Inside a hospital in Southern Gaza bracing for a new Israeli offensive
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🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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(Photo: Palestinian girl suffering from malnutrition is watched over by her grandmother at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 26th May 2025. Credit: Haitham Imad/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsare. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Tim Franks. And we're beginning with a number of developments in Gaza. A new evacuation order from the Israeli military has been given to the main city in southern Gaza. |
| 0:21.2 | Khan Yunus will be hearing from inside the city in a few minutes. |
| 0:26.4 | Hospitals in northern Gaza have reported also more than 50 people killed in Israeli strikes. |
| 0:32.8 | There's been further controversy over Israel's proposal to bypass the international aid system |
| 0:36.8 | in the delivery of |
| 0:37.6 | desperately needed and currently barely available to humanitarian relief. And Hamas has said |
| 0:44.2 | that it did accept a new cease-friar proposal, which Israel has said is actually an old |
| 0:50.1 | proposal and one that is entirely unacceptable. We've tried to bring all those strands together |
| 0:55.9 | with our correspondent in Jerusalem, Barbara Plet Usher. First up, what's happening in southern Gaza? |
| 1:02.6 | There's been this new evacuation order in Khan Yunus, as you've said. There have been several |
| 1:06.2 | evacuation orders, and this is the latest one, apparently around a hospital, the European |
| 1:10.2 | hospital. |
| 1:15.6 | The military said there were rocket launches from this area. The military believes there are a few hundred Hamas militants still in Khan Yunus. The chief of staff referred to them as the Khan Yunus |
| 1:21.4 | brigade when he visited soldiers there on Sunday. He said we will subdue the Khan Yunus |
| 1:26.5 | brigade as we subdue the Rafah Brig Brigade as we subdued the Rafah |
| 1:28.1 | Brigade, so they keep clearing out civilians to go after the militants. I mean, the overall plan is |
| 1:34.3 | basically working to dismantle what's left of Hamas, the weapons, the infrastructure in Khan Yunus |
| 1:39.3 | and in northern Gaza. And then what the military says is going to happen is they will hold that ground and |
| 1:45.3 | prevent Hamas from reestablishing itself. That's the essence of their new offensive. Right, |
| 1:50.2 | an offensive which they're describing is as unprecedented, but it sounds from what you were saying |
| 1:54.8 | as if, you know, the people in Khan Unis will feel that there are, there are many precedents |
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