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STORY: UN / UNRWA LAZZARINI PRESS ENCOUNTER
TRT: 01:27
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior, United Nations
12 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, ambassadors at the Security Council stakeout podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“118 member states have signed off of this joint commitment. And among them we have all the members of the Security Council. And this I mean, today, it's an important day for the agency because, you know that we are also undergoing fierce attacks, which are politically motivated and hence the importance that member states restate their support and the trust to the agency to whom they are conferring such an important mandate.”
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
4. Close up, camera
12 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“We have today in Gaza, one in two persons under the age of 18. We have in Gaza more than 600,000 girls and boys living in the rubble, deeply traumatised and for whom our joint commitment should be to bring them back as soon as possible in an education environment, if we do not want to sacrifice an entire generation and sow the seeds for more violence in the future.”
6. Zoom out, end of press encounter
The Head of the Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini today (12 Jul) welcomed the joint commitment signed by 118 member states in support of the Agency, which he said, is “undergoing fierce attacks, which are politically motivated.”
Ahead of a Pledging Conference in support of UNRWA, Lazzarini said, “we have today in Gaza, one in two persons under the age of 18. We have in Gaza more than 600,000 girls and boys living in the rubble, deeply traumatised and for whom our joint commitment should be to bring them back as soon as possible in an education environment, if we do not want to sacrifice an entire generation and sow the seeds for more violence in the future.”
195 UNRWA staff members have been killed during the current war in Gaza, the highest staff death toll in UN history.