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STORY: OHCHR / GAZA SUNGHAY VISIT
TRT: 04:51
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 – 26 NOVEMBER 2024, GAZA, OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
24 NOVEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
1. Various driving shots, showing the coastal road and damage to infrastructure and buildings
2. SOUNDBITE (English Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“I'm here in Gaza for the last five days. The main goal of my visit has been to strengthen the work of protection cluster, which OHCHR coordinates along with other entities.”
26 NOVEMBER 2024, GAZA CITY
3. Med shot, Ajith greeting colleagues
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“We met many of our implementing partners, both national as well as international, including the UN.”
5. Med shot, Ajith in discussion with UN colleagues
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“We also met many youths who are our frontline protection defenders.”
7. Wide shot, Ajith meeting displaced people
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“We met the communities that have been displaced from different parts of Gaza, who are based in middle Gaza as well as in other parts of Rafah and Khan Younis.”
9. Med shot, Heba standing next to a small stove
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Heba, displaced Palestinian mother of five:
“We were displaced on 12 October, following orders from Israeli occupation forces, orders to leave our houses to this area, which was the hardest thing we have lived as Palestinian citizens from Gaza. All the suffering that wars bring, fear, terror and bombing we have been subjected to.”
11. Med shot, pan, showing limited cooking and cleaning utensils
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Heba, displaced Palestinian mother of five:
“Next to my house an entire residential building was bombed, 200 were killed, for a whole year and until today, they have been under the rubble. My children and I had to sleep in my home, next to all these dead people. No words can describe the feelings we experience, it is hard for anyone to feel what we felt. Despite that, the hardest experience was when we were ordered to leave.”
13. Wide shot, pan, showing Heba in standing a room
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“They are desperately in need for basic necessities. I've never seen in the last 13 months such a need for food, shelter, water and other lifesaving essentials. Food in particular is at its lowest point. There is nothing absolutely in the markets in the middle of Gaza, there's no fresh fruit. There's no fresh vegetables.”
19 NOVEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
15. Wide shot, a UN supply vehicle driving up a costal road
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“Consequently, we have started seeing that anything that's being brought into Middle Gaza and south. has been looted.”
26 NOVEMBER, MIDDLE AREA, GAZA
17. Wide shot, smartphone shot of people climbing onto a moving supply truck
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“It has been extremely difficult to bring food to the north as well.”
24 NOVEMBER 2024, MIDDLE AREA, GAZA
19. Various driving shots, showing rainy weather conditions
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“One of the biggest concerns is, of course, shelter in the last one week, Gaza has experienced torrential rain. The shelters have all been leaking. The shelters have been flooded. There's anger, frustration, hunger and, of course, continuous displacement.”
21. Med shot, driving shot showing destruction to infrastructure and buildings.
22. Various shots showing living conditions at the beach; makeshift tents and camps in windy conditions.
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“What is desperately needed in Gaza today is food, water, shelter.”
26 NOVEMBER 2024, GAZA CITY, GAZA
25. Wide shot, showing a displaced camp full of makeshift tents and other shelters
26. Med shot, OHCHR and partners walking through the displaced camp
27. Med shot, OHCHR and partners in discussion, walking through a displaced camp
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Ajith Sunghay, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:
“People are dying on a daily basis. They are living in inhumane conditions. One of the most important points that everyone I spoke to made is that they urgently need a ceasefire.”
29. Med shot, driving shot showing UN armored vehicles driving through a heavily damaged part of city
The head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory visited the Gaza strip to strengthen the work of protection cluster, which OHCHR coordinates along with other entities.
Ajith Sunghay said, “I'm here in Gaza for the last five days. The main goal of my visit has been to strengthen the work of protection cluster, which OHCHR coordinates along with other entities. We met many of our implementing partners, both national as well as international, including the UN.”
Sunghay added, “We also met many youths who are our frontline protection defenders. We met the communities that have been displaced from different parts of Gaza who are based in middle Gaza as well as in other parts of Rafah and Khan Younis.”
Heba, a displaced Palestinian mother of five, said, “We were displaced on 12 October, following orders from Israeli occupation forces orders to leave our houses to this area. Which was the hardest thing we have lived as Palestinian citizens from Gaza. All the suffering that wars bring, fear, terror and bombing we have been subjected to. Next to my house an entire residential building was bombed, 200 were killed, for a whole year and until today, they have been under the rubble. My children and I had to sleep in my home, next to all these dead people. No words can describe the feelings we experience, it is hard for anyone to feel what we felt. Despite that the hardest experience was when we were ordered to leave” Heba said.
“They are desperately in need for basic necessities. I've never seen in the last 30 months such a need for food, shelter, water and other lifesaving essentials. Food in particular is at its lowest point. There is nothing absolutely in the markets in the middle of Gaza, there's no fresh fruit. There's no fresh vegetables,” the head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said.
“Consequently, we have started seeing that anything that's being brought into Middle Gaza and south, has been looted. It has been extremely difficult to bring food to the north as well,” he added.
“One of the biggest concerns is, of course, shelter in the last one week, Gaza has experienced torrential rain. The shelters have all been leaking. The shelters have been flooded. There's anger, frustration, hunger and, of course, continuous displacement,” he said.
“What is desperately needed in Gaza today is food, water, shelter,” he says. “People are dying on a daily basis. They are living in inhumane conditions. One of the most important points that everyone I spoke to made is that they urgently need a ceasefire.
