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Global News Podcast

Doctors describe 'desperate' conditions in Gaza's hospitals

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Israeli forces battle Hamas nearby. They say they've left a corridor open for people to flee, and will help evacuate babies on Sunday. Also: A key bridge in the Sudanese capital Khartoum has been destroyed, and remembering Frank Borman, the man who commanded the first manned mission to circle the Moon, who has died at the age of 95.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.0

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Sunday the 12th of November,

0:09.5

these are our main stories.

0:11.0

A doctor in Gaza says the situation in the biggest hospital

0:14.6

there is becoming desperate. Shooting a apartment everywhere you hear it

0:18.8

every second here around the Shiva Hospital. No one can get out from the Shiva Hospital. No one can

0:25.1

come to the Shiva Hospital situation is very, very dangerous. The Israelis say

0:29.8

they'll help with the evacuation of babies to a safer hospital on Sunday.

0:35.0

In London, some 300,000 people took part in a pro-Palestine March.

0:40.0

Also in this podcast, thousands are evacuated as tremors indicate an imminent volcanic eruption in Iceland and

0:50.0

you had options of oysters, salmon, beef,

0:54.8

and here's a good one, squab al-a-gadard.

0:57.2

That's pigeon.

0:58.2

You had lamb, you had chicken.

0:59.7

You have multiple, multiple courses.

1:02.3

Stay tuned to find out why someone was prepared to splash out more than a hundred thousand dollars

1:08.0

not on the meal but on the menu card.

1:15.0

In Gaza, doctors at the largest hospital there, Al-Shifa say many patients, including

1:20.2

premature babies, are at risk of dying, not because of disease but because of a lack of power.

1:26.0

One doctor described the scene as a war zone.

1:29.0

His colleague, Al-Shifa's senior surgeon, Marwan Ab Abu-Sada told the BBC it was becoming impossible to operate.

1:37.0

Shooting a compartment everywhere, you hear it every second here around the Shiva Hospital,

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