Flood risk for the people of Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
According to the UN's humanitarian affairs agency, more than 800,000 displaced Gazans could be affected by flooding, as a winter storm surges along the coast. Most of them are living in tents. Also in the programme: we meet the man who smuggled opposition leader Maria Corina Machado out of Venezuela; and Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is the clear winner in the world's top gaming awards, so why has a French arthouse creation proved such a hit? (Photo: Displaced Palestinians ride a donkey-drawn cart on a flooded street in Gaza City, 12 December, 2025. Credit: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello and welcome to Newsare. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Tim Franks. Coming up on the programme, the one human smuggling operation many people wanted to succeed. The story of how |
| 0:21.9 | the Venezuelan opposition leader Marina Karina Machado was spirited out of the country to receive |
| 0:27.9 | the Nobel Peace Prize from the man who arranged it. That's coming up in 30 minutes. First though, |
| 0:35.8 | it's easy for those of us lucky enough not to live in places of active |
| 0:40.4 | conflict for our attention to wander, especially when the guns have fallen, well, if not quiet, |
| 0:47.0 | then quieter. But we're going to begin this program by returning to Gaza, because the ordeal |
| 0:53.0 | for the Palestinians crammed into this enclave is not |
| 0:55.9 | over, despite the ceasefire deal of two months ago. In fact, there's a new peril, floods. |
| 1:02.7 | According to the UN's humanitarian affairs agency, more than 800,000 displaced Gazans |
| 1:08.1 | are at risk from flooding as a winter storm surges along the coast. |
| 1:12.5 | The British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said that the UK and its partners have warehouses |
| 1:16.6 | full of aid waiting to enter Gaza and urged Israel to do more to lift restrictions, |
| 1:22.0 | especially with the majority of Gaza's population still living in tents and displacement camps. |
| 1:27.3 | Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson has this report. |
| 1:32.4 | The path to Gadiah's tent in Gaza City is swimming with muddy water. |
| 1:38.0 | Winter arrived here hard on the heels of war before houses or lives were rebuilt. |
| 1:48.0 | Rain stream. of war before houses or lives were rebuilt. Rainstreams through gaps in the flimsy canvas shelter, |
| 1:51.0 | Kadir shares with her husband and six children, |
| 1:54.0 | displaced from their home in Jabalia during the war. |
| 2:00.0 | We want caravans, we want our homes rebuilt, to go back to our houses. We long for |
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