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STORY: OCHA / GAZA WATER POLLUTION
TRT: 5:37
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 1 MAY 2024, GAZA, Deir Al-Balah
1. Panning shot, sewage waters overflowing
2. Wide shot, OCHA team conducting an assessment of the road
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Georgios Petropoulos, Head of Gaza Sub-office, OCHA:
“Behind me you can see the destruction in Nuseirat and Deir Al-Balah from recent fighting and what you can hear is a river of sewage provoked by broken pipelines.”
4. Various shots, nurse Abdul Rahman Abu Amra visiting a child in the clinic (UNRWA clinic) of Deir Al-Balah Preparatory Boys School in Deir Al-Balah
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Rahman Abu Amra, nurse:
“As far as pollution, of course, there is water pollution. The water they use for the bathroom, bathing and washing. This has, of course, led to the emergence of diseases, including rash diseases, scabies, and other skin diseases. Of course, there is the contaminated drinking water, which has led to severe intestinal flu, diarrhea for children and fatigue. There is pollution of sewage as a whole. Sewer pollution has led to the emergence of diseases such as hepatitis A and some other viral diseases. And of course, don't forget about contaminated food. Severe food contamination with the lack of water for washing and crowding led to gastrointestinal flu and other viral diseases.”
6. Various shots, tent site in Deir Al-Balah
7. Wide shot, Salama Abdel-Al sitting outside his tent
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salama Abdel-Al, displaced from the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City:
“These tents are the burning fire of God. It's like we're sitting among heaters. Then the sewage we currently have has caused for young children and older people to get skin diseases and liver diseases.”
9. Wide shot, Kamel Al-Ali and his family, displaced from the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, sitting outside a tent
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kamel Al-Ali
“With heat and other conditions, children develop fever and other diseases that children cannot tolerate, especially newborn babies and young children aged five or two years, for example. They can't take it. Maybe adults can but not the little ones.”
11. Various shots, unsanitary conditions in the camp
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Aziz Al-Bodani - displaced from Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip:
“To be honest, from dawn to almost 8 or 9, we stay outside the tent. The tent is only for eating and sleeping periods only.”
13. Various shots, unsanitary conditions and pollution
The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for almost seven months, has caused major destruction of service facilities, leading to the spread of waste and sewage and its accumulation among the tents of displaced people.
With the spread of waste and sewage and the rise in temperatures, infectious diseases have increased among the displaced, who complain of their inability to live inside tents as the temperatures rise.
