GENEVA / GAZA UPDATE

Lifesaving supplies in Gaza continue to run dangerously low, nearly four weeks into the total aid blockade and deadly bombardment of the enclave by Israel, UN humanitarians said. UNTV CH

• Video Length: 00:03:27
• Production Date: 28 March 2025
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES; Gender; HEALTH; PALESTINE
• Geographic Subject: GAZA
• MAMS Id: 3355909
• Parent Id: 3355909
• Alternate Title: unifeed250328b

Description

STORY: GENEVA / GAZA UPDATE
TRT: 03:27
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 28 MARCH 2025 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais de Nations
2. Wide shot of podium, speakers, pressroom
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, spokesperson, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“It is now day 10 of the return to full-scale war in Gaza after Israel decided to start bombing the enclave again. It has been 10 days of witnessing - because the UN remains on the ground in Gaza - a callous disregard for human life and dignity.”
4. Wide shot, podium, speakers, pressroom
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, spokesperson, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The acts of war that we see bear the hallmarks of atrocity crimes. Hundreds of children and other civilians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in intensely populated areas. Hospitals are once again battlegrounds; patients killed in their beds, ambulances shot at and first responders killed.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Margaret Harris, spokesperson, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We're looking at a situation right now that is as bad as it ever was. We knew it was bad before the ceasefire, when we were constantly begging to be allowed to do our job and just to help the ordinary people of Gzaa to live their lives. It is now worse because people have had a blockade of food but they’ve also got the ongoing fighting and supplies are running out. And they are exhausted. And this is on top of a situation where they were already very unwell. So no, they can’t keep going, and that is why we’re saying we need this to be lifted right now. We need a ceasefire right now.”
8. Med shot, speakers, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, spokesperson, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We repeat: nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people; international law is clear, it prohibits indiscriminate attacks, obstruction of life saving aid, destruction of infrastructure indispensable for civilian survival and hostage-taking. The International Court of Justice’s provisional measures on the application of the Genocide Convention remain in place; yet the alerts that we issue in report after report reveal an utter lack of respect for the most basic principles of humanity.”
10. Med shot, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Rik Peeperkorn, representative in the OPT (from Jerusalem), World Health Organization (WHO):
“The key supplies now for safe labour and delivery and deliveries of so-called supplies for maternal and child health will be running out - soon. I mean, we were running out. Limited availability of benzene has put out a dozen of ambulances out of use.”
12. Wide shot, journalist camera, pressroom
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryse Guimond, Special Representative in Palestine, Representative for the OPT (from Amman), UN Women:
“From 18 to 25 March in just eight days, 830 people have been killed, 174 women, 322 children with 1,787 injured.”
14. Med shot, journalists
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryse Guimond, UN Women:
“It is a situation of pure survival and survival of their families because, as they say, there is simply nowhere to go. They are telling us they will not move again since no safe places anyway. As a woman recently said to us from Deir al Balah, ‘My mother says death is the same whether in Gaza City, or Deir al Balah; we just want to return to Gaza.”
16. Med shot, journalist
17. Med shot, TV journalist with camera

Storyline

Lifesaving supplies in Gaza continue to run dangerously low, nearly four weeks into the total aid blockade and deadly bombardment of the enclave by Israel, UN humanitarians said today (28 Mar).

According to local health authorities in Gaza, from 18 to 25 March, 830 people were killed, including 174 women and 322 children. A further 1,787 were injured.

“The acts of war that we see bear the hallmarks of atrocity crimes,” said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid coordination office, OCHA.

“Hundreds of children and other civilians have been killed in health and Israeli airstrikes. Intensely populated areas hospitals are once again battlegrounds; patients killed in their beds, ambulances shot at and first responders killed.”

It has been 10 days since Gazans woke up to renewed Israel bombing.

“It has been 10 days of witnessing - because the UN remains on the ground in Gaza - a callous disregard for human life and dignity,” Laerke maintained.

Maryse Guimond from UN Women relayed testimonies of Palestinians in Gaza who are refusing to heed new evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military saying, “there are no safe places anyway”.

Speaking from Amman, she added: “It is a situation of pure survival and survival of their families because, as they say, there is simply nowhere to go. They are telling us they will not move again since no safe places anyway. As a woman recently said to us from Deir al Balah, ‘My mother says death is the same whether in Gaza City, or in Deir al Balah; we just want to return to Gaza.’”