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STORY: UN / GRANDI
TRT: 2.06
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 11 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
11 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, dais
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filipo Grandi, UNRWA Commissioner General:
“Palestinians in Syria have suffered by and large the same fate as all other civilians, Syrian civilian and others, but have had much more limited flight options than other people because I think that the perceived or real sensitivity of their presence, wherever they go, as Palestinians, has played a role.”
5. Med shot, reporter
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Filipo Grandi, UNRWA Commissioner General:
“Most of the Palestinians who use to live in Yarmouk, in the course of 2013 left. We estimate that perhaps 18,000, so just over 10, 15 percent have remained inside, and those really have had the most difficult time because after September last year we became unable to bring any relief.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Filipo Grandi, UNRWA Commissioner General:
“What we have already seen in the last few months since the closure of the tunnels is less availability of commodities, higher prices of food, problems with fuel that I am sure you have followed, increase in electricity cuts – this is linked to the lack of fuel – and because of the lack of building materials, most of which use to come through the tunnels, higher unemployment which is already very high, because most of the people employed in Gaza are employed actually in the construction business.”
9. Close up, photographer
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Filipo Grandi, UNRWA Commissioner General:
“Certainly, if I look at the context in which we operate, I can see that the type, the number , the intensity of the crises that one way or the other affect our work has become greater in the past three or four years.”
11. Med shot, journalists
12. Zoom out press conference
In his final press conference as Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Filippo Grandi said today (11 Feb) that Palestinians in Syria “have suffered by and large the same fate as all other civilians” but have had “much more limited flight options than other people.”
Grandi said that most Palestinians who use to live in the besieged Yarmouk neighbourhood of Damascus have now left.
He estimated that a total of 18,000 Palestinians remain in Yarmouk. He said that this constitutes “10, 15 percent” of the original Palestinian population of Yarmouk.
He said those still in Yarmouk “have had the most difficult time because after September last year we became unable to bring any relief.”
Turning to Gaza, Grandi said that since the closure of the tunnels into Egypt there is “less availability of commodities, higher prices of food, problems with fuel that I am sure you have followed, increase in electricity cuts – this is linked to the lack of fuel – and because of the lack of building materials, most of which use to come through the tunnels, higher unemployment which is already very high, because most of the people employed in Gaza are employed actually in the construction business.”
The departing Commissioner – General said that in the context of UNRWA’s operation "the type, the number, the intensity of the crises that one way or the other affect our work has become greater in the past three or four years.”
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