Deadly attack near ICRC office in Gaza
Newshour
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🗓️ 22 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Red Cross says 22 people were killed in shelling near its offices in Gaza. It's called on both Hamas and the Israeli military to do more to protect civilians. We speak to William Schomburg who is the head of the ICRC delegation in Gaza.
Also in the programme: Ukraine says there has been another massive Russian attack on its energy infrastructure; a new documentary about the designer of the wrap around dress - Diane Von Furstenberg; and should NASA pay for damage caused by falling space junk?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live |
| 0:06.8 | from London I'm James Kimara Sami. It is nearly a week since Israel announced a |
| 0:11.7 | daily pause in military activity in part of southern |
| 0:14.9 | Gaza to make it easier for aid trucks to enter the territory via the main Karim Shalom |
| 0:20.3 | crossing point. But that pause does not mean the fighting has stopped in other parts of the |
| 0:25.0 | territory in a week when disagreements between Israel's military and its government over the |
| 0:30.2 | war against Hamas have become increasingly public. |
| 0:33.8 | According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, 22 people were killed on Friday |
| 0:38.6 | when what the Aid Agency described as heavy caliber projectiles, hit an area where displaced people were |
| 0:44.8 | sheltering near its office in almoasi a coastal district on the edge of the |
| 0:49.8 | southern garden city of Raffer. The Red Cross has not said who it believes was |
| 0:54.8 | responsible. The Israeli military says the incident is under review. Families of |
| 1:00.4 | the victims gathered outside a hospital in the town of Han Yunus, among them Mona Ashur, who lost her husband. |
| 1:07.0 | We were inside our hand when a sound bomb exploded near the Red Cross tents. |
| 1:16.4 | My husband went outside at the first explosion. |
| 1:20.5 | Then a second bomb went off, even closer to the Red Cross door, and people began to gather. |
| 1:28.0 | I tried to communicate with my husband, but was unable to. |
| 1:32.0 | We fled as we were in our clothes and barefoot. I tried again to |
| 1:37.7 | communicate with my husband but couldn't find him. |
| 1:41.2 | William Schumburg is head of the International Committee of the Red Cross's delegation in Gaza, |
| 1:48.0 | and he spoke to me from its office in Almoasi where Friday's attack took place. |
| 1:53.0 | I mean, the scenes that we witnessed yesterday were tragic, horrific. |
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