Netanyahu calls Rafah operation a 'tragic mishap'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The air strike targeted leaders of Hamas but killed dozens of Palestinians instead. The UN Security council has called an emergency meeting to discuss the incident, with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres describing the situation in southern Gaza as "a horror that had to stop". Also on the podcast: a series of explosions have hit the Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, China bans a famous influencer from social media for boasting about his wealth, and why people flock from around the world to chase a wheel of cheese down a hill.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:07.0 | This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday, the 28th of May. |
| 0:11.0 | Israel's Prime Minister says the deaths of dozens of Palestinians in a |
| 0:14.6 | fire after an Israeli airstrike was a tragic mishap. A series of explosions |
| 0:20.4 | has hit the Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, and China bans a famous |
| 0:25.4 | influencer from social media for boasting about his wealth. |
| 0:31.8 | Also in the podcast, |
| 0:33.0 | For me it's difficult to say what's going on in the future, |
| 0:36.0 | probably have been a big percentage |
| 0:39.0 | that I will not be back playing here in Roland Garros. |
| 0:42.0 | Here's the French Open tennis saying goodbye to one of its biggest stars. |
| 0:47.0 | Israel says it does everything it can to protect Palestinian civilians as it tries to |
| 0:56.0 | wipe out Hamas fighters in Gaza following the 7th of October massacre. |
| 1:00.1 | But on several occasions the Israeli military has been forced to admit to mistakes |
| 1:04.8 | airstrikes which killed aid workers for example or the shooting dead of Israeli hostages |
| 1:09.4 | trying to escape. Now Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Nassonyahu has said an operation to target |
| 1:14.9 | two Hamas leaders had gone badly wrong. |
| 1:19.6 | We have already evacuated in Raffa about a million residents. |
| 1:23.4 | And despite our best effort not to harm those uninvolved, there was a tragic mishap last night. |
| 1:30.0 | We are investigating the incident. |
| 1:32.1 | We will draw conclusions because this is our policy. |
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