Israel allows aid to enter Gaza by road and in airdrops
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Desperately needed aid has been trickling into Gaza after international outrage over starving Palestinians led to Israel easing its blockade and military operations. We will hear from a former Israeli Prime Minister - and talking to an Israeli philosopher about the impact of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on Israeli public opinion.
Also in the programme: The US and EU have agreed a trade deal which will see a blanket US tariff of 15 percent on imports from the bloc; England have retained the Women's European Championship title after a nail biting penalty victory over Spain in the final; and concern in the fashion industry after an advert in Vogue uses AI models.
(Photo: Internally displaced Palestinians carry bags of flour near a food distribution point in Zikim, northern Gaza Strip, 27 July 2025. Credit: Mohammed Saber / EPA / Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London, |
| 0:07.3 | I'm James Kamara Sami. Essential but long overdue. That was the assessment today by Britain's |
| 0:13.4 | Foreign Secretary David Lamy of Israel's decision to temporarily pause the fighting in three |
| 0:18.4 | parts of Gaza to allow humanitarian corridors to be established |
| 0:22.3 | there. Today's decision, which has led to some aid trucks entering the territory and a number |
| 0:26.9 | of aid drops being carried out over it, followed a ratcheting up of the rhetorical pressure |
| 0:32.2 | on Israel in recent days. More than 100 aid agencies and more than two dozen governments have |
| 0:37.3 | signed strongly |
| 0:38.0 | worded statements, calling on Israel to scrap its current method of getting aid to civilians |
| 0:42.1 | as a specter of malnutrition has roamed the Gaza Strip, yielding front-page images on the world's |
| 0:48.0 | newspapers of emaciated children. For its part, Israel says it's taken the decision to refute |
| 0:53.8 | the false claim of deliberate |
| 0:55.7 | starvation in the Gaza Strip. Antoine Renal is the chief of operations in Gaza for the UN's |
| 1:01.2 | World Food Program. What will remain a challenge for us is that the volume that we need to bring, |
| 1:07.8 | given the fact that there's been such a long closure, is actually the massive amount of |
| 1:13.0 | people that are so desperate that they're rushing on convoy. So if we managed just the last week |
| 1:18.6 | to bring around 4,200 metric tons of food within Gaza, it's again not enough because we're |
| 1:25.3 | supposed to actually reach 62,000 metric tons every month. |
| 1:30.4 | So what will be still a challenge for us is actually to manage to go beyond the wave of people that are rushing on any convoy coming because they're so desperate |
| 1:40.2 | and to restart our proper distribution system within Gaza. |
| 1:44.4 | Some trucks carrying aid have entered Gaza from Egypt today and a separate aid |
| 1:48.4 | convoy has left Jordan for the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, there have been reports of an |
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