with the Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, and other senior officials, the UN and humanitarian community, UNHCR staff, and displaced families.
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