Israel recovers bodies of six Gaza hostages
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🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the killing of six hostages in Gaza shows Hamas doesn't want a ceasefire deal. The deaths came as aid agencies begin a mass vaccination campaign against polio in the Palestinian territory. We look in detail at both.
Also in the programme: What is driving voters from eastern Germany? And an opera based on one of the best known Sherlock Holmes novels.
(Photo: A combination picture shows undated handout images of hostages Ori Danino, Carmel Gat, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, and Almog Sarusi, who were kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attacks, and whose bodies have been found underground in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip and returned to Israel, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. Credit: Courtesy of Bring Them Home Now/Handout via Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to New Zauer from the BBC World Service coming live from London. |
| 0:08.8 | This is Owen Bennett Jones. |
| 0:10.7 | The Israel Defence Forces have found the bodies of six hostages in a tunnel in Gaza. |
| 0:16.9 | It believes they were killed by their captors shortly before the Israeli army reached them. Israel has said 251 Israelis were taken back on |
| 0:26.8 | October the 7th. 117 are now back in Israel, eight of them rescued by the IDF, and 37 bodies of |
| 0:36.8 | hostages have been repatriated to Israel. So that means that there are 101 |
| 0:41.6 | hostages remaining in captivity in the Gaza Strip, |
| 0:45.0 | although some may be in the hands of groups other than Hamas, |
| 0:49.0 | and some may have been killed. |
| 0:51.0 | The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel |
| 0:55.0 | won't rest until it reaches those in Hamas who killed the six hostages. He was speaking |
| 1:01.0 | in a video statement. entire nation, my wife and I share the terrible grief of the families. |
| 1:14.2 | We all mourn together with them. |
| 1:16.6 | I say to the Hamas terrorists who murdered our hostages, and I say to their leaders, you |
| 1:21.7 | have forfeited your lives. we will not rest and we will not be |
| 1:25.2 | silent we will pursue you we will catch up with you and we will settle accounts with you. You. And the Israeli Prime Minister also said it's Hamas who has responsibility for the hostages |
| 1:38.4 | still being held. |
| 1:39.7 | Bishas Israel, but I have a lot more intensive and all them at all. While Israel is conducting intensive negotiations with the mediators in a supreme effort to reach a deal, |
| 1:50.0 | Hamas continues to firmly refuse any offer. |
| 1:53.0 | Worse than that, at the very moment of the ongoing negotiations, |
| 1:57.0 | it murdered six of our hostages. |
| 1:59.0 | He who murders hostages does not want a deal. |
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