Are (Even More Of) Israel?s Allies Turning Against Them?

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today, we discuss the new aid distrubition model in Gaza and why the EU?s top diplomat has gone further in criticising Israeli strikes and aid distribution.

The BBC?s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet joins Adam in the studio to discuss the video footage of chaotic scenes at an aid distribution centre in Rafah. They discuss the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and vice president of the European Commission Kaja Kallas? criticism of Israel.

And there?s a fortnight to go until the spending review. Sir Mark Rowley, head of the Metropolitan Police, has been on the radio lobbying the Chancellor for more cash. BBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth is on the line with a politics wrap-up.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.1	Hello, an episode of two halves today in the second half.
0:08.4	We'll catch up with Alex Forsyth because there's actually quite a lot of politics stories rumbling around today,
0:13.8	even though Parliament is on recess, so politics is taking a bit of a break, except it isn't.
0:18.5	And then the first half, we're going to catch up with Lisa Doucette to talk about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and particularly this new
0:25.8	setup that has been built by the Israelis and the Americans and some private companies to deliver
0:31.7	aid to people in Gaza, which is provoking lots of controversy. So those are the two things
0:36.9	you will get on this
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1:02.2	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And we're going to first of all talk about the delivery
1:06.4	of humanitarian aid in Gaza. And there's a few reasons for that. Number one, there is a new set
1:12.5	up for doing that where it is being funneled through private companies. This follows an 11-week
1:18.4	blockade on the delivery of any humanitarian aid to Gaza by the Israeli government. And that's proving
1:24.2	to be quite controversial. And second of all, there was a video popped up and was widely shared on social media on Tuesday,
1:31.8	which showed hundreds and hundreds of people in Gaza descending on one of the few points at which this aid is being delivered.
1:40.3	And quite a few people were injured when there was some gunfire there.
1:43.9	So there's quite a few things
1:45.4	that we need to understand about what's going on. And also, some more European politicians,
1:51.9	including some very high-profile ones, have started to criticise the Israeli government
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