Gaza - Al Shifa Hospital assessment - 5 April 2024

STORY: OCHA / AL SHIFA HOSPITAL ASSESSMENT

TRT: 1:24

SOURCE: OCHA

RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS

DATELINE: 5 APRIL, GAZA CITY

Storyline

After repeated denials, a UN convoy gained access to Al Shifa hospital to assess the facility.

Shot list

-Moving shot – destruction in Al Shifa hospital

Upsound – English, Jonathan Whitall, OCHA Deputy Head of Office, occupied Palestinian territory:

“Walking through the emergency department of Al Shifa hospital. This is what remains of Al Shifa hospital emergency room.”

-Pan shot – destruction inside the hospital

Soundbite: English, Jonathan Whitall, OCHA Deputy Head of Office, occupied Palestinian territory:

“There's just no words to describe the level of destruction that we can see in this hospital. This hospital has been entirely and completely destroyed.” 

-Pan shot – exterior, destruction of hospital complex 

Soundbite: English, Jonathan Whitall, OCHA Deputy Head of Office, occupied Palestinian territory:

“We're here in what used to be Shifa Hospital in the north of Gaza and Gaza City. Hospitals should always be places of safety. Hospitals should always be protected places of healing. And yet, I'm standing around in the midst of utter devastation. Shifa has literally become a graveyard. There are bodies still in this courtyard. The buildings have been completely destroyed.”