GAZA GAMES / LARGEST HANDPRINT PAINTING

The children of Gaza today set a Guinness World Record for the largest handprint painting at 5,922.2 square meters as part of its 2011 Gaza Summer Games programme. UNRWA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:06
• Production Date: 21 July 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST - UNRWA
• Subject Topical: LEISURE; SPORTS
• Geographic Subject: MIDDLE EAST
• MAMS Id: U110721c

Description

STORY: GAZA GAMES / LARGEST HANDPRINT PAINTING
TRT: 2.06
SOURCE: UNRWA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 21 JULY 2011, KHAN YOUNIS, SOUTHERN GAZA, WEST BANK

Shotlist

1. Med shot, boys and girls walking in a cue
2. Med shot, boys walking in a cue
3. Med shot, girls walking in a cue
4. Wide shot, girls arriving to the painting area
5. Various shots, boys and girls at the painting area
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) young girl:
“We came here to break the world record of hands printing in order to keep always Gaza in the front.”
7. Various shots, girls sitting and shouting
8. Med shot, boys sitting and shouting
9. Wide shot, girls waving arms
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Gunness, Spokesman, UNRWA:
“The kids of Gaza have done it once again. They’ve put their spot light on the fact that there is what the Red Cross calls an illegal blockade, an illegal collective punishment, a breach of international law. There has to be accountability, there has to be some kind of transparency so that those responsible are brought to account. There has to be accountability for this.”
11. Various shots, kids walking around giant painting
12. Various shots, kids holding painting and making giant material wave with it
13. Pan left, giant painting from right to left
14. Various shots, measuring
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Christer Nordahl, acting Director of Operations in Gaza, UNRWA:
“I knew that the children of Gaza can do what nobody else can do. Today they broke the world record again. For the third time this summer and today was very special because they were special needs children who made the largest hand painting in the whole world. Measuring five thousand nine hundred and twenty two square metres, and I know that when you give the children of Gaza a chance, the same chance then other children around the world they will prove that they are the best.”
16. Wide shot, children running on top of the painting
17. Wide shot, children painting with characters in costume
18. Wide shot, children playing and running on top of the painting

Storyline

Over 5,000 children attending UNRWA’S Summer Games in the Gaza Strip today (21 July) created the largest-ever handprint painting.
At a stadium in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, some 1,500 children gathered to unveil the canvas that covered 5,620 square metres, smashing the previous record by over a thousand square metres.

A young girl in the crowd said: “we came here to break the world record of hands printing in order to keep always Gaza in the front.”

Speaking at the event, UNRWA Spokesman Chris Gunness highlighted the problems of the Israeli blockade.

He said that the kids of Gaza had done it once again, “they’ve put their spot light on the fact that there is what the Red Cross calls an illegal blockade, an illegal collective punishment, a breach of international law.”

Also present at the event Christer Nordahl, UNRWA’s acting Director of Operations in Gaza noted that today the children of Gaza broke the world record again.

He said that “when you give the children of Gaza a chance, the same chance then other children around the world they will prove that they are the best.”