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Airstrikes in Gaza signal an end to Hamas-Israel ceasefire

The World

PRX

News, Lethaldissent

4.6943 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Israel launched a series of attacks in Gaza overnight. Palestinian health officials say more than 400 people were killed in the strikes, one of the highest death tolls in a single day since the start of the war. This comes after negotiations involving Israel and Hamas failed to reach a deal to release the remaining hostages and maintain the ceasefire. Also, the ongoing efforts to deal with the environmental impact of Agent Orange in Vietnam. And, a visit to a fertility temple in Bhutan.

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0:00.0

A limited ceasefire could be coming to Ukraine, but among Ukrainians, there's still plenty of skepticism.

0:11.0

Russia will break the ceasefire. It's not a question if, it's a question when.

0:15.0

I'm Marco Werman, and overnight in Gaza, that ceasefire came to a sudden and violent end

0:20.2

with a new round of Israeli strikes and many civilian casualties.

0:23.9

Children, women, elderly, it was everybody caught in their sleep, still wrapped in their blankets, terrifying.

0:30.8

Also today, we'll take you to a temple in the Himalayas where visitors seek fertility blessings.

0:36.0

I want to thank you with all my heart. I visited you in the summer of 2000 and you gave me a fertility blessings. I want to thank you with all my heart.

0:38.2

I visited you in the summer of 2000 and you gave me a fertility blessing.

0:42.7

Nine months later, my daughter Elsie was born.

0:46.2

It's unbelievable, huh?

0:47.6

Yeah.

0:48.5

Plus the sound of every bird in Ireland, every single one.

0:52.4

Those stories are more today, here on the world. I'm Marco

0:58.6

Wurman. This is the world. Thank you for joining us today. We begin in the Gaza Strip. After weeks of

1:03.9

relative calm in the Palestinian territory, the fragile ceasefire that took cold in January, was shattered

1:09.3

in the early hours of this morning.

1:12.6

Israel carried out what it called extensive strikes across Gaza.

1:16.6

According to Palestinian health officials, more than 400 Palestinians were killed,

1:20.6

including dozens of children.

1:26.6

Fadah Hamdan is a Palestinian mother who told the Associated Press that an airstrike killed her husband and her children in their sleep last night.

1:34.8

Hamas said that at least five of the group's senior leaders were also killed.

1:38.8

Tanya Haj Hassan is a doctor working at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunus.

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