Israel condemned over journalist deaths in Gaza
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Israel is facing condemnation for the deliberate killing of a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent and five colleagues in Gaza. Israeli officials claim Anas al-Sharif was a Hamas operative, which the network denies. Al Jazeera described the killings as a blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom aimed at silencing its Gaza coverage. Also: The bones of a British man who died when he fell into an Antarctic crevasse have been formally identified, more than 60 years after the accident, and running a marathon in a shopping mall.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 11th of August. |
| 0:10.2 | Israel faces condemnation over the targeted killing of an award-winning Al Jazeera journalist and five others in Gaza. |
| 0:16.9 | The remains of a British scientist who died in 1959 are found in a melting glacier in Antarctica, |
| 0:23.7 | and Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot at a political rally. |
| 0:31.0 | Also in the podcast, the seas around Britain have their warmest ever start to the year. |
| 0:36.2 | These sorts of conditions are more of what we would expect to see in the future as a result of |
| 0:40.6 | climate change. By the end of the century, we expect to be in permanent marine heat wave. |
| 0:45.2 | We look at the impact on sea life and would you run a marathon in a shopping mall? |
| 0:53.8 | But we start in Gaza where funerals have been held for five journalists killed in what |
| 0:58.8 | Al Jazeera calls a targeted assassination. The five Al Jazeera journalists and one other died when |
| 1:09.4 | an Israeli airstrike hit their tent. Israel says it was |
| 1:12.6 | deliberately targeting one of them, Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Anas Ashraf, who it says was a |
| 1:19.2 | Hamas operative. That has been vehemently denied by Al Jazeera. The BBC understands that Mr. |
| 1:25.4 | Ashraf worked for a Hamas media team before the current |
| 1:28.8 | conflict. He had recently been warning that he feared for his life after a smear campaign. |
| 1:34.4 | A message prepared by him in case he died has now been shared online. Here's part of it read by a BBC |
| 1:39.7 | producer. If these words of mine reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and |
| 1:45.7 | silencing my voice. I lived the pain in all its details, and I tasted the pain and loss repeatedly, |
| 1:52.8 | and despite that, I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without falsification or |
| 1:58.0 | distortion. Don't forget Gaza. |
| 2:04.1 | Israel has long been critical of Al Jazeera, |
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