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STORY: UN / GAZA WHO PRESSER
TRT: 03:11
SOURCE: UNIFEED / WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 NOVEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / 02 NOVEMBER 2024, GAZA CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
04 NOVEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), UN World Health Organization (WHO):
“In October, many WHO missions to the north were canceled or impeded. But over the last three weeks, WHO managed seven missions to the north, five missions to specifically - and you saw it a lot in the news - Kamal Adwan and yesterday, also in al-Awda hospital.”
4. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), UN World Health Organization (WHO):
“Shortly after the WHO mission left Kamal Adwan, and you must have heard this as well, it was reported the facility at the third floor was hit again, injuring six children, or patients there and one child sustained critical injury.”
6. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), UN World Health Organization (WHO):
“I want to just stress how, how dramatic the situation in the North of Gaza, at least, is currently. There are three hospitals there, Kamal Adwan, al-Awda, and Indonesian. Indonesian hospital is not functional anymore. Kamal Adwan and al-Awda are minimal functional. al-Awda probably will be if, WHO plans another mission later this week, we're not allowed, if we're not facilitated, that hospital will be very quickly out of service as well.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), UN World Health Organization (WHO):
“Now the campaign in the north - you probably may recall - just started three days ago, the second of November. It was postponed from the 23rd of October due to the lack of access and assured comprehensive humanitarian pauses, and also because of the intense bombardment, and masse evacuation orders from the north, etc. So, the area specific humanitarian pause necessary to conduct this campaign had substantially been reduced to basically Gaza City. So compared to the first round, that area was much smaller.”
10. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), UN World Health Organization (WHO):
“So, the target for the north is 190,000 children, and after the first two days, we already covered more than 90, almost 94,500 children under 10 with polio, which is almost 80 percent, 79 percent of the target. And 75,000 children got vitamin A. So, this is higher than in the first round, at least for Gaza City, because of all this, again, internally displaced people coming from the north.”
12. Med shot, journalists
WHO FILE - PLEASE CREDIT WHO FOOTAGE ON SCREEN - 02 NOVEMBER 2024, AL DARAJ PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE, GAZA CITY
13. Close up, child receiving polio vaccination
14. Wide shot, busy vaccination site, vaccination team, parents, children
15. Close up, child lying on a table receiving polio vaccination
16. Close up, little finger being marked to show the child has received their vaccination
17. Close up, tally sheet being filled in
Rik Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the West Bank and Gaza, addressed the press today (4 Nov) about the polio vaccination campaign.
Briefing virtually from Gaza, he said, “In October, many WHO missions to the north were canceled or impeded. But over the last three weeks, WHO managed seven missions to the north, five missions to specifically - and you saw it a lot in the news - Kamal Adwan and yesterday, also in al-Awda hospital.”
He also said, “Shortly after the WHO mission left Kamal Adwan, and you must have heard this as well, it was reported the facility at the third floor was hit again, injuring six children, or patients there and one child sustained critical injury.”
He also stressed “how dramatic the situation in the North of Gaza, at least, is currently. There are three hospitals there, Kamal Adwan, al-Awda, and Indonesian. Indonesian hospital is not functional anymore. Kamal Adwan and al-Awda are minimal functional. al-Awda probably will be if, WHO plans another mission later this week, we're not allowed, if we're not facilitated, that hospital will be very quickly out of service as well.”
He continued, “The campaign in the north - you probably may recall - just started three days ago, the second of November. It was postponed from the 23rd of October due to the lack of access and assured comprehensive humanitarian pauses, and also because of the intense bombardment, and masse evacuation orders from the north, etc. So, the area specific humanitarian pause necessary to conduct this campaign had substantially been reduced to basically Gaza City. So compared to the first round, that area was much smaller.”
He concluded, “So, the target for the north is 190,000 children, and after the first two days, we already covered more than 90, almost 94,500 children under 10 with polio, which is almost 80 percent, 79 percent of the target. And 75,000 children got vitamin A. So, this is higher than in the first round, at least for Gaza City, because of all this, again, internally displaced people coming from the north.”
