Almost 100 dead or missing in Israeli strike in Gaza
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🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The director of the hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza says it's unable to treat satisfactorily the dozens injured in Israel's strike on a multi-storey building. Almost a hundred people were reported killed or missing in the attack. Israel says its operations in northern Gaza are designed to prevent Hamas from regrouping. The UN Secretary-General and the US State Department have expressed their outrage at Israel's decision to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. They've warned there could be consequences. We'll hear from the Arab Israeli politician, Aida Touma-Suleima, about the vote to ban the UN humanitarian agency for Palestinians.
Also in the programme: Donald Trump's former strategist, Steve Bannon, has gone back on the attack on his release from prison, accusing Vice-President Harris of lacking substance; and does Africa's original film festival, FESPACO, face an uncertain future?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Rebecca Keesby. |
| 0:10.4 | We begin the program today in Gaza where the Hamas-run Health Ministry is now saying at least |
| 0:16.8 | 93 people have been killed including children after a multi-story residential building was hit by an Israeli |
| 0:24.8 | airstrike. Rescue workers are saying dozens of people are still trapped under the |
| 0:29.4 | rubble. The building is in Beit Lahia, which is in the very far north of the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:35.0 | This man said many people had been crowded into the building when the strike happened, |
| 0:40.0 | and I should warn you that this description of what he saw is graphic. |
| 0:45.0 | The house of the Abunase family in the Beethllehia Project neighborhood was bombed. |
| 0:52.0 | The house had four floors, dozens of people |
| 0:55.0 | have been killed. Dozens of displaced people were living in this house. It was |
| 0:59.8 | bombed without prior warning. As you can see, there are dead people here and there |
| 1:06.0 | with body parts hanging off the walls. |
| 1:08.0 | They are the neighbours and residents of Beefahilla. Well, a spokesperson for the Hamas-run Gaza Civil Defense Agency, Mahmoud Basel, said that |
| 1:20.4 | rescuers didn't have the equipment or supplies they needed to help survivors. |
| 1:25.2 | There are still civilians missing beneath the rubble, with no means to provide them aid or rescue them. |
| 1:33.0 | People are crying out from beneath the rubble, |
| 1:36.0 | but no one can offer them anything. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, we've approached the Israeli military |
| 1:42.0 | for an interview this evening on what happened today in |
| 1:44.8 | Baked Lachier. |
| 1:46.6 | They sent us this statement. |
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