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STORY: UN / GAZA WOMEN
TRT: 02:44
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
18 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryse Guimond, representative in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), UN Women:
“Wars are never gender neutral, but with no doubt in Gaza 1 million women and girls are bearing the worst brunt of nine months of war.”
4. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryse Guimond, representative in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), UN Women:
“Women in Gaza are living in constant movement; constant fear being constantly chased. There are no safe places to be a woman in Gaza. 9 out of 10 people living in Gaza are displaced. nearly 1 million women and girls have been displaced 5, 7 times moving to areas that are increasingly smaller and where they are targets of attack and bombing.”
6. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryse Guimond, representative in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), UN Women:
“It's very, very difficult to fully grasp the horrors that we're seeing in Ghana, and that are affecting, and I would start, especially women and girl.”
8. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryse Guimond, representative in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), UN Women:
“UN Women data shows that 557,000 women are suffering acute food insecurity. More than half a million women are severely hungry, eating the last and the least of their families, skipping meals and not eating healthy foods for months and months.”
10. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryse Guimond, representative in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), UN Women:
“UN Women, we recently published a gender alert on the impact of the war on 25 women led organization in the occupied Palestinian territory with a 18 based in Gaza. These organizations with over 1,500 personnel provide essential services like shelters, sites management, hygiene, and psychosocial support despite the challenges of the war, the disruption and the reduced funding.”
12. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
13.SOUNDBITE (English) Maryse Guimond, representative in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), UN Women:
“To quote the representative of a women's organization, ‘The question is not what women need. The question should be what they don't need.’ Women don't want to die. They don't want to bury their loved one. They don't want to be left alone to suffer.”
14. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
UN Women representative in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Maryse Guimond said, “Wars are never gender neutral, but with no doubt, in Gaza, 1 million women and girls are bearing the worst brunt of nine months of war.”
Briefing virtually from Jerusalem the press today (18 Jul) Guimond said, “Women in Gaza are living in constant movement; constant fear being constantly chased. There are no safe places to be a woman in Gaza. 9 out of 10 people living in Gaza are displaced. nearly 1 million women and girls have been displaced 5, 7 times moving to areas that are increasingly smaller and where they are targets of attack and bombing.”
She stressed, “It's very, very difficult to fully grasp the horrors that we're seeing in Ghana, and that are affecting, and I would start, especially women and girl.”
She highlighted, “UN Women data shows that 557,000 women are suffering acute food insecurity. More than half a million women are severely hungry, eating the last and the least of their families, skipping meals and not eating healthy foods for months and months.”
She also said, “UN Women, we recently published a gender alert on the impact of the war on 25 women led organization in the occupied Palestinian territory with a 18 based in Gaza. These organizations with over 1,500 personnel provide essential services like shelters, sites management, hygiene, and psychosocial support despite the challenges of the war, the disruption and the reduced funding.”
She concluded, “To quote the representative of a women's organization, ‘The question is not what women need. The question should be what they don't need.’ Women don't want to die. They don't want to bury their loved one. They don't want to be left alone to suffer.”
