Dozens killed by Israeli fire at aid point, Gaza health officials say
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🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Health officials in Gaza say dozens of people have been killed and dozens more injured by Israeli fire as they waited for a UN aid delivery.
The IDF has not previously sent ground troops into the neighbourhoods because it believes that Hamas is holding hostages there.
Also in the proghramme: Syria's interior ministry says violence in the southern city of Sweida has "halted"; six months since Donald Trump returned to the White House. we'll check in with Trump supporters; and British men collect world relay gold medals 28 years late.
(Photo shows people waiting at an aid point in Gaza on 20 July 2025. Credit: Ramadan Abed/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesbby. |
| 0:10.0 | Coming up on the programme today, we'll be heading to Japan where polls have just closed in elections for the Upper House. |
| 0:15.6 | And later we'll be looking at Donald Trump's first six months in his second term, through the eyes of people who backed him. |
| 0:21.8 | Did they get what they voted for? |
| 0:24.0 | First, though, to some breaking news from Gaza, where health officials say that more, that dozens of people have been killed and more injured by Israeli fire as they waited for a UN aid delivery. |
| 0:37.3 | Hospitals in the south of the territory say that more people have been killed at aid points there. |
| 0:43.9 | The IDF has not previously sent ground troops into the neighbourhoods, |
| 0:48.4 | where they're also calling for an evacuation in central Gaza. |
| 0:54.1 | The latest casualties come as the Israeli military issued another evacuation order for that area. |
| 1:00.9 | Let's just listen to Ghada Al-Hord. |
| 1:03.2 | She's a Palestinian journalist in Gaza City. |
| 1:06.4 | Since two days, we didn't eat anything. |
| 1:09.4 | Nothing to be eaten here in Gaza like for me, for my daughters, for anyone. |
| 1:15.0 | We just drink water all the time. |
| 1:18.4 | We can see the kids, they are looking in the garbage in the street for anything to eat. |
| 1:23.3 | Really, we are dying. |
| 1:25.4 | People, they are just collapsing while they are going or walking in the street. |
| 1:29.9 | I can find words to describe my situation. |
| 1:33.0 | I hope, like, anyone can hear us, can listen to us and stop the starvation. |
| 1:38.0 | If you are not able to stop the killing the war, just stop the starvation. |
| 1:43.3 | We want to eat. |
| 1:45.1 | Asgada Elkhord, she's a Palestinian journalist in Gaza City, talking about the conditions. |
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