OCHA / GAZA FLETCHER VISIT DAY 2

UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher entered Gaza this week for the first time in nine months, witnessing both staggering destruction and the first signs of recovery. The ceasefire has opened space for aid to surge: bakeries are reopening, food and medical supplies are getting in, the few medical centers left expanding their services. “We will get hundreds of thousands of kids back into schools, thousands of trucks on the road. We will do this, we must do this," he said. OCHA

• Video Length: 00:10:37
• Production Date: 20 October 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English
• Personal Subject: THOMAS FLETCHER
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: GAZA
• MAMS Id: 3474912
• Parent Id: 3474912
• Alternate Title: unifeed251020f

Description

STORY: OCHA / GAZA FLETCHER VISIT DAY 2
TRT:10:37
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 18 OCTOBER 2025, GAZA STRIP

Shotlist

1.Various shots, food distribution by Qatar Foundation, Gaza city
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Om Mohammad:
“I am here because thankfully I have received a box of aid. Hopefully we won’t be forgotten and things will go back to normal, and I hope houses will be rebuilt and there will be job opportunities.”
3.Various shots, Myriam and her son going through aid items
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Om Mohammad:
“We were staying in Hai Al Zaitoon after our house was bombed. We were evacuating from place to place and we’re tired. We probably changed places 50 times. We would carry our furniture from place to place. We sometimes could not find a place and we slept near the sea. We’re honestly burned out and tired of this.”
5. Various shots, food distribution by Qatar Foundation, Gaza city
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Myriam
“We need tents, mattresses to sleep on, and stoves to cook.”
7. Various shots, food distribution by Qatar Foundation, Gaza city
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed, 17 years old:
“Since the war started, there hasn’t been school or online school. We have been deprived of education. We have none.”
9. Various shots of Tom Fletcher with Zahira in the place where her home once stood in Sheikh Radwan.
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zahira:
“We’re humans. We deserve to live and we have rights. Like everyone else we have the right to live and be, and have a right to education; the simplest of rights. To live, learn, eat, drink water and find bathrooms. Everything I mentioned is a right that should be guaranteed. We want to live, and live comfortably like everyone else. They bombed our house after we lived our best life there. Now our life is tragic and miserable. We simply want a comfortable life and our basic rights.”
11. Wide shot, Zahira next to rubble
12. Various shots, UN convoy moving through the ruins of Gaza

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN, DEIR AL BALAH

13, SOUNDBITE (English) Chef Ibrahim talking to USG Tom Fletcher:
“We are producing in this kitchen 50,000 hot meals for Gazan people, everyday. So we have our distribution vans. We distribute in pots.”
14. Various shots, activities of kitchen and warehouse at World Central Kitchen, Deir Al Balah
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“I'm just concluding two very full days in Gaza. Heavy, heavy days. The scale of the damage - whole areas flattened, pulverized, whole towns made into a wasteland. And we have a massive task ahead of us. But the people of Gaza are not overwhelmed, and we will not be overwhelmed by what lies ahead of us. We are scaling up the food delivery to try and reach a million meals a day. We will get hundreds of thousands of kids back into school. We will reopen the clinics and the health centers that I visited today. We will get thousands of tents in for winter. We will get thousands of trucks on the road every week. We will do this. We must do this.”
16. Med shot, UN convoy moving through the ruins of Gaza.
17. Various shots, Tom Fletcher arriving at the Patient Friendly Hospital, Gaza city
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Majed Awadallah:
“What we need here? We need space, we need stuff, we need materials. We need everything.”
19. Various shots, hospital
20. Various shots, UN convoy moving through the ruins of Gaza
21. Various shots of UNICEF nutrition centre, Gaza city and Tom Fletcher talking to staff

Storyline

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, wrapped up his visit to the Gaza Strip over the weekend.

On Saturday (18 Oct), Fletcher went to a UNICEF nutrition centre in Gaza city, where humanitarians are working to get hunger levels down.

In Gaza city, he also visited the Patient Friendly Hospital, a pediatric facility in urgent need of more supplies and staff.

Farther south in Deir al Balah, Fletcher went to a community kitchen run by World Central Kitchen. The site is producing 50,000 hot meals each day, with plans to further increase.
“We will not be overwhelmed by what lies ahead of us” said Fletcher, talking about the massive scale-up needed to meet the humanitarian needs of the people of Gaza. “We will do this. We must do this.”