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STORY: UNFPA / GAZA ASG SABERTON VISIT
TRT: 06:22
SOURCE: UNFPA
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: SEE SHOT LIST
06 OCTOBER 2025, WADI GAZA BRIDGE
1. Various shots, displaced people on the coastal road
2. Wide shot, a displaced man with his child on a cart
3. Close-up, a child on a cart
4. Wide shot, a displaced child on foot
5. Med shot, a displaced child on foot
6. Wide shot, a displaced young man carrying a mattress on his back
7. Med shot, a displaced young man carrying a mattress on his back
8. Med shot, a displaced young man carrying a mattress on his back
9. Wide shot, a displaced family with an injured child
10. Med shot, a displaced family with an injured child
15 OCTOBER 2025, DEIR EL-BALAH
11. SOUNDBITE(English) Andrew Saberton, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director for Management:
“Nothing can prepare you for this visit. Nothing could prepare me for the drive to this area. The area where the local population are living in tent cities, deprived of everything to give them the dignity of life.”
07 OCTOBER 2025, AL-ZAWAYDA
12. Med shot, displaced people’s tents near a waste complex
13. Med shot, displaced people and their tents
14. Close-up, the waste complex
15. Wide shot, the waste complex
16. Wide shot, displaced people and their tents
17. Wide shot, displaced people and their tents
15 OCTOBER 2025, DEIR EL-BALAH
18. SOUNDBITE(English) Andrew Saberton, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director for Management:
“It's going to be a long job. We will have to put in temporary measures in these tent cities. We will have to be movable. We will have to be mobile and move our facilities around with the population. But we must always look to restore those hospitals. 94 per cent of hospitals in Gaza have been destroyed or structures damaged, and of the 50 per cent that are in operation, they're mainly there for trauma only. How can we possibly allow this to happen in 2025?”
03 OCTOBER 2025, WADI GAZA BRIDGE
19. Wide shot, displaced people’s tents
20. Wide shot, a displaced man in front of his tent
21. Med shot, a displaced woman near the tent
22. Med shot, a displaced woman
23. Wide shot, a family heading to a care center
24. Wide shot, a family inside a care center
25. Med shot, a family inside a care center
26. Med shot, care center staff
27. Med shot, a family inside a care center
28. Close-up, a child with his family in a care center
15 OCTOBER 2025, DEIR EL-BALAH, GAZA
29. SOUNDBITE(English) Andrew Saberton, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director for Management:
“The ceasefire is a great first step after two years of unimaginable conflict. We must ensure it holds.”
05 OCTOBER 2025, NUSAIRAT
30. Various shots, a displaced family setting up their tent on the beach
31. Med shot, a displaced woman inside the tent
32. Close-up, a displaced woman inside the tent
15 OCTOBER 2025, DEIR EL-BALAH, GAZA
33. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Saberton, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director for Management:
“I ask the world, and I ask that our member states of the United Nations stick to their promises. Stay strong to their hopes to help rebuild Gaza. There's so much being destroyed. We must rebuild. And we must give the people here every resource that they need – these resilient people, these fantastically resilient people who have suffered so much – we must give them every resource to allow them to build their communities back, to return their dignity, to return their hopes of the youth.”
07 OCTOBER 2025, SHORES OF KHAN YOUNIS
34. Wide shot, a sunset on the beach
35. Wide shot, displaced children on the beach
36. Wide shot, families with a displaced person on the beach
37. Med shot, a displaced person on the beach
38. Wide shot, a displaced person on the beach
39. Med shot, a displaced mother breastfeeding her son on the beach
40. Wide shot, displaced people on the beach
41. Med shot, a displaced family on the beach
42. Med shot, a displaced family on the beach
43. Wide shot, children studying near tents on the beach
44. Med shot, children studying near tents on the beach
45. Close-up, a child writing in her notebook
46. Wide shot, displaced people by the sea
47. Med shot, two women washing clothes by the sea
48. Close-up, a basket of clothes
49. Wide shot, two women washing clothes by the sea
50. Close-up, a woman washing clothes
51. Wide shot, children carrying baskets of clothes on the beach
52. Wide shot, people inside the camp
07 OCTOBER 2025, HAMAD CITY, KHAN YOUNIS
53. Various shots, displaced people and destroyed buildings
54. Wide shot, displaced children
55. Med shot, displaced children
56. Wide shot, a displaced girl playing with roller shoes
57. Med shot, a displaced girl playing with roller shoes
58. Wide shot, displaced children
59. Close-up, displaced children
60. Close-up, displaced children
The recent ceasefire agreement offers a much-needed, long-overdue glimmer of hope for Palestinian women, but while it may have ended the fighting, it has not ended the crisis. Most Gazans have had their homes destroyed, and many families, displaced countless times, now live in overcrowded areas that lack the basics for survival – food, clean water and shelter. These dire conditions have escalated the risks of violence, exploitation and abuse for women and girls as protection services have collapsed.
Hunger is widespread. An estimated quarter of a million women and girls are starving, including an estimated 55,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women suffering from acute malnutrition. This is causing catastrophic birth outcomes for mothers and newborns, with one in three pregnancies high risk, and premature and low-birth-weight infants accounting for 60 to 70 per cent of newborns, a stark increase from 20 per cent before October 2023.
Access to essential health services, including maternal health care, is severely limited as Gaza’s health system lies in ruins, with about 94 per cent of hospitals damaged or destroyed and a third of health facilities impacted. Only 15 per cent of health facilities can now offer emergency obstetric care.
Beyond the visible devastation, an invisible crisis of mental health grips the population. Two years of relentless bombing, death, detentions, displacement, forced starvation and constant fear, have left psychological scars that will endure for years, if not a lifetime. More than half of children and 40 per cent of adults are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
UNFPA is intensifying its efforts in Gaza to sustain and restore life-saving services for women and girls, including maternal health care. On 12 and 13 October, crucial medical equipment and supplies, prepositioned within the Strip, were delivered to UKMed, Kuwaiti, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Al-Awda, Nasser, Al-Khair, and Palestinian Red Crescent Society hospitals. These supplies include incubators, fetal monitoring machines and delivery beds. However, critical UNFPA supplies have not yet been allowed into Gaza, and have been stuck at the border for months. UNFPA is ready to scale up as soon as humanitarian access is enabled.
UNFPA states, "The ceasefire offers a fragile hope that life for women and girls in Gaza can start to rebuild their lives. This must not be another false dawn; the ceasefire must be sustained and respected, all crossings opened, and a massive flood of aid must enter Gaza."
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