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Story: Gaza update – UN Women
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
Duration: 3’09”
DATELINE: 8 September 2026 - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND and May 2026 GAZA – AL-MAWASI
Geneva Press briefing
Speakers:
- UN WOMEN - Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action
SHOTLIST
- Exterior medium shot: UN flag alley.
- Wide shot of Press Room, podium speaker.
- SOUNDBITE (English) UN WOMEN - Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action: “We have been speaking to widows and to women whose husbands are missing, detained, severely injured, forcibly displaced, or whose fate remains unknown. And we found a horrific amount of collective heartbreak.”
- Wide, Press Room.
- SOUNDBITE (English) UN WOMEN - Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action: “Access to food, to safe water, to hygiene supplies and essential services is severely limited. There are restrictions on humanitarian access, insecurity and continued Israeli bombardment. Women heading households are every day forced to make impossible decisions on how to allocate scarce resources, how to access assistance and simply ensure the survival of those in their care.”
- Wide, Press Room, external speaker on TV screen.
- SOUNDBITE (English) UN WOMEN - Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action: “Two hundred and forty-six Palestinian women and girls have been killed by Israeli air bombardment and military ground operations in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement came into effect in October 2025. This is equivalent to six women and girls killed every week between October 2025 and 28 July 2026.”
- Wide, podium speaker, external speaker on TV screen.
- SOUNDBITE (English) UN WOMEN - Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action: “Eighteen-year-old Raghad Ashour was killed in an Israeli strike on her way to her 11th grade high school exam in Gaza City; 31-year-old Dina Almadhoun was killed in a strike in Gaza City. A six-year-old girl was killed in a helicopter strike on an encampment for displaced families in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis.”
- Wide, Press Room.
- SOUNDBITE (English) UN WOMEN - Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action: “UN Women data show that women who head households are more likely to be deprived of shelter, of food and finances than male-headed households. They are also more likely to be displaced or have their home destroyed.”
- Medium, journalist.
- Medium, participant.
- Medium, journalist.
- Medium, woman washing clothes by hand in Al-Mawasi, Gaza (please credit UN Women).
- Wide, a young woman holding a baby receives some aid supplies (please credit UN Women).
- Medium-wide, a mother feeds her daughter in a tent(please credit UN Women).
- Close, a woman helping a girl with homework in a tent. (please credit UN Women).
- Close, a woman helping a girl with homework. (please credit UN Women).
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