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STORY: Gaza Update – WHO, OCHA
TRT: 2:09”
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 30 January 2024 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
- Exterior medium shot: UN flag alley
- Wide shot: speakers at the press conference
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO): “Criminal activity can never go unpunished. But the discussion right now is much of a distraction from what's really going on every day, every hour, every minute in Gaza. It's a distraction from close to 27,000 deaths by now, out of which 70 per cent are women and children.”
- Wide shot: press room with journalists
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO): “It's a distraction from preventing an entire population from access to clean water, food, shelter. It's a distraction from preventing electricity to come into Gaza for more than 100 days.”
- Medium shot: journalist standing in press room
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO): “We appeal to donors not to suspend their funding to UNRWA at this critical moment. Cutting of funding will only hurt the people of Gaza who desperately needs support”.
- Close up: journalist typing in laptop
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO): “We had a convoy just this morning trying to reach Nasser Hospital with patients, health care staff, everybody. They are needing food, but the very needy population already before basically took the supplies - as we can call it - this was a self-distribution of supplies, which only shows how dire the needs are.”
- Wide shot: press room with journalists and speakers at the podium
- SOUNDBITE (English) – Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): “UNRWA has not stopped working, UNRWA continues to work. It's the pipeline of funding that is in danger while it’s irreplaceable in the humanitarian operation.”
- Close up, journalist typing
- Close up, journalist listening
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will only hurt the people of Gaza. Criminal activity
can never go unpunished.
But the discussion right now is much of a distraction from what's really going on.
Every day,
every hour,
every minute in Gaza,
it is a destruction from close to 26
27,000 deaths per hour, out of which 70% of women and Children
very
difficult situation.
For the people in Gaza,
it's a distraction from preventing an entire
population from access to clean water.
Food, shelter.
It is a distraction from preventing electricity.
To come into Gaza for more than 100 days is not
for the UN agencies.
We appeal to donors not to suspend their funding to UNRWA at
this critical moment. Cutting off funding will only hurt the people of Gaza
who desperately need support.
Example of Saudi
Arabia.
We had a convoy just this morning trying to reach uh,
uh NASA hospital with with patients,
Um, healthcare staff. Everybody there needing food.
Uh, but the the very needy population already before, um, basically took
the, uh, the supplies. Um,
as we can call it. This was a self distribution
of supplies. Um, which only shows how dire
the needs are
I think
everybody is
working
towards
has not stopped working. UN
W a continues to work. Um, it's the pipeline of funding that is in danger
was irreplaceable
in the humanitarian operation. I have no doubt that the UN in general and WO
would be anything of this.
Any abuse of a medical facility is prohibited with aeroplanes before airstrikes.
All of that sort of behaviour is