Israeli report denies targetting journalist in Gaza
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The Israeli military says in its initial report about the attack on the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza that it was not targetting journalists but a Hamas camera. Twenty people died in the attack, among them five journalists. Most of the casualties were caused by the second strike which came ten minutes after the first. Also, US Fed governor Lisa Cook says she'll sue President Trump for ordering her dismissal, and Taylor Swift announces her engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday, |
| 0:09.2 | the 27th of August. Israel says a strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed 20 people was not |
| 0:15.1 | targeting journalists, but a Hamas camera. U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook so she'll file a lawsuit to stop |
| 0:22.1 | President Trump sacking her. And Taylor Swift announces her engagement to Travis Kelsey. |
| 0:29.4 | Also in the podcast, the Guinness Book of World Records celebrates its 70th birthday. So how did it start? |
| 0:36.2 | It was here in 1951 that Sir Hugh Beaver was invited to a hunting party and got into an argument. |
| 0:42.1 | Who is the fastest gamberg? Is it the grouse, the plover, the tail, the woodcrop? |
| 0:52.0 | Two weeks ago, Israel killed four Al Jazeera journalists and two freelance reporters in a deliberate attack on a tent outside Ashifa hospital in Gaza City. |
| 1:02.0 | On Monday, it killed another five journalists at NASA Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:08.1 | But this time, the Israeli military says it wasn't targeting the journalists. |
| 1:12.8 | In its initial report, the IDF says it was trying to take out a camera that it says was operated by Hamas. |
| 1:19.9 | 20 people died, most of them in a second strike, which came 10 minutes after the first, |
| 1:25.9 | as journalists and rescuers rushed to the scene. |
| 1:28.3 | Our Middle East correspondent, Lucy Williamson, has this report. |
| 1:33.5 | Hattem Omar ran towards the first strike on NASA Hospital as a journalist. |
| 1:38.7 | He left the second as a casualty. |
| 1:42.2 | The shrapnel wounds to his head, back and shoulder, |
| 1:45.5 | a reminder of how close he came to joining the dead. |
| 1:49.9 | Caught on his phone, the blast that struck |
| 1:52.7 | as he rushed up the hospital's eastern staircase |
| 1:55.3 | to the body of his Reuters colleague. |
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