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I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Tuesday the 22nd of July, these are our main stories.

Israel is facing heightened international criticism over its actions in Gaza.

Nearly 30 countries have issued a joint statement condemning what they called the drip feeding of aid to Palestinians. One of Jeffrey

Epstein's victims has called on the Trump administration to release more information on the late

sex offender. Bangladesh is mourning at least 20 people, many of them children, who died when

an Air Force training plane crashed into a school compound.

Also in this podcast, a British woman agrees to return a painting her husband bought in good faith to the Italian Museum from where it was stolen decades ago. She gets nothing for giving it back,

but... She doesn't have to compensate the people of Balluno for having their painting for half a century.

She is a good person. Not everyone will do this.

We begin in Gaza, where an Israeli ground offensive in the center of the territory is reported

to have killed several people and destroyed homes and mosques in the city of the territory is reported to have killed several people

and destroyed homes and mosques in the city of D'Abala.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled

after the Israeli military issued an evacuation order on Sunday.

The UN Humanitarian Affairs Agency

says the offensive will deal a further blow

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