UNFPA / LEBANON CONFLICT DESTRUCTION

With the ceasefire in Lebanon comes a welcome respite from the air strikes and widespread fear, but the humanitarian crisis is far from over. About 760,000 people displaced by the conflict have returned home to find their neighbourhoods turned into rubble and their family homes flattened. Critical infrastructure has been destroyed and access to healthcare, water, and education have been severely disrupted. UNFPA

• Video Length: 00:04:05
• Production Date: 17 December 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND - UNFPA
• Subject Topical: DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
• Geographic Subject: LEBANON
• MAMS Id: 3323649
• Parent Id: 3323649
• Alternate Title: unifeed241217c

Description

STORY: UNFPA / LEBANON CONFLICT DESTRUCTION
TRT: 04:43
SOURCE: UNFPA
RESTRICTIONS: CREDIT UNFPA ON SCREEN (TOP LEFT OR RIGHT)
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 05 DECEMBER 2024, AMEL'S COMMUNITY CENTRE, HAY EL SELLOM, BEIRUT, LEBANON

Shotlist

1. Various shots, damaged buildings
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela Di Camillo, UNFPA Lebanon Representative: “This is the result of 60 days of full-scale war on Lebanon, and on Beirut. I’m today in the southern suburbs of Beirut. And you can see what’s the impact of the war. Thousands of civilians were displaced during the war, and they lived in collective shelters. After the ceasefire, they came back, and this is how they found their neighbourhood."
3. Med shot, a woman looks at the destructions
4. Wide shot, two women look at the destructions
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela Di Camillo, UNFPA Lebanon Representative: “More than half of the primary healthcare centres are still closed, making it difficult for the 14,000 pregnant women to access the care they need, gynaecologists’ and midwives’ attention.”
6. Closeup, sign of the centre
7. Med shot, centre’s exterior wall
8. Closeup, centre’s exterior wall
9. Wide shot, a damaged room in the centre
10. Wide shot, a UNFPA staff chat with a woman in the damaged room
11. Various shots, boards and drawings in the centre
12. Various shots, UNFPA Lebanon Representative Pamela Di Camillo chat with implementation partner staff
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela Di Camillo, UNFPA Lebanon Representative: “I’m standing at one of the 11 centres supported by UNFPA that is now closed and destroyed because of the conflict. This used to be a women and girls safe space, hosting over 300 women and girls, who came here to get peer support, psychological support, and gender-based violence (GBV) survivors were getting the much needed help to deal with the consequences of violence and get out of violence relationships.”
14. Med shot, Di Camillo and UNFPA staff walk through the damaged rooms
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela Di Camillo, UNFPA Lebanon Representative: “UNFPA has been scaling up efforts with mobile medical units, deploying midwives to reach women and girls in need, wherever they are. But we need to do more. We need more support. Time to do more is now.”
16. Various shots, Di Camillo and UNFPA staff walk through the damaged rooms
17. Wide shot, damaged buildings
18. Med shot, damaged building roof and solar panels
19. Med shot, damaged building
20. Med shot, damaged vehicle
21. Wide shot, damaged vehicles
22. Med shot, damaged vehicle and a destroyed ambulance
23. Closeup, a destroyed ambulance
24. Closeup, a destroyed ambulance

Storyline

With the ceasefire in Lebanon comes a welcome respite from the air strikes and widespread fear, but the humanitarian crisis is far from over.

About 760,000 people displaced by the conflict have returned home to find their neighbourhoods turned into rubble and their family homes flattened. Critical infrastructure has been destroyed and access to healthcare, water, and education have been severely disrupted.

There are 336,000 women of reproductive age and an estimated 14,000 pregnant women struggling to access antenatal, safe delivery and postnatal services because half of primary health centers are not functioning.

Women and girls safe spaces – critical to providing counselling and support services to traumatized populations, as well helping survivors of gender violence – have been destroyed. Pamela Di Camillo, UNFPA Lebanon representative, visits one of the safe spaces that once supported hundreds of women and girls.

UNFPA is working tirelessly to provide critical reproductive health services and protection to women and girls in Lebanon. However, urgent funding is needed to continue these essential programs. In 2025 UNFPA is appealing for $36 million to support the recovery and well-being of Lebanese women and girls.