Israel says it will investigate Palestinian deaths
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Israeli military says it's to investigate the reported killing on Tuesday of 27 Palestinians near a US-backed aid distribution centre in Gaza. A government spokesman David Mencer earlier denied that Israeli forces had targeted civilians. Israel has also denied shooting Palestinians at the same site on Sunday. We speak to an advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu.
Also in the programme: The opposition candidate in South Korea's presidential election celebrates a landslide win; and an award-winning writer on artificial intelligence urges scientists to contemplate a time when humans will no longer be the smartest ones on the planet.
(Photo: Mourners react at the funeral of Palestinians killed, in what the Gaza Health Ministry says was Israeli fire near a distribution site in Rafah, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2025. Reuters/Hatem Khaled)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London, I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:09.7 | The future of aid distribution in Gaza is in disarray after reports that at least another 27 people have been shot dead by Israeli troops near an official distribution point of aid in Rafa in the south of the |
| 0:23.5 | strip. Witnesses say Israeli soldiers opened fire on people waiting for urgently needed relief |
| 0:29.9 | supplies. Israel says it fired warning shots at suspects who advanced towards its soldiers. |
| 0:36.9 | This happened on a roundabout close to a centre run by |
| 0:39.7 | the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. That's a group formed recently after Israel refused to let |
| 0:46.9 | the UN or international aid agencies distribute supplies. Israel also denied shooting Palestinians |
| 0:53.4 | at the same site on Sunday when more than 30 people |
| 0:56.5 | have thought to have been killed. These are some of those who spoke to the BBC's Middle East |
| 1:01.4 | Lifeline program about their experience as collecting aid this morning. |
| 1:08.8 | I am displaced from Khan Yunus and responsible for a family of five. |
| 1:14.5 | The Israeli army informed us that we would be receiving aid through the U.S. committee. |
| 1:20.8 | The checkpoint opened at 6 o'clock. |
| 1:23.5 | When we arrived, suddenly gunfight erupted from all directions. |
| 1:28.6 | Hundreds were wounded or killed. |
| 1:30.7 | The scene was horrific. |
| 1:35.4 | We rushed to the aid distribution centre to get food for our hungry children. |
| 1:41.1 | But they fired missiles and ruckies at us without warning. What did we do wrong? |
| 1:47.4 | We are not connected to Hamas, Fata or any political leaders. We are just civilians. |
| 1:54.5 | Mandy Blackman is a British emergency nurse working at the Al-Mawasi Hospital in the south of the Gaza |
| 2:00.6 | Strip. It's where some of the casualties |
| 2:02.3 | were taken this morning. So this morning we had a phone call about 5 o'clock in the morning, |
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