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Global News Podcast

Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Israel's prime minister Netanyahu says Hamas will pay price for "cruel and evil" violation of ceasefire after tests showed body returned from Gaza was not hostage Shiri Bibas. Also: cure for childhood blindness.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.5

I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 21st of February, these are our main stories.

0:11.7

The Israeli Prime Minister has accused Hamas of a cruel and evil violation of the ceasefire in Gaza.

0:18.6

And Sweden's Coast Guard is investigating new damage to a cable under the

0:22.6

Baltic Sea after a series of suspected Russian sabotage attacks in the area. Also in this podcast,

0:32.5

I opened the window and the light shone through really bright and he swinded. I remember welling up because that was

0:38.0

the first time that Jace ever had any reaction to any sort of light stimulus. We hear about the new

0:45.0

gene therapy cure for childhood blindness. The Gaza ceasefire agreement has always been a precarious one.

0:56.8

Now Israel has accused Hamas of violating the deal after it said its forensic testing

1:02.0

revealed the body returned from Gaza on Thursday was not that of Shiri Bibas.

1:07.6

Three other bodies were handed over, the two Bibas children, Ariel and Kfir, and the peace

1:13.3

activist Oded Lifshitz. Here's the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

1:22.7

The cruelty of the Hamas monsters knows no bounds. Not only did they abduct the father Yardin Bibas,

1:29.9

the young mother Shiri and their two small infants, in an unimaginably cynical manner,

1:35.1

they didn't return Shiri to her small children and instead placed the body of a Garzan woman

1:41.0

in a coffin. We will act with determination to bring Shiri home,

1:46.0

along with all of our captives,

1:47.8

both the living and the fallen,

1:50.1

and ensure that Hamas pays the full price

1:52.5

for this cruel and evil violation of the agreement.

1:56.9

Well, Hamas has said that it's investigating

1:59.0

a possible mix-up of bodies and called on Israel

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