Gaza - Deir El Beleh responders - 4 June 2024

Description

STORY: OCHA / DEIR EL BELEH LOCAL RESPONDERS
TRT: 08:24
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 2 JUNE 2024, DEIR EL BELEH, MIDDLE AREA GOVERNORATE, GAZA

Shotlist

1. Pan shot, Deir el Beleh displacement site
2. Tracking shot, displacement site
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bahaa Zaqout, representative, NGO PARC:
“We provide the people with meals from our community kitchens. We provide them with foodstuffs such as canned food, pasta, rice, lettuce and we also provide them with fresh vegetables baskets such as cucumber, tomato, potato.”
4. Pan shot, people gathered at water distribution point
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bahaa Zaqout, representative, NGO PARC:
“The needs of the people here are very high, and we are working tirelessly to support them. We also provide other services related to providing them with drinking water or providing them with water for domestic use. We also construct latrines or toilets for the for the people living in informal sites or people who are living in these sites and have been displaced from their houses with no services.”
6. Close up, water distribution
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bahaa Zaqout, representative, NGO PARC:
“A story that really touched me was one of the project[s] that we have implemented in North Gaza.”
8. Close up, water distribution
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bahaa Zaqout, representative, NGO PARC:
“The thing is that when we deliver this food for those people, many of them have received this food in tears, and they have told us that this is the only thing suitable for human use they have received in months.”
10. Pan right, water distribution
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Bahaa Zaqout, representative, NGO PARC:
“I am originally from north of Gaza. My house was destroyed and in November my brother’s house was destroyed also. I had to leave. I was forced to leave the north and head to the middle area. I have been working since day one. Even when, when I was in the north, and I have come here to the south to continue my work. We have lost almost everything. I have lost, relatives. I, I've lost, friends and family members. But we do have a message. We want to reach for the people. We are responsible, we have a responsibility towards the people. We must continue our work. We must support the people.”
12. Wide shot, people at water distribution
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bahaa Zaqout, representative, NGO PARC:
“I was injured back in November when I was trying to provide water to one the school hosting internally displaced people in Gaza City. So I was injured while trying to implement this initiative. I suffered many injuries in my back and legs, but fortunately, nothing was that serious.”
14. Wide shot, children trying to carry water distributed by PARC with wheelbarrow
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Bahaa Zaqout, representative, NGO PARC:
“We will not abandon our responsibilities. We will not abandon our people. We will continue working until this in the till this war ends.”
16. Tracking shot, Bahaa walking through displacement site
17. Med shot, community kitchen,
18. UPSOUND (English) Amjad Shawa Head, NGO network (PNGO) in Gaza:
“Since we have no cooking gas, no fuel, so, we use this wood in order to cook for the families, for the IDPs who became dependent on these hot meals.”
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Amjad Shawa Head, NGO network (PNGO) in Gaza:
“It's horrible to describe how these children, women, elders are living through, and passing through, day by day, night by night, calculating minutes and seconds, recollecting the airstrikes which [are]around them, so many people lost their loved ones, relatives or friends Myself, lost many of my relatives and friends.”
20. Med shot, activity in community kitchen
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Amjad Shawa Head, NGO network (PNGO) in Gaza:
“To get water and food, for a drink and for daily us, sometimes you pay with your life to get these items.”
22. Various shots, math class, temporary learning space in IDP site
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Amjad Shawa Head, NGO network (PNGO) in Gaza:
“I was asked to give them stationary, and I managed through our national NGOs to get them stationary - they will start the began their classroom with their… some papers with some colors, with some papers and pens. Happy for this achievement. And really, for these children who are in bad need for the assistance.”
24. Wide shot, Amjad Shawa waving goodbye to the class
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Amjad Shawa Head, NGO network (PNGO) in Gaza:
“This is our mission today to say that we have this hope that the international community listen to these voices, that there is live in Gaza, and we have to support these children to continue their life, protected in dignity, to offer them everything because they deserve this. They deserve [for] the international community not only to listen, to act immediately, to stop this war, to end all these actions and violations to the international law.”
26. Wide shot, community kitchen
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Amjad Shawa Head, NGO network (PNGO) in Gaza:
“The people who are working in psychosocial support. The psychiatrists themselves, they’ve lost their beloved ones. Children, women, part of their families.”
28. Pan shot, activity in community kitchen
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Amjad Shawa Head, NGO network (PNGO) in Gaza:
“So, it's very important to act now to end the suffering of the Palestinian people. And we have this hope, and we will not lose our hope that one day will come to end such catastrophe.”
30. Wide shot, Amjad Shawa clapping hands with children, temporary learning site

Storyline

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), local actors are still at the forefront of the humanitarian response in Gaza despite immense challenges.

Two humanitarian workers, themselves affected by the war, explained how they strive to support their communities with the most basic necessities as well as psychosocial support and temporary education for children.