Israel calls up reservists for wider Gaza offensive
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🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Israel military has confirmed that tens of thousands of call-up orders are being sent to reservists, to prepare for another expansion of the war in Gaza. Israel says it's aiming to put pressure on Hamas to release the remaining hostages. Aid agencies have condemned Israel’s continued blockade of the territory.
Also, Newshour's Tim Franks reports from Syria, looking at the huge challenge of rebuilding this shattered country.
And as Cardinals concentrate on the spiritual aspects of a new pope, we look at the sartorial side.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsAff in the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:09.7 | And we're going to begin today in Israel where the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stepping up military action against its enemies across the region, raising tensions once again. |
| 0:20.1 | In the past few days, the Israeli military has been |
| 0:22.7 | carrying out air strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon and what it called extremists in Syria. |
| 0:28.6 | And today, the IDF confirmed it was drawing up plans to widen operations against Hamas in Gaza, |
| 0:34.3 | with the call-up of tens of thousands of reservists. It's also promising to confront the |
| 0:39.1 | Houthis in Yemen following a missile strike on Bangurian airport in Tel Aviv. That hit the outer |
| 0:45.1 | perimeter of the airport injuring six people. This is what Benjamin Netanyahu had to say a little |
| 0:50.6 | earlier. |
| 0:57.4 | We are operating against them. |
| 0:59.2 | We operated in the past. |
| 1:00.9 | We will operate in the future. |
| 1:02.9 | I can't list all the things. |
| 1:06.8 | The United States also operates against them in coordination with us. |
| 1:10.0 | It's not bang, bang, and we're done, but there will be bangs. |
| 1:19.1 | In a video statement, a Houthi spokesman confirmed that the group had fired a hypersonic ballistic missile at the airport. |
| 1:26.1 | The Houthis began firing at Israel after it invaded Gaza following Hamas's attack of October the 7th, 2020. The group which has backing from Iran has also been targeting |
| 1:29.8 | commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Well, later in the day came the announcement that more |
| 1:34.4 | Israeli reservists were being called up to fight in Gaza. There is already a blockade on the |
| 1:39.5 | delivery of humanitarian supplies designed to put pressure on Hamas to release its remaining hostages. |
| 1:46.4 | Well, this man who lives in a refugee camp in Gaza City says he now goes through the rubbish |
| 1:50.5 | looking for food. |
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