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STORY: UN / GAZA UPDATE
TRT: 2:38
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2.Wide shot, press briefing room
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Turning to the situation in Gaza, today as you may have heard would have marked the start of the new school year in Gaza. However, after 11 months of hostilities, more than 600,000 young people are being deprived of access to formal education for another year. The UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, says no official schooling is available in any of its 200 schools, with many of them being used as shelters for displaced Palestinians. The agency says its teams are still providing recreational activities and psychosocial support in some of its schools.”
4. Various shots, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“More than 256,000 children under 10 years in Khan Younis and Rafah were reached over a period of four days during the second phase of the vaccination campaign. The initial round of the campaign is now almost 70 per cent complete – with more than 446,000 children vaccinated out of 640,000 targeted during this first round – the second round of vaccination is expected to start in about four weeks’ time. The last phase of this first round is set to begin tomorrow in northern Gaza. However, new evacuation orders issued for parts of the north include areas where local pauses had been agreed for polio vaccination. About 5,000 displaced people sheltering in seven collective centres, mostly buildings that had been used as schools, are among those affected by this order – that’s according to the initial assessments by our humanitarian partners.”
6. Various shots, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“As of today, more than 55 evacuation orders remain in effect, covering up to 86 per cent of the Gaza Strip. These directives – coupled with active hostilities, attacks on aid convoys, and the destruction of key roads, the presence of unexploded ordnance, and a lack of public order and safety – are impeding aid operations in Gaza. Access delays and denials have also continued to significantly constrain humanitarian access. OCHA reports that the number of humanitarian missions and movements within Gaza that were denied access by the Israeli authorities nearly doubled in August as compared to July – with 105 missions and movements denied last month, versus 53 the previous month.”
8. Various shots, press briefing room
After eleven months of hostilities, more than 600,000 young people in Gaza are being deprived of access to formal education for another year, a UN Spokesperson said.
Speaking to reporters in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that today (09 Sep) would have marked the start of the new school year in Gaza.
Dujarric said, “The UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, says no official schooling is available in any of its 200 schools, with many of them being used as shelters for displaced Palestinians. The agency says its teams are still providing recreational activities and psychosocial support in some of its schools.”
The Spokesperson also reiterated that the UN and its partners are continuing efforts to protect children against the poliovirus, with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting that partners concluded the second phase of the vaccination campaign yesterday in southern Gaza.
“More than 256,000 children under 10 years in Khan Younis and Rafah were reached over a period of four days during the second phase of the vaccination campaign,” Dujarric said.
According to the UN, the initial round of the campaign is now almost 70 per cent complete – with more than 446,000 children vaccinated out of 640,000 targeted during this first round – the second round of vaccination is expected to start in about four weeks’ time.
Dujarric said, “The last phase of this first round is set to begin tomorrow in northern Gaza. However, new evacuation orders issued for parts of the north include areas where local pauses had been agreed for polio vaccination.”
He added, “About 5,000 displaced people sheltering in seven collective centres, mostly buildings that had been used as schools, are among those affected by this order – that’s according to the initial assessments by our humanitarian partners.”
OCHA warned that repeated evacuation orders are deepening the humanitarian crisis for hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza, the spokesperson said.
He explained, “As of today, more than 55 evacuation orders remain in effect, covering up to 86 per cent of the Gaza Strip. These directives – coupled with active hostilities, attacks on aid convoys, and the destruction of key roads, the presence of unexploded ordnance, and a lack of public order and safety – are impeding aid operations in Gaza.”
“Access delays and denials have also continued to significantly constrain humanitarian access,” Dujarric continued, adding that “OCHA reports that the number of humanitarian missions and movements within Gaza that were denied access by the Israeli authorities nearly doubled in August as compared to July – with 105 missions and movements denied last month, versus 53 the previous month.”
