(9 Dec 2024)
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++INTERVIEWS VIA VIDEO CALL/QUALITY AS INCOMING++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 9 December 2024
1. Various of people celebrating at Umayyad Square
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria:
"Given the fact that the HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) and its allies release all the prisoners — political and nonpolitical — some criminal elements engaged in some acts of vandalism, theft, looting and so on and so forth. And that led to a situation where the population was terrified. People stayed mostly indoors."
3. Smoke rising in Damascus
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria:
"This morning things look better. Although no public sector employees have reported to work as they have been urged by the former prime minister, who has been designated as some kind of a caretaker prime minister. Despite his calls for public sector employees to return, none of them has shown up for work. And I am concerned because certain sectors are so vital, such as the health sector. So, I called him just less than an hour ago asking him to prioritize that."
4. Drone shots of Umayyad Square ++MUTE++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria:
"(We have other issues such as the) absence of any border control officers. And we have some emergency workers — U.N. emergency workers — that we would like to get into the country and no one is there at the borders and no one is there at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to process our visa requests. Also the civil aviation employees have abandoned their jobs and we have a shortage — acute shortage — of medical supplies, and we wanted, through WHO, to get at least one plane, cargo plane, to deliver some much-needed medical supplies. But again, that’s on hold for now because of the absence of civil aviation officials."
6. Drone shots of Umayyad Square ++MUTE++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria:
"What happened is that the public sector has just come to a complete and abrupt halt, with people not knowing what their future will look like. They are not heeding the calls of the former, now acting prime minister to report to work. I think it will take a couple of days and a lot of assurance on the part of the armed groups for these people to return to work again."
8. Drone shot of Umayyad Square ++MUTE++
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria:
"And also many of them (armed insurgents) are occupying the lobby of the hotel, where the U.N. is staying. So whenever I happen to be at the lobby. Someone will approach me and say, ‘I am so-and-so and I belong to this or that faction. What is it that you guys need?’ So I keep telling them the safety of the humanitarian personnel, the safety of the members of the diplomatic community and fast-tracking the measures that would allow us to deliver on our humanitarian mandates."
10. Drone shot of traffic ++MUTE++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria:
12. Drone shot of traffic ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
The public sector in Syria has come to an abrupt halt after rebels seized power as state employees ignore calls to return to their jobs, causing troubles in places like airports, borders and at the Foreign Ministry, and impeding the flow of humanitarian aid, a U.N. official said.
The public sector, he added, “has just come to a complete an abrupt halt, with people not knowing what their future will look like.”
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