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STORY: UN / GAZA HUMANITARIAN MCGOLDRICK INTERVIEW
TRT: 2:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED / WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 07 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, UN flag
07 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. 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):
“This phase of the military operation, they must have had it finished in Khan Younis. I think that's where they are now, taking the brigades out. What that means is that hopefully that will be a lot more secure in those areas and maybe people can start to go back to where they came from. But it's also a worrying issue in the sense that maybe they're going out to regroup and get ready for the proposed Rafah incursion.”
FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT ON SCREEN – 05 APRIL 2024, GAZA CITY
3. Wide shot, rubbish, destruction, WFP convoy of trucks
07 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY
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):
“Right now, we're very restricted in terms of what we're able to bring in. We have only one major crossing point, which is Kerem Shalom, to Rafah, and that allows us 250 trucks a day. We need to get up to that 500 plus a day. And in order to do that, we are asking. And we've been asking since day one for more, more actual pipelines in.”
FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT ON SCREEN – 01 APRIL 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA STRIP
5. Various shots, WFP distribution of hot meals
07 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY
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):
“I think that what we face right now is a situation that is very unstable and a very hostile military activity there. Many millions of people are suffering. Everybody in the Gaza Strip needs some sort of support from us.”
FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT ON SCREEN – 25 MARCH 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA STRIP
7. Wide shot, camp for displaced people
07 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY
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):
“We don't want to be part of any movement of population. But we have to be ready for the possibility of people leaving Rafah, because there's very few places for them to go. And for us, we really struggle to pre-position enough material, non-food items, shelter, material, and water, especially at this time of year when the weather is becoming so hot and the ability to have mobile health support and protection. So, all of those things are really big issues for us, and we really don't have the capacity and resources and ability right now. And we're really struggling to get prepared.”
FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT ON SCREEN – 05 APRIL 2024, GAZA CITY
9. Wide shot, rubbish, destruction, WFP convoy of trucks
07 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY
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):
“Right now, we're just basically living in a hand-to-mouth existence. We’re barely being able to deal with the issues we have facing us, and we’ve only got a short pipeline running a small stock, and we've got massive needs. And of course, this doesn't include the North, which is even more harrowing in terms of humanitarian needs. Until we can address that, we're in no position to be able to say we can put aside stocks as you would do in other emergencies, other disasters, you would have, you know, pre-positioned stocks, you'd have contingency planning stocks. We have none of that in this situation. And yet the planning is underway for a Rafah incursion, which could move up to 800,000 people.”
FILE – WFP – PLEASE CREDIT ON SCREEN – 01 APRIL 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA STRIP
11. Various shots, displaced people having Iftar meal
Top UN aid official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jamie McGoldrick, said, “Many millions of people are suffering. Everybody in the Gaza Strip needs some sort of support from us.”
In an interview via teleconference from Jerusalem today (7 Apr), Jamie McGoldrick, Interim Deputy Special Coordinator and Resident Coordinator, Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), commented the reports emerging about Israel's troop withdrawal from southern Gaza.
He said, “This phase of the military operation, they must have had it finished in Khan Younis. I think that's where they are now, taking the brigades out. What that means is that hopefully that will be a lot more secure in those areas and maybe people can start to go back to where they came from. But it's also a worrying issue in the sense that maybe they're going out to regroup and get ready for the proposed Rafah incursion.”
Asked about Israel’s public pledge to increase the flow of aid, he said, “Right now, we're very restricted in terms of what we're able to bring in. We have only one major crossing point, which is Kerem Shalom, to Rafah, and that allows us 250 trucks a day. We need to get up to that 500 plus a day. And in order to do that, we are asking. And we've been asking since day one for more, more actual pipelines in.”
He continued, “I think that what we face right now is a situation that is very unstable and a very hostile military activity there. Many millions of people are suffering. Everybody in the Gaza Strip needs some sort of support from us.”
McGoldrick said, “We don't want to be part of any movement of population. But we have to be ready for the possibility of people leaving Rafah, because there's very few places for them to go. And for us, we really struggle to pre-position enough material, non-food items, shelter, material, and water, especially at this time of year when the weather is becoming so hot and the ability to have mobile health support and protection. So, all of those things are really big issues for us, and we really don't have the capacity and resources and ability right now. And we're really struggling to get prepared.”
He concluded, “Right now, we're just basically living in a hand-to-mouth existence. We’re barely being able to deal with the issues we have facing us, and we’ve only got a short pipeline running a small stock, and we've got massive needs. And of course, this doesn't include the North, which is even more harrowing in terms of humanitarian needs. Until we can address that, we're in no position to be able to say we can put aside stocks as you would do in other emergencies, other disasters, you would have, you know, pre-positioned stocks, you'd have contingency planning stocks. We have none of that in this situation. And yet the planning is underway for a Rafah incursion, which could move up to 800,000 people.”
