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STORY: WHO / GAZA KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL
TRT: 03:04
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 14 DECEMBER 2024, KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL, NORTH GAZA

Shotlist
1. Various shots, WHO convoy ambulances arriving  
2. Various shots, WHO team and hospital health workers in conversation 
3. Various shots, WHO supply truck arriving; medical and food supplies being unloaded and checked against shipment lists
4. Various shots, fuel truck transferring fuel to the hospital fuel tanks
5. Soundbite (Arabic) Dr Hossam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital:
“A short while ago, World Health Organization aid trucks arrived to us carrying some supplies, medical consumables, and food packages for Kamal Adwan Hospital. A small Amount of fuel was also brought in. Also, the medical delegation coming with WHO was denied entry, even though it’s the most important thing to us, because the delegation included doctors with surgical specialties, and our patients/cases at Kamal Adwan are in immediate need for urgent surgical intervention and cannot be delayed until the next day. Therefore, as we have previously urged before, the need of attempting to bring in medical delegations with surgical specialties to suit the nature of the injuries that arrive at Kamal Adwan’s Hospital.”
6. Wide shot, people running for cover as a bullet shots ring out
7. Various shots, patient on a stretcher being loaded into an ambulance, to be referred to Al Shifa Medical Complex
8. Wide shot, Kamal Adwan Hospitals with smoke billowing behind it

Storyline
WHO and partners reached Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza two days ago, amid hostilities and explosions in the vicinity of the hospital during the mission. The team delivered 5000 liters of fuel, food and medicines, and transferred three patients and six companions to Al-Shifa Hospital.

In the last week, four WHO missions to Kamal Adwan have been arbitrarily denied, including the re-deployment of the international emergency medical team, which had self-evacuated from the hospital on 6 December due to hostilities.

This has left the hospital without specialized personnel for surgical and maternal care. Hostilities around the hospital continue and recent attacks have further damaged the oxygen supply, generators, and broken windows and doors of the patients' rooms. The conditions in the hospital are simply appalling. WHO urges for the protection of health care and “for this hell to stop! Ceasefire!”