Gaza - Evacuation orders - 20 August 2024
Description
STORY: OCHA / GAZA ONGOING DISPLACEMENT
TRT: 07:43
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH /ARBIC / NATS
DATELINE: 16 AND 20 AUGUST 2024, DEIR AL-BALAH
Storyline
The Israeli military continues to order Palestinians in parts of Gaza to evacuate, with the latest order being issued for east of Deir al Balah. As a result, the area where they are instructed to stay in is overcrowded and continues to shrink. According to an OCHA representative, “There's nowhere left to go in what is now 11 percent of Gaza. That is the area in which the people have been pushed to.”
Shotlist 16 AUGUST 2024 DEIR AL-BALAH
1. Wide shot, Salah al-Din Street, main entrance to the city of Deir al-Balah
2. Wide shot, displaced people on horse-drawn carts, carrying their essential belongings from the east of Deir al-Balah
3. Wide shot, Vehicles loaded with displaced persons and their belongings from the east of Deir al-Balah
4. Wide shot, a Palestinian woman and her children during their displacement from the east of Deir al-Balah
5. Close up, a child carrying a bag during his displacement with his family from the east of Deir al-Balah
6. Various shots, scenes of displaced people on animal-drawn carts and in vehicles during their displacement from the east of Deir al-Balah
7. Various shots, families who could not find transportation walking on foot as they flee from the east of Deir al-Balah
8.SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Whittall, OCHA in Gaza 20 AUGUST 2024, AL MAWASI, RAFAH GOVERNORATE
“Over the past days, new evacuation orders have been issued affecting over 100,000 people that have been pushed out now of Canyon and their area. They're on the move with the few belongings that they have, looking for somewhere where they can put up their temporary shelters.”
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9. Various shots, scenes from the evacuation of displaced people at Deir al-Balah Boys’ Preparatory School, east of Deir al-Balah
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kamal Al-Sultan, a displaced child from Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, who has been displaced seven times over more than ten months, most recently from Deir al-Balah Boys’ Preparatory School:
“I am Kamal Al-Sultan. We were displaced from Beit Lahia to Deir al-Balah, and now they are asking us to leave Deir al-Balah. We don’t know where to go; we have no clothes or anything. Now we are going to leave Deir al-Balah for another place, and we hope God makes it easier for us.”
11. Various shots, scenes from inside Deir al-Balah Preparatory School during the displacement of people there.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Whittall, OCHA in Gaza 20 AUGUST 2024, AL MAWASI, RAFAH GOVERNORATE
“We don't have enough tents. We don't have any tents for distributes to people. There's no scope for us to distribute to people. And water supply has dropped by 70 percent because many of the desalination plants and the water wells are inside the evacuation areas. The conditions are overcrowded. People have some places to to put temporary shelters right up to the water in, on the beach. There's nowhere left to go in what is now 11 percent of Gaza. Instead, they continue to find overcrowded, unacceptable conditions
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13. Various shots, scenes of the Heles family loading their belongings into a truck in preparation for displacement
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yahya Heles, displaced from the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City for ten months:
“This displacement from Deir al-Balah is our 14th displacement, from Shuja’iyya to Zahra City, to Rafah, then Khan Younis twice, and Deir al-Balah three times. How long will this continue?”
15. Various shots, scenes of the Heles family’s displacement
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yahya Heles:
“Displacement feels like the soul leaving the body; it’s not just about carrying a bag. We have children, women, belongings, and food. Where will we go when all the displaced people are heading west? Go to the west of Deir al-Balah, and you won’t be able to walk because of the density of the displaced. Why don’t they throw us into the sea or hit us with a nuclear missile so we can be relieved of this life? We’ve had enough of this difficult life.”
17. Various shots, scenes of the Miqdad family’s displacement from the east of Deir al-Balah
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amjad Miqdad, displaced from the Bureij camp in central Gaza:
“We’ve been displaced several times, and now we don’t know where to go. We will take our children and women into the open and hope this situation ends.”
19. Wide shot, photo of a flier from the Israeli army calling for the evacuation of the residents of eastern Deir al-Balah
19. Various shots, scenes of Palestinians fleeing from the east of Deir al-Balah
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Whittall, OCHA in Gaza 20 AUGUST 2024, AL MAWASI, RAFAH GOVERNORATE
“We need to make sure that we can bring in sufficient supplies. We need to be able to move around. The whole area is overcrowded. We can't move trucks.”