Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Hamas releases the bodies of four Israeli hostages who'd been held in Gaza. Also: the scammers working under duress in Myanmar
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Paul Moss and at 1400 GMT on Thursday the 20th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.7 | Hamas has released the bodies of four Israelis. |
| 0:14.7 | We look at what this means for the ongoing peace process. |
| 0:17.8 | What chance of improved relations between Ukraine and the US as President Zelensky |
| 0:22.7 | prepares to meet America's special envoy? How fog could be used as a source of water for parched |
| 0:29.2 | cities. Also in this podcast, the former head of Spanish football is found guilty over kissing the player |
| 0:36.7 | Jenny Homoso without consent. |
| 0:39.2 | And many of those carrying out phone and email scams are themselves working under duress. |
| 0:45.2 | We take a look. |
| 0:46.4 | You will literally have anywhere from hundreds to thousands of people packed into these centres |
| 0:50.7 | and they will be held in extremely harsh conditions, particularly if they are not |
| 0:56.1 | able to meet the goals that are set to them by their captors. |
| 1:04.2 | It was a macabre display. This morning, amidst the bombed-out ruins of Khan Yunus in Gaza, |
| 1:15.0 | four black coffins were laid out on a specially constructed stage. |
| 1:20.8 | Inside were the bodies of Israelis, ready to be returned as part of the ongoing peace deal. |
| 1:26.2 | And behind these coffins was a large caricature of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 1:28.6 | depicted as Dracula with blood dripping from his fangs. The poster made a claim about how the hostages had died. The war |
| 1:34.1 | criminal Netanyahu and his Nazi army killed them, it said, with missiles from Zionist warplanes. |
| 1:41.2 | As we record this podcast, the identities of the bodies haven't yet been confirmed, |
| 1:45.9 | but it's thought they include 84-year-old, Odette Lifshitz, a veteran journalist and peace |
| 1:50.6 | activist, but also two children from the Bebas family kidnapped from their home near the Gaza border |
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