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Global News Podcast

Israel has missed US deadline to boost Gaza relief – aid groups

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Israel opens a fifth border crossing as aid agencies say it has missed a US deadline to boost aid into Gaza. Also: New Zealand's PM apologises to children in care, and a Russian doctor is jailed for pro-Ukraine comments.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.8

I'm Paul Moss and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 12th of November, these are our main stories.

0:11.6

Israel has opened a new crossing into Gaza, just as the US deadline approaches for more

0:16.8

humanitarian aid to be let in. We'll hear from a doctor there and from the UN agency

0:21.7

for Palestinian refugees. And at least 35 people have been killed by a car which rammed into a

0:28.2

crowd in southern China. Also in this podcast, New Zealand's Prime Minister has

0:35.3

apologised for decades of suffering by children in care.

0:39.5

You were subjected to horrific abuse and neglect and in some cases torture.

0:45.4

A Russian doctor has been sent to a penal colony for allegedly criticising the war in Ukraine while speaking to one of her patients.

0:53.1

And we have the story of the criminals

0:55.0

producing artworks by Banksy, Andy Warhol and Bacchaso. It is for the moment a question largely

1:06.9

of numbers. The US had demanded that Israel let 350 aid trucks into Gaza every day,

1:13.8

and they gave a deadline for that of November 12th. Israel says it's complied with most of America's

1:19.9

demands, which also included evacuating the sick and limiting civilian casualties. But a collection

1:26.3

of aid agencies working in Gaza say the opposite.

1:29.8

Action by Israel, they claim, has actually worsened the humanitarian situation since that deadline was

1:35.3

issued, with famine a very real possibility. Louise Wateridge is a spokesperson for the United Nations

1:41.3

Palestinian refugee agency Unrua, which has been banned in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem.

1:47.3

Speaking from Nuserat inside Gaza,

1:49.7

she told the BBC's Rob Young that assistance was still way below what's needed.

1:54.8

Over the month of October, the average amount of trucks entering the Gaza Strip every day was 37. So that's 37 trucks for a population of 2.2 million people who need absolutely everything. I'm sat in Nusayat this morning and I'm looking at the thousands of families around me. They are in not not even tents kind of makeshift shelters

2:20.7

under any kind of fabric that people can find to make shelter from so in terms of what I can tell

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