Mass Starvation Warnings in Gaza

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today, we discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where more than 100 international aid organisations say the population is facing mass starvation and call on Israel to allow access.

A number of news agencies including the BBC have released a statement calling for Israel to allow journalists in and out of Gaza, expressing concern for their journalists “who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.”

Against this backdrop, Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff is in Italy for possible peace talks. Adam is joined by chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet and Americast host, Anthony Zurcher to discuss whether there is a diplomatic route to a ceasefire.

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0:20.2	Hello, today is going to be another one of those episodes where we talk about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which is deteriorating.
0:28.1	More than 100 aid organisations and human rights groups have signed this joint statement, warning of mass starvation, and saying that their colleagues, so not just the people they're
0:38.6	helping, but their colleagues are, quote, wasting away. And those organizations were joined
0:44.5	on Thursday by news organizations, including the BBC, issuing a statement saying that journalists in
0:50.9	Gaza can't feed themselves or their families either. And that's quite an
0:54.9	unusual thing for those news organisations to do. And in the meantime, Donald Trump's special envoy,
1:01.2	Steve Whitkoff, is travelling to more peace talks to try and secure a ceasefire. And those talks
1:06.5	are happening this time in Italy. So there's quite a lot to get our heads around on this episode of
1:11.4	newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to the fat controller. Did I say that?
1:20.1	I can't believe I said that. Next Wednesday. This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a
1:26.0	huge Sabrina carpenter fan. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And for this episode, I'm joined by two good friends of the podcast. Because here with me on the newscast sofa is Leis Doucette. Hi, Lees.
1:44.6	Oh, this is getting to be a regular appearance.
1:49.2	Well, there's a lot happening in the world. Yes. And also joining us from Washington is my
1:53.5	Americast cousin, Anthony Zerker. Hello, Anthony.
1:56.8	Hello from Washington. Right. Lease, last time we spoke, we were talking about the humanitarian situation in Gaza,
2:02.8	but since then we had that statement signed by a whole load of charities, NGOs and other
2:08.1	organizations just saying how bad that situation had got.
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