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STORY: WHO / GAZA HEALTH FACILITIES INSPECTION
TRT: 05:34
SOURCE: WHO
RESTICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 DECEMBER 2025, GAZA CITY
1. Wide shot, massive levels of destruction in Gaza City
11 DECEMBER 2025, AL-SHIFA MEDICAL COMPLEX, GAZA CITY
2. Wide shot, WHO team walking past a badly damaged building
3. Varius shots, in the desalination plant on the hospital grounds, with WHO team and Hospital staff in discussion next to the plant equipment
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Luca Pigozzi, Emergency Medical Team Coordinator, WHO:
“As part of the 60-day ceasefire plan, the World Health Organization scaled up services and support in Gaza City and North Gaza. Specifically in Shifa Hospital the WHO has renovated the desalination plant to support the hemodialysis services and also the bed expansion through a field hospital implemented in the western part of the Shifa Medical Complex compound.”
5. Various shots, in the Haemodialysis ward, with WHO team in discussion with hospital health workers
6. Various shots, inside the hospital lab, with health workers performing various tasks
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative, occupied Palestinian territory:
“There's a need for massive rehabilitation, renovation and reconstruction - for that, building materials are needed. There's currently work going on very innovatively, it's using building materials from all kinds of other destroyed buildings, cannibalized etc. and including even supplies. This cannot continue. What is needed when we really want to get going; WHO needs to get the prefabs in which are currently not allowed. We are not getting our prefab structures into Gaza.”
11 DECEMBER 2025, GAZA CITY
8. Wide shot, some basic products being sold in makeshift stalls
9. Wide shot, massive levels of destruction in along the roadside
11 DECEMBER 2025, GAZA CITY, AL-RANTISI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
10. Wide shot, entering through the hospital entrance
11. Wide shot, WHO team in a corridor which is under renovation
12. Wide shot, down a corridor which has been partially renovated
13. Various shots, inside a children’s ward with health workers caring for young patients
14. Wide, WHO team walking down a corridor which is under renovation
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative, occupied Palestinian territory:
“We are here in Rantisi Hospital, the paediatric hospital in Gaza City. WHO has been supporting this hospital all throughout the war with essential medicines, medical supplies, fuel, etc. as long as the hospital was minimal and partially functional. We also as WHO, we support a nutrition stabilization unit and we have immediate plans where we are now to assist the hospital, both the paediatric and neonatal intensive care units, not just with 30 specialized beds and equipment, all specialized equipment, but also with the training and training of staff making sure these units will become fully functional again.”
16. Wide shot, massive levels of destruction along the roadside, next to a large flooded area
17. Wide shot, the WHO team in discussion at the location for a new primary health care centre
18. Med shot, WHO discussing the new primary health care centre
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative, occupied Palestinian territory:
“We are here in Beit Lahiya and we are only 500m from the so-called yellow line, just beyond the yellow line, you've Kamal Adwan hospital and Al-Awda (hospital) which WHO wanted to support with creating, developing and establishing a primary health care centre. Why is that? Currently, there's almost 40,000 people have moved back in this area. They need services. There's no time for them to go all the way to Gaza City, to Shifa Hospital or Rantisi (Hospital). Now, as a temporary measurement, WHO with our partner UK-MED, we are establishing on this site a primary health care centre to serve the population in this area.”
20. Wide shot, the location of the new primary health care centre
As part of its 60-day ceasefire plan, WHO is supporting the rehabilitation of health facilities in northern Gaza. Last week, WHO teams visited Al-Shifa Hospital, where WHO will support the expansion of inpatient capacity by 120 beds.
WHO has also supported the rehabilitation of a desalination plant, restoring hemodialysis services to full capacity.
In addition, WHO will support the renovation of the neonatal and paediatric intensive care units at Al-Rantisi Hospital.
Additionally, a site has been identified in Gaza City for the establishment of a new primary health care centre, which will serve approximately 40,000 people currently living in the area with very limited access to health services.
