Red Cross suspends operations in Gaza City
Newshour
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The International Red Cross has been forced to cease operations in Gaza City because of the intensity of the Israeli offensive. It’s continuing while Arab and Turkish mediators put pressure on Hamas to accept President Trump's peace plan.
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(Photo: Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, 1 October, 2025. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.6 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:15.7 | And we're going to start today in Gaza, |
| 0:17.5 | because while much of the focus in the past two days |
| 0:19.8 | has been on the diplomacy |
| 0:21.2 | surrounding President Trump's peace plan, the war continues unabated. Indeed, if anything, |
| 0:26.8 | things are getting worse. Today, Israel's defence minister issued what he called a last |
| 0:31.5 | warning for residents of Gaza City to leave, which he said was now almost entirely surrounded |
| 0:37.2 | by troops and tanks. |
| 0:39.2 | That's prompted the International Red Cross to suspend its operations in the city, |
| 0:44.2 | leaving residents facing what it described as harrowing conditions. |
| 0:48.3 | Many simply cannot leave. |
| 0:50.6 | The BBC cannot report independently from Gaza, |
| 0:53.0 | so we rely on local reporters and aid workers to be our eyes and ears. |
| 0:57.3 | And we're going to hear now from James Elder of the UN Children's Agency UNICEF. |
| 1:02.1 | Here's what he's seen. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm in Gaza City now, constant drones. |
| 1:07.2 | It's the Air Force. |
| 1:08.2 | I've heard multiple airstrikes. |
| 1:09.8 | I've seen multiple airstrikes just I've seen multiple airstrikes just |
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