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STORY: UN / SYRIA HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 2:32
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 28 AUGUST 2018, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters
28 AUGUST 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Council’s members at the table
4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Director of Operations and Advocacy, OCHA:
“Recent weeks have seen a further serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the north-west, with intense aerial bombardment and shelling reported in parts of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama and Latakia governates resulting in the death and injury of civilians, and the damage and destruction of civilian infrastructure including schools and hospitals, placing even more strain on humanitarian responders and vulnerable host communities.”
5. Cutaway, Council in meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Director of Operations and Advocacy, OCHA:
“Humanitarian organizations are responding to needs across the north-west, drawing on cross-border assistance deliveries which continue to provide a critical lifeline for hundreds of thousands of civilians who cannot be reached through other means. Some 680,000 people received food delivered from Turkey during the month of July alone. 254,000 people received health assistance, again, during the same period.”
7. Cutaway, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Director of Operations and Advocacy, OCHA:
“With an estimated 2.1million people already in need in areas under non-state armed group control covered by the Readiness Plan, with humanitarian workers likely to be among the displaced and with many organizations facing increasing funding shortfalls, the efforts of the Council to avoid any further escalation of violence and an ensuing humanitarian catastrophe are critical.”
9. Close up, Syrian ambassador
10. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Director of Operations and Advocacy, OCHA:
“The Council s engagement is also critical, to ensure de-escalation in Idlib and surrounding areas, to ensure safe, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access, and to ensure the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of people are already experiencing dire humanitarian conditions in overcrowded sites in which basic services have been stretched to breaking point for months.”
11. Cutaway, Council in meeting
12. SOUNDBITE (English) John Ging, Director of Operations and Advocacy, OCHA:
“Humanitarian organizations are doing what they can with the resources available to them to sustain the current response and prepare for a possible further deterioration, thanks in large part to cross-border assistance and the generosity of our financial donors. But a worst-case scenario in Idlib will overwhelm capacities and has the potential to create a humanitarian emergency at a scale not yet seen through this crisis.”
13. Wide shot, Security Council
In a briefing to the Security Council today, a senior United Nations humanitarian official reported “a further serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation” in four governates of Syria “with intense aerial bombardment and shelling.”
John Ging, the Director of Operations and Advocacy for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told the Council that recent weeks have seen a further serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation in northwest Syria, with intense aerial bombardment and shelling reported in parts of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama and Latakia governorates resulting in the death and injury of civilians.
Ging said that aid organizations are using cross-border assistance deliveries which provide a critical lifeline for hundreds of thousands of civilians. Some 680,000 people received food from Turkey in July alone.The director told the Council members that humanitarian partners are finalizing a
comprehensive Readiness Plan for people in areas of the north-west of Syria to cover a humanitarian response during a six month period, complementing assistance mobilized from inside Syria.
He said “with an estimated 2.1million people already in need in areas under non-state armed group control covered by the Readiness Plan, with humanitarian workers likely to be among the displaced and with many organizations facing increasing funding shortfalls, the efforts of the Council to avoid any further escalation of violence and an ensuing humanitarian catastrophe are critical.”
Ging also called on the members of the Council to do all they can to ensure de-escalation in Idlib as well as its surrounding areas, he emphasized that a worst-case scenario there will overwhelm humanitarian capacities and has the potential to create a humanitarian emergency at a scale not yet seen during this crisis.
