Gaza: 20 reported dead in Israeli hospital attack
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
At least 20 people, including five journalists, are reported to have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. Also: Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas speak to the BBC about fierce fighting and high casualty rates; paramilitaries in Sudan's Darfur region are accused of killing civilians fleeing the besieged city of El Fasher; President Trump threatens to send National Guard troops into another Democratic stronghold, Baltimore.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 25th of August, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.6 | At least 20 people, including several journalists, are reported to have been killed by Israeli strikes on a hospital in Gaza. |
| 0:18.5 | We're on the front line in eastern Ukraine, where tens of thousands |
| 0:22.0 | of people have died trying to hold back Russia's invasion. Also in this podcast, in the US, |
| 0:28.5 | troops have begun carrying firearms on the streets of Washington, D.C. The Democratic governor |
| 0:33.9 | of Maryland condemns President Trump's threat to deploy them in Baltimore. |
| 0:38.6 | This serves as a distraction from the fact that the president's disastrous economic policies, |
| 0:43.6 | I am against this and I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be utilized for this. |
| 0:50.6 | We start in Gaza where two Israeli strikes have hit Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Han Yunus. |
| 1:00.7 | Amongst the panic and dense smoke, people scramble to help the injured after the blasts. |
| 1:06.0 | As we record this podcast, at least 20 people have died, according to Gaza health officials. |
| 1:12.3 | Among the dead are several journalists working for the international media. |
| 1:16.4 | Fadi Umar is an aid worker who witnessed the attack. |
| 1:19.4 | What's happened today is a new horrific crime, bombed twice by the occupation force at the Nasser |
| 1:26.4 | medical complex in Khanyans. |
| 1:28.3 | And what we are seeing on our eyes, that the journalists were targeted by a drone. |
| 1:34.3 | A journalist were taking their usual photos from the top of Nasr Hospital. |
| 1:38.7 | In a statement, the Israeli army confirmed it had carried out a strike in the area of NASA hospital and would conduct |
| 1:45.6 | an initial inquiry as soon as possible. The IDF said it regretted any harm to uninvolved individuals |
| 1:51.7 | and did not target journalists as such. I'm Middle East correspondent Yolandelle, who's in Jerusalem, |
| 1:58.5 | told me about three of the journalists who died. |
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