Aid trucks enter Gaza amid widespread hunger
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Israel says it's opening limited aid corridors to allow in food and medicine, as Gazan medical officials say at least nine people were killed in Israeli fire while awaiting an aid convoy. We hear from a humanitarian worker in the north of the strip. Also on the programme: Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces announce they're forming a government; and Spain faces England in the final of the women's Euro 2025 soccer.(Photo: Egyptian Red Crescent lorries with humanitarian aid, bound for the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at the Rafah border crossing, in Egypt, in this handout image released July 27, 2025. Credit: Egyptian Red Crescent/Handout via REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kamara Sami. |
| 0:09.6 | Over the past week or so, the rhetorical pressure on Israel to alleviate the suffering in Gaza has reached new heights, |
| 0:16.7 | as images of emaciated, malnourished children have brought home the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the territory. |
| 0:24.0 | More than 100 aid agencies and more than two dozen governments have written impassioned statements, |
| 0:28.9 | calling on Israel to scrap its current method of getting aid to civilians, |
| 0:33.2 | which has seen hundreds of people killed near distribution sites, |
| 0:36.8 | and warning of mass starvation in the territory. |
| 0:39.9 | France has also become the first G7 country to say it will recognise a Palestinian state. |
| 0:46.3 | Well, today the Israeli government has bowed to that pressure, or at least acknowledged it. |
| 0:50.7 | After insisting that there was enough aid in Gaza and that Hamas was the reason it wasn't |
| 0:55.5 | reaching those who need it, Israel has begun to make aid drops and agreed to what the IDF is |
| 1:01.3 | calling a tactical pause in military activity in three parts of Gaza to set up designated |
| 1:07.5 | humanitarian corridors for UN convoys. Israel says it has taken the decision to refute the false claim of deliberate starvation in the |
| 1:16.2 | strip. Antoine Renard is the chief of operations in Gaza for the UN World Food Program. |
| 1:21.7 | What will remain a challenge for us is that the volume that we need to bring, |
| 1:27.1 | given the fact that there's been such a long |
| 1:28.9 | closure, is actually the massive amount of people that are so desperate that they're rushing on |
| 1:35.2 | convoy. So if we manage just the last week to bring around 4,200 metric tons of food within Gaza, |
| 1:43.1 | it's again not enough because we're supposed to actually reach 62,000 metric tons of food within Gaza, it's again not enough because we're supposed to actually |
| 1:45.5 | reach 62,000 metric tons every month. So what will be still a challenge for us is actually to |
| 1:52.8 | manage to go beyond the wave of people that are rushing on any convoy coming because they're so |
| 1:59.2 | desperate and to restart our proper distribution system |
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