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From Our Own Correspondent

Gaza’s Humanitarian Nightmare

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie presents stories from Gaza, Turkey, Somalia, Ecuador and Japan.

US President Joe Biden raised hopes that a ceasefire deal was close to being reached this week over the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. But these hopes faded after a tragic incident in which more than 100 people were killed as aid was being delivered to Gaza City. Paul Adams says the incident also highlighted wider problems as the war continues.

Lizzie Porter follows the story of a family who fled Gaza early on in the war, and who fled to Turkey as dual nationals, leaving family, friends and valuables behind. They told her about their new life in Turkey and their fears for those left behind.

After the militant group, Al Shabaab withdrew from the Somalian capital Mogadishu, the city has become safer. Nonetheless the group remains a potent threat. Yet there is an even greater menace in the country: climate change, after severe droughts, followed by flooding forced farmers off their land. Peter Oborne met some of those who were displaced and who are trying to support themselves in other ways.

A project in Ecuador is using the Amazon’s “ancestral highways” – rivers – and a fleet of solar-powered boats run by Indigenous communities to provide a sustainable model of transport for the future. Peter Yeung went for a ride and heard how this has been met with a mixed response by some indigenous leaders.

And we're in Inazawa in Japan, where the Hadaka Matsuri - or Naked Festival - has come up with a solution to flagging numbers of participants: involve women. Shaimaa Khalil met a group of 40 women who took part (in robes) for the first time.

Series Producer: Serena Tarling Editor: Matt Willis Production Coordinator: Rosie Strawbridge

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

Today, as the humanitarian situation rapidly deteriorates in Gaza,

0:10.9

what's happened to those Palestinians who've already fled the strip?

0:15.4

We meet some of them in Istanbul.

0:18.6

In Somalia, farmers have been hit by intense droughts. We hear how some of them are being lured into the ranks of

0:25.6

militant group Al-Shabaab with incentives. We travel down the Amazon River in Ecuador

0:32.3

in solar-powered boats, but some of the local

0:35.1

indigenous people are yet to be convinced of the merits of this form of

0:39.0

transport. And we're at the Naked Man Festival in Japan.

0:44.0

It's a time to ward off evil spirits

0:47.0

and welcome in good fortune,

0:49.0

and this year for the first time the women have been invited. But first, after almost five months of war in Gaza, hopes of

0:58.1

a ceasefire were raised this week when Joe Biden said a deal was being houred out over the release of Israeli

1:04.4

hostages and Palestinian prisoners. But on Thursday those hopes faded as

1:10.2

word came from Gaza City that more than a hundred people had been killed

1:15.1

while trying to get their hands on aid that had just arrived on a convoy of

1:19.4

lorries escorted by Israeli troops. There were conflicting accounts of exactly what happened

1:26.0

which our correspondent Paul Adam spent the day trying to figure out.

1:30.0

In this war, like so many others in recent times, we've seen plenty of military footage filmed at night from somewhere up above.

1:39.0

A building being blown up, Hamas gunman operating near a hospital, Israeli Special Forces carrying out

1:45.2

a nighttime raid. The thermal images capture the bare black and white bones of something that's

1:51.0

happened, but rarely much more.

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