Gaza aid deaths: Why does this keep happening?
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed near aid sites since late May. The Israeli military has repeatedly said it will investigate such reports. We ask why this keeps happening.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Jean-Urille and in the early hours of Saturday the 21st of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.5 | Dozens more people in Gaza are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire, many while seeking aid. |
| 0:17.9 | We ask why this keeps happening. |
| 0:20.4 | Talks between European nations and Iran on trying to |
| 0:23.5 | end its conflict with Israel failed to make a breakthrough. Also in this podcast, tech giants are |
| 0:32.1 | experimenting with AI generated weather forecasts, but are they any good? And? |
| 0:39.0 | China calls for stricter regulation of toys like the wildly popular La-Bou-Dol's. |
| 0:59.0 | Israel's war on Iran has not surprisingly dominated the headlines since bombs and missiles started raining down more than a week ago, killing hundreds of people. |
| 1:05.5 | But during that time, day after day, Gaza's civil defence agency says that while the eyes of the world are elsewhere, |
| 1:13.5 | Israeli troops have continued to kill dozens of Palestinians trying to collect food from the few |
| 1:20.2 | aid distribution points set up in the strip by a new secretive US and Israeli-backed group. |
| 1:27.0 | Here are three reports from the past week alone. |
| 1:30.6 | 23 people are said to have died when Israeli tanks and drones open fire on a crowd near an aid |
| 1:35.6 | distribution centre, Israel is yet to comment. In Gaza, more than 50 Palestinians are killed as |
| 1:41.5 | they wait outside an aid distribution centre. 21 of those are said to have died near an aid distribution site in the centre of the |
| 1:48.4 | territory. |
| 1:49.4 | Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry says that in all, more than 400 people have died while |
| 1:54.4 | simply trying to get aid since late last month when the US-Israeli-Bat group, the Gaza |
| 2:00.1 | Humanitarian Foundation, opened up these |
| 2:02.6 | new distribution sites, bypassing traditional aid agencies like the UN. This, after an 11-week-long |
| 2:10.0 | Israeli blockade of a territory that has mostly been reduced to rubble, and as the UN Children's |
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