Israel launches air strikes in Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Israel has carried out renewed strikes against Hamas in Gaza and says it's suspending all aid deliveries into the territory. Both sides have accused each other of breaching the ceasefire.
Also in the programme: thieves have stolen valuables from one of the world's most famous museums -- the Louvre in Paris -- but dropped a priceless crown while making their escape; and Donald Trump says he's stopping all payments to Colombia, accusing its president of encouraging the nationwide production of drugs.
(Photo: The Khan Younis skyline following Israeli air strikes. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to Newsout from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.5 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:15.7 | And coming up in a moment, we'll have all the details of that theft from the Louvre Museum in Paris. |
| 0:21.0 | Several priceless jewels have been stolen. We'll also all the details of that theft from the Louvre Museum in Paris. Several priceless jewels have been stolen. |
| 0:23.9 | We'll also be looking at what might happen to those jewels now. |
| 0:28.5 | But first we're going to head to Gaza where the ceasefire, just 10 days old, is already looking decidedly shaky. |
| 0:35.0 | Israel launched a series of airstrikes after it says Hamas militants |
| 0:38.5 | killed two Israeli soldiers near Rafa in the south of the territory. Palestinian officials say |
| 0:44.0 | more than 30 people have been killed, including reportedly a senior Hamas commander. |
| 0:49.4 | Israel has also said that it's suspending all-aid shipments into Gaza. |
| 0:53.7 | Our security correspondent Frank Gardner |
| 0:55.3 | is following developments for us from Jerusalem. It's been described as a belt of fire right |
| 1:01.3 | across the Gaza Strip. So the Israel Defence Forces carried out a whole waiver strikes, |
| 1:08.6 | which they say was in retaliation or in response to Hamas violating the ceasefire. |
| 1:14.9 | You've got both sides. |
| 1:16.4 | Hamas and Israel accusing the other are violating the ceasefire. |
| 1:20.0 | But it's not dead yet, the ceasefire. |
| 1:23.1 | There's a lot of pressure from the Americans and for the international mediators on this, |
| 1:28.0 | including some Britons, to keep this on track. |
| 1:32.3 | And I don't think we're about to see a resumption of the full-scale war in Gaza. |
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