UNICEF WeShare - SoP malnutrition Jana 1x1 CLEAN

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

TITLE: SoP_196d malnutrition Jana
RESTRICTION(S):
None (or what are they, if any)
LOCATION(S): Gaza City (Friends of the Patient Society Hospital), State of Palestine
EDITOR(S): Ahmad ALBAKRI
FIELD PRODUCER(S): Tess INGRAM, Rawan ELEYAN
IN-HOUSE PRODUCER(S): Christine NESBITT
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 2:19
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES(s):
Arabic, English
VERSIONS: MIX / CLEAN
FORMAT/S: 16x9 / 1x1 / 9x16
MUSIC RIGHTS: Artlist
MUSIC TITLE: Yehezkel Raz - Long Away
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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.

SCRIPT:
Locator: Gaza City , 25 August 2025

Lower third:
Tess Ingram, UNICEF spokesperson

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

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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

Locator:
UNICEF Archive
May 2024

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

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And that day, we managed to medically evacuate her

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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.

Locator:
UNICEF Archive
January 2025

00:00:26:08 - 00:00:31:19
When the ceasefire came, we returned to the north,
and Jana’s condition was better.

00:00:31:28 - 00:00:34:11
Then came the famine in the north.

Lower third:
Nesma Ayed,
Jana’s mother

00:00:34:18 - 00:00:36:09
My daughter suffered greatly.

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She lost a lot of weight, blood, and vital elements in her body.

00:00:40:05 - 00:00:47:11
She developed severe deficiencies in potassium and magnesium,
which caused her health to deteriorate again.

00:00:48:28 - 00:00:54:07
And Jana has severe acute malnutrition
for the second time and urgently requires

00:00:54:07 - 00:00:57:07
a medical evacuation outside of Gaza in order to survive.

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Doctors are incredibly concerned,

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and so is the family because
they have already lost a child.

Locator:
UNICEF Archive
June 2024

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I am crushed after raising my child only to lose her in my arms.

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I don’t want to relive the pain of losing Jouri with Jana.

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Every day I see my daughter fading before my eyes.

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The pain is indescribable, especially when she had no illnesses before.

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Yes, it is in God’s hands,

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but to lose her because of famine, siege, and the conditions
we live in here, that is unbearable.

00:01:31:29 - 00:01:36:04
How is it that we are in the position
where a child like Jana

00:01:36:04 - 00:01:38:10
has to suffer twice?

00:01:38:11 - 00:01:41:11
She has to survive these horrors twice.

00:01:41:13 - 00:01:43:21
We get the treatments in to save her life.

00:01:43:21 - 00:01:46:11
And yet, the condition remains so bad,

00:01:46:11 - 00:01:51:05
and the deprivation continues
to the extent that we are back here again.

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This is unacceptable.

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This is a shame on the world.

Text on black:

The worst-case scenario of famine is playing out in the Gaza Strip.

UNICEF needs immediate, safe and unhindered humanitarian access across Gaza to scale up life saving support for children.

LOGO

END

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.