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Global News Podcast

Gaza Strip on 'edge of catastrophe' as Israeli siege intensifies

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

People are sleeping in the streets, water is being rationed and electricity is running out. Also: Belgian police have shot dead the man who murdered two Swedish football fans and why the appeal of building a new world is leading to record sales for one video game...

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.9

I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday,

0:09.3

the 17th of October, these are our main stories.

0:12.5

UN agencies have warned of a catastrophe in Gaza

0:15.9

as fuel, water and food are within hours of running out.

0:20.3

Belgian police have shot dead the man who murdered

0:22.7

two Swedish football fans and India's Supreme Court

0:26.4

has declined to allow same-sex marriages.

0:29.6

Also in this podcast,

0:34.8

why the appeal of building a new world

0:37.4

is leading to record sales for one video game.

0:44.6

We begin this podcast in Gaza.

0:47.2

Life-saving supplies are waiting in trucks

0:49.9

at the border in Egypt,

0:51.2

awaiting permission to enter.

0:53.2

There are warnings of a humanitarian disaster

0:55.9

if a doesn't get through soon.

0:58.2

The population of Khan Unis in southern Gaza

1:01.0

has almost doubled with hundreds of thousands

1:03.6

of Palestinians fleeing from the north.

1:06.2

The UN has warned that Israel's urging of the move

1:09.2

without providing food or accommodation

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