Israeli forces push further into Khan Younis
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Tens of thousands of Palestinians flee intense fighting throughout southern Gaza. Also: a meeting between the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and the EU highlights differences over trade, international affairs and human rights and, the novelist, poet and playwright, Benjamin Zephaniah has died aged 65.
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| 0:26.0 | I'm Robin Brandt and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 7th of December, |
| 0:32.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:33.6 | Israel's military is focusing on the main city |
| 0:36.5 | in southern Gaza, as it believes it's |
| 0:38.6 | surrounded the home of a Hamas leader. |
| 0:41.0 | China is hosting EU leaders in a major meeting aimed at resetting their relationship. |
| 0:45.0 | And the UK government has accused Russia of intercepting conversations between senior politicians in a campaign going back to 2015. |
| 0:55.0 | Also in this podcast we hear from young festival goers dealing with the trauma of the |
| 0:59.8 | October 7th attacks in Israel. People here seen tremendous amount of pain. |
| 1:09.0 | Some of them were extremely close to not being here. |
| 1:13.0 | Now Israeli troops and Hamas fighters are battling it out in southern Gaza's main city of |
| 1:21.2 | Han Yunus. |
| 1:22.4 | According to the Israelis, that's where the Hamas chief |
| 1:25.0 | Yaha Sinwa is in hiding along with other leaders of the group regarded by the US, UK and |
| 1:31.0 | other governments as terrorists. But as it pursues its military aims, there is still |
| 1:36.1 | a lot of pressure on just how Israel conducts its operations. Although Israel advised civilians |
| 1:42.0 | to flee to Rafa City recently, it's carried out |
| 1:45.4 | air strikes there. Here's the World Health Organization's Regional |
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