Gaza 'should shock collective conscience' - ICRC head

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The head of the International Red Cross has told the BBC that what's happening in Gaza has crossed any acceptable legal or moral standard.

Mirjana Spoljari? said that the situation "should shock our collective conscience". Her comments come after dozens of Palestinians were killed near new aid distribution centres. A prominent US-Israeli businessman with long experience of humanitarian missions tells us what's gone wrong with the roll-out of aid by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Also in the programme: Six months after a botched military coup, South Korea has a new president; and we'll hear howpoverty is driving men from Lesotho to the illegal mines of neioghbouring South Africa.

(Photo shows people carrying aid supplies which they received from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on 3 June 2025. Credit: Reuters TV)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
0:06.4	We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez.
0:09.7	And later in the programme, a South Korea gets a new president after a period of intense political turmoil.
0:16.2	We'll ask if the country's democracy is now in safer hands.
0:20.5	And the ship that bears the name of Harvey Milk,
0:23.1	the assassinated US gay rights campaigner,
0:25.7	may have to change its name.
0:28.3	We'll find out why and get reaction.
0:31.1	But we are going to begin today with what's happening in Gaza
0:33.6	because the new US and Israel-backed organisation
0:36.6	tasked with distributing food there has
0:39.1	said it suspending operations for a day in order to make changes. In the past three days,
0:44.2	dozens of Palestinians have been killed and many more injured in areas around the Gaza
0:49.4	humanitarian foundation's small number of sites in southern Gaza. The precise circumstances of the killings aren't clear.
0:58.1	Israel doesn't allow international journalists free access to Gaza.
1:01.4	But local hospitals reported being overwhelmed with casualties, mostly young men with gunshot wounds.
1:08.5	The Israeli military says it's investigating reports that on Tuesday
1:11.5	its troops opened fire on the crowds rushing to collect aid parcels.
1:17.0	James Elders from the UN Children's Agency UNICEF in Gaza. He told us he'd seen people
1:21.6	heading for the aid distribution points late yesterday, not knowing they'd be close today.
1:27.7	Yesterday evening on this coastal road, people are walking 15, 20 kilometres, 10, 15 miles.
1:35.1	Every person hand to mouth showing you that hunger.
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