Condemnation of Israel for plan to take over Gaza City
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial plans for a new military push in the Gaza Strip have raised warnings from the army leadership, opposition from hostage families and concerns that more Palestinians will be killed.
We'll hear from a resident of the territory and find out why the Israeli government thinks an intensification of the war will work now.
Also in the programme: We'll hear about fresh allegations against the Australian woman who poisoned three of her relatives; and why some of France's most prestigious mineral water companies are up to their necks in crisis.
(Photo shows Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a conference in Jerusalem on 27July 2025. Credit: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. |
| 0:10.5 | We're beginning with the Israeli Prime Minister's plan to take control of the entire Gaza Strip, using his military to occupy it. |
| 0:18.8 | The plan was given formal approval by his security cabinet after an |
| 0:22.3 | unusually long meeting. It lasted 10 hours and stretched right through the night. This was how |
| 0:27.9 | the Prime Minister, Bidiam and Netanyahu, laid out his vision ahead of that cabinet meeting in an |
| 0:32.7 | interview with Fox News's Bill Hemmer. Will Israel take control of all of Gaza? We intend to in order to assure our security, |
| 0:44.1 | remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza and to pass it to civilian governance. |
| 0:51.0 | That is not Hamas and not anyone advocating the destruction of Israel. |
| 0:56.1 | In the first instance, we're told the army will be ordered to launch a full-scale |
| 1:00.4 | incursion into Gaza City, currently home to almost a half of the enclave's 2 million-plus |
| 1:06.7 | Palestinians. Those hundreds of thousands of Gazans, many of whom have already been |
| 1:11.4 | multiply displaced, will be told to move once more, to move south to where the rest of |
| 1:16.8 | Gaza's population is already crammed. While that's happening, the Israeli military is expected |
| 1:21.7 | over several weeks to be mustering the huge forces needed for such a major expansion of hostilities. It's a deeply controversial move. |
| 1:30.9 | There's been international condemnation. We'll attempt to have more on that in 30 minutes. Within Israel, |
| 1:37.0 | the current military leadership have let it be known that they're gravely concerned about the wisdom |
| 1:41.8 | and feasibility of such a move. And the families of Israeli hostages |
| 1:46.2 | still held in Gaza, about 20 of whom are thought still to be alive, have said that they |
| 1:51.5 | think this plan will only put their loved ones in further danger. Yehuda Cohen is father of |
| 1:57.7 | Israeli hostage, Nimrog Cohen. It's obvious that it's endangering my son, |
| 2:02.6 | endangering the other living hostages. |
| 2:04.8 | The government forced the army to maneuver in areas |
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