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PBS News Hour - Segments

Israel deepens assault on Gaza, ordering deadly strikes and blocking aid

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The lead Hamas negotiator for ceasefire talks offered to swap all hostages held in Gaza for an agreed-upon number of Palestinians jailed in Israel. The offer came after Hamas reportedly rejected the latest Israeli proposal. Meantime, airstrikes overnight killed at least 27 Palestinians as the lack of aid into Gaza threatens hundreds of thousands. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The lead Hamas negotiator for ceasefire talks late today offered a deal to swap all hostages held in Gaza for an agreed-upon number of Palestinians jailed in Israel as part of a larger agreement to end the war.

0:14.8

The offer came after Hamas reportedly rejected the latest Israeli proposal for an exchange and ceasefire.

0:21.2

In the meantime, Israeli airstrikes overnight killed at least 27 Palestinians,

0:25.7

including 15 children, as the lack of aid into the enclave threatens hundreds of thousands.

0:32.0

Nick Schifrin reports, and a warning, images in this story are disturbing.

0:39.4

In Gaza, war spares no one.

0:43.2

Too young to comprehend, yet forced to suffer its cruelty.

0:47.7

The Abu Amshya brothers were injured in last week's strike on Gaza city's Shujayah neighborhood.

0:53.6

Israel said the target was a senior Hamas commander.

0:56.9

Palestinian officials say 30 people died, including eight children, many from the Abu Amshah family.

1:04.6

I got a call that my daughter-in-law's home was hit.

1:07.6

Why?

1:08.9

Everyone in that building was women and children, all women and children. I came

1:13.0

out here to find them all martyred, and that's not including those that are still under the rubble.

1:19.4

Amidst that rubble, rescue workers dig for survivors. Some pinned down by thousands of

1:25.3

pounds of collapse concrete.

1:29.0

But mostly the victims were buried in their homes.

1:35.2

In central Gaza on Sunday, Ibrahim Abu Muhadi lost six sons.

1:40.5

The family says an Israeli air strike hit their car.

1:43.7

Israel says it targeted a Hamas commander.

1:47.8

They were civilians.

1:49.5

A 10-year-old boy went out to help his brothers so that they could get food to eat in the shadow of this siege.

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