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STORY: GENEVA / MOSUL HUMANITARIAN AID
TRT: 2:59
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 OCTOBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
FILE- GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
18 OCTOBER 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Protection concerns for all these civilians are at the forefront of the preparations of the humanitarian community, there are already protection monitoring teams on the ground, there are also mobile teams ready to respond to critical cases of mental and physical trauma among the displaced children.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) William Spindler, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR):
“UNHCR is stressing that residents of Mosul seeking sanctuary must not be prevented from fleeing and that they should have access to safe areas, including emergency camps located at a reasonable distance from the front line and free from the presence of militia. Likewise civilians must not be forced to return to unsafe areas. We already have five camps open ready to shelter 45,000 people, there are plans for a total of eleven camps to open in the coming weeks with a capacity for 120,000 people.”
8. Close up, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mardini, Regional Director for the Near and Middle East, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC):
“The world is watching, prove your humanity, no matter what side you are on, no matter whom you are fighting. There is one more important concern – the future. What happens now, and in the coming days and possibly weeks or months, will have a crucial barring on how Iraq rebuilds itself once the gun has finally fallen silent. Those who are commanding and those who are being commanded must not forget this. A city, a country, will have to be rebuilt”.
10. Close up, journalist typing
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“More than half a million children and their families in Mosul will be at extreme risk in the coming weeks. Many children and their families could be forcibly displaced, trapped between fighting lines or caught in the cross fire. We have three major concerns, UNICEF, in relation to Mosul: The protection of children during the military operations; the scale and pace of displacement and its impact on our ability to deliver; and the protection of children and their access to services in the aftermath of the conflict.”
12. Medium shot, journalists
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bettina Lüscher, Spokesperson, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We have over 14,000 tons of family food rations in warehouses near Mosul; that is enough for a million people for one month, around 200,000 families. And in addition we have immediate response rations; that is something that people use who don't have cooking facilities that they can use immediately as soon as they arrive in those centres. So we have enough for 240,000 people. Once the families go into shelter with cooking facilities, then they will get the monthly rations.”
14. Wide shot, journalists
A spokesperson for the United Nations (UN) humanitarian office said some one million people were expected to be displaced as a result of the military operation underway by Iraqi security forces and their allies to retake the city of Mosul from ISIL.
Jens Laerke said 700,000 people may be in need of shelter assistance and up 200,000 could be displaced in the first two weeks of the operation. He said protection for civilians was “at the forefront” of their preparations as “protection monitoring teams” and mobile teams ready to respond to critical cases of mental and physical trauma among displaced children were already “on the ground.”
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that not enough land was being provided by local authorities and land owners to build more camps for the expected humanitarian emergency. Its spokesperson William Spindler feared the offensive to retaken the city “could produce a humanitarian catastrophe resulting in one of the largest man-made displacement crises in the recent years.” He stressed residents of Mosul seeking sanctuary “must not be prevented from fleeing” and should have access to safe areas “at a reasonable distance from the front line and free from the presence of militia."
Robert Mardini, regional director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), called on different parties involved in fighting to prove their “humanity” as the world was watching. Mardini warned that what happened in the coming days would have a “crucial bearing on how Iraq rebuilds itself once the guns have finally fallen silent.”
UNICEF spokesperson Christophe Boulierac said more than half a million children and their families in Mosul would be at “extreme risk in the coming weeks.” He said many children and their families could be “forcibly displaced, trapped between fighting lines or caught in the crossfire”.
