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STORY: UNFPA / GAZA MASS DISPLACEMENT
TRT: 05:02
SOURCE: UNFPA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNFPA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 07 DECEMBER 2023, UNRWA SCHOOL IN KHAN YOUNIS, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA, STATE OF PALESTINE
1. Wide shot, an UNRWA school in Khan Younis being used as a shelter
2. Wide shot, people walking in front of the building
3. Med shot, a young woman using wood to fuel the fire for bread-making
4. Close up, a pot on a repurposed metal box fire pit
5. Med shot, a young man holding a baby
6. Med shot, a baby in a makeshift tent
7. Close up, a baby in a makeshift tent
8. Close up, a pile of clothes
9. Med shot, a woman mixing flour
10. Med shot, a woman mixing flour
11. Med shot, baby clothes hanging outside a makeshift tent
12. Wide shot, makeshift tents
13. Wide shot, makeshift tents and people walking in between them
14. Wide shot, a baby stroller outside of a makeshift tent
15. Wide shot, tents, and the building
16. Wide shot, tents, and the building
17. Wide shot, clothes hanging on the building
18. Wide shot, tents, and the building
19. Wide shot, a girl walking in between the tents
20. Wide shot, men sweeping away dirty water
21. Wide shot, tents, and the building
22. Wide shot, tents, and the building
23. Wide shot, children playing in front of the tents
24. Med shot, children smiling in the hallway
25. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Seba Fayez Abu Selmi, Internally Displaced Person:
“Both of my children are young. One is nine months old, and the other is two years old, and I'm nine months pregnant.”
26. Med shot, a girl
27. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Seba Fayez Abu Selmi, Internally Displaced Person:
“I mean, pregnancy is the first thing I want to talk about; it's an extraordinary suffering. Also, with my two children, it's a suffering beyond the ordinary, a double suffering, if not more. Secondly, cleanliness in the bathroom is non-existent. There is no water. There is nothing at all resembling the life we used to live before the war.”
28. Med shot, clothes hanging in the hallway
29. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Seba Fayez Abu Selmi, Internally Displaced Person:
“Honestly, I don't know how I'll give birth. How will I comfort my little child? Even for my young children here with me, there's nothing, absolutely nothing. And I'm about to give birth as well, but there's nothing for this new-born, no basics. Even blankets aren't available, bedding isn't available, life, there's nothing. It's possible the new born might die; he will die! We're sure going to die, die! Not just from lack of food and water, but also from the suffering we're enduring.”
30. Med shot, clothes hanging on windows
31. Wide shot, children, and young women in the hallway
32. Close up, a baby
33. Med shot, a stack of futons
34. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Helen Alaa Abu Rajileh, Internally Displaced Person:
“We sleep on the floor, directly on the tiles. Nothing is available, they distributed some things but didn't distribute enough mattresses and pillows for everyone. Each family receives either one mattress or one blanket. So, if you have a family of eight or nine, whom do you cover and whom do you leave out? If you have only one or two mattresses, how many can sleep on them?”
35. Med shot, children sitting on a futon and on the floor
36. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Helen Alaa Abu Rajileh, Internally Displaced Person:
“Honestly, I had dreams, like everyone does. I had just finished high school and I really wanted to go to university. I enrolled in university, but it wasn't meant to be. Everyone has dreams, even children who have been deprived of their dreams. They used to go to school, play around, and attend. Now when a child hears the sound of a rocket, they start screaming in fear. This is what scares us the most for the children, not for ourselves.”
37 Med shot, children sitting on a futon
38. Close up, women and children making bread
39. Wide shot, women and children making breads
40. Med shot, women and children making breads
41. Med shot, women and children making breads
42. Close up, a woman
43. Med shot, a woman sitting near a stack of blankets
44. Close up, a group of children
45. Med shot, three girls
46. Close up, a girl
47. Med shot, a group of children
UNFPA, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, along with other UN agencies, continue supporting women, girls, and young people in Gaza, as UNFPA staff on the ground face grave danger and are risking their lives to provide aid to those in need.
The people of Gaza have endured an unending nightmare for two months.
Around 1.93 million people have been displaced. Overcrowded shelters are hosting nine times more people than their designed capacity. On average, 160 people share a single toilet and there is one shower unit for every 700 people. Scabies, diarrhoea, and respiratory infections are rampant. Nine in ten Gazans lack adequate food.
Gaza is home to 50,000 pregnant women who are unable to access essential health services. Some 45,000 of them do not have enough food to eat and 5,500 women are due to give birth in the coming month. Pregnant women, mothers and their babies require food, clean water, medicines, and health and hygiene services to stay alive and healthy.
Women like Seba Fayez Abu Selmi, 28, who are pregnant, fear for their and their new-borns’ health, as basic supplies like blankets are unavailable, let alone health services provided by doctors or midwives.
SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Seba Fayez Abu Selmi, Internally Displaced Person:
“Both of my children are young. One is nine months old, and the other is two years old, and I'm nine months pregnant.”
SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Seba Fayez Abu Selmi, Internally Displaced Person:
“I mean, pregnancy is the first thing I want to talk about; it's an extraordinary suffering. Also, with my two children, it's a suffering beyond the ordinary, a double suffering, if not more. Secondly, cleanliness in the bathroom is non-existent. There is no water. There is nothing at all resembling the life we used to live before the war.”
SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Seba Fayez Abu Selmi, Internally Displaced Person:
“Honestly, I don't know how I'll give birth. How will I comfort my little child? Even for my young children here with me, there's nothing, absolutely nothing. And I'm about to give birth as well, but there's nothing for this new-born, no basics. Even blankets aren't available, bedding isn't available, life, there's nothing. It's possible the new born might die; he will die! We're sure going to die, die! Not just from lack of food and water, but also from the suffering we're enduring.”
Or Helen Alaa Abu Rajileh 18, who had just enrolled in university before war broke out and whose plans have now been shattered. She talks of the severe mental health toll waged by the constant attacks.
SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Helen Alaa Abu Rajileh, Internally Displaced Person:
“We sleep on the floor, directly on the tiles. Nothing is available, they distributed some things but didn't distribute enough mattresses and pillows for everyone. Each family receives either one mattress or one blanket. So, if you have a family of eight or nine, whom do you cover and whom do you leave out? If you have only one or two mattresses, how many can sleep on them?”
SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Helen Alaa Abu Rajileh, Internally Displaced Person:
“Honestly, I had dreams, like everyone does. I had just finished high school and I really wanted to go to university. I enrolled in university, but it wasn't meant to be. Everyone has dreams, even children who have been deprived of their dreams. They used to go to school, play around, and attend. Now when a child hears the sound of a rocket, they start screaming in fear. This is what scares us the most for the children, not for ourselves.”
As of 7th of December, 6 truckloads of life-saving inter-agency reproductive health supplies from UNFPA had arrived in Gaza containing medicines and equipment for obstetric and postpartum care, as well as kits for midwives working in shelters, clean delivery kits for pregnant women, and dignity kits for displaced women and girls.
