(20 May 2025)
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Amman – 20 May 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, UNICEF spokesperson for the Middle East and North Africa region:
“The entire Gaza strip is at risk of famine, there are a rising number of children with malnutrition. We’re also seeing rising levels of disease and because of the aid blockade the supplies needed to treat malnutrition and treat disease haven’t got in. And as a result of that, children are suffering and at risk of dying, including babies who are in incubators, infants who are malnourished. There really is a humanitarian crisis of a scale that we haven’t seen before and that’s why getting this aid in is so critical.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, UNICEF spokesperson for the Middle East and North Africa region:
“Almost all the essential items that children need are missing at the moment because stocks that were replenished during the ceasefire have run down. Almost all essential items have run out. And the trucks that have been announced to enter this week are a drop in the ocean compared to the need. So it is essential that aid is scaled up and that those lifesaving supplies like food, water, nutrition treatments, medicines are allowed in urgently because those supplies will save children’s lives and at the moment children are dying because they don’t have access to them."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, UNICEF spokesperson for the Middle East and North Africa region:
“We are going to bring in the supplies to the available crossings at the moment that’s Kerem Shalom and then take those supplies to the families that need it. Of course, this is very difficult and dangerous. More than 400 aid workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip throughout this conflict and the conditions now are the most dangerous that they’ve been throughout this whole time, not just for aid workers, but for the people that we’re trying to serve. In a period of 48 hours this weekend, 250 Palestinians were killed. So it is under those circumstances that we are trying to distribute the aid. We’re doing this because of the tremendous needs, but it’s very difficult and very dangerous.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tess Ingram, UNICEF spokesperson for the Middle East and North Africa region:
“It is clear now to the world what is being afflicted upon children in the Gaza Strip. This humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions, including severe traumatic injuries to children, has been live streamed into everyone’s living room for a year-and-a-half. We’re seeing children with severe burns all over their body, children who have had their limbs amputated, sometimes without anaesthetic, children with serious diseases and illnesses, children with malnutrition. We are watching this live and we are hearing our colleagues, including health workers, tell us over and over and over again, that they do not have the resources to save these children’s lives. We’ve been calling for those resources to be allowed into the Gaza Strip and failing that for those children to be medically evacuated in order to get the care that they need because it’s not available in Gaza. And yet we are still not seeing that action. These atrocities are becoming a new norm under our watch. Children are continuing to be killed and injured and obtain life-long disabilities, including impacts to their mental health, which are less visible than the physical scars that they’re bearing, and yet action is not being taken.”
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