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STORY: UN / GAZA POLITICAL HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 13:26
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 04 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
04 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs:
“All perpetrators of violence – Israeli or Palestinian - must be held accountable. Recent dangerous and provocative acts and statements are further enflaming the situation. Statements by Palestinian armed groups calling for further violence and attacks against Israelis are unacceptable and must cease. The recent inflammatory acts and statements by an Israeli Minister at the Holy Sites in Jerusalem add to an already explosive situation in the occupied West Bank. The status quo at the Holy Sites in Jerusalem must be respected and upheld, recognizing the special and historic role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as custodian of the Holy Sites in Jerusalem. Mr. President, with every passing day we get further away from the objective of ending the occupation and achieving a viable two-State solution. We remain convinced that durable peace will only be achieved when Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous, viable and sovereign Palestinian state live side by side in peace and security within secure and recognized borders, on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states. It is our responsibility to do all we can to support the parties in reaching that objective.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We welcome the local humanitarian pauses, which have enabled the launch of the emergency polio vaccination, again, as USG DiCarlo highlighted, and recognize the colossal efforts of health actors to carry out the campaign in a very challenging environment. The Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator met with the highest levels of the Government of Israel yesterday on humanitarian concerns, including the importance of the polio campaign. According to the World Health Organization, over 187,000 children under the age of 10 have been vaccinated in the first phase of the campaign, towards the goal of reaching more than 640,000 children in the coming period. UNRWA is playing a vital role, including with over 200 teams operating in its clinics and health points. We also welcome the repair of the main water line between Israel and Khan Younis by local partners in cooperation with UNICEF. While the water and sanitation situation in Gaza remains dire, the repair has restored water service in several areas, including Al Mawasi, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people endure unbearable conditions. Despite all the challenges, we remain on the ground in Al Mawasi and across Gaza, providing essential assistance, including food and shelter, and protection services, as best we can.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev, Director of Schneider Children’s Medical Center: “We received at Schneider 19 children, six mothers and one grandmother that were all in captivity. All of these children underwent unimaginable horrific events when their closest relatives being murdered or taken with them to captivity. Children are innocent bystanders of any war. Sadly, children are known to be unintentionally hurt in many wars, as innocent bystanders. This should always be avoided. It should never happen. But unintentional is very different than intentional. I simply cannot understand, cannot bear the thought that someone, a man, a woman, anyone – could intentionally murder and capture children. Lock them, torture them, physically and mentally on purpose. Intentionally. I am here today, as an Israeli pediatric physician and head of one of the leading pediatric centers in the world, to tell you – no child should ever go through what the children and civilians of Israel have gone through on October 7th.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Yuli Novak, Israeli Human Rights activist and Executive Director of B’Tselem Council Members:
“In the criminal Hamas-led attack on October 7th, twelve hundred Israelis were killed and two hundred and fifty taken hostage. Since that day, I and every Israeli I know have been living in deep anxiety. The government is cynically exploiting our collective trauma to violently advance its project of cementing Israeli control over the entire land. To do that, it is waging war on the entire Palestinian people, including committing war crimes almost daily. In Gaza, this has taken the form of expulsion, starvation, killing, and destruction on an unprecedented scale. This goes beyond revenge - Israel is using the opportunity to promote an ideological agenda: making Gaza uninhabitable.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas -Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“I want to speak to the many, many people living in agony, that includes hostages that remain in the hands of Hamas hailing from across the world, including the United States - we're doing all we can to bring these Americans home, and all the hostages home to their families. The six hostages killed this weekend were executed at the same time negotiators were discussing the names of individuals to be released in a ceasefire deal. It calls into question the sincerity of Hamas negotiators, and it reveals yet again, the ugly truth about the vile, depraved ideology that Hamas represents. From his massacre of 1200 people to this weaponization of sexual violence, these latest murders confirm that Hamas is a terrorist organization. I know some members of this Council won't acknowledge that, but that's the simple truth. No member of this Council would tolerate their citizens being taken hostage and murdered. Not a single one of us. The United States strongly condemns Hamas' brutality. It is long, long past time this Council do the same.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyanskiy, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“We closely listen to the statements from civil society briefers. From their statements, it is clear that the current wave of escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is becoming increasingly grim and abhorrent in its outlines and grotesque. We were all shaken having learned of the death in Nuseirat of six hostages, including the Russian citizen, Alexander Lobanov. We extend our deepest condolences to the families and the loved ones of the dead. There is no justification, and there can be no justification for such acts, which is something you stated from the very beginning. We also, from the very outset, called for priority to be given to the question of the release of hostages, as we are perfectly all well aware, the only way to achieve this is through an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations:
