Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Palestinians displaced during the conflict are on the move as the ceasefire holds. Also; survivors gather at the Auschwitz concentration camp to mark 80 years since liberation, and why Paul McCartney thinks new musicians are missing out.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Nick Miles, and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 27th of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.4 | Thousands of Garzans are heading back home in the north of the Strip. |
| 0:16.0 | Rwandan-backed rebels take over parts of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, |
| 0:21.8 | and what really happened to a snapped undersea fibre optic cable running between Sweden and Latvia? |
| 0:29.4 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | I don't know how is this possible to do something, one human being to the other, because animals don't do it. |
| 0:40.0 | The world remembers 80 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz. |
| 0:47.8 | We start in Gaza, where the coastal road has been packed with people. |
| 0:53.0 | As many as 100,000 Palestinians displaced during the |
| 0:56.3 | conflict are returning to their homes as the ceasefire agreement holds. Young parents with babies |
| 1:02.3 | in their arms, the elderly being helped along. Many people are weighed down with huge bags, |
| 1:08.1 | containing all they've managed to salvage after more than a year of escaping |
| 1:12.3 | from place to place. |
| 1:14.1 | Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to follow them in the coming days. |
| 1:18.9 | Among those making the journey is the family of our Gaza correspondent, Rosti Abwalouf. |
| 1:23.6 | He spoke to us from Cairo. |
| 1:25.4 | Very emotional day for me and my family, |
| 1:27.8 | very relief that my father and my rest of the family |
| 1:30.9 | will be starting their journey back to Gaza City. |
| 1:35.4 | Most of their homes were destroyed, |
| 1:37.8 | but it's a big day for all Palestinians. |
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