Gaza: A year of trying to survive
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A powerful audio diary from Gaza: Two Gazans film a year under attack by Israel. Aya and Khalid's stories are two of four featured in a new BBC World Service and Storyville documentary, Life and Death in Gaza. The film, and the radio documentary, form part of a group of programmes on BBC, marking one year on from 7 October and the war between Israel and Hamas.
Also on the programme: Why North Korea is blowing up roads next to South Korea; why Google wants to go nuclear; a big advance in treatment for cervical cancer.
And Al Pacino explains why, at the age of 84, he has decided to publish his memoirs.
(Photo: Khalid and his son. Credit: BBC)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.4 | studios in London. I'm Tim Franks. Pretty much every day we get updates from health officials in Gaza. They're the |
| 0:16.0 | casualty figures since October 7th last year. Today's numbers 42, 344 Palestinians have been killed, 99,000 and 13 have been injured. |
| 0:30.4 | They're figures which defy easy comprehension, partly because they're so big, |
| 0:35.0 | and partly, of course, because they're hotly disputed. |
| 0:38.0 | Israel says that, firstly, you can't trust the Hamas-run health ministry, |
| 0:42.0 | and secondly, they don't take account of the large |
| 0:44.9 | number of militants whom they've killed. |
| 0:47.6 | But by any definition, the suffering in Gaza has been immense this past year. |
| 0:52.8 | And it's not just about those who've died, |
| 0:55.0 | but those who are struggling in the worst circumstances |
| 0:58.2 | just to live. |
| 0:59.7 | Since the first days of the Israeli offensive |
| 1:01.8 | following the Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 Israelis, |
| 1:05.9 | Khalid, a father of five children, and Aya, a 23-year-old law graduate, had been documenting |
| 1:12.1 | their struggle to survive. |
| 1:14.0 | BBC I's Laura L. Gabali has their story. |
| 1:18.0 | It's a report which includes distressing details. |
| 1:22.0 | On a table in his apartment, |
| 1:25.0 | fell it is dressing the wounds of a young boy. |
| 1:28.0 | When the war started, I opened a medical center in my house. I'm a physiotherapist not really a doctor. |
| 1:37.0 | This was a big change for me. |
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