BBC follows journey of Gazan child
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A Palestinian baby who was evacuated for medical treatment has returned to Gaza and is back in hospital. The BBC has discussed Siwar Ashour's case with the Jordanian and Israeli governments. Also: President Trump announces new US navy battleships named after himself; Nigeria designates kidnappers as terrorists; Call of Duty creator Vince Zampella dies; Amazon warns of North Korean agents applying for remote IT jobs; and a Spanish town turns its luck around with huge "El Gordo" lottery win.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Paul Moss, and in the early hours of Tuesday, December 23rd, we hear about a desperately ill one-year-old |
| 0:18.1 | child who was evacuated from Gaza, but is now back in the |
| 0:22.0 | Palestinian territory. Donald Trump suspends all U.S. offshore wind power projects claiming |
| 0:28.1 | their national security risk. Amazon says it's blocked North Koreans trying to sign up as |
| 0:35.4 | tech company employees. Also in this podcast, the 19th century slave who escaped from the US and the letter she wrote to her mother back home. |
| 0:45.0 | It's a really poignant story about how her daughter is okay. |
| 0:47.8 | Her daughter made it and now she's free. |
| 0:52.4 | Back in June, the BBC reported on a one-year-old girl from Gaza with severe nutritional problems. |
| 0:58.8 | After that broadcast, Siwa Ashur was evacuated to Jordan for medical treatment. |
| 1:03.5 | She's now back in the Palestinian territory, but she's also back in hospital. |
| 1:07.6 | Our correspondent Fergal Keen has been following her story. |
| 1:13.2 | She arrived in Jordan last June, frail and frightened looking. |
| 1:18.7 | Siwa Ashur has a medical condition that stops her absorbing enough nutrition |
| 1:23.0 | and which doctors in Gaza said threatened her life. |
| 1:29.4 | Five months later, this is her first birthday party in a man, |
| 1:34.5 | surrounded by her mother, father, grandmother, and Jordanian health workers. |
| 1:39.6 | Medical treatment had improved her condition. |
| 1:46.5 | But Siwar is now back in Gaza and back in hospital. |
| 1:52.2 | Siwa returned from Jordan approximately 10 days ago. |
| 1:55.8 | She changed for the worse. |
| 1:57.1 | Around I mean the third day, she started having diarrhea and vomiting, and her situation |
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