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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / 03 OCTOBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA, PALESTINE / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
09 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nestor Owomuhangi, Representative in Palestine, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“The scale of devastation in Gaza remains unparalleled. The destruction, the loss of life, the despair, is simply overwhelming.”
4. Wide shot, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nestor Owomuhangi, Representative in Palestine, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“Attempts to visit hospitals in northern Gaza were denied by the Israeli authorities. So, unfortunately, I couldn't go. But I also visited women's safe spaces. I interacted with women, and I met adolescent girls attending hygiene and life skills sessions. I also met youth volunteers currently helping to deliver humanitarian assistance. It was visible that a year of war has plunged Gaza, Gaza's 2.1 million residents, into catastrophe.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nestor Owomuhangi, Representative in Palestine, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“Hunger affects 96 percent of Gazans, leading to disorder and looting. Anger augments against humanitarian workers as conditions worsen. In fact, recently we see social media posts that think that UN is not doing enough to help Gaza. And without police, without prisons. Without order, if the population turns against the UN and humanitarians, then possibly programs in Gaza will simply stop.”
8. Wide shot, press room dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nestor Owomuhangi, Representative in Palestine, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“Aid and health workers need protection. Gaza, as we speak, is the most dangerous place for humanitarians, with over 300 colleagues killed, including the highest number of UN personnel in the organisation's history. I'm desperately concerned for the health workers and patients in the Indonesia, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan Hospitals in northern Gaza who have been ordered to evacuate. Al-Awda is one of the main maternity hospitals providing emergency obstetric care. Post evacuation of health workers and patients will have catastrophic effects.”
10. Wide shot, press room dais
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nestor Owomuhangi, Representative in Palestine, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
“The evidence we obtained in Gaza is anecdotal. We haven't had a survey that is comprehensive, that would give us figures. So, the doctors tell us that the numbers they used to see before of women dying in their facilities have tripled. In fact, doctors were so concerned about miscarriages in Al-Nasser hospital in the month of September. They saw eight miscarriages and they said they had never seen that in the history of the hospital.”
12. Wide shot, end of presser
03 OCTOBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA, PALESTINE
13. Various shots, Nestor Owomuhangi and UNFPA delegation walking through shelters and talking to youth volunteer
14. Wide shot, interior, CFTA Women and Girls Safe Space
15. Wide shot, woman presenting winter clothes that displaced woman made in the safe space
16.Various shots, women making winter clothes
17. Wide shot, Owomuhangi operating bicycle being used to power sewing machine
16. Various shots, women chatting with UNFPA staff
The Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Palestine, Nestor Owomuhangi, today (10 Oct) warned that with hunger affecting 96 percent of Gazans, “if the population turns against the UN and humanitarians, then possibly programs in Gaza will simply stop.”
Briefing virtually from Jerusalem on his recent visit to Gaza and on the impact of the fighting on women and girls, Owomuhangi said, “the scale of devastation in Gaza remains unparalleled. The destruction, the loss of life, the despair, is simply overwhelming.”
He said, “attempts to visit hospitals in northern Gaza were denied by the Israeli authorities” but stressed it was “visible that a year of war has plunged Gaza, Gaza's 2.1 million residents, into catastrophe.”
Amid “disorder and looting” he reported a rise in “anger” against humanitarian workers as conditions worsen.
Owomuhangi visited the Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA) Women and Girls Safe Space in Khan Younis where he interacted with women, and met adolescent girls attending hygiene and life skills sessions, as well as youth volunteers helping to deliver humanitarian assistance.
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