Over twenty countries demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Israel has launched a ground offensive against the town of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. It comes as 25 countries, including two permanent members of the Security Council, have called for an immediate end to the fighting. Newshour speaks to Norwegian foreign minister Espen Barth Eide.
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(Picture: Smoke rises during Israeli strikes amid the Israeli military operation in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, July 21, 2025. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsAour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.0 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:10.2 | And we're going to begin today in Gaza and a new Israeli ground offensive |
| 0:13.6 | in a part of the densely populated territory that had been relatively untouched by the fighting of the past 19 months. |
| 0:20.9 | It's the city of Daryl Bala in the centre of the strip. |
| 0:24.5 | On Sunday, the Israeli military issued an evacuation order, |
| 0:27.9 | prompting Palestinians living there to flee. |
| 0:30.6 | Today, the tanks moved in. |
| 0:32.6 | Several people are reported to have been killed. |
| 0:35.3 | Doha was one of those told to leave Daryl Bala. She sent us this voice note. |
| 0:40.5 | After being displaced for more than 10 times and finally reaching the Bala, I'm afraid that I'm going to be |
| 0:48.9 | displaced yet again and evacuating it again to another area. But to where shall I go? |
| 0:56.3 | And Khada is a university student there. |
| 0:58.5 | This is what she told us. |
| 1:00.5 | To be honest, most of my friends in Darabala have already been forced to evacuate their homes. |
| 1:06.7 | Many of them have also lost internet access. |
| 1:10.1 | So it's very difficult to stay in touch or to get real-time updates from them. |
| 1:16.1 | The situation in Darilbalah is important, yeah, but there is something even more urgent. |
| 1:21.0 | The starvation. |
| 1:22.7 | Gaza is actually starving. |
| 1:24.8 | The markets are completely empty. |
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