Israel's plan to move Gazans into a camp
Newshour
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Israel's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory. Also on the programme, the first malaria treatment suitable for babies and very young children has been approved for use; and, tomorrow could be the shortest day in history because the Earth's rotation appears to be speeding up.
(Photo: Smoke rises in Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, July 7, 2025. REUTERS/Amir Cohen)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:10.8 | For a second night running in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will be talking about Gaza and talking up the chances of a ceasefire. We've got to get that solved, is how Mr. Trump put it. |
| 0:23.6 | At a dinner he hosted for the Israeli Prime Minister last night, the president told reporters |
| 0:28.3 | that he didn't think there was a hold-up and that Hamas wanted a ceasefire too. |
| 0:33.3 | The Israeli Prime Minister also said things were going well, and he added that he was nominating |
| 0:37.8 | his host for the Nobel Peace Prize. On the ground in Gaza, it's a very different story. |
| 0:44.1 | The International Red Cross says there's been a sharp increase in injuries and deaths in recent |
| 0:48.9 | days and weeks, particularly around aid distribution sites in Gaza. The ICRC also says it's treated more casualties in the past month |
| 0:57.7 | at its last remaining field hospital in the south than in the whole of the previous year. |
| 1:03.6 | I've been talking to an emergency doctor at NASA Hospital, Sabah al-Asma, who sounded desperate. |
| 1:10.1 | Now we have unimaginable situation. |
| 1:13.5 | It's even beyond the words to describe. |
| 1:16.6 | Even before these aid distribution centers were opened, the hospital were collapsing |
| 1:22.4 | because of the number of the casualties that keep coming every day. |
| 1:26.4 | But since the aid distribution centers were opened, |
| 1:31.4 | the situation completely collapsed. |
| 1:34.5 | Like it's nothing compared to before. |
| 1:37.5 | Every day we have been receiving so many injuries. |
| 1:41.5 | More than 60, 70% of these casualties are gunshots in the head where they need |
| 1:47.4 | a special care in the ICU. And now this is Nasser Hospital. It's the only hospital that works |
| 1:54.3 | in the south of Gaza Strip in the area, which is Al-Mawasi, that's supposed to shelter around |
| 2:00.6 | 700,000 of people who are sheltered to |
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