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STORY: UN / GAZA GUTERRES PRESSER
TRT: 03:01
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 JANUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
15 JANUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General António Guterres at the press room podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I once again demand the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. In the interim, they must be treated humanely and allowed to receive visits and assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross. The accounts of sexual violence committed by Hamas and others on October 7th must be rigorously investigated and prosecuted. Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians – or the launching of rockets towards civilian targets. At the same time, the onslaught on Gaza by Israeli forces over these 100 days has unleashed wholesale destruction and levels of civilian killings at a rate that is unprecedented during my years as Secretary-General. The vast majority of those killed are women and children. Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
5. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“While there have been some steps to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, life-saving relief is not getting to people who have endured months of relentless assault at anywhere near the scale needed. The long shadow of starvation is stalking the people of Gaza – along with disease, malnutrition and other health threats. I am deeply troubled by the clear violation of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing.”
7. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Meanwhile, the cauldron of tensions in the occupied West Bank is boiling over with heightened violence compounding an already dire fiscal crisis for the Palestinian Authority. Tensions are also sky-high in the Red Sea and beyond – and may soon be impossible to contain. I have serious concerns about daily exchanges of fire across the Blue Line. This risks triggering a broader escalation between Israel and Lebanon and profoundly affecting regional stability.”
9. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Stop playing with fire across the Blue Line, de-escalate, and bring hostilities to an end in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1701.”
11. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
12. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We cannot see in Lebanon what we are seeing in Gaza. And we cannot allow what has been happening in Gaza to continue.”
13. Wide shot, Guterres walks away
100 days since the start of the conflict in Israel and Palestine, Secretary-General António Guterres today (15 Jan) demanded the “immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.” At the same time, he said, “the onslaught on Gaza by Israeli forces over these 100 days has unleashed wholesale destruction and levels of civilian killings at a rate that is unprecedented during my years as Secretary-General.”
Guterres said hostages “must be treated humanely and allowed to receive visits and assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross,” and “accounts of sexual violence committed by Hamas and others on October 7th must be rigorously investigated and prosecuted.”
He said, “nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians – or the launching of rockets towards civilian targets.”
Noting that the “vast majority” of those killed in Gaza are women and children, he said, “nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
The Secretary-General also warned about the regional implications of the conflict. He said, “the cauldron of tensions in the occupied West Bank is boiling over with heightened violence compounding an already dire fiscal crisis for the Palestinian Authority. Tensions are also sky-high in the Red Sea and beyond – and may soon be impossible to contain.”
Guterres expressed “serious concerns” about daily exchanges of fire across the Blue Line, which “risks triggering a broader escalation between Israel and Lebanon and profoundly affecting regional stability.”
He called on parties to “stop playing with fire across the Blue Line, de-escalate, and bring hostilities to an end in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1701.”
The Secretary-General said, “we cannot see in Lebanon what we are seeing in Gaza. And we cannot allow what has been happening in Gaza to continue.”
Guterres called for immediate humanitarian ceasefire as well as rapid, safe, unhindered, expanded and sustained humanitarian access into and across Gaza.
