Doctor describes 'total carnage' as 27 reported killed by Israeli fire at Gaza aid centre
Newshour
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Health officials in Gaza say at least 27 people have been killed near one of the controversial new aid distribution centres - the third reported incident in three days. The Israeli military says they fired 'warning shots'; medics say they are dealing with a range of injuries. Also on the programme: the mother of a political prisoner still being held in an Egyptian prison eight months after his sentence ended tells us why she's on hunger strike in protest; and South Koreans have been choosing their next president after former President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment over his failed martial law bid. (Photo: A mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed, in what the Gaza health ministry say was Israeli fire near a distribution site in Rafah, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2025. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Rebecca Kesbby. |
| 0:09.8 | Total Carnage is how one foreign medic described the scene to the BBC |
| 0:14.0 | as the hospital he works in in southern Gaza was overwhelmed with casualties in the early hours of this morning. |
| 0:20.0 | After another mass shooting |
| 0:21.6 | incident near an aid distribution centre, this one near Rafa. The Hamas-run Health |
| 0:26.9 | Ministry says at least 27 people have been killed and 90 injured. It's the third day in a row |
| 0:32.4 | that Palestinians have been killed while trying to access food aid. The UN agency that |
| 0:37.4 | usually coordinates the |
| 0:38.5 | distribution of aid in Gaza has been banned from doing so by the Israeli government. The US-run Gaza |
| 0:44.0 | Humanitarian Foundation is the body now doing it. And badly, if you take the view of the UN's |
| 0:49.7 | human rights chief Volker-Turk, who described the new aid delivery system to us as heartbreaking, |
| 0:55.7 | unacceptable and dehumanising. We've tried to get an interview with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. |
| 1:01.7 | They've declined so far. Well, foreign journalists, as you know, a ban from entering Gaza by the |
| 1:06.4 | Israeli government, so we are reliant on witness testimony. This man described what happened at the |
| 1:12.2 | aid station today. Yesterday they told us to come today. I arrived at the aid distribution point |
| 1:20.1 | at 5 in the morning, hoping to bring food and water to our family. I never imagined what I would |
| 1:25.9 | witness there. Intent shelling from aircraft and tanks. |
| 1:29.7 | My advice to everyone, do not go to the aid distribution point. |
| 1:34.1 | Well, we've also requested an interview with the Israeli Defence Forces today, but without success |
| 1:40.0 | so far. The Israeli government spokesman David Mensa has been making a televised statement, |
| 1:45.4 | though, in the past half an hour or so. This is part of what he had to say. |
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