Growing concerns over escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Concern mounts over Gaza's deepening humanitarian crisis including the hospitals. We speak to a British doctor who's been working there.
Also on the programme: a resident of Ukraine's second largest city tells us about the unprecedented Russian attack; and from the bromance to break up between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. We ask a former Tesla director what it's like to work with Mr Musk.
(Photo: An internally displaced Palestinian girl attends Eid al-Adha prayer in Gaza City, 06 June 2025. Credit: EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.3 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Lee's Ducet. |
| 0:11.4 | And we start today's program in Gaza. |
| 0:13.9 | The remains of another hostage have been recovered there. |
| 0:17.2 | The Israeli military says it has brought back the body of 35-year-old Notapung Pinta. |
| 0:22.7 | He's from Thailand and was kidnapped during the Hamas attacks of 7th October, 2023. |
| 0:29.2 | And he's believed to be the last remaining Thai hostage out of 31 who were abducted during those atrocities. |
| 0:37.1 | But there are said to be 54 Israelis still being held in Gaza since that day. |
| 0:42.7 | About 20 believed to be alive. |
| 0:45.2 | Well, let's get more details from our correspondent in Jerusalem, Barbara Pallet-Ushar. |
| 0:50.3 | And Barbara, I know the military will not have been given full details of their operation, |
| 0:55.5 | but what more do we know about how they recovered the body? |
| 1:01.1 | Well, they said that this recovery was based on information that had been able to gather over time |
| 1:08.8 | by intelligence agencies as well as the hosting and missing |
| 1:11.2 | missing persons headquarters but it was an interrogation they did with someone they called a captured |
| 1:16.3 | terrorist that gave them precise information and then they went to the location which is in |
| 1:22.0 | southern ruffa and you know that of course the israelis have, it's essentially an Israeli military-controlled |
| 1:28.6 | zone, Rafa, so they went to the place and recovered the body there. |
| 1:32.9 | They also recovered, as you remember, two other bodies earlier this week in Khan Yunus, |
| 1:37.8 | which is still an active conflict zone. |
| 1:41.2 | That was an elderly, Israeli-American couple who had the couple, who had the army said been taken into |
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