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

I'm Janet Jaliel and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 22nd of July.

These are our main stories.

Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry says dozens of people have died of starvation in the past two days.

And the World Health Organization has denounced Israel for attacking its aid operations,

calling it a pattern of systematic destruction.

A former US police officer is sentenced to nearly three years for the killing of a black woman,

Briona Taylor, a case that sparked widespread Black Lives Matter protests.

Also in this podcast, how can you tell they're happy?

They want to play with us and they don't show aggression.

What about this one?

This line is aggressive.

A crackdown against keeping big cats as pets is launched in Pakistan.

We start in Gaza where the Hamas-run Health Ministry says 33 people, 12 of them children,

have starved to death in the past two days.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says that members of its staff,

as well as doctors and humanitarian workers, are fainting while on duty in Gaza because of hunger.

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