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STORY: UN / GAZA CHILDREN
TRT: 2.38
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
21 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, journalist
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Pernilla Ironside, Chief of the UNICEF Gaza Field Office:
“The situation is truly, quite, very dire in terms of the impact and the toll that this has had on children. Just even in the last 48 hours there is nine children who have, nine more children who have been killed, unfortunately. This brings our total to 469 kids as of this morning.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pernilla Ironside, Chief of the UNICEF Gaza Field Office:
“The destabilizing impact that not knowing, not truly feeling that there’s anywhere safe to go in Gaza, for kids this, you know, children need to have that sense of security and when I am speaking to kids today, I am finding that they are withdrawing from, you know, quote and quote normal interactions with their families. They are having nightmares, they are bed-wetting, they will not let their parents out of sight; they are truly in a state of trauma.”
7. Med shot, journalist.
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Pernilla Ironside, Chief of the UNICEF Gaza Field Office:
“There’s really a risk of an outbreak of communicable diseases, diarrhoea, which would expose children, especially the under-fives to even greater risks, so that if they don’t die from, you know, the actual weaponry, that they may in fact die from a disease or, you know, some kind of preventable outbreak.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Pernilla Ironside, Chief of the UNICEF Gaza Field Office:
“The laws of war are very clear. There are civilians and civilian objects must be protected, including refuges that are being used to protect civilians, such as UN installations and so forth. So I think that, you know, the UN has been quite clear that there is a need for a thorough and transparent investigation to look at all aspects of the war, by all parties, in order to see what has transpired. And the children deserve to have accountability.”
11. Close up, photographer
12. Wide shot, dais
The Head of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in Gaza told reporters in New York today (21 August) that the situation for children in the besieged territory is “very dire.”
Pernilla Ironside, who is the Chief of the UNICEF Gaza Field Office, said that in the last 48 hours, nine more children have been killed. “This brings our total to 469 kids as of this morning” she added.
She also said that over 3,000 children have been injured and a high percentage of the over 400,000 displaced are children.
Ironside spoke of “the destabilizing impact that not knowing, not truly feeling that there’s anywhere safe to go in Gaza” has on children. She said “children need to have that sense of security and when I am speaking to kids today; I am finding that they are withdrawing from, you know, quote and quote normal interactions with their families. They are having nightmares, they are bed-wetting, they will not let their parents out of sight; they are truly in a state of trauma.”
UNICEF has 50 psychologists on the ground with the task providing services to over 375,000 children in need of counselling.
Additionally, she said, “there’s really a risk of an outbreak of communicable diseases, diarrhoea, which would expose children, especially the under-fives to even greater risks, so that if they don’t die from, you know, the actual weaponry, that they may in fact die from a disease or, you know, some kind of preventable outbreak.”
Ironside noted that “the laws of war are very clear” and “civilians and civilian objects must be protected, including refuges that are being used to protect civilians, such as UN installations and so forth.”
She said the UN “has been quite clear that there is a need for a thorough and transparent investigation to look at all aspects of the war, by all parties, in order to see what has transpired.”
“The children deserve to have accountability,” she concluded.
