Members of UN Security Council, except US, say Gaza famine is man-made
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
All members of the UN Security Council -- apart from the United States -- have released a statement saying the famine in Gaza is man-made. They've urged Israel to lift all restrictions on aid immediately. Also: President Trump discusses post war plans for the Palestinian territory, as his Secretary of State meets the Israeli foreign minister; the killing of two children at a school church service in the US is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Thursday the 28th of August. |
| 0:11.6 | All members of the UN Security Council except the US have issued a statement that the famine in Gaza is man-made. |
| 0:18.8 | At the same time, President Trump has been discussing plans |
| 0:21.5 | for the Palestinian territory once the war ends. |
| 0:24.9 | And two children are killed in Minneapolis |
| 0:26.7 | after a gunman opens fire on a back-to-school mass. |
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| 1:01.0 | Israel is under mounting pressure at home and abroad to end its almost two-year offensive in Gaza, |
| 1:07.2 | even as it pushes ahead with a big operation to take control of the territory's biggest |
| 1:11.3 | city. At the United Nations, a statement issued by all members of the Security Council, |
| 1:16.6 | bar the United States, has called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. |
| 1:22.4 | It also said the recently declared famine in Gaza was a man-made crisis. The statement was read out by Treshala |
| 1:29.5 | Simantini Passade from the UN mission of Guyana. We stand in front of you, especially disturbed by |
| 1:37.2 | the levels of acute malnutrition among children in Gaza. This is a man-made crisis. The use of starvation as a weapon of war is clearly |
| 1:47.9 | prohibited under international humanitarian law. Famine in Gaza must be stopped immediately. |
| 1:56.5 | At the White House, President Trump hosted a separate discussion on what a post-war Gaza could look like. |
| 2:02.6 | It was attended by the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. |
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