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STORY: UN / GAZA PALESTINE ISRAEL
TRT: 03:35
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
16 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sigrid Kaag, Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza:
“Time is slipping away as a man-made humanitarian crisis has turned Gaza into the abyss. It cannot be repeated enough: we need an immediate ceasefire, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, and unimpeded, continuous humanitarian access to deliver aid at scale throughout the Gaza Strip. The continued lack of effective protection for civilians in Gaza is unconscionable. The infrastructure that civilians rely on must be protected and their essential needs met.”
5. Wide shot, Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sigrid Kaag, Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza:
“The outbreak of polio is also a stark reminder of the desolate conditions of life in the Gaza Strip. Given the ongoing hostilities, the lack of a proper enabling environment, effective deconfliction, and timely implementation of commitments made, the UN and partners remain constrained in their ability to address this catastrophic situation.”
7. Wide shot, UNOPS Executive Director Jorge Moreira da Silva addressing Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS):
“The effective delivery of aid at the scale required will simply not be possible, simply will not be possible without political will, necessary security and safety guarantees, and an enabling environment. Along with the rest of the UN family, UNOPS is determined to stay and deliver for the people of Gaza, both to respond to immediate humanitarian needs, and to support the immense recovery and reconstruction efforts that are so desperately needed. Allow me here to also emphasize the critical and irreplaceable role that UNRWA plays in Gaza as the key implementer of our collective will.”
9. Med shot, United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield addressing Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“We will continue to raise the need for Israel to facilitate humanitarian operations, and protect humanitarian workers and facilities, such as the UNRWA school targeted by the IDF last week in Nusseirat. We have also been unequivocal in communicating to Israel that there is no basis – absolutely none – for its forces to be opening fire on clearly marked UN vehicles, as recently occurred on numerous occasions."
11. Med shot, Kaag and Moreira da Silva
12. Wide shot, Danon addressing Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“We cannot work with everyone, and we will not work with those who do not care for civilians, but only care to harm Israel. UNRWA Gaza has become nothing more than a cartel fostering hatred and prolonging misery in Gaza. UNRWA Gaza does not assist. It enables. It enables the very forces that keep Gaza in a state of despair. We have documented proof of UNRWA staff involved in the Hamas led atrocities of October 7.”
14. Zoom in, Danon walks up to stakeout podium
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“Let me be clear this morning, UNWRA cannot be part of the solution. They are part of the problem."
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“Each of these terrorists were Hamas military operatives. They had a day job and a night job. Each of them was employed by UNWRA."
17. Pan right, Danon walks away
Briefing the Security Council, the United Nations Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, Sigrid Kaag today (16 Sep) called for an immediate ceasefire and unconditional release of all hostages as well as unrestricted humanitarian access. She said, “time is slipping away as a man-made humanitarian crisis has turned Gaza into the abyss.”
Kaag said “the continued lack of effective protection for civilians in Gaza is unconscionable” and stressed that “the infrastructure that civilians rely on must be protected and their essential needs met.”
The humanitarian official said, “the outbreak of polio is also a stark reminder of the desolate conditions of life in the Gaza Strip. Given the ongoing hostilities, the lack of a proper enabling environment, effective deconfliction, and timely implementation of commitments made, the UN and partners remain constrained in their ability to address this catastrophic situation.”
In his address to the Council, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Jorge Moreira da Silva said, “the effective delivery of aid at the scale required will simply not be possible, simply will not be possible without political will, necessary security and safety guarantees, and an enabling environment.”
emphasize the critical and irreplaceable role that UNRWA plays in Gaza as the key implementer of our collective will.”
Moreira da Silva emphasized “the critical and irreplaceable role that UNRWA plays in Gaza as the key implementer of our collective will.”
United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the Council that the US “will continue to raise the need for Israel to facilitate humanitarian operations, and protect humanitarian workers and facilities, such as the UNRWA school targeted by the IDF last week in Nusseirat.”
Thomas-Greenfield said, “we have also been unequivocal in communicating to Israel that there is no basis – absolutely none – for its forces to be opening fire on clearly marked UN vehicles, as recently occurred on numerous occasions."
Por his part Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon said, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, “has become nothing more than a cartel fostering hatred and prolonging misery in Gaza.”
Dannon said, “UNRWA Gaza does not assist. It enables. It enables the very forces that keep Gaza in a state of despair. We have documented proof of UNRWA staff involved in the Hamas led atrocities of October 7.”
Talking to reporters outside the Council before the meeting, Danon said, “UNWRA cannot be part of the solution. They are part of the problem."
Pointing to a visual display, Danon said, “each of these terrorists were Hamas military operatives. They had a day job and a night job. Each of them was employed by UNWRA."
