Israel continues intense offensive in north of Gaza

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The civil defence agency in Gaza says the Israeli military has killed almost one-hundred people in the past twelve hours in another intense wave of strikes in the north. The Israeli military said it had hit scores of "terror targets" and was trying to dismantle their infrastructure. We will hear why the medical charity MSF rejects a new plan to deliver some aid to Gaza by the US-backed organisation the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Also in the programme: the first direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in more than three years have led to an agreement to swap 1,000 prisoners of war, and the American composer, Charles Strouse, who wrote the hit Broadway musical Annie has died aged 96.

(Picture: Displaced Palestinians flee their homes in the town of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza City. Credit: HAITHAM IMAD/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley.
0:12.1	The Civil Defence Agency in Gaza says the Israeli military has killed nearly 100 people in the past 12 hours in another intense wave of strikes in the north of the territory.
0:23.7	The focus of the offensive has been in the city of Beit Lahia and on the Jabalya refugee camp,
0:30.3	and Palestinians say Israeli forces have attacked by land, sea and air.
0:35.7	Ismail Abu Aitah is a Palestinian man in Beitla here.
0:40.1	He described what happened to him.
0:44.8	We were sleeping and the houses were full of children, women and displaced people whose homes
0:50.0	had been destroyed and now living in tents.
0:53.3	Suddenly, at 1.30 a.m. and without prior warning, they bombed a house.
0:58.7	Many children and women were killed, and their bodies scattered in the streets.
1:03.4	Tala Mujraba is an 18-year-old high school student.
1:06.8	She spoke to the BBC's James Copnell early this morning from close to where the strikes were happening.
1:13.2	Jabalia is completely destroyed area
1:15.8	and we can still hear the sound of explosions
1:19.6	and the people here live in terror.
1:22.6	We don't know where to go to save our lives.
1:25.9	You say you don't know where to go. What are your options?
1:28.9	There is no option, really.
1:31.0	There is no option.
1:32.5	And you talk about eating one meal a day.
1:36.2	Do you feel yourself getting weaker?
1:39.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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