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Global News Podcast

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of the permanent displacement of Palestinians in Gaza

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Israeli authorities have caused massive and deliberate forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, in what amounts to a war crime, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.4

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 14th of November, these are our main stories.

0:11.8

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0:18.1

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0:43.7

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0:49.1

in 25 years. Human Rights Watch has accused the Israeli authorities of being responsible for war crimes

0:59.0

and crimes against humanity in Gaza. The report comes as Israel pushes on with its military

1:05.0

campaign in northern Gaza. The New York-based rights group says this has created a new wave of forced displacement for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

1:15.7

Nadia Hardman is a researcher at Human Rights Watch.

1:18.9

Senior officials in the Israeli government and the war cabinet have repeatedly declared their intent to forcibly displace the population.

1:26.8

From the early days of the war to over a year

1:29.2

later, with government ministers saying that the territory of Gaza will decrease. In the areas

1:34.6

where the military has raised, extended and cleared land for buffer zones and security corridors,

1:39.6

human rights which finds these actions of the Israeli authorities amount to ethnic cleansing.

1:45.0

For more on the report, I spoke to our Middle East analyst, Sebastian Asha.

1:49.4

What this new report by Human Rights Watch is focusing on are the evacuation orders

1:54.7

that the Israeli army has issued time and time again to people in Gaza.

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