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🗓️ 8 April 2025
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The Palestinian Red Crescent is demanding an international investigation into the Israeli attack last month on a convoy of ambulances and emergency workers in southern Gaza that killed 15 people. Also, Sussex University in the UK is offering a new degree called Climate Justice, Sustainability and Development. And, the US and DRC close in on a new minerals deal. Plus, a look at how collaboration in space is still possible amid geopolitical tensions.
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0:00.0 | Israeli troops killed a group of paramedics and emergency workers in the Gaza Strip late last month. |
0:11.5 | The Palestinian Red Crescent wants accountability. |
0:14.9 | It's not enough to comfort us with condolences and nice words. |
0:22.7 | There has to be action-taking. |
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1:05.0 | The Palestinian Red Crescent is asking for an international investigation into the killing of its emergency workers in the Gaza Strip. |
1:11.4 | The first responders came under Israeli fire last month in the southern part of Gaza as they were trying to reach people injured in Israeli strikes. The bodies of the paramedics were found days later in a mass grave, |
1:16.9 | along with the mangled remains of their vehicles. The Israeli military initially said the |
1:21.6 | rescuers had approached them in a, quote, suspicious way without headlights or emergency signals. |
1:28.6 | But as the world's Sharanjafari reports, that turned out not to be true. |
1:34.0 | It's March 23rd, around 4 in the morning. |
1:36.8 | A Palestinian Red Crescent crew is riding in an ambulance in southern Gaza. |
1:45.0 | One of them, Rifad Radoan, is filming the ride. |
1:48.0 | They're frantically searching for colleagues who'd gone to help rescue people from an earlier strike. |
1:54.0 | I hope they're okay, I hope they're okay, Rodwan says as he films. |
2:02.4 | We've lost too many of our colleagues and now we're losing more. |
2:07.2 | The ambulance speeds along, emergency lights flashing. |
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