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STORY: OCHA / FLETCHER GAZA VISIT
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SOURCE: OCHA
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LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05, 06 FEBRUARY 2025, GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE
05 FEBRUARY 2025, TAL AZ-ZA'TAR, JABALYA CAMP, GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE
1. Various shots, destruction in Jabalya
2. Pan right, tent where Abdul Rahim Salman Salman, displaced multiple times during the war, lives with his extended family
3. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Abdul Rahim Salman Salman, Displaced Person, Gaza:
“After I got up this morning, I came to the house. I found out it had been bombed. Frankly, I've been sad and cried out. I remembered my father and mother. Their memories are in the house. The memories are gone. My brother was also killed. My nephews and brother were injured.”
4. Wide shot, Abdul Rahim Salman Salman and his extended family
5. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Abdul Rahim Salman Salman, Displaced Person, Gaza:
“My brother is injured and needs treatment abroad. My nephew is also injured. His main artery here is cut off. He needs to be transferred abroad.”
6. Pan right Abdul Rahim Salman Salman joins his family
7. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Abdul Rahim Salman Salman, Displaced Person, Gaza:
“We hope that education is restored so that children can go back to school. It is essential.”
8. Wide shot, Abdul Rahim Salman Salman walking into his tent
9. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Abdul Rahim Salman Salman, Displaced Person, Gaza:
“The situation of water is very difficult so is transportation. We travel back and forth between Tal az-Za'tar and Gaza city on foot. Long distances. Long distances.”
10. Various shots, Tareq Musbah Mohammed al-Hawajri searching through what’s left of his destroyed home
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq Musbah Mohammed al-Hawajri Displaced Person, Gaza:
“I returned to my home. My house is completely destroyed. I haven't found anything in my home. No mattresses, no blankets, nothing. We still suffer in these harsh conditions. There's neither shelter nor place for me and my children to live in.”
12. Tilt down, damaged family house of Jihad Awadh Hasan Assaf
13. Various shots of Jihad Awadh Hasan Assaf entering his home covered by tarpaulins.
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jihad Awadh Hasan Assaf Displaced Person, Gaza:
“My son was killed during the first incursion, Hasan Jihad Assaf. In the second incursion, my son Ayman Jihad Assaf was killed too.”
15. Pan right Jihad Awadh Hasan Assaf and family members standing in front of their family home
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jihad Awadh Hasan Assaf Displaced Person, Gaza:
“We came back to the house here. We used tarpaulins and stayed in the bombed house. Thank God, we receive assistance. It's not enough, of course, but thank God, we make ends meet.”
17. Tilt down, damaged family house of Jihad Awadh Hasan Assaf
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jihad Awadh Hasan Assaf Displaced Person, Gaza:
“Thank God, I'm in good health condition, but my wife is sick. She receives medication from UNRWA. Sometimes, we bring it for her. Sometimes, we don't find it at UNRWA, so we buy it ourselves. Everything is hard, as I'm now unemployed. I have to buy it myself. The situation is difficult.”
06 FEBRUARY 2025, JABALYA, NORTH GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE
19. Various shots, USG Tom Fletcher and UN delegation in Tal Za'atar, Jabalya, meeting local residents and surveying damage from the war
20. Various shots, UN convoy moving through rubble
21. Med shot, USG Fletcher greeted by staff of Al Awda Hospital
23. Various shots, meeting of USG Fletcher and Al Awda Hospital staff
24. Various shots, USG Fletcher touring the hospital and meeting a patient
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“So, we're here in northern Gaza, and we've driven through the desolation of rubble, pulverized homes, pulverized communities, pulverized lives. Over 50,000 dead, over 100,000 injured. And the most important thing we can do today is to bear witness to the level of destruction. And when you see people picking through the rubble of their homes and their lives desperate to rebuild - It's a wake-up call for the world that we have to deliver life-saving aid to these communities. We've got the first 10,000 trucks through in just two weeks. But we've got to do much, much more. And we've got to be here. We've got to see this, and we've got to tell the story for the world.”
26. Various shots, USG Fletcher touring Al Shifa Hospital
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher accompanied a UN aid convoy into the Gaza Strip today (6 Feb), where OCHA and partners continue responding to immense needs as part of a prepared scale-up of our operations.
Since the ceasefire, displaced families have been returning to their neighbourhoods and towns, many times to find piles of rubble where their homes once stood.
SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Abdul Rahim Salman Salman, Displaced Person, Gaza:
“After I got up this morning, I came to the house. I found out it had been bombed. Frankly, I've been sad and cried out. I remembered my father and mother. Their memories are in the house. The memories are gone. My brother was also killed. My nephews and brother were injured.”
“My brother is injured and needs treatment abroad. My nephew is also injured. His main artery here is cut off. He needs to be transferred abroad.”
“We hope that education is restored so that children can go back to school. It is essential.”
“The situation of water is very difficult so is transportation. We travel back and forth between Tal az-Za'tar and Gaza city on foot. Long distances. Long distances.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq Musbah Mohammed al-Hawajri Displaced Person, Gaza:
“I returned to my home. My house is completely destroyed. I haven't found anything in my home. No mattresses, no blankets, nothing. We still suffer in these harsh conditions. There's neither shelter nor place for me and my children to live in.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jihad Awadh Hasan Assaf Displaced Person, Gaza:
“My son was killed during the first incursion, Hasan Jihad Assaf. In the second incursion, my son Ayman Jihad Assaf was killed too.”
“We came back to the house here. We used tarpaulins and stayed in the bombed house. Thank God, we receive assistance. It's not enough, of course, but thank God, we make ends meet.”
“Thank God, I'm in good health condition, but my wife is sick. She receives medication from UNRWA. Sometimes, we bring it for her. Sometimes, we don't find it at UNRWA, so we buy it ourselves. Everything is hard, as I'm now unemployed. I have to buy it myself. The situation is difficult.”
In northern Gaza, Fletcher spoke with survivors and returnees in Jabalya who are trying to rebuild their lives amid the rubble.
SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“So, we're here in northern Gaza, and we've driven through the desolation of rubble, pulverized homes, pulverized communities, pulverized lives. Over 50,000 dead, over 100,000 injured. And the most important thing we can do today is to bear witness to the level of destruction. And when you see people picking through the rubble of their homes and their lives desperate to rebuild - It's a wake-up call for the world that we have to deliver life-saving aid to these communities. We've got the first 10,000 trucks through in just two weeks. But we've got to do much, much more. And we've got to be here. We've got to see this, and we've got to tell the story for the world.”
He also toured two hospitals – Al Shifa in Gaza city and Al Awda in Jabalya – where he met with patients, staff and management.
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