Israel resumes ground operations in Gaza
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry has said and the IDF said it had started a ground invasion in northern Gaza. Hamas has launched retaliatory missiles aimed at central Israel, with fragments landing in the central city of Rishon Letzion. No casualties or injuries were reported. Meanwhile thousands of Israelis protesting the resumption of war.
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(Image: Palestinians inspect the rubble after renewed Israeli airstrikes on Gaza - 19 Mar 2025. Credit: Haitham Imad via EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.4 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. When ceasefires break down, they can crack slowly |
| 0:14.8 | the violence seeping and spreading, or they can explode. It looks like it's more of the latter |
| 0:20.1 | in Gaza right now with a major |
| 0:21.9 | intensification of war of the Israeli offensive against Hamas. Officials from the Hamas-run |
| 0:27.2 | health ministry in Gaza say that just over the last 12 hours or so, dozens more have been |
| 0:31.9 | killed in airstrikes, including women and children. Israeli ground troops have redeployed to the corridor |
| 0:37.2 | which divides |
| 0:38.1 | north and south Gaza. All this after the defence minister, Israel Katz issued a last warning to |
| 0:44.4 | Garsens that if all the Israeli hostages are not released and her mass is not eliminated, |
| 0:49.8 | then Israel will act, as you put it, with forces you have never seen before. |
| 0:56.3 | Saki Brokadeer is a doctor at the NASA Hospital in Khan Yunus in southern Gaza. |
| 1:01.8 | He told the BBC what he's been seeing. |
| 1:04.3 | The emergency area was just chaos. |
| 1:06.0 | So whilst we were there, there were bodies and patients alive and dead, just on the back of donkey cars, |
| 1:13.7 | pulling up to the hospital and in amidst this, a few healthcare workers. |
| 1:18.4 | There were a couple of nurses who were just calm, resilient, worked hard, even through the most atrocious times. |
| 1:28.7 | Well, our Middle East correspondent Yol-Annell is covering developments out of Jerusalem, |
| 1:33.2 | and it's not just a case of getting up to speed on what's happening in Gaza, |
| 1:37.2 | but also in terms of Israel. |
| 1:40.3 | For the first time in months, people in Tel Aviv were sent rushing to air raid shelters because of rockets being fired from Gaza this lunchtime local time. |
| 1:50.4 | One missile was intercepted. Two landed in open areas. The Israeli military said no one was hurt. |
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