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STORY: WHO / GAZA HUNGER DISEASE WATER
TRT: 03:20
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 27 DECEMBER 2023, GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE
1. Various shots, living conditions at IDP Camp, west of Rafah
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Displaced Person:
“I only been here for two or three days, and I haven’t encountered any kind of medical treatment at all. I have to try and get my kids to a field hospital but to be honest with you, it is unsafe for me to move around as I can get bombed or shelled on the way there.”
3. Various shots, water at the camp being poured, carried and consumed
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Displaced Person:
“We don’t have any kind of medicine available, not for the children and not for the elderly people. Also, unfortunately the water is polluted which has led to many diseases.”
5. Various shots, living conditions at the camp, children playing and personal possessions of IDPs
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Displaced Person:
“I have been disabled and in a wheelchair for five years now, I can’t and don’t know where to go for treatment. Neither the clinics nor the hospitals were able to provide treatment, and I have no idea how to get treated.”
7. Various shots, displaced people cooking over fires and wood being prepared
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Displaced Person:
“As you can see all the food is cooked over fire, and it’s been extremely hard to get any firewood, even the areas where trees and firewood were available it’s gone, people took it all. It’s a tough life.”
9. Various shots, IDPs eating
10. Various shots, local busy streets near to the camp
Disease, hunger, lack of clean water and limited access to healthcare are just some of the issues Gaza’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) face on a daily basis at the makeshift IDP camp to the west of Rafah.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Displaced Person:
“I only been here for two or three days, and I haven’t encountered any kind of medical treatment at all. I have to try and get my kids to a field hospital but to be honest with you, it is unsafe for me to move around as I can get bombed or shelled on the way there.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Displaced Person:
“We don’t have any kind of medicine available, not for the children and not for the elderly people. Also, unfortunately the water is polluted which has led to many diseases.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Displaced Person:
“I have been disabled and in a wheelchair for five years now, I can’t and don’t know where to go for treatment. Neither the clinics nor the hospitals were able to provide treatment, and I have no idea how to get treated.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Displaced Person:
“As you can see all the food is cooked over fire, and it’s been extremely hard to get any firewood, even the areas where trees and firewood were available it’s gone, people took it all. It’s a tough life.”
World Health Organization (WHO) teams have witnessed tens of thousands of people fleeing heavy strikes in the Khan Younis and Middle Area, on foot, riding on donkeys, or in cars. Make-shift shelters were being built along the road.
WHO staff also reported that the need for food continues to be acute across the Gaza Strip. Hungry people again stopped WHO convoys in the hope of finding food.
WHO’s ability to supply medicines, medical supplies, and fuel to hospitals is being increasingly constrained by the hunger and desperation of people en route to, and within, hospitals.
