16 Nov 2012

GENEVA / GAZA

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Israel’s aerial attacks on the Gaza Strip as well as rockets fired by Hamas militants into southern Israel and called on both sides on Friday to step back from the brink. CH UNTV

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STORY: GENEVA / GAZA
TRT: 2.12
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 16 NOVEMBER 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

SHOTLIST:

FILE – 2011, PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations.

16 NOVEMBER 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Med shot, entrance to Press Room III
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): 
"The High Commissioner Navi Pillay is following the unfolding situation in Gaza and southern Israel with considerable alarm. She is appalled that once again civilians are losing their lives, including three Israeli citizens killed in their apartment by one of the hundreds of rockets fired over the past week as well as several Palestinian children, including a baby, and also a pregnant woman and some other civilians killed in Gaza."
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): 
"The High Commissioner joins the Secretary-General, and many others in urging both sides to take serious steps to avoid further escalation and respect their obligations under international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians." 
7. Cutaway, journalists
8.  SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): 
"The High Commissioner has repeatedly and unequivocally condemned the indiscriminate firing of rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, and is deeply concerned both by the recent major upsurge in the number of rocket attacks, and that they are now being aimed at a major city such as Tel Aviv."
9. Cut a way, close up journalist, Press Room III, Palais des Nations.
10.  SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): 
"She is also extremely concerned by the sharp increase in aerial attacks by Israeli forces on the heavily populated Gaza Strip in the past two days and urges both sides to pull back from an increasingly dangerous confrontation."
11. Wide shot, journalists

STORYLINE

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) condemned Israel's aerial attacks on the Gaza Strip as well as rockets fired by Hamas militants into southern Israel and called on both sides to step back from the brink.

At least 20 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed since Israel began its offensive on Wednesday (14 November). Overnight the Israeli military struck at more than 130 targets and militants fired 11 rockets from Gaza.
 
OHCHR Spokesman Rupert Colville told a news briefing today (16 November) at the United Nations (UN) in Geneva that Navi Pillay was "appalled that once again civilians are losing their lives".

Colville added that Pillay was also "extremely concerned by the sharp increase in aerial attacks by Israeli forces on the heavily populated Gaza Strip in the past two days and urges both sides to pull back from an increasingly dangerous confrontation".

Violence escalated after the killing by Israel of Hamas' military leader Ahmed Jabari on Wednesday following a surge in rocket attacks from Gaza.

OHCHR Spokesperson said that "the High Commissioner has repeatedly and unequivocally condemned the indiscriminate firing of rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, and is deeply concerned both by the recent major upsurge in the number of rocket attacks, and that they are now being aimed at a major city such as Tel Aviv".

Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip targeted Tel Aviv on Thursday in the first attack on Israel's commercial capital in 20 years.