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STORY: UN / GAZA HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
TRT: 04:30
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / 15 JULY 2024, MOWASI - KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
15 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Anderson, Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, United Nations:
“On Saturday, I visited Nasser Hospital after a strike in the safe zone of Mawasi. And the hospital itself is in Khan Yunis. I've been in Gaza for nine months, and I witnessed some of the most terrific scenes I've seen in the nine months that I've been here. The health facility was overstretched. There were more than 100 people injured, and the air was filled with the smell of blood. And one health worker was mopping up pools of blood on the floor using only water because there aren't sufficient supplies or disinfected material or other cleaning supplies to stop the spread of infection.”
4. Wide shot, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Anderson, Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, United Nations:
“Nine months into the war, we haven't had any international media access. The only media really are people like myself, or others talking to you, and something that is desperately needed is media in Gaza. In most warzones journalists and media workers perform a very vital function by informing the public about what is happening and to highlight the impact of the wars had on innocent civilians. So, we would urge the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists to enter the Gaza Strip and at the same time, every effort must be made to protect the journalists and media workers wherever they are in Gaza.”
6. Wide shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Anderson, Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, United Nations:
“The challenge we're facing at the moment is the smuggling trade is quite lucrative. And it's this time it's cigarettes. Next time it'll be something else. But one cigarette is 100 Shekels. Very roughly, that's 25 dollar - actually a little more, but to make the math easy is 25 dollars. That works out to 20,000 shekels per a carton of cigarettes, which is significant money, right? You're talking almost 5,000 dollars. But it said that's just a symptom. It's not the actual root cause, which is the lack of law and order.”
8. Med shot, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Anderson, Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, United Nations::
“Every society needs police to function. That's true around the world. It's no different here in Gaza. So, I think that the absence of police is what's causing the challenges, right? as people find themselves in a bit of a vacuum and they are looking at different ways pull out. So, what we're very much as I said trying to do is figure out ways to bring community policing or bring police back to work. And I'm quite confident if we can do that, it will address any of the issues that we have. And I'd end by saying that what we speak of, is not all of Gazans. Right? It's a few families that are trying to take advantage of this opportunity. And that's why I'm confident if we get police back at work, that they can address the issue.”
10. Wide shot, end of presser
15 JULY 2024, MOWASI, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE
11. Various shots, destroyed tents, infrastructure and vehicles at displaced persons site
The United Nations Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Scott Anderson, today (15 Jul) described the scene at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis on Saturday following an Israeli strike in the safe zone of Mawasi, as “some of the most terrific scenes I've seen” in the nine months since he’s been in Gaza.”
Speaking to reporters in New York via video teleconference from Gaza, Anderson said, “the health facility was overstretched. There were more than 100 people injured, and the air was filled with the smell of blood. And one health worker was mopping up pools of blood on the floor using only water because there aren't sufficient supplies or disinfected material or other cleaning supplies to stop the spread of infection.”
Anderson said, “nine months into the war, we haven't had any international media access,” in Gaza, which he said was “desperately needed,” as in “most warzones journalists and media workers perform a very vital function by informing the public about what is happening and to highlight the impact of the wars had on innocent civilians.”
He urged Israeli authorities “to allow international journalists to enter the Gaza Strip and at the same time, every effort must be made to protect the journalists and media workers wherever they are in Gaza.”
Speaking about the breakdown of law and order in the Strip, Anderson said, “the challenge we're facing at the moment is the smuggling trade is quite lucrative. And it's this time it's cigarettes. Next time it'll be something else. But one cigarette is 100 Shekels. Very roughly, that's 25 dollar - actually a little more, but to make the math easy is 25 dollars. That works out to 20,000 shekels per a carton of cigarettes, which is significant money, right? You're talking almost 5,000 dollars. But it said that's just a symptom. It's not the actual root cause, which is the lack of law and order.”
He said, “every society needs police to function. That's true around the world. It's no different here in Gaza. So, I think that the absence of police is what's causing the challenges, right? as people find themselves in a bit of a vacuum and they are looking at different ways pull out. So, what we're very much as I said trying to do is figure out ways to bring community policing or bring police back to work. And I'm quite confident if we can do that, it will address any of the issues that we have. And I'd end by saying that what we speak of, is not all of Gazans. Right? It's a few families that are trying to take advantage of this opportunity. And that's why I'm confident if we get police back at work, that they can address the issue.”
Displaced persons in the Mowasi - Khan Younis area in the southern Gaza Strip recounted shocking testimonies about the targeting of the area on Saturday, which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries due to the airstrike that hit the tents of the displaced and nearby houses.
The remnants of the Israeli airstrike on the area were evident, highlighting the extent of the bombing that the area, declared safe by the Israeli army, suffered.
