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GAZA / INJURED
STORY: GAZA / INJURED
TRT: 1.49
SOURCE: UNRWA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 NOVEMBER 2012, GAZA CITY, GAZA
1. Med shot, UNRWA Gaza Operations Robert Turner getting out of armored vehicle at Shifa Hospital
2. Med shot, Turner greeting doctors inside Shifa Hospital
3. Med shot, Director of UNRWA Gaza Operations Robert Turner putting on hospital protection gown
4. Various shots, Turner discussing with doctors by bed of injured children
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Turner, Director of Gaza Operations, UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA):
"I deplore the tragic loss of life that we are witnessing, and condemn – as all people of conscience must – the death of civilians."
6. Cutaway, cameramen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Turner, Director of Gaza Operations, UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA):
"Let me echo the United Nations Secretary-General’s repeated calls for restraint, a de-escalation of military action and for all sides to obide to their obligations under international humanitarian law."
8. Cutaway, cameramen
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Turner, Director of Gaza Operations, UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA):
"In the face of these terrible circumstances, which have already claimed one of our staff members, UNRWA’s intent is to continue the delivery of services to Palestine refugees in Gaza."
10. Cutaway, cameramen
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Turner, Director of Gaza Operations, UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA):
"We must remember that even before this recent escalation there were significant shortages of medicines and supplies. An urgent support to the health sector is required."
12. Cutaway, cameramen
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Turner, Director of Gaza Operations, UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA):
"The failure to find a solution to this crisis and to the wider conflict perpetuates an environment in which violence prevails over dialogue.”
14. Med shot, cameramen
A senior UN official on Monday (19 November) visited Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to express his condolences to those who have lost family and friends or were injured in the current escalation of violence.
The Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Gaza Operations, Robert Turner said he wanted "to see, at first hand, the dreadful price this conflict is exacting on the people of Gaza".
His visit came a day after after at least ten members of the same family, mostly women and children, were killed. “These are not the first children to have died. Unless immediate pressure can be brought to bear on the parties, they will not be the last, Turner told a press conference at the hospital.
Turner deplored “the tragic loss of life that we are witnessing, and condemn – as all people of conscience must – the death of civilians".
He called for "restraint, a de-escalation of the military action, and for all sides to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law, the main aim of which is to protect civilians”.
Turner said that despite the "terrible circumstances", which had already claimed one UNRWA staff member, UNRWA’s intent was to continue the delivery of services to Palestine refugees in Gaza.
The vast majority of the agency’s health centres have remained open throughout the fighting, but he noted that even before the recent escalation there were significant shortages of medicines and supplies, and called for "urgent support" to the health sector.
Turner said that UNRWA’s food distribution programme would continue as the situation allowed. UNRWA staff distributed food aid for more than 12,000 people throughout Gaza on Sunday alone.
The agency was also mitigating public health risks through the provision of solid waste collection services in the eight refugee camps across Gaza. With the 245 UNRWA schools forced to close, UNRWA TV – the agency's distance learning initiative – continued to broadcast 12 hours of lessons per day, to allow for the education of 225,000 UNRWA students to continue despite their inability to attend school.
Turner echoed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s call on all parties to redouble their efforts to find a just and lasting solution to the question of Palestine, based on international law and UN resolutions.
He said that "failure to do so perpetuates an environment in which violence prevails over dialogue.”
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