Israel to let some commercial goods into Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Israel has authorised the gradual re-entry of goods including food supplies to Gaza via private traders for the first time in ten months. How does food distribution operate at the moment, and how often can it be a case of survival of the fittest?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to you. Welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service coming to live from London with me, Sean Lay. |
| 0:10.5 | On NewsHour on Monday, we reported on media briefings in Israel, which suggested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to extend its military operations in Gaza. |
| 0:19.7 | It's now emerged that the cabinet has approved |
| 0:22.2 | the restoration of commercial food supplies to Gaza. They were suspended 10 months ago. |
| 0:28.0 | Kogat, that's the coordinator of government activities in the territories, a branch of the Ministry |
| 0:32.5 | of Defence, says it's approved among other goods, fruit, vegetables, baby food and hygiene supplies. |
| 0:38.4 | This is the second change in policy towards food distribution made in recent weeks. |
| 0:42.8 | Israel has permitted some countries to conduct aid drops from the air over Gaza, |
| 0:47.3 | although groups with experience of operations are sceptical about the impact they can make. |
| 0:52.2 | Let's go Nile live to Jerusalem and Middle East correspondent, Hugo Bershega. |
| 0:56.8 | Hugo, first of all, can we talk about the military operation and these reports of an expansion? |
| 1:01.9 | What do we know? |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, so there have been multiple reports in Israel suggesting that the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already made a decision |
| 1:10.7 | and will now seek |
| 1:12.2 | a cabinet support for his plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip. And reports say that he has used |
| 1:18.3 | this word occupation in private conversations. Now, the cabinet is expected to meet this week. |
| 1:24.0 | There hasn't been official confirmation of that. We don't have details, you know, of what his planning to do. Now, this week. There hasn't been official confirmation of that. We don't have details of what |
| 1:29.1 | he's planning to do. Now, this idea of occupying Gaza or even expanding the military operation |
| 1:35.2 | in Gaza faces opposition from the Israeli military. And in fact, the military leadership has |
| 1:41.1 | already said that their job in Gaza is done, that Hamas as an organized |
| 1:46.1 | military force has already been defeated. And, you know, I was here yesterday talking about |
| 1:51.7 | those reports. And again, the families of the hostages have also expressed, you know, |
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