Israel launches ground offensive on Gaza City
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Thousands have fled Gaza City down a single coastal road, to escape a new Israeli assault. They have joined hundreds of thousands who have already left. Meanwhile, UN investigators say Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip. Also, the Hollywood actor and director, Robert Redford, has died aged 89. He starred in classics such as The Sting, The Way We Were, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. And setting the record straight on Marie Antoinette - the eighteenth century queen in France who was the victim of gossip and intrigue. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Celia Hatton and at 17 hours on Tuesday the 16th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.5 | Israel says its troops are moving into the center of Gaza City, |
| 0:22.0 | which it sees as a stronghold of Hamas. |
| 0:24.8 | The military operation is taking place |
| 0:26.9 | as United Nations investigators have concluded |
| 0:29.7 | that Israel has carried out genocide in the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:33.5 | And the Hollywood actor and director Robert Redford has died. He was 89. |
| 0:41.4 | Also in this podcast, we hear from one of the thousands of Ukrainian civilians who've been taken prisoner by Russia. |
| 0:50.2 | They grabbed us and dragged us to the prison and on the way they beat us with rubber batons, |
| 0:55.9 | and sometimes they had led the dog off its leash so that it could bite us. |
| 1:04.1 | We start in Gaza, where Palestinians have been desperately digging through the rubble of their bombed-out homes, |
| 1:15.1 | looking for their families, after Israel's relentless bombardment overnight. |
| 1:21.8 | In the morning, Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, announced on social media that Gaza is burning. |
| 1:27.5 | Israeli troops are moving into the center of Gaza City, and it's been confirmed that the long-promised full-scale ground invasion to capture Gaza's biggest urban centre |
| 1:31.8 | is now underway. |
| 1:33.5 | So far, there have been over 40 confirmed deaths. |
| 1:36.7 | Many Gazans are missing under mangled concrete. |
| 1:40.1 | This rescuers said it was really hard to find survivors. |
| 1:45.6 | Tonight there was heavy bombardment. |
| 1:48.3 | We took out many, many martyrs and injured, some serious and some minor. |
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