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A second round of polio vaccinations for thousands of children began in central Gaza despite reported strikes on a school-turned-shelter in Nuseirat and a hospital courtyard in Deir Al-Balah where multiple tents were set ablaze as people slept. UNTV CH / UNRWA
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STORY: GENEVA / UNRWA INTERVIEW
TRT: 05:44
SOURCE: UNTV CH / UNRWA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / 14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

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14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

1. Tilt up, from ambulances to displaced persons camp on fire

14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“I've been on the phone to my colleague since 3 o'clock this morning. He was sheltering in the compound of the Al Aqsa hospital and was one of the many people there that have lost everything. His tent has been burnt. We've seen the photos and videos. It seems that a lot of family shelters have gone up in this in this huge inferno, and he has been caught up in this this horror and this strike.”

14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

3. Wide shot, charred body being removed from fire

14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“This is just one of many incidents that we've had overnight in the Gaza Strip. It really has been another night of horror. In Nuseirat, there was an UNRWA school that was also hit in a strike. We're hearing reports that 22 people have been killed in this facility. These are people that are just sheltering. They're just trying to find somewhere to sleep trying to find some safety in the Gaza strip where there absolutely is none.”

14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

5. Various shots, fire

14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“Because of the damage on this school, because of the strike overnight, we were not able to do the polio vaccinations from this school, but hundreds of my colleagues got up this morning. Despite these horrors, they put on their UNRWA vests, and they went out to health centers to distribution points, and they distributed these vaccines, and they continue to do their work. They continue to be humanitarian every day, and they continue to do everything they can for their community.”

14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

7. Various shots, fire

14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“In the contrast to the horrors that occurred throughout the night, we have had these hundreds of UNRWA workers, UN workers, the World health organization, UNICEF and partners. They've all been out today. They've all gone to work this morning and continue to help their communities in every way they can today that has been providing the second round of polio vaccinations to thousands of children under ten. Today was the 1st day that they started the second round. This will go on for three more days in the middle area.”

14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

9. Various shots, firemen working on site

14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“They are very fatigued, very emotional, very traumatized by the situations going on in the middle area around them, but they carry on. They are trapped. They are trapped in the Gaza strip. A lot of them tell me, on a daily basis. They are just waiting to die. They are waiting to be killed. There's nowhere for them to leave, and in the meantime, they just keep being heroes on a daily basis and doing everything they can to try and provide the humanitarian resources that are desperately needed across the Gaza strip.”

14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

11. Various shots, fire

14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“We have horrific reports of our colleagues and some friends who cannot move in the area. They cannot escape from Jabalia Camp, but also in other areas of Northern Gaza. There's so many evacuation orders and forced displacement orders underway. Tens of thousands of people being forced to move again and again. They're just exhausted. They're absolutely exhausted, and what we cannot do is provide polio vaccinations to children that are either fleeing enforced displacements or fleeing from bombs falling from the sky. It's not possible to vaccinate children in these conditions.”

14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

13. Various shots, fire

14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“In the north of Gaza. It's really a struggle to get any humanitarian assistance in. There have been a lot of cases of UN Convoys and humanitarian convoys that have been denied entry. There has been no food entering North Gaza since the 1st of October. That is a significant amount of time for a population of 400,000 people.”

14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

15. Various shots, fire

14 OCTOBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“You've got no food entering Northern Gaza. It's as desperate as it's ever been. There's really very little hope, and we need more access, and we need the evacuation orders in the North to stop, and also the military operations to cease.”

14 OCTOBER 2024, AL AQSA HOSPITAL, DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE

17. Various shots, fire

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A second round of polio vaccinations for thousands of children began in central Gaza today (14 Oct) despite reported strikes on a school-turned-shelter in Nuseirat and a hospital courtyard in Deir Al-Balah where multiple tents were set ablaze as people slept.

Louise Wateridge, spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said colleagues has been sheltering at the Al Aqsa hospital displaced camp site.

SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“I've been on the phone to my colleague since 3 o'clock this morning. He was sheltering in the compound of the Al Aqsa hospital and was one of the many people there that have lost everything. His tent has been burnt. We've seen the photos and videos. It seems that a lot of family shelters have gone up in this in this huge inferno, and he has been caught up in this this horror and this strike.”

Rescue workers searching for survivors on Monday at the Al Aqsa hospital site, amid burnt-out tents and mangled metal frames. An intense blaze and smoke emanating from the middle of a series of large, tented shelters could be seen, while emergency teams removed what appeared to be a badly burned body from the ground of a charred tent, after covering it with a blanket.

At the school that was hit in Nuseirat, 22 people were reportedly killed. The facility had been intended for use as a polio vaccination site on Monday.

SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“This is just one of many incidents that we've had overnight in the Gaza Strip. It really has been another night of horror. In Nuseirat, there was an UNRWA school that was also hit in a strike. We're hearing reports that 22 people have been killed in this facility. These are people that are just sheltering. They're just trying to find somewhere to sleep trying to find some safety in the Gaza strip where there absolutely is none.”

Since the war began, more than 140 UNRWA schools have come under attack.

Despite the ongoing war in Gaza, triggered by Hamas-led terror attacks in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, the UN agency confirmed that hundreds of UN staff and partners had started the second round of polio vaccinations for children on Monday.

SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“Because of the damage on this school, because of the strike overnight, we were not able to do the polio vaccinations from this school, but hundreds of my colleagues got up this morning. Despite these horrors, they put on their UNRWA vests, and they went out to health centers to distribution points, and they distributed these vaccines, and they continue to do their work. They continue to be humanitarian every day, and they continue to do everything they can for their community.”

According to the UN World Health Organization, the first round from 1 to 12 September successfully vaccinated 559,161 children, or an estimated 95 percent of eligible youngsters at governorate level.

SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“In the contrast to the horrors that occurred throughout the night, we have had these hundreds of UNRWA workers, UN workers, the World health organization, UNICEF and partners. They've all been out today. They've all gone to work this morning and continue to help their communities in every way they can today that has been providing the second round of polio vaccinations to thousands of children under ten. Today was the 1st day that they started the second round. This will go on for three more days in the middle area.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“They are very fatigued, very emotional, very traumatized by the situations going on in the middle area around them, but they carry on. They are trapped. They are trapped in the Gaza strip. A lot of them tell me, on a daily basis. They are just waiting to die. They are waiting to be killed. There's nowhere for them to leave, and in the meantime, they just keep being heroes on a daily basis and doing everything they can to try and provide the humanitarian resources that are desperately needed across the Gaza strip.”

The most difficult area to vaccinate remains the north, where no food aid has entered since 1 October.

SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“We have horrific reports of our colleagues and some friends who cannot move in the area. They cannot escape from Jabalia Camp, but also in other areas of Northern Gaza. There's so many evacuation orders and forced displacement orders underway. Tens of thousands of people being forced to move again and again. They're just exhausted. They're absolutely exhausted, and what we cannot do is provide polio vaccinations to children that are either fleeing enforced displacements or fleeing from bombs falling from the sky. It's not possible to vaccinate children in these conditions.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“In the north of Gaza. It's really a struggle to get any humanitarian assistance in. There have been a lot of cases of UN Convoys and humanitarian convoys that have been denied entry. There has been no food entering North Gaza since the 1st of October. That is a significant amount of time for a population of 400,000 people.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Wateridge Senior Communications Officer, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA):
“You've got no food entering Northern Gaza. It's as desperate as it's ever been. There's really very little hope, and we need more access, and we need the evacuation orders in the North to stop, and also the military operations to cease.”

In a statement, UNRWA noted that the Israeli military had reissued evacuation orders on 7, 9 and 12 October while hostilities continue to escalate, resulting in more civilian suffering and casualties. More than 50,000 people have been displaced from the Jabaliya camp area which remains besieged, while others remain stranded in their homes amid increased bombardment and fighting.

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