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🗓️ 21 July 2025
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Aid agencies say the Israeli military's ground and air assault on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza has intensified. Also: air force jet crashes into a school in Bangladesh, and a camel learns to walk again with false leg.
Image: Smoke rises during Israeli strikes amid the Israeli military operation in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, July 21, 2025 Credit: Reuters
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:04.9 | I'm Jeanette Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 21st of July, these are our main stories. |
0:10.9 | Israeli forces launch a ground and air assault on a city in central Gaza after a weekend |
0:15.8 | in which more than a hundred people seeking aid were reported killed. |
0:20.9 | An Air Force training jet crashes into a school in Bangladesh, |
0:24.7 | killing at least 19 people, most of them children, and injuring dozens more. |
0:30.7 | A concert due to be conducted in Italy by a friend of Russia's President Putin |
0:35.1 | has been cancelled after an outcry. |
0:40.1 | Also in this podcast, Kami the Camel in Pakistan learns to walk again after being fitted with an artificial leg. |
0:47.6 | I started weeping when I saw her walking with the prosthetic leg. |
0:51.1 | It was a dream come true. Everyone here is happy now. |
0:58.4 | We start this podcast in Gaza where the situation grows ever more horrific. After a weekend in |
1:05.0 | which more than a hundred Palestinians are reportedly killed while waiting for food, |
1:09.7 | Israeli soldiers are carrying out a ground and air assault in the city of Der Albala in central Gaza. |
1:15.5 | It's packed with thousands of displaced people and has critical infrastructure, including a desalination plant. |
1:22.1 | Several casualties have been reported, but international journalists are barred from reporting freely from Gaza, so we have to |
1:29.0 | rely on figures from the Hamas-run Health Ministry. It says that as Gaza faces famine-like conditions, |
1:35.7 | at least 19 Palestinians, some of them children, have died from hunger over the past day. |
1:42.9 | Dr. Samad Tamimi is a British Pakistani surgeon working at NASA Hospital in southern Gaza. |
1:49.1 | Just to warn you, what he says is deeply distressing. |
1:52.9 | The lucky ones get killed immediately. |
1:55.3 | The unlucky one get horrendous injuries and burns, including children women babies another day another failure |
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