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STORY: UN / OPT RESIDENT COORDINATOR HASTINGS
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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DATELINE: 15 OCTOBER 2023, JERUSALEM / FILE
FILE – UNICEF - 13 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA
1. Wide shot, building collapsing after bombing
2. Wide shot, women and children running for cover
3. Various shots, people among the rubble of bombed out buildings
15 OCTOBER 2023, JERUSALEM
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Hastings, The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“It's really about the loss of our humanity if the international community allows this to continue. What we are seeing now is simply inhumane.”
FILE – UNICEF - 13 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA PALESTINE
5. Various shots, people among the rubble of bombed out buildings
6. Zoom out, bird in a cage among the rubble
15 OCTOBER 2023, JERUSALEM
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Hastings, The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“Israel is connecting humanitarian assistance into Gaza with the release of the hostages. Again, neither should be conditional. And what we're seeing right now, the direction that Israel is going in, they have said they want to destroy Hamas, but their current trajectory is going to destroy Gaza.”
FILE – UNICEF - 13 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA PALESTINE
8. Various shots, people among the rubble of bombed out buildings
15 OCTOBER 2023, JERUSALEM
9.SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Hastings, The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“We are anticipating that there won't be any more water left, if not tomorrow at the very latest by Tuesday. Now, we have heard reports that Israel did turn on the water connection to Gaza tonight, but our staff are reporting that water is not flowing. And what we need is for the water to be turned back on, so all the wells, at least in the south of Gaza, can be filled up. And that needs to happen immediately.”
FILE – UNICEF - 13 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA
10. Various shots, bombed out mosque
15 OCTOBER 2023, JERUSALEM
11.SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Hastings, The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“As I've said, the events of October 7th and Hamas attacks were absolute abhorrent. But this attack on Gaza, again, unprecedented, catastrophic. It really can lead nowhere for the Palestinians who live in Gaza.”
FILE – UNICEF - 13 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA
12. Various shots, bombed out mosque
15 OCTOBER 2023, JERUSALEM
13.SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Hastings, The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“We can actually bring in supplies, food, water, medicine, fuel from both Israel and Egypt right now. The problem is, is we do not have agreement from the Israelis to bring goods in. Right now, they're not permitting us to move. So, we are calling, obviously, for unconditional safe passage. And just like we call for the unconditional release and immediate release of the hostages being held by Hamas, we are also calling for immediate, unconditional access to provide humanitarian assistance. And that's not just to get goods into Gaza, but it's also to get goods throughout Gaza, which means we need pauses. We need a ceasefire. Our staff need to be able to move safely.”
FILE – UNICEF - 13 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA
14. Various shots, children playing in makeshift displaced persons’ site
UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Lynn Hastings called for an immediate ceasefire, reiterating that “it's really about the loss of our humanity if the international community allows this to continue. What we are seeing now is simply inhumane.”
Asked about the humanitarian access to Gaza and her talks with the Israeli side in an interview via video link today (15 Oct) from Jerusalem, Hastings said, “Israel is connecting humanitarian assistance into Gaza with the release of the hostages. Again, neither should be conditional. They have said they want to destroy Hamas, but their current trajectory is going to destroy Gaza.”
About the dwindling supplies the UN has, the UN official said, “We are anticipating that there won't be any more water left, if not tomorrow at the very latest by Tuesday.”
She added, “we have heard reports that Israel did turn on the water connection to Gaza tonight, but our staff are reporting that water is not flowing. And what we need is for the water to be turned back on, so all the wells, at least in the south of Gaza, can be filled up. And that needs to happen immediately.”
Hastings also reiterated, “the events of October 7th and Hamas attacks were absolute abhorrent. But this attack on Gaza, again, unprecedented, catastrophic.”
“It really can lead nowhere for the Palestinians who live in Gaza,” she added.
Asked about the latest updates on establishing safe corridors for humanitarians, opening the Rafah crossing to get UN aid that is ready on the Egyptian side, Hastings said, “we are calling, obviously, for unconditional safe passage. And just like we call for the unconditional release and immediate release of the hostages being held by Hamas, we are also calling for immediate, unconditional access to provide humanitarian assistance.”
She concluded, “that's not just to get goods into Gaza, but it's also to get goods throughout Gaza, which means we need pauses. We need a ceasefire. Our staff need to be able to move safely.”
