An Israeli strike on school in Northern Gaza
Newshour
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
At least 22 people have been killed in Israeli raid on school in Northern Gaza. Also on the programme, Israel says it may have been killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and the architect of the bloody October 7th attacks; and, Liam Payne, singer in the boy-band One Direction has died aged 31.
(Photo: Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, near the ruins of houses destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip August 26, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.6 | studios in Central London. I'm Tim Franks and we have one major story this hour because shortly before we came on air we started |
| 0:15.3 | getting the first reports out of Israel that the Israeli military is looking into |
| 0:20.5 | whether it has killed the leader of Hamas. |
| 0:24.6 | Yahi Asinwa, the leader who has been in Gaza |
| 0:28.6 | and is widely seen as the architect of those October 7th attacks in Israel, October the 7th last year, |
| 0:36.0 | which killed 1200 Israelis and sparked this war that is continuing to this day, |
| 0:42.1 | 42,000, more than 42,000 Palestinians reported to be |
| 0:46.4 | dead in Gaza according to Hamas run the Hamas-run health Ministry. It is potentially a very significant development. |
| 0:56.0 | We're a de-Vet Davis is our correspondent in Jerusalem. |
| 0:59.0 | We're a what are you hearing from Israeli media and Israeli sources? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, yeah, let's differentiate between the two because there's some contradictory reports in the Israeli media. |
| 1:08.5 | Some elements of the Israeli media perhaps have jumped the fox at the gun a little bit and said that |
| 1:15.0 | Simhite is definitely dead. |
| 1:16.8 | We don't know that for sure. |
| 1:17.8 | There's been no official announcement from the Israeli military or from the |
| 1:21.8 | Prime Minister's office. |
| 1:23.3 | What we do know is that somebody resembling Yaya Sinwa, physically anyway, has been killed because |
| 1:30.0 | there are some very graphic pictures online showing somebody resembling him in what is clearly the aftermath of a |
| 1:36.7 | violent incident either an airstrike or heavy military activity now the Israeli military is saying that it's believed it's killed the IAS along |
| 1:46.7 | with two other Hamas operatives and this may have been in a accidental encounter in southern Gaza. This is separate from another |
| 1:54.8 | incident in the north which we've been referring to later today in which several |
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