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STORY: UN / GAZA UPDATE
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SOURCE: UNIFEED / UNRWA
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 JANUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / 09 JANUARY 2025, UNRWA DISTRIBUTION CENTER, NUSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt up, exterior UN headquarters
10 JANUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the dais
3. Med shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs tells us that Israeli authorities continue to deny UN-led efforts to reach [North] Gaza governorate with vital aid. This includes our most recent attempt today. Across the Gaza Strip yesterday, only 10 out of the 21 UN planned humanitarian movements were facilitated by the Israeli authorities. Seven were denied outright, three were impeded, and one was cancelled due to security and logistical challenges. Meanwhile, OCHA is deeply concerned about the impact that dwindling fuel supplies are having on essential services in Gaza. Palestinian telecommunication providers are now warning that their services may start to shut down tomorrow due to fuel shortages, which they need to run the generators for their equipment. The World Health Organization said today that Al Awda Hospital – which is, as you know, the last partially functioning hospital in North Gaza governorate – is critically low on fuel and essential medical supplies. WHO has been working to access Al Awda to resupply it and to assess the situation at Kamal Adwan Hospital, which is completely out of service. However, damaged roads – as well as insufficient facilitation of access by the Israeli authorities – has made it impossible to safely reach those facilities. Our WHO colleagues urgently call for immediate action to make roads passable and to facilitate access to Al Awda [Hospital] to keep it up and running.”
5. Wide shot, end of presser
09 JANUARY 2025, UNRWA DISTRIBUTION CENTER, NUSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE
6. Various shots, food distribution
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today (10 Jan) informed that Israeli authorities continue to deny UN-led efforts to reach North Gaza governorate with vital aid, a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York.
This includes a most recent attempt today.
The Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “across the Gaza Strip yesterday, only 10 out of the 21 UN planned humanitarian movements were facilitated by the Israeli authorities. Seven were denied outright, three were impeded, and one was cancelled due to security and logistical challenges.”
OCHA, Dujarric said, “is deeply concerned about the impact that dwindling fuel supplies are having on essential services in Gaza.”
He also said, “Palestinian telecommunication providers are now warning that their services may start to shut down tomorrow due to fuel shortages, which they need to run the generators for their equipment.”
The World Health Organization, for its part, said that Al Awda Hospital, the last partially functioning hospital in North Gaza governorate, “is critically low on fuel and essential medical supplies.”
Dujarric said WHO “has been working to access Al Awda to resupply it and to assess the situation at Kamal Adwan Hospital, which is completely out of service. However, damaged roads – as well as insufficient facilitation of access by the Israeli authorities – has made it impossible to safely reach those facilities.”
WHO urgently calls “for immediate action to make roads passable and to facilitate access to Al Awda Hospital to keep it up and running.”
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