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STORY: WHO / GAZA AL SHIFA HOSPITAL
TRT: 04:40
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 APRIL 2024, AL-SHIFA MEDICAL COMPLEX, NORTH GAZA
1. Various shots, UN mission team inspecting wreckage of medical complex, talking to health workers and Emergency Medical Teams
2. Various shots, mission team inspecting makeshift graveyard at medical complex
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mutasem Salah, Director, Emergency Operations Centre in Gaza:
“The scenes we are seeing today are unbearable… when you are watching families find out through the results of the Forensic Evidence Committee that some of the belongings, from wallets to documents, are from the bodies of their relatives, the psychological impact of this scene on the families is unbearable, and unwatchable. Seeing their children as decomposing corpses and their bodies completely torn apart is a scene that can’t be described, and there are no words for it.”
4. Various shots, digger laying out rows of rubble to be inspected for human remains
5. Various shots, health workers removing human remains from rubble and into body bags
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, Trauma surgeon & Emergency officer, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Today, OCHA, WHO, UNMAS and UNDSS, came here to Shifa to support a dignified process for the identification of the remains of the people that died here. This place that used to be place where life was given, is now a place that now reminds only death. Hospitals should never be militarized.”
7. Various shots, destruction inside medical complex
8. Various shots, inspection of exploded ordnance, UN team, surgical building
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners went today (8 Apr) to Al-Shifa medical complex in North Gaza “to support a dignified process for the identification of the remains of the people that died here,” a WHO officer said.
Athanasios Gargavanis, WHO trauma surgeon and emergency officer added, “This place that used to be place where life was given, is now a place that now reminds only death.”
Mutasem Salah, Director of the Emergency Operations Centre in Gaza said, “The scenes we are seeing today are unbearable… when you are watching families find out through the results of the Forensic Evidence Committee that some of the belongings, from wallets to documents, are from the bodies of their relatives, the psychological impact of this scene on the families is unbearable, and unwatchable. Seeing their children as decomposing corpses and their bodies completely torn apart is a scene that can’t be described, and there are no words for it.”
