Israel and Hamas accused of war crimes in UN report
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The report comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Qatar to push for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. Israel - which refused to co-operate with the investigation - was quick to reject the report, accusing it of “systematic anti-Israeli discrimination". Also: North Darfur's main city is on the brink of falling to Sudan's paramilitary RSF, according to a US envoy, and Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Alex Ritzen and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 12th of June, |
| 0:09.9 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.7 | War crimes and crimes against humanity. The UN's |
| 0:15.4 | devastating assessment of the actions of both Israel and Hamas in the Gaza |
| 0:19.6 | conflict. North Defour's main city is on the brink of falling to Sudan's paramilitary RSF according to the US envoy. |
| 0:28.0 | The European Union announces plans to impose stringent new import taxes on Chinese electric cars. |
| 0:37.0 | Also in this podcast, this is quite transformative for research that uses human tissue to improve diseases. |
| 0:46.0 | New hope for people suffering from a crippling bowel disease. |
| 0:50.0 | The conflict in Gaza which began after Hamas attacked Israel on October the 7th |
| 0:58.9 | killing about 1200 people and taking 251 others hostage has been devastating. hundred and |
| 1:03.0 | hostage has been devastating for the territory. |
| 1:06.0 | More than 37,000 people have been killed in the Israeli offensive |
| 1:10.0 | since then, according to the Hamas-run health ministry and most of Gaza has been |
| 1:14.6 | devastated. For many neighborhoods all that's left is the rubble of destroyed buildings |
| 1:19.3 | hundreds of thousands of civilians now forced to live in makeshift camps in dire conditions. |
| 1:25.0 | Now a UN Human Rights investigation led by the former UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay |
| 1:31.7 | has blamed both warringsides of committing war crimes and crimes against |
| 1:36.7 | humanity. |
| 1:37.7 | Israel did not cooperate with the UN team. |
| 1:40.9 | Our correspondent in Geneva, Imogen Fakes, gave me more details. |
| 1:45.0 | It's very long and detailed reports, two in fact, one which looks at the events of October 7th and one the subsequent response by Israel, a long, long list, including the torture, |
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