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GENEVA / SYRIA REFUGEES
STORY: GENEVA / SYRIA REFUGEES
TRT: 2.09
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 31 MAY 2013, GENEVA
FILE – RECENT, GENEVA
1. External shot, Palais des Nations, Geneva
31 MAY 2013, GENEVA
2. Wide shot, Salle III, Palais des Nations, Geneva
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan McNorton, Spokesperson for UNHCR:
"UNHCR this week, has the number of Syrian refugees registering with UNHCR in neighbouring countries has now passed 1.6 million. UNHCR's work also continues inside Syria amidst difficult and operational and security challenges."
4. Cutaway, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan McNorton, Spokesperson for UNHCR:
"Since the intensification of the fighting in Al-Qusair three weeks ago, Hasiya, a small town of around 16,000 people and located 25 kilometres from Al-Qusair has seen at least 700 families or around 3,500 people arriving- most are women and children."
6. Cutaway, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan McNorton, Spokesperson for UNHCR:
"Since the 8th May, our office in Lebanon has registered 3,000 refugees from Al-Qusair, although the actual number of refugees fleeing is likely to be higher."
8. Cutaway, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan McNorton, Spokesperson for UNHCR:
"UNHCR was able to witness on this visit, the dire humanitarian situation of these displaced families. Due to the poor sanitation and hygiene conditions in which people were living, many, especially children, were suffering from diarrhoea, were suffering from respiratory problems, high fevers ear infections and skin diseases."
10. Cutaway, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan McNorton, Spokesperson for UNHCR:
"Have been refugees crossing in the last week, there was a period of about 7 or 8 days where we saw very few people being able to cross into the safety of Jordan,. The numbers have again fluctuated, they haven't risen to the thousands that we saw before last week. but a number of individuals have been able to cross and have registered and moved to the camp in Za'atri in Jordan."
12. Wide shot, Salle III, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
The UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, said Friday, the number of refugees fleeing Syria had reached more than 1.6 million people.
As growing numbers of Syrians leave their country, the UN refugee agency continues to deliver aid to desperate Syrians inside the country amid difficult operational and security challenges. On Wednesday UNHCR joined an inter-agency mission guided by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to assess the situation and needs of internally displaced families in Hasiya, a town of 16,000 in central-western Syria.
"UNHCR was able to witness the dire humanitarian situation of these displaced families," spokesman Dan McNorton told journalists in Geneva, adding that the families hailed from Al-Qusair, some 25 kilometres away.
He said: “due to the poor sanitation and hygiene conditions in which people were living, many, especially children, were suffering from diarrhoea, were suffering from respiratory problems, high fevers ear infections and skin diseases."
Intensified fighting in the past three weeks in Al-Qusair has forced many people to flee. At least 700 families, or 3,500 people, have sought shelter in Hasiya. Most are women and children. Others crossed into Lebanon. Since May 8, UNHCR staff in Lebanon have registered 3,000 refugees from Al-Qusair, although the actual number is probably higher.
The World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs also took part in the mission to Hasiya.
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