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STORY: UN / SYRIA UPDATE
TRT: 1:21
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANUGAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 AUGUST 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
13 AUGUST 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2.Wide shot, press briefing room
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Moving to Syria, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today said that the recent violence in Suweida has left a heavy toll on the community there. At least 22 children were killed and 21 more were injured. During the violence in July and early August, vital infrastructure such as water and electricity networks were reportedly critically damaged in the fighting. At least five health centres were under attack back in July, with two physicians killed, and ambulances obstructed, that’s according to the World Health Organization. To address these issues, UNICEF has recently deployed fourteen mobile health and nutrition teams and provided health supplies and nutrition supplies to more than 4,000 children and women, safe drinking water and fuel for water pumping stations benefiting more than 30,000 people. During the violence, more than 190,000 people, mainly women and children, were forced to flee their homes. We underscore that in order to assist those in need, and ensure an effective response, it is critical that humanitarians and commercial goods have unhindered access to the most impacted communities there.”
4.Wide shot, press briefing room
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that the recent violence in Suweida has left a heavy toll on the community there. “At least 22 children were killed and 21 more were injured,” a UN Spokesperson said.
Speaking to reporters today (13 Aug) in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, “During the violence in July and early August, vital infrastructure such as water and electricity networks were reportedly critically damaged in the fighting.”
He added, “At least five health centres were under attack back in July, with two physicians killed, and ambulances obstructed, that’s according to the World Health Organization.”
To address these issues, UNICEF has recently deployed fourteen mobile health and nutrition teams and provided health supplies and nutrition supplies to more than 4,000 children and women, safe drinking water and fuel for water pumping stations benefiting more than 30,000 people, Dujarric noted.
He highlighted that during the violence, “more than 190,000 people, mainly women and children, were forced to flee their homes.”
The Spokesperson underscored, “in order to assist those in need, and ensure an effective response, it is critical that humanitarians and commercial goods have unhindered access to the most impacted communities there.”