“In recent days, Israel has killed over 30 Palestinians in the West Bank, among them
six children and two elderly people. It has destroyed refugee camps and civilian infrastructure and besieged and attacked hospitals and carried out countless airstrikes. The number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since last October stands at around 700, including over 150 children, with the number of injuries at 6,000 people. Over 3,300 Palestinians have been displaced and over 12,000 people have been arbitrarily detained, hostages enduring a never-ending nightmare. In parallel, Israel is advancing its settler colonial agenda with more and more settlers installed and more and more Palestinians displaced. Violence by settlers and soldiers is spreading like wildfire to push people out of their homeland. Israel wants you to believe its military aggression is about security. But it knows by experience that it is actually creating the conditions of insecurity. No one is naive enough to ignore what this is about. It is about the land. All Palestinians are guilty of being Palestinians and for wanting to live on their land, the land of their ancestors. Their sentence: ethnic cleansing, apartheid, arbitrary detention, or death. How long will they have to suffer such a terrifying fate?”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“Mia Regev, another free hostage, has testified that every woman held by Hamas has been sexually abused, every single one. She testified, every woman there experiences some form of sexual harassment. It doesn't matter how you try to beautify or change it. Mia was held for 50 days, but women who have been held for much longer, women who have suffered this torture for almost a year, women who have been forgotten by the international community. And then there is Agam Goldstein-Almog who was held in a terrible tunnel when she was 17 years old after witnessing the murder of her father and older sisters. In that tunnel, she encountered six other female hostages. These women told her how they were molested by armed men who entered the room where they were showering. Agam herself was told by a guard that she would live the rest of her life as a chained slave wife in Gaza.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:
“Now is the time for action. Now is the time for the Security Council to adapt a clear and unequivocal resolution. This doesn't require long negotiations. This doesn't require deliberation. You have a moral obligation to adopt a simple resolution which would say the Security Council condemns Hamas and their atrocities, designates them as a terrorist organization and demands the immediate release of the hostages.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
21. Wide shot, ambassador walks in
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:
“The disconnect between the horrific reality of October 7, the massacre, the abductions and the current situation in Gaza is difficult to comprehend. Many seem to have forgotten why we started this world, why we are fighting now in Gaza. But we have not. We remember the faces. We remember the families and we will not forget them. The disconnection allows some to behave as if October 7 never happened, as though there are no hostages in Gaza now, babies, young girls suffering in the hands of Hamas.”
23. Wide shot, the ambassador leaves
During a Security Council session on the situation in Gaza, Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, called for accountability on all sides, stating, “All perpetrators of violence – Israeli or Palestinian – must be held accountable.” DiCarlo stressed the importance of respecting the status quo in Jerusalem's Holy Sites, warning that the situation is moving further from a viable two-state solution.
Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations at the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), highlighted the successes of the emergency polio vaccination campaign, with over 187,000 children immunized. However, Wosornu emphasized that humanitarian conditions remain dire, particularly in Gaza’s water and sanitation services.
Israeli human rights activist Yuli Novak said the Israeli government exploits the trauma of the 7 October Hamas-led attack to intensify its control over Palestinian territories. She warned of a broader ideological agenda behind Israel's actions in Gaza, which has included expulsion, starvation, and destruction.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, condemned Hamas' recent executions of six hostages, stating, “It calls into question the sincerity of Hamas negotiators.” She further described Hamas as a "terrorist organization" and called on the Council to take a stronger stance against their actions. “No member of this Council would tolerate their citizens being taken hostage and murdered,” Thomas-Greenfield asserted, emphasizing U.S. efforts to secure the release of American and other hostages.
Russia's Dmitry Polyanskiy echoed calls for an immediate ceasefire, condemning the killing of hostages, including Russian citizens, while Palestinian representative Riyad Mansour denounced Israeli military actions in the West Bank.
Speaking to reporters ahead of the Security Council, Israel’s Ambassador Danny Danon urged Council members to condemn Hamas and designate it as a terrorist organization.
