Families accuse Hamas of deliberately starving hostages
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The brother of Israeli hostage Evyatar David has told the BBC that a video released by Hamas shows he is a "human skeleton''. Ilay David spoke as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reported to be preparing to expand military operations in Gaza. Also: Britain's first female spy chief Stella Rimington dies, and the new party trend in India - fake weddings.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday, |
| 0:09.0 | the 5th of August. The brother of an Israeli hostage seen in a recent video says Hamas is |
| 0:14.1 | deliberately starving him. Meanwhile, a former Israeli security official tells us a plan to expand |
| 0:19.7 | the military operation in Gaza is a big mistake. |
| 0:23.1 | President Trump has threatened India with even bigger tariffs for buying Russian oil |
| 0:27.5 | and why Elon Musk could soon get even richer. |
| 0:33.4 | Also in the podcast, Stella Remington, Britain's first female spy chief has died. |
| 0:38.4 | One was thought to be okay to deal with the papers. |
| 0:41.0 | I mean, I could say to type and make the tea. |
| 0:42.8 | It was a bit more than that. |
| 0:44.5 | But women were not regarded as suitable to do the sharp end intelligence work. |
| 0:48.7 | We're back at her life. |
| 0:59.8 | In our previous podcast, we heard that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nessoniyahu is considering expanding military operations against Hamas. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, the latest report suggests he's made up his mind, |
| 1:06.7 | with an official in his office quoted as saying, |
| 1:09.1 | a decision has been made, we're going to |
| 1:11.5 | occupy the Gaza Strip. If that's the plan, it goes against the wishes of many Israelis. Over the |
| 1:17.9 | weekend, tens of thousands demonstrated in Tel Aviv calling for an end to the war. Meanwhile, |
| 1:23.6 | hundreds of retired senior Israeli security officials have written to President Trump, |
| 1:28.6 | urging him to put pressure on Mr Netanyahu to end the war, |
| 1:32.2 | saying Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat. |
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