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STORY: UN / GAZA UPDATE
TRT: 02:52
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
12 FEBRUARY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Strikes in Rafah have heightened concerns of an escalation in Gaza’s southernmost city, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge. Of the 1.7 million people displaced in Gaza, the majority are situated in Rafah governorate, where humanitarian operations are now based. The growing insecurity in Rafah has greatly impacted our ability to respond to the humanitarian needs of the population there. Ground military operations and heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups continue to be reported, obviously in Rafah, but also in Khan Younis. In Khan Younis, intense fighting – especially near the Nasser and Al Amal hospitals – continues to jeopardize the safety not only of medical staff, but also of course of the patients, the wounded and the sick those doctors and nurses are trying to take care of.”
5. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“What we want is to ensure that anything that happens is done in full respect of international law, in the full respect of the protection of, of civilians. We will not be party to forced displacement of people. As it is, there is no place that it's safe, currently safe in Gaza. There's a great challenge. I mean, vast majority of people in the South, in the north, and in central Gaza, where there may be less, let's say, kinetic activity, to put it diplomatically, there's still remains a huge challenge of unexploded ordnance. You can't send people back to areas that is littered with unexploded ordnance, not to mention a lack of, of shelter.”
7. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The humanitarian supplies may last us just days. We're not getting enough. We're not getting enough goods in. I mean, we've seen there were demonstrations at the Kerem Shalom crossing. There were demonstrations in Nitzana, which has hampered our ability to get all the humanitarian aid we want to see in. And, frankly, the deconfliction process that we have in place with the Israeli authorities is also not working, which means that we're not able to go, north of Rafah in a way that we want, we want to go in.”
9. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away
Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric today (12 Feb) said the United Nations “will not be party to forced displacement of people” in Gaza, as strikes in Rafah have heightened concerns of an escalation in Gaza’s southernmost city, “where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge.”
Dujarric noted that “of the 1.7 million people displaced in Gaza, the majority are situated in Rafah governorate, where humanitarian operations are now based.”
He said the “growing insecurity” in Rafah has “greatly impacted” the ability to respond to humanitarian needs, as “ground military operations and heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups continue to be reported,”
In Khan Younis, Dujarric said, “intense fighting – especially near the Nasser and Al Amal hospitals – continues to jeopardize the safety not only of medical staff, but also of course of the patients, the wounded and the sick those doctors and nurses are trying to take care of.”
The spokesperson said, “what we want is to ensure that anything that happens is done in full respect of international law, in the full respect of the protection of, of civilians.”
He said, “there is no place that it's safe, currently safe in Gaza,” and pointed out that in the north and in central Gaza “there's still remains a huge challenge of unexploded ordnance.”
Dujarric said, “you can't send people back to areas that is littered with unexploded ordnance, not to mention a lack of, of shelter.”
He said, “humanitarian supplies may last us just days. We're not getting enough. We're not getting enough goods in. I mean, we've seen there were demonstrations at the Kerem Shalom crossing. There were demonstrations in Nitzana, which has hampered our ability to get all the humanitarian aid we want to see in. And, frankly, the deconfliction process that we have in place with the Israeli authorities is also not working, which means that we're not able to go, north of Rafah in a way that we want, we want to go in.”
