Gaza conflict: crossing opens for first time
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sport, but not as you know it. Nothing is ever quite as expected. Amazing sports stories |
| 0:07.2 | from the BBC World Service. If the story is wriggly, contentious, or hard to tame, I'll |
| 0:12.8 | cover it. |
| 0:13.8 | Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC |
| 0:19.0 | World Service. I'm Andrew Peach, and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday, the first of November, |
| 0:25.7 | these are our main stories. Ambulances carrying seriously wounded Palestinians cross from southern |
| 0:31.2 | Gaza into Egypt. It's the first time people have been able to leave the territory since |
| 0:35.6 | the current conflict between Israel and Hamas began. Hamas says seven of the civilian |
| 0:40.3 | hostages it's been holding have been killed in Israeli air strikes. We're here from a friend |
| 0:44.8 | of one and more than 200 hostages taken last month. Please know that we are doing everything |
| 0:50.2 | in our power to bring you home. Stay strong, stay healthy, you will bring you home. |
| 0:55.0 | A day after Israeli air strikes level part of Gaza's largest refugee camp, more attacks |
| 1:00.2 | have reportedly struck the area. Also in this podcast, the children fleeing a Russian offensive |
| 1:06.3 | in eastern Ukraine and tech bosses and politicians gather to talk about artificial intelligence. |
| 1:12.4 | We should acknowledge that there's going to be some level of error in these systems, |
| 1:16.3 | but they must always remain in human control and they must be introduced to society at a rate |
| 1:21.6 | at which we can all accept. We'll start in the southern tip of Gaza, |
| 1:28.6 | the Raffa crossing on the border with Egypt. For the first time since the Israel |
| 1:32.7 | Gaza war began on the 7th of October, a number of foreign passport holders and seriously injured |
| 1:37.9 | Palestinians are being allowed to cross that border. Our Gaza correspondent, Rusty Abu Aluf, |
| 1:42.9 | is at the Raffa crossing and just before we recorded this podcast, he centers this update. |
| 2:12.9 | We're now at the Raffa crossing on the border of Gaza, the Raffa crossing on the border, |
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