Emergency episode: The Gaza Hospital Strike

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A huge blast at a hospital in Gaza City is reported to have killed hundreds. In this emergency episode recorded at 10pm tonight in Israel, host of The Conflict podcast, BBC International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, and her colleague Anna Foster, grapple with the breaking news and the claims and counter claims as protests break out across the region. This episode was made by Clare Williamson and Joe Kent in London and Alex Lederman and Naomi Scherbel-Ball in Israel. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	Hello, since we dropped the last episode of newscast, we're hearing that hundreds of people
0:05.0	are feared dead after a huge blast at a hospital in Gaza City.
0:10.5	Who's to blame?
0:11.5	Well Hamas, say, in his really airstrike was the cause.
0:15.0	The Israeli Prime Minister says it was, quote, barbaric terrorists.
0:19.2	The BBC's Least to Set and Anna Foster are in the region and recorded a special episode
0:24.0	of our sister podcast, the conflict Israel and Gaza.
0:28.0	Shortly after the reports started to come in.
0:30.9	Take a listen.
0:36.9	Hello, I'm Least to Set, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and I'm in Southern
0:42.6	Israel.
0:43.6	It's day 11 of this conflict and as we record this podcast, nearly 10pm, gruesome images
0:51.8	are coming in of a strike on a hospital in Gaza City.
0:55.4	The Al-Ali Al-Ali Hospital.
0:58.1	At this point, there are reports of many hundreds killed.
1:02.6	Many of them Palestinians taking shelter in the hospital, a safe place which wasn't safe.
1:10.8	It's already been described as the deadliest airstrike in Gaza in five wars since 2008,
1:18.2	on a day when there was intense diplomacy about avoiding exactly this kind of moment.
1:26.0	Palestinian officials say this was an Israeli airstrike, but the Israeli defense force
1:31.4	as the IDF says they are checking.
1:34.8	It's what we call in journalism a developing story, a fast-moving story, a tragic human
1:41.2	story with major consequences.
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