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Acting UN Humanitarian Chief Joyce Msuya delivered a statement to the Security Council, recounting images of patients and displaced persons near Al Aqsa hospital in Gaza, engulfed in flames. She said, “if such horror does not awaken our sense of humanity and propel us to action, what will?” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / GAZA
TRT: 08:07
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / NATS

DATELINE: 16 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters

16 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“In just one week, nearly 400 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in Gaza and almost 1,500 injured. The world has seen the images of patients and displaced persons, sheltering near Al Aqsa hospital, burning alive. Scores of others, including women and children, are suffering the excruciating pain of severe lifechanging burns. There is no way to get them the urgent care they need to survive and manage such injuries. If such horror does not awaken our sense of humanity and propel us to action, what will?”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Throughout Gaza, less than a third of the 286 humanitarian missions coordinated with Israeli authorities in the first two weeks of October were facilitated without major incidents or delays.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Thankfully, since we last briefed the Council, the second round of the polio vaccination
campaign began in central Gaza. WHO reports that on 14 and 15 October, nearly 157,000 children under 10 received the vaccination. The campaign once again underscored the critical role of UNRWA, whose teams vaccinated 43 per cent of the children reached on the first day.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Amar Bendjama, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Algeria:
“While the international community celebrates today the World Food Day, Palestinians are struggling to find food, basic food.”
10. Med shot, Danon and Msuya
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Amar Bendjama, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Algeria:
“This is not, this is not a collateral damage, that is a deliberate and calculated Israeli policy of starvation of the Palestinian people.”
12. Close up, Joyce Msuya
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“Colleagues, this weekend, like so many of you – like so many people around the world – I watched in horror as images from Central Gaza poured across my screen. Images of what appeared to be displaced civilians burning alive following an Israeli air strike. There are no words, simply no words, to describe what we saw. Israel has a responsibility to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, even if Hamas was operating near the hospital in an attempt to use civilians as human shields. We have made this clear to Israel.”
14. Med shot, Thomas-Greenfield
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“I urge some members of this Council to stop turning a blind eye to Hamas’ depraved deeds. Its acts of terror, its hostage-taking, its obstruction of a ceasefire deal, its use of civilians as human shields. And I urge members of this Council to continue to focus on direct diplomatic initiatives that can save the lives of innocent people who did not start this war and cannot end it but who bear the costs of it.”
16. Wide shot, Security Council
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative to the UN, United Kingdom:
“We urge the Israeli Government to take action to crack down on settler violence and to stop settler expansion on Palestinian land. That is why yesterday, my Government announced further sanctions against three illegal settler outposts and four organisations in order to bring accountability to those who perpetrate such heinous human rights abuses against Palestinians.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
16. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“On top of the precipitously deteriorating situation in the oPt and the financial crisis prompted by the US, they are destroying donor support for UNRWA – the above risks definitively spelling the end of the agency’s activities. It appears that is exactly what Israel’s aim is.”
17. Wide shot, Security Council
18. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“We see that all the members of the Security Council are ready to do so. We don’t understand why the remaining members of the security Council have to share responsibility for the madness underway in Gaza, if it only one member that stopping us from ending this madness. So, we would like to ask all who will be taking the floor after we do, not to limit themselves to the general appeals to the Security Council but depersonalize their reproaches addressing it to the state who bears personal responsibility for this.”
19. Close up, Danon
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Mustafa, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Palestine:
“400000 Palestinians, besieged, and bombed, and starved, left with a choice to stay in the North and die from bombings or starvation or die elsewhere.”
21. Wide shot, Security Council
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Mustafa, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Palestine:
"Look at what Israel did with UNIFIL. ‘We told you to leave if you stay you can be attacked.’ Outrageous argument, yet that is what happened repeatedly. And that is what the Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal said himself. So, if they can use this argument against a UN force, deployed and mandated by this Council, what chance do Palestinian and now Lebanese civilians stand when faced with the same logic?”
23. Close up, Joyce Msuya
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“Those who believe there is no more work can be done to protect civilians from murderous terrorists in Gaza, you are solely mistaken. Only days ago, our forces discovered an arsenal of weapons and explosives inside an UNRWA clinic, cloaked in the blue flag of the UN. Terrorists have ceased this facility using it as a weapon store and a launch site. How many times have warned of UNRWA-Gaza infiltrations by Hamas? How many months have passed since we provided a list of names of Hamas terrorists employed by UNRWA? No reply.”
25. Wide shot, end of Security Council
23. Wide shot, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon walks up to stakeout podium
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“Meanwhile, we get a lot of accusations about humanitarian effort in Gaza, and I want to make it clear. Over one million tons of aid have been delivered via more than 50000 trucks, including over 700000 tons of food. The problem in Gaza is not lack of aid. The problem is Hamas which hijacks the aid, stealing, storing and selling it to feed their terror machine while civilians suffer.”
25. Pan right, Danon walks away

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Acting UN Humanitarian Chief Joyce Msuya delivered a statement to the Security Council today (16 Oct) in New York City, recounting images of patients and displaced persons near Al Aqsa hospital, engulfed in flames. She said, “if such horror does not awaken our sense of humanity and propel us to action, what will?”

Acting Under-Secretary-General Joyce Msuya emphasized to the Council that only a fraction of humanitarian missions in Gaza had been completed without major disruption. Msuya highlighted that in the first two weeks of October, fewer than a third of the 286 humanitarian missions coordinated with Israeli authorities proceeded without delays.

Msuya also noted progress in health efforts, specifically the polio vaccination campaign in central Gaza, where nearly 157,000 children under the age of 10 were vaccinated on 14 and 15 October. She underscored the critical role of UNRWA, whose teams administered 43 percent of these vaccinations on the first day of the campaign.

Algerian Ambassador Amar Bendjama criticized the situation, stating that "Palestinians are struggling to find food, basic food,” as the international community marked World Food Day. Bendjama also said Israel follows a “deliberate and calculated policy of starvation” targeting the Palestinian population.

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield acknowledged witnessing disturbing images from Gaza, noting, “Israel has a responsibility to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, even if Hamas was operating near the hospital in an attempt to use civilians as human shields."

UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward added that the British Government had imposed sanctions on illegal settler outposts and organizations, citing an increase in settler violence and expansion on Palestinian land.

Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya linked the reduction in donor support for UNRWA to U.S. policies. Commenting on needed ceasefire, he said, “we see that all the members of the Security Council are ready to do so. We don’t understand why the remaining members of the Security Council have to share responsibility for the madness underway in Gaza, if it only one member that stopping us from ending this madness.”

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa described the desperation of Palestinians, saying that nearly 400,000 people face the choice to remain in the Northern Gaza under bombing threats or to starve. Mustafa compared the situation to past incidents involving UNIFIL, questioning Israel’s willingness to respect international protection.

Speaking to reporters before the Security Council, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon, said that “terrorists have seized” an UNRWA facility, using it as a “weapons store.” Danon said “over one million tons of aid have been delivered via more than 50000 trucks, including over 700000 tons of food. The problem in Gaza is not lack of aid. The problem is Hamas which hijacks the aid, stealing, storing and selling it to feed their terror machine while civilians suffer.”

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