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STORY: UN / GAZA ISRAEL UPDATE
TRT: 02:28
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 MAY 2021, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt up, UN headquarters exterior
17 MAY 2021, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We continue to receive reports of significant displacement of Palestinians, with over 38,000 internally displaced people seeking protection in 48 schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) across the Gaza Strip. Over 2,500 people have been made homeless due to the destruction of their homes. Forty-one education facilities – including schools, two kindergartens, an UNRWA vocational centre, and a higher education facility - have been damaged, according to our people on the ground. The power supply across Gaza has been reduced to six to eight hours per day, on average, with a number of feeder lines not functioning. That, in turn, disrupts the provision of healthcare and other basic services, including water, hygiene and sanitation.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We continue to actively engage all sides towards an immediate cessation of fire between Israelis and Palestinians. Our Special Coordinator, Tor Wennesland, is working tirelessly with all sides to restore calm. For his part, the Secretary-General, as you saw in yesterday’s Security Council meeting, continues to urge a halt to fighting, saying, ‘Fighting must stop. It must stop immediately. Rockets and mortars on one side and aerial and artillery bombardments on the other must stop.’ He said that the hostilities have already caused unconscionable death, immense suffering, and damage to vital infrastructure. The Secretary-General added that he was appalled by the increasingly large number of Palestinian civilian casualties, including many women and children, from Israeli strikes into Gaza. He said he also deplores Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Secretary-General was extremely disturbed to see the destruction of the media building. It is clear that journalists who operate in Gaza need to be able to do so without fear of harassment or destruction of their offices and so forth.”
8. Wide shot, press room
The spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today (17 May) reported “significant displacement of Palestinians, with over 38,000 internally displaced people seeking protection in 48 schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) across the Gaza Strip,” and added that “over 2,500 people have been made homeless.”
Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, “forty-one education facilities – including schools, two kindergartens, an UNRWA vocational centre, and a higher education facility - have been damaged,” and the power supply across Gaza “has been reduced to six to eight hours per day, on average, with a number of feeder lines not functioning,” disrupting, in turn, “the provision of healthcare and other basic services, including water, hygiene and sanitation.”
Dujarric said the UN continues to “actively engage all sides towards an immediate cessation of fire between Israelis and Palestinians.” He said Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland, “is working tirelessly with all sides to restore calm.”
The spokesperson said the Secretary-General was “appalled by the increasingly large number of Palestinian civilian casualties, including many women and children, from Israeli strikes into Gaza” and “also deplores Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza.”
The Secretary-General, Dujarric said, “was extremely disturbed” to see the destruction by Israeli bombardment of a media building housing most international correspondents. He said, “it is clear that journalists who operate in Gaza need to be able to do so without fear of harassment or destruction of their offices and so forth.”
Humanitarian Coordinator Lynn Hastings has appealed to the Israeli authorities and Palestinian armed groups to immediately allow the UN and our humanitarian partners to bring in fuel, food, and medical supplies and to deploy humanitarian personnel in Gaza.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has started providing emergency assistance for more than 51,000 people in north Gaza in response to rising humanitarian needs and warned that prices of fresh produce are already on the rise, as farmers are unable to reach their land.
