UNICEF WeShare - SoP PTC Tess MIX EN SUBS

[NOT FOR FUNDRAISING USE. JANA, THE CHILD FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO, DIED ON 17 SEPTEMBER 2025].

TITLE: SoP_196 malnutrition Jana PTC Tess A-ROLL
RESTRICTION(S): None (or what are they, if any)
SHOOT DATE(S): 25 August 2025
LOCATION(S): Gaza City (Friends of the Patient Society Hospital), State of Palestine
VIDEOGRAPHER: Rawan ELEYAN
EDITOR(S): Ahmad ALBAKRI
FIELD PRODUCER(S): Tess INGRAM, Rawan ELEYAN
IN-HOUSE PRODUCER(S): Christine NESBITT
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 1:35
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES(s): English

STORYLINE / BLURB:
On 25 August 2025, in Gaza City, UNICEF supported the screening and treatment of children with acute malnutrition, in Friends of the Patient Society Hospital. Children suffering from moderate and severe acute malnutrition received Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). Hospitals, already overwhelmed with trauma cases, are struggling to cope. Children like Jana, 9 years old, highlight the compounded crisis: Jana’s survival is threatened by hunger and lack of treatment. Her sister, Joury, died only weeks ago from acute malnutrition — a devastating reminder that children’s lives in Gaza are put at risk, not just by airstrikes, but also by the living conditions. In the Gaza Strip, the malnutrition crisis has reached catastrophic levels. The entire child population under five — over 320,000 children — is at risk of acute malnutrition. In July alone, 13,000 children were identified as acutely malnourished, the highest monthly figure ever recorded, representing more than a 500 per cent increase since the start of the year.

SHOTLIST/TRANSCRIPT:
Tess Ingram, UNICEF spokesperson script:

00:00:00:05 - 00:00:02:03
I'm just shocked by what's happened this morning.

00:00:02:03 - 00:00:06:25
I've come into a hospital, intensive care unit, and met Jana,

00:00:07:00 - 00:00:11:23
who I met 15 months ago
when she had severe acute malnutrition

00:00:11:23 - 00:00:14:09
in the very north of Gaza Strip at Kamal Adwan Hospital.

00:00:14:09 - 00:00:16:29
And that day, we managed to medically evacuate her

00:00:16:29 - 00:00:19:27
to the south, where she received eight months

00:00:19:27 - 00:00:22:27
of treatment at a field hospital and got better.

00:00:23:08 - 00:00:28:10
She returned to the north with her mum,
and the conditions deteriorated.

00:00:28:22 - 00:00:30:16
And again, here we are.

00:00:30:16 - 00:00:35:25
And Jana has severe acute malnutrition
for the second time and urgently requires

00:00:35:25 - 00:00:38:25
a medical evacuation outside of Gaza in order to survive.

00:00:38:26 - 00:00:41:25
Doctors are incredibly concerned,

00:00:41:25 - 00:00:45:17
and so is the family because
they have already lost a child.

00:00:45:17 - 00:00:49:25
Jana's younger sister, Jouri,
died last month of acute malnutrition.

00:00:50:18 - 00:00:53:18
How is it that we are in this position

00:00:54:06 - 00:00:56:19
where a child like Jana

00:00:56:19 - 00:01:00:07
has to suffer twice, has to survive twice,

00:01:00:17 - 00:01:03:18
because the food and the nutrition
supplies and the treatments

00:01:03:18 - 00:01:06:27
that she so desperately needs
are not able to reach her?

00:01:10:12 - 00:01:14:17
How is it that we are in the position
where a child like Jana

00:01:14:17 - 00:01:16:23
has to suffer twice?

00:01:16:24 - 00:01:19:24
She has to survive these horrors twice.

00:01:19:26 - 00:01:22:04
We get the treatments in to save her life.

00:01:22:04 - 00:01:24:24
And yet, the condition remains so bad,

00:01:24:24 - 00:01:29:18
and the deprivation continues
to the extent that we are back here again.

00:01:30:03 - 00:01:31:12
This is unacceptable.

00:01:31:12 - 00:01:33:08
This is a shame on the world.

On 25 August 2025, in Gaza City, UNICEF supported the screening and treatment of children with acute malnutrition, in Friends of the Patient Society Hospital. Children suffering from moderate and severe acute malnutrition received Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). Hospitals, already overwhelmed with trauma cases, are struggling to cope. Children like Jana highlight the compounded crisis: Jana’s survival is threatened by hunger and lack of treatment. Her sister, Jouri, died only weeks ago from acute malnutrition — a devastating reminder that children’s lives in Gaza are put at risk, not just by airstrikes, but also by the living conditions. In the Gaza Strip, the malnutrition crisis has reached catastrophic levels. The entire child population under five — over 320,000 children — is at risk of acute malnutrition. In July alone, 13,000 children were identified as acutely malnourished, the highest monthly figure ever recorded, representing more than a 500 per cent increase since the start of the year.