Israeli human rights groups accuse Israel of genocide
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
For the first time, two leading Israeli human rights organisations, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, have accused their own country of committing genocide in Gaza. In reports published on Monday, they said “Israel is taking co-ordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip" and that it is “systematic” in its targeting of Gaza's healthcare infrastructure. Israel has denied the allegation and has called the case "wholly unfounded" and based on "biased and false claims". Also: The BBC’s International Editor Jeremy Bowen views Gaza from above in one of the Jordanian planes delivering aid from the sky, the investigation into a deadly mass shooting in Ecuador, and why Catholic influencers are gathering in Rome.
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| 0:27.9 | stories. For the first time, two leading Israeli human rights organizations say Israel's actions |
| 0:33.9 | amount to genocide. It comes as President Trump says Israel bears some responsibility |
| 0:39.0 | for starvation in Gaza, but hostages are still being held there by Hamas. |
| 0:44.2 | There are 20 living people. I told Israel, I told Bibi, that you're going to have to now maybe do |
| 0:50.1 | it a different way. A ceasefire is possible, but you have to get it, you have to end it. |
| 0:54.4 | You're talking about it with Israel. |
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| 1:30.3 | There has been international condemnation of Israel's action in Gaza for some time now, |
| 1:35.7 | growing louder as the humanitarian situation in the territory worsens. |
| 1:40.1 | Now, for the first time, two Israeli human rights organisations have accused their country of genocide, |
| 1:46.1 | outlining a litany of factors, including what they termed, coordinated, deliberate action |
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