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STORY: UN / GAZA CHILDREN
TRT: 04:01
SOURCE: UNIFEED / UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / 01 JULY 2025, GAZA CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
04 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, speakers, journalists, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, Communication Manager, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
“Gaza City, the last refuge for families in the northern Gaza Strip, is fast becoming a place where childhood cannot survive. It's a city of fear, flight and funerals. The world is sounding the alarm about what an intensified military offensive in Gaza City could bring, a catastrophe for almost 1 million people who remain there, and it would be an unthinkable tragedy that we must do everything in our power to prevent.”
3. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, Communication Manager, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
“The unthinkable is not looming: It is already here. The escalation is underway. The collapse of essential services is leaving the youngest and most vulnerable in Gaza City fighting for survival. Only 44 of the 92 UNICEF supported outpatient nutrition treatment centers in Gaza City are still functional, depleting thousands of malnourished children of more than half of the lifelines that they depend on to fight this famine.”
5. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, Communication Manager, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
“Malnutrition and famine are weakening children's bodies as displacement strips them of shelter and care, and bombardments threaten their every move. This is what famine in a war zone looks like, and it was everywhere I looked in Gaza City. Just an hour in a nutrition clinic is enough to erase any questions about whether there is a famine.”
7. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, Communication Manager, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
“The horrors of Gaza have dragged on so long that children like Jana are returning to emergency wards or relapsing just weeks after finishing treatment for malnutrition because of the ongoing lack of food, safe water and other essential supplies. Without immediate and increased access to food and nutrition treatments, this recurring nightmare will deepen, and more children will starve. A fate that is entirely preventable.”
9. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, Communication Manager, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
“Palestinian life is being dismantled here, steadily but surely. The suffering of children in the Gaza Strip is not accidental: It is the direct consequence of choices that have turned Gaza City, and indeed the entire Gaza Strip, into a place where people's lives are under attack from every angle every day.”
11. Wide shot, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, Communication Manager, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
“UNICEF continues to call on Israel to review its rules of engagement to ensure that children are protected, as is required under international humanitarian law; on Hamas and other armed groups to release all the remaining hostages; on Israel to allow sufficient aid to enter Gaza and safe and consistent access for humanitarians to deliver lifesaving assistance to families, wherever they are; and on both parties to protect civilians, including those under evacuation orders. People must be free to move safely but never forced.”
13. Wide shot, journalists
FILE - PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN - 01 JULY 2025, GAZA CITY
14. Various shots, Waseem, a 3-month-old baby who is acutely malnourished, receives treatment for his critical condition at the Friends of the Patients Society Hospital in Gaza City. The hospital is supported by UNICEF.
15. Wide shot, Waseem mother looks at her 3-month-old baby
16. Medium shot, Waseem receives treatment for their critical condition
17. Various shots, Maryam, an 8-year-old girl who is acutely malnourished, receives treatment for her critical condition at the Friends of the Patients Society Hospital in Gaza City
18. Medium shot, Maryam draws in her sketchbook while receiving treatment for her critical condition at the Friends of the Patients Society Hospital in Gaza City
19. Various shots, Barra, a 3-month-old baby who is acutely malnourished, receives treatment for her critical condition at the Friends of the Patients Society Hospital in Gaza City
“Just an hour in a nutrition clinic is enough to erase any questions about whether there is a famine” in Gaza, a UNICEF official said.
Addressing the press today (04 Sep) from Gaza, Tess Ingram, Communication Manager for UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Office said, “Gaza City, the last refuge for families in the northern Gaza Strip, is fast becoming a place where childhood cannot survive. It's a city of fear, flight and funerals. The world is sounding the alarm about what an intensified military offensive in Gaza City could bring, a catastrophe for almost 1 million people who remain there, and it would be an unthinkable tragedy that we must do everything in our power to prevent.”
She also said, “The unthinkable is not looming: It is already here. The escalation is underway. The collapse of essential services is leaving the youngest and most vulnerable in Gaza City fighting for survival. Only 44 of the 92 UNICEF supported outpatient nutrition treatment centers in Gaza City are still functional, depleting thousands of malnourished children of more than half of the lifelines that they depend on to fight this famine.”
She continued, “Malnutrition and famine are weakening children's bodies as displacement strips them of shelter and care, and bombardments threaten their every move. This is what famine in a war zone looks like, and it was everywhere I looked in Gaza City. Just an hour in a nutrition clinic is enough to erase any questions about whether there is a famine.”
She added, “The horrors of Gaza have dragged on so long that children like Jana are returning to emergency wards or relapsing just weeks after finishing treatment for malnutrition because of the ongoing lack of food, safe water and other essential supplies. Without immediate and increased access to food and nutrition treatments, this recurring nightmare will deepen, and more children will starve. A fate that is entirely preventable.”
She stressed, “Palestinian life is being dismantled here, steadily but surely. The suffering of children in the Gaza Strip is not accidental: It is the direct consequence of choices that have turned Gaza City, and indeed the entire Gaza Strip, into a place where people's lives are under attack from every angle every day.”
She concluded, “UNICEF continues to call on Israel to review its rules of engagement to ensure that children are protected, as is required under international humanitarian law; on Hamas and other armed groups to release all the remaining hostages; on Israel to allow sufficient aid to enter Gaza and safe and consistent access for humanitarians to deliver lifesaving assistance to families, wherever they are; and on both parties to protect civilians, including those under evacuation orders. People must be free to move safely but never forced.”
