(29 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shuafat refugee camp, East Jerusalem – 27 January 2025
1. Various of the Shuafat refugee camp surrounded by concrete barrier
2. UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) office sign
3. Family walking past UN office
4. Wide of separation wall with surveillance turret
5. People buying vegetables
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Karim Hawash, Shuafat resident:
"UNRWA provides free of charge schooling, medical support at hospitals and clinics here, and this helps the refugee camp be liveable. The closing of UNRWA is a huge problem for everyone in the camp for schooling, health and social services."
7. Vegetable market next to UNRWA-run school
8. UNRWA-run school sign
9. Ismail al-Turk, Shuafat resident speaking UPSOUND Ismail al-Turk, (Arabic): "…also the trash collection, but also the education here like this school, the Einab school, and this health centre, the agency provides all of these services."
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ismail al-Turk, Shuafat resident:
"There are many workers in these international organisations like 50-55,000 workers, all between schools, medical facilities, social services, and teaching, so where do they want them to go? The Palestinian Authority isn’t taking them on, the Jerusalem municipality isn’t either, and neither is the Knesset, in fact, taking on this responsibility. There will be impoverishment. There will be hunger among these people."
11. Various exteriors of UNRWA health clinic in Shuafat
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kerem Shalom border crossing, Israel – 28 January 2025
12. Wide of surveillance turret on Israel-Gaza border
13. Close of sign reading (English/Arabic/Hebrew) "Caution, ionizing radiation"
14. Wide of transportation equipment and truck loaded with humanitarian aid
15. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel speaking to reporters
16. Mid of Haskel during briefing
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharren Haskel, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister:
"They have not used this year to clean up this organization and so we will not cooperate with an organization and its workers (who have) committed crimes against humanity, murdered our people and participated in the 7th October massacre."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shuafat refugee camp, East Jerusalem – 27 January 2025
18. UN truck at UNRWA compound
19. Exterior of UNRWA office
20. UNRWA spokesperson, Jonathan Fowler, leaving building
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA spokesperson:
"And what does this mean for those thousands of people who live there (Gaza), whose lives are already very difficult? If you suddenly gut the education and healthcare that they benefit from, I mean the social stability implications there will also be very, very serious. Again, I don’t want to predict the future, but you know, anybody who knows anything about this region, or indeed any society knows if you remove those basics that are foundation stones, you don’t do anything for social stability."
22. Fowler speaking
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA spokesperson:
"You know, if UNRWA is removed from the picture, that’s allowed to happen, that creates huge problems for the outlook for this region in terms of social stability but also the political symbolism of it. It’s perhaps a stepping stone on the road to then unilaterally negating the rights of refugees but that’s not something that can just be done like that. But it also creates an appalling precedent for other places around the world and that’s a huge risk."
24. UN flag above UNRWA compound
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