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🗓️ 28 May 2025
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Thousands of Palestinians have stormed an aid distribution site in Gaza set up by a US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there. Also: a Turkish bakery revives a 5,000-year-old bread recipe.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:05.2 | I'm Andrew Peach, and in the early hours of Wednesday the 28th of May, these are our main stories. |
0:11.2 | Thousands of hungry Palestinians in Gaza storm an aid distribution site backed by the US and Israel. |
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0:51.3 | Let's begin in Gaza with reports that thousands of Palestinians have overwhelmed a food parcel service run by a new aid group backed by the US and Israel. |
1:05.0 | Eyewitnesses reported scenes of chaos and hearing gunshots in and around the distribution hub in the south of the territory. |
1:15.0 | These people were there. |
1:17.7 | Hunger brought me here. No one cares about us. |
1:20.7 | I came here because I want to feed my children and I have ten people to feed. |
1:27.2 | Initially the delivery process was orderly, but due to the |
1:30.6 | overwhelming crowd, the aid organisation allowed people to rush in and grab whatever they could. |
1:37.6 | I thank the aid organisation for their help because no one from the Arab world cared about us. I thank |
1:44.1 | them for their support. |
1:45.9 | The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says at one point, so many people turned up that it paused |
1:52.0 | its operation to avoid potential casualties. The Foundation said it had managed to hand out |
1:57.5 | 8,000 food boxes before the centre was overrun by crowds. |
2:02.2 | Meanwhile, the UN continues to voice its unhappiness about the new group. |
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