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STORY: UNICEF / GAZA
TRT: 3.07
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGIAGE: ARABIC /NATS
DATELINE: 15-16 JULY 2014, GAZA, PALESTINE
1. Various shots kids walking in rubble
2. Various shots, destruction
3. Med shot, children playing in a schoolyard
4. Close up, boy
5. Close up, girl
6. Med shot, group of girls on the floor
7. Wide shot, school sheltering displaced
8. Close up, school sign
9. Various shots, women and children sitting on the floor in the classroom
10. Various shots, UN workers delivering boxes
11. Med shot, ambulance arriving
12.Various shots, wounded girl in bed
13. Med shot, father with wounded toddler girl
14. Various shots, wounded toddler
15. Various shots, Abdel in bed
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Abdel Majed Abu Maraheel, 8-year old:
‘I was watching TV with my cousin. My mother was baking bread with my sister. They shot two missiles and I told my cousin run, run, run! We both stood up but a metal bar fell on him and a stone fell on my stomach and now I’m afraid to go back home’.
17. Various shots, mother with bay with bandaged head
18. Pan left, UNICEF workers and destruction
19. Wide shot, destroyed building
20. Med shot, destroyed building
The violence that had gripped Gaza is taking a heavy toll on children caught in fighting between Israel's Defense Forces and Hamas.
At least 48 children have been killed in so far; 35 of them were less than 13 year old. Another 521 were injured.
Half of the populations in Gaza are children. UNICEF reports that at least 57,900 of them are in need of immediate psycho-social support in Gaza due to the deep emotional impact that the current violence is having on children - those who are not sleeping or who are having nightmares, children who have stopped eating or talking, children who are bedwetting, and children who are exhibiting harrowing signs of mental distress.
Eight-year old Abdel Majed and several of his relatives sustained serious injuries when their house was leveled by an airstrike. He now lays in bed at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. The Intensive Care Unit is so packed with patients that doctors have to treat some on the ground, or to send the injured back home early, including children, due to a lack of hospital beds.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Abdel Majed Abu Maraheel, 8-year old child
‘I was watching TV with my cousin. My mother was baking bread with my sister. They shot two missiles and I told my cousin run, run, run! We both stood up but a metal bar fell on him and a stone fell on my stomach and now I’m afraid to go back home’.
To help children and parents cope with fear, anxiety and stress, five UNICEF-supported emergency psychosocial teams are visiting homes and hospitals. Operated by the Palestinian Centre for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, UNICEF’s partner since 2002, they provide psychosocial first aid to children who lost relatives, or whose home was damaged.
Since the onset of hostilities, the teams have already carried out 415 visits, reaching 448 children.
Eighty-four schools have sustained damage since the onset of hostilities, and 900,000 people are currently without water supply.
As of today (18 Jul ) United Nations relief and works agency (UNRWA) estimates that over 47, 000 displaced people in Gaza have taken refuge within 43 UNRWA’s facilities, mainly schools
