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STORY: WHO / GAZA UAE PATIENTS EVACUATION
TRT: 7:04
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 27 MARCH 2025, GAZA
27 MARCH 2025, EUROPEAN GAZA HOSPITAL, RAFAH, GAZA
1. Various shots, inside the hospital ward of patients and companions being briefed by WHO staff
2. Various shots, Abdulrahman walking into the hospital on crutches and sitting down.
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdulrahman Abu Aisha, Patient:
“We were sitting at home. Suddenly, they bombed the house. So, I sat there waiting for someone to save me. I didn't find anyone. Then I fainted. I woke up to find that no one had been there. I found someone holding me. He tried to take me out of the door, but he couldn't, so he turned around and took me out the window and then took me to Al-Aqsa Hospital.”
4. Med shot, WHO staff talking to Abdulrahman and his siblings
5. Close up, phone screen showing Abdulrahman before his injury
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdulrahman Abu Aisha, Patient:
“I wish I could travel and complete my treatment abroad. Come back better. And go back to running like before.”
7. Wide shot, Abdulrahman sitting on a bed.
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Abu Aisha, Mother of Abdulrahman:
“Actually, there weren't any plastic surgeons here, there wasn't any doctor who could deal with his case, especially since his case and condition were very difficult; he had a complicated bladder trauma, half of his pelvis was completely torn, and many other difficulties he had. But thanks to God and the Jordanian hospital, the boy recovered and is healthy again but he still needs to go to the hospital to complete his treatment process.”
9. Various shots, Bashayer lying on a bed, with her aunt Yasra by her side.
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasra Ahmed, Aunt of Patient Bashayer:
“Bashayer is the only survivor of the family, after the bombing of their house. She became quadriplegic, after that she stayed at the hospital for 47 days, and then was released. Now she’s suffering from paralysis, and can’t walk. She also suffers memory loss and also has a hole in her throat that she breathes from.”
11. Various shots, Bashayer lying on a bed, with her aunt Yasra holding her hand.
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasra Ahmed, Aunt of Patient Bashayer:
“She used to do everything by herself, but now the situation has completely changed for her; now there’s nothing that she can do by herself, she can’t even get dressed without help.”
13. Various shots, Bashayer lying on a bed, with her aunt Yasra by her side.
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasra Ahmed, Aunt of Patient Bashayer:
“Thank God it’s an incredible feeling that we were able to have the referral for her, so she can walk again if not fully walk am totally fine with 90 percent but at least she can walk again so she can depend on herself and catch up with her studies, chase her life dreams, and become the dentist she always wanted to be. Hopefully God will help us make her happy and make her able to continue her life path.”
15. Med shot, Mohammed standing, leaning on his crutches
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Raed Shaheen, Mother of patient Mohammed Yassin:
“They bombed an apartment, on a street near where Mohammed was going out to shop in the morning, and the rubble fell on him and his leg.”
17. Various shots, Mohammed standing, leaning on his crutches.
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Raed Shaheen, Mother of patient Mohammed Yassin:
“Mohammed needs a knee sculpting operation for his amputated leg because the bone has grown. We did an X-ray and the bone is still not good. He needs a sculpting operation, then amputation and a prosthetic limb.”
19. Various shots, Mohammed with his siblings and mother as she helps him put his jumper and jacket on
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Raed Shaheen, Mother of patient Mohammed Yassin
“Mohammed's mental health was deteriorating, and I was also deteriorating because Mohammed was in a wheelchair, and it was unbearable for me to see him in that state.”
21. Various shots, Mohammed and his mother sitting on the floor.
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Raed Shaheen, mother of patient Mohammed Yassin:
“Of course it's good that they chose him to travel, I'm happy and at the same time scared because it's the first time we experience the feeling of leaving our country on our own.”
23. Various shots, patients and companions walking towards and boarding the buses and ambulances
24. Various shots, children on a bus, waving from the windows
25. Various shots, the evacuation convoy of busses and ambulances leaving the hospital towards the Kerem Shalom crossing
On Thursday (27 Mar), the World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), evacuated 81 patients and 107 companions from Gaza for specialized medical care.
Despite immense operational challenges and ongoing insecurity, on 26 March, WHO and partners ensured the safe transfer of patients from northern to southern Gaza so they could join the evacuation to the UAE. An estimated 11,000–13,000 people, including 4,500 children, remain in urgent need of medical evacuation.
WHO urgently calls for the immediate resumption of medical evacuations through all possible routes, including the restoration of medical referrals to the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
