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STORY: UN / GAZA AID TRUCKS
TRT: 02:20
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 MAY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / 19 MAY 2025, KAREM SHALOM CROSSING, ISRAEL
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
19 MAY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2.Wide shot, press room, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the dais
3. Various shots, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Tom Fletcher, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, said today in a statement that the Israeli authorities have temporarily allowed us to resume limited aid delivery into Gaza, following 11 weeks of complete blockade, and amid a spike in the military offensive. This is a welcome development that should remain in place. Today, he said, nine of our trucks were cleared to enter, via the Kerem Shalom crossing. But it is a drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed, and significantly more aid must be allowed into Gaza, starting tomorrow morning. Mr. Fletcher said we have been reassured that our work will be facilitated through our existing and proven mechanisms to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. He said he is determined that our aid reach those in greatest need, and that the risk of theft by Hamas or other armed groups be minimized. He urged the Israeli authorities to open at least two crossings into Gaza, one in the north and one in the south. He also urged them to simplify and expedite procedures; remove any quotas; lift access impediments within Gaza and not to conduct attacks in areas and times of deliveries; and allow us to cover a whole range of the huge needs of the Palestinian population in Gaza. To reduce looting, he added, there must be a regular flow of aid, and humanitarians must be permitted to use multiple routes. Commercial goods should complement the humanitarian response.
8. Wide shot, end of presser
19 MAY 2025, KAREM SHALOM CROSSING, ISRAEL
9. Various shots, aid trucks departing for Gaza
Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher today (19 May) welcomed the temporarily resumption of “limited aid delivery into Gaza, following 11 weeks of complete blockade, and amid a spike in the military offensive,” that has been allowed by the Israeli authorities, a United Nations spokesperson told journalists in New York.
The Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said nine trucks were cleared to enter, via the Kerem Shalom crossing, and quoted Fletcher who said, this is “a drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed, and significantly more aid must be allowed into Gaza, starting tomorrow morning.”
Fletcher said, “we have been reassured that our work will be facilitated through our existing and proven mechanisms to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,” and was “determined that our aid reach those in greatest need, and that the risk of theft by Hamas or other armed groups be minimized,” according to the spokesperson.
Dujarric said Fletcher had “urged the Israeli authorities to open at least two crossings into Gaza, one in the north and one in the south,” as well as to “simplify and expedite procedures; remove any quotas; lift access impediments within Gaza and not to conduct attacks in areas and times of deliveries; and allow us to cover a whole range of the huge needs of the Palestinian population in Gaza. “
