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STORY: UN / GAZA MCGOLDRICK PRESSER
TRT: 03:09
SOURCE: UNIFEED / UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 JANUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Tilt up, exterior UN headquarters
24 JANUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room, Jamie McGoldrick on screen
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, Interim Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator, Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO):
“The shock is actually starting to wane now, and people start to see themselves a resignation that this is what we're going to have to face for some significant time. And we in the international, the UN family and its partners, are trying the best we can to get through, but we are faced with massive challenges. Many of them are outside of our control.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, Interim Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator, Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO):
“Massive numbers of civilians have arrived in Rafah itself, which is on the border with Egypt. They are fleeing hostilities in different parts of Gaza. You see serious issues of overcrowding in the streets, people building shelters, erecting tents, and the squalid conditions you see inside the shelters and inside these areas, the unsanitary conditions, people using contaminated water and outbreaks of respiratory infections of hepatitis A, diseases that were, eradicated from Gaza before.”
7. Wide shot, press room, McGoldrick on screen
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, Interim Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator, Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO):
“There was an attack on an UNRWA training centre in Khan Yunis, has been sheltering 10,000 displaced people, and they've just been hit recently, in the afternoon just now and mass casualties have taken place. Some buildings that are ablaze and they reported of deaths. Many people have trying to flee the scene but unable to do so.”
9. Wide shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, Interim Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator, Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO):
“We're getting another 250 trucks a day. That's on a good day. And that's coming through one point, which is Rafah. And all of the goods that are being from Rafah, from Egypt, say, through to Kerem Shalom. And so, what we have there is the only entry point in there. And right now, the only stuff we have is the humanitarian. In the past you would normally have about 500 trucks per day from the private sector bringing in basic commodities, and that's having a massive impact on the population.”
11. Wide shot, press room, McGoldrick on screen
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, Interim Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator, Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO):
“There was a very robust agricultural sector. I haven't seen any attacks on that, but I know that it's been decimated, and I think that we will not see another harvest of any kind in Gaza for some significant years until things go back. So, an extra burden will be relying on bringing in fresh produce from the other side, because there won't be very much growing again for a significant part of time.”
13. Wide shot, end of presser
FILE – UNICEF – 14 JANUARY 2024, RAFAH, GAZA STRIP
14. Various shots, school used for displaced shelter in Rafah
FILE – UNICEF - 19 DECEMBER 2023, RAFAH, SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP
15. Various shots, a large crowd, predominantly children, forms a long line, containers in hand, to receive a free meal
A top United Nations humanitarian official in Gaza today (24 Jan) said, “the shock is actually starting to wane now, and people start to see themselves a resignation that this is what we're going to have to face for some significant time.”
Briefing journalists in New York from Jerusalem, Jamie McGoldrick, who is the Interim Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator at the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), said, “the UN family and its partners, are trying the best we can to get through, but we are faced with massive challenges. Many of them are outside of our control.”
He said, “massive numbers of civilians have arrived in Rafah itself, which is on the border with Egypt. They are fleeing hostilities in different parts of Gaza. You see serious issues of overcrowding in the streets, people building shelters, erecting tents, and the squalid conditions you see inside the shelters and inside these areas, the unsanitary conditions, people using contaminated water and outbreaks of respiratory infections of hepatitis A, diseases that were, eradicated from Gaza before.”
McGoldrick reported that there was an attack today on an UNRWA training centre in Khan Yunis which had been sheltering 10,000 displaced people.
He said, “mass casualties have taken place. Some buildings that are ablaze and they reported of deaths. Many people have trying to flee the scene but unable to do so.”
The official noted that humanitarian agencies are bring 250 trucks a day into Gaza “on a good day” through the Rafah crossing.
He said, “right now, the only stuff we have is the humanitarian. In the past you would normally have about 500 trucks per day from the private sector bringing in basic commodities, and that's having a massive impact on the population.”
Responding to a journalist’s question, McGoldrick said there use to be “a very robust agricultural sector” in Gaza, but it has now been “decimated.”
He said, “I think that we will not see another harvest of any kind in Gaza for some significant years until things go back. So, an extra burden will be relying on bringing in fresh produce from the other side, because there won't be very much growing again for a significant part of time.”
