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STORY: WHO / GAZA HEALTH PRESSER
TRT: 04:57
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 OCTOBER 2023, VARIOUS LOCATIONS / FILE
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab hospital in the north of the Gaza strip. The hospital was operational with patients, health care givers and internally displaced people sheltering there. Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
3. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
5. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO calls for the immediate active protection of civilians and health care. The evacuation orders must be reversed.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
7. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, Representative, occupied Palestinian territory, World Health Organization (WHO):
“I want to raise a plea, a plea that what is needed in Gaza now is immediate access. This corridor at Rafah needs to be opened as soon as possible. There’s an absolute need for fuel, water, food and of course medicines and medical supplies. The supplies are ready, they are at the border waiting to get in. There is an absolute need for this. This horror has to stop.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
9. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, Representative, occupied Palestinian territory, World Health Organization (WHO):
“And in this case everybody is aware that all the hospitals in Gaza, all their compounds, all their courtyards, are full with internally displaced people.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
11. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Any attack on health workers in this situation is a violation of international law. The attribution of that and causation of that, it’s impossible for WHO to be able to determine that.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
13. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The very place that can save the life of an injured civilian, can become a place of death and those health workers who risk their lives to save people are at risk of death so in that context, its exceptionally important that everybody works to protect healthcare installations. They are well identified, everyone knows where they are and they need to be de-conflicted and protected.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
15. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We acknowledge the suffering and terror that was caused to the people of southern Israel and all over Israel last week. We can feel the fear and the fury. We acknowledge that. This is very important, they were savage attacks and we can understand the rage and the fury of the people of Israel, but you cannot justify what is happening to the ordinary people of Palestine. This has to stop.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
16. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“It is absolutely clear to all sides of this conflict where the health facilities are. It is absolutely clear. Health care is not a target. It should never be a target of anyone in conflict.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
18. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Brennan, Regional Emergency Director, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“The Rafah crossing remains closed at this stage and there’s a lot of aid that has built up on the Egyptian side. WHO we’ve had life-saving medical supplies and equipment lines up for the last three days, we’re ready to go as soon as there is an opening.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
20. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“And it’s not just the Rafah crossing, its what happens on the far side of that crossing. Because delivering aid to the other side of the crossing is not good enough. The people are scattered all over Gaza. The hospitals are scattered all over Gaza. There needs to be safe access to those facilities.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
22. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
17 OCTOBER 2023
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO):
“There needs to be safety guarantees so that aid can get to where it needs to go. So the operation is complex, it’s not just an issue of opening or closing the gate at the border. It’s going to require very, very high-level diplomacy between multiple countries. The violence has to stop. The bombing has to stop and we have to get assistance to the people of Gaza.”
FILE – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
24. Wide shot, World Health Organization (WHO) flag
WHO strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. The hospital was operational, with patients, health and care givers, and internally displaced people sheltering there. Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries.
The hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military. The order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients, and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity, and alternative shelter for those displaced.
WHO calls for the immediate active protection of civilians and health care. Evacuation orders must be reversed. International humanitarian law must be abided by, which means health care must be actively protected and never targeted.
