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STORY: GENEVA / GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
TRT: 3:06
SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 JUNE 2025 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / VARIOUS FROM GAZA, DETAILS IN SHOTLIST
20 JUNE 2025 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations, flag alley
2. Wide shot, podium speakers.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, UNICEF: “You have half a million people facing starvation with a lethal choice of being forced into very small pockets where most people can't access into what are officially known as combat sites. I have met children - we know children - killed at these sites.”
4. Med shot, podium speakers, TV screen showing external speaker.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, UNICEF:
“I met a little boy who was wounded by a tank shell at one of these sites on the final day of me leaving Gaza. I learnt that this little boy had since died of those injuries. That speaks to both what is happening at these sites and what is not happening when it comes to medical evacuations.”
6. Med shot, journalist.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, UNICEF:
“I spoke to a grandmother in tears saying, how am I possibly to get to these sites? It's the same people all the time that get them; it's the same people, it's the people with knives. I've met young men who've been seven times and never returned with anything. So, there's a complete lack of equity. There's a complete lack of sites. You cannot distribute aid in a militarized zone, in a combat zone, by one party to the conflict.”
8. Med shot, journalists.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, UNICEF:
“Of course, humanitarian aid is so much more than food in a box; it's oxygen kits, it's ventilators, it's hygiene packs; it's medicines, it's incubators. It's all those things the United Nations was doing just a couple of months ago.”
10. Med shot, journalist typing on laptop.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, UNICEF:
“Civilians with children who are on oxygen have left because of the fear that Nasser may come under attack again, as the doctors told me, if you have a child who needs oxygen and they leave without the oxygen, they will, over a matter of time, die in a tent.”
12. Wide shot, podium speakers.
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Lindmeier, WHO:
“The latest reports say 610 patients have been admitted due to severe malnutrition complications. But what does that mean? That means these are the lucky ones who made it so far to get to a place. This does not count the many who were too weak to reach any point, who are too weak, who cannot be transported because the roads are blocked, because there are no ambulances, or because the hospitals, some of the health emergency centres have been shelled and bombed and are being constantly shelled and bombed.”
14 JUNE 2025, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
14. Wide pan, destruction and a still-functioning ICU ward at Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis
15. Med shot, young patient lying in hospital bed, bandaged
16. Medium, young patient lying in a bed wearing respirator mask
10 JUNE 2025, AL SHIFA HOSPITAL, GAZA
17. Wide shot, destroyed frontage of Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza Strip, 10 June 2025.
18. Wide shot, debris and damaged ambulance vehicle at the hospital compound
11 JUNE 2025, AL SAHABAH HOSPITAL, GAZA
19. Wide shot, healthcare workers at Al Sahabah hospital in a neonatal intensive care unit
20. Close up, infant receiving manual respiration at Al Sahabah hospital in a neonatal intensive care unit
15 JUNE 2025, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
21. Wide shot, UN water trucks at Al Zohor displacement camp
22. Med shot, girls pour water from a pipe into their jerry cans while other children watch, Al Zohor displacement camp
“I met a little boy who was wounded by a tank shell at one of these sites on the final day of me leaving Gaza - I learnt that this little boy had since died of those injuries,” said UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder. “That speaks to both what is happening at these sites and what is not happening when it comes to medical evacuations.”
A recent online video featuring a dying 13-year-old Abed al-Rahman who Mr. Elder met while on mission in Gaza has been seen thousands of times since it was published on 6 June. In the clip, Abed explains that he has been asking for pain relief for his shrapnel wounds but none is available.
Speaking to journalists from Amman, Mr. Elder explained that partly destroyed hospitals including Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis continue to treat wounded children, despite a shortage of medicine and medical supplies.
“Humanitarian aid is so much more than food in a box; it's oxygen kits, it's ventilators, it's hygiene packs; it's medicines, it's incubators. It's all those things the United Nations was doing just a couple of months ago.”
He added that parents whose children who need oxygen have been leaving hospital “because of the fear that Nasser may come under attack again. As the doctors told me, if you have a child who needs oxygen and they leave without the oxygen, they will, over a matter of time, die in a tent.”
The dire shortage of the most basic life-sustaining aid linked to Israeli restrictions continues to create desperation and starvation across Gaza.
“I spoke to a grandmother in tears saying, how am I possibly to get to these sites?” Mr. Elder explained. “I've met young men who've been seven times and never returned with anything. So, there's a complete lack of equity. There's a complete lack of sites. You cannot distribute aid in a militarized zone, in a combat zone, by one party to the conflict.”
Those most susceptible to the lack of fresh drinking water, food and fuel are the weakest Gazans: the young, pregnant women, the elderly and amputees, Mr. Elder said. It would be impossible for them to walk the long distances required to fetch scant supplies from controversial non-UN aid hubs.
“You have half a million people facing starvation with a lethal choice of being forced into very small pockets where most people can't access into what are officially known as combat sites,” the UNICEF spokesperson explained. “We know children [who have been] killed at these sites.”
Meanwhile, malnutrition and the impact of it on people’s weakened immune systems continues to take its toll, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned.
“The latest reports say 610 patients have been admitted due to severe malnutrition complications,” said WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier. “But what does that mean? That means these are the lucky ones who made it so far to get to a place. This does not count the many who were too weak to reach any point, who are too weak, who cannot be transported because the roads are blocked, because there are no ambulances, or because the hospitals, some of the health emergency centres have been shelled and bombed and are being constantly shelled and bombed.”
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