This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 28th of May,

these are our main stories.

The reports of tanks reaching the center of raffa as Israel intensifies its military operation despite

condemnation over the deaths of Palestinian civilians.

Three more nations officially recognized Palestine as a state.

It's crunch time in Georgia as Parliament votes on its divisive foreign agents law and move many

seers a step away from the West and towards Russia.

Also in this podcast on the eve of South Africa's elections,

we look at the length some people in the post

apartheid South Africa go to to find a home.

It was a toilet before. It was a toilet? Yes. And now what you have a

kitchen? I have a kitchen. Yes. This place actually gave me a bit of home.

And why an album no one's heard has got top billing at a museum in Australia.

Israel's forces have moved deeper into Raffer in southern Gaza as it carries out its most intense

bombardment of the city since it began its military operation there three weeks ago.

Israel say it's an offensive that's necessary to destroy the remaining Hamas battalions there and free

hostages.

But the cost of Palestinian lives has been high.

On Sunday, 45 people in a camp for displaced people were killed and strikes on the night of Monday into Tuesday

killed 16 more according to Hamas officials. There are now reports that

several Israeli tanks have reached the center of Raffer. Hundreds of families have had to flee.

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