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STORY: OCHA / GAZA HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
TRT: 04:00
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 JUNE 2025, GAZA, PALESTINE / RECENT
18 JUNE 2025, AL KARAMA DISPLACEMENT SITE, GAZA CITY, PALESTINE
1. Various shots, of life in the camp
22 JUNE 2025, GAZA, PALESTINE
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Whittall, Head of Office, Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), OCHA:
“People in Gaza today are being killed trying to reach food. The attempt to survive is being met with a death sentence. There's no safe way to eat. Since the total blockade was partially lifted just over a month ago. People have been killed almost daily while trying to get food. I've been told over 400 have been killed, and I've met some of those injured in the past days in the beds and corridors of the Nasser Hospital that is overflowing.”
18 JUNE 2025, AL KARAMA DISPLACEMENT SITE, GAZA CITY, PALESTINE
3. Various shots, girl fetching water at the camp
22 JUNE 2025, GAZA, PALESTINE
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Whittall, Head of Office, Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), OCHA:
“It shouldn't be this way. There shouldn't be a death toll associated with accessing the essentials needed for life. Last month, the United Nations relief chief called on the Security Council to act decisively to prevent genocide in Gaza today from Gaza. I can say without a doubt that not enough is being done Palestinian life, and that which sustains it continues to be systematically dismantled before the world's eyes.”
18 JUNE 2025, AL KARAMA DISPLACEMENT SITE, GAZA CITY, PALESTINE
5. Various shots, of life in the camp
22 JUNE 2025, GAZA, PALESTINE
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Whittall, Head of Office, Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), OCHA:
“Israeli authorities are preventing us from distributing through the systems that we've established and that we know work. We have a plan. We're ready with a plan. We could reach every family in Gaza, as we have in the past, but we're prevented from doing so at every turn. As military operations continue from the air and from the ground, there remains an abhorrent disregard for humanitarian law. People's lives and dignity are every day under attack. Everything that I've described is entirely preventable. These are conditions created to kill. What we are seeing is carnage. It is weaponized hunger. It is forced displacement. And it's a death sentence for people just trying to survive. All of this combined, it appears to be the erasure of Palestinian life from Gaza. Israel has clear responsibilities as an occupying power. This is not what fulfilling those responsibilities looks like. We need to see accountability for the crimes that have been committed. We need to see concrete political and economic pressure from states to bring this to an end. And we need to see a lasting ceasefire in line with the rulings by the International Court of Justice.”
18 JUNE 2025, AL KARAMA DISPLACEMENT SITE, GAZA CITY, PALESTINE
7. Various shots, young girl eating a meal at the displacement site
Speaking to reporters from Gaza, the Head of OCHA's office in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Jonathan Whittall, said the killing, almost daily, of people trying to find food is “entirely preventable” adding that the conditions are “created to kill.”
Whittall said, “what we are seeing is carnage. It is weaponized hunger. It is forced displacement. And it's a death sentence for people just trying to survive”.
He called for the UN and partners to be allowed to work: “We're ready with a plan. We could reach every family in Gaza, as we have in the past, but we're prevented from doing so at every turn.”
