As world focuses on Iran, Palestinians in Gaza struggle to survive
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Six months after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, conditions remain dire. The cost of rebuilding the enclave’s infrastructure alone is estimated at more than $71 billion. Also, Spain takes the lead as European relations with Israel fray. And, New York City stalwart rockers The Strokes made headlines with their with their song “Oblivius" at Coachella, accompanied by a video montage of US and CIA involvement in overseas assassinations and regime change efforts. Plus, a robot called Lightning won a half marathon in Beijing on Sunday, several minutes faster than the human world record-holder, Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo.
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| 0:00.0 | Gaza has faded from the headlines. |
| 0:07.0 | Palestinians feel forgotten. |
| 0:09.0 | It feels like time has standing still. |
| 0:12.0 | They don't know what to expect and when to expect it. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Marco Werman, an update on Gaza and how some countries in the EU want to cut ties with Israel, its leader |
| 0:22.3 | responds. |
| 0:23.3 | Europe is losing control over its identity, over its values, over its commitment to safeguard |
| 0:29.6 | civilization against barbarism. |
| 0:32.6 | Also today, the most successful woman you've likely never heard of. |
| 0:36.5 | Hachip's if she'd been a meal king would be talked of as one of the greatest kings of |
| 0:42.0 | pharaonic times. |
| 0:43.4 | And women musicians reveal the unsung female composers of the Renaissance. |
| 0:47.9 | What is amazing is that we're able to explore this world, which was a very secret world. |
| 0:54.2 | That's all coming up today on the world. |
| 0:59.3 | This is the world. I'm Marco Wormann. It is good to have you here this Monday. |
| 1:03.8 | Gaza has faded from the headlines in recent weeks, yet more than six months after a ceasefire |
| 1:08.5 | was announced there, violence continues to flare up. |
| 1:11.7 | Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are living in tents, as well as in and around the bombed-out |
| 1:16.3 | buildings that were once their homes. |
| 1:18.7 | In Gaza City, Salma Altawil of the Norwegian Refugee Council says now there are things she's |
| 1:24.1 | never experienced before. |
| 1:25.2 | For example, I wake up at night to the sound of rats |
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