Reports say over thirty people killed in Gaza by Israeli tank fire
Newshour
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🗓️ 1 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The attack took place near to a US-backed aid distribution centre in Rafah. The IDF said it was currently unaware of casualties caused by its shelling.
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(Picture: Palestinians in mourning near Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsAar from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm James Menendez. And we're going to begin today in Gaza and a very serious incident in Raffa, right at the southern end of the strip. |
| 0:16.8 | The precise circumstances of what happened are still not clear. But local medics say at least |
| 0:22.3 | 31 people have been killed and more than 150 wounded, reportedly by Israeli tank or gunfire, |
| 0:29.5 | close to one of the new US and Israel-backed aid distribution centres. Thousands of people had |
| 0:35.7 | gathered outside the centre to collect food in the early morning. |
| 0:39.2 | Among them, the brother of this man who spoke to BBC Arabic outside NASA Hospital in nearby |
| 0:45.1 | Han Yunus. |
| 0:49.3 | Why do they tell them to go to the aid distribution point? Why do they tell them to go there and then |
| 0:55.0 | kill them? What they're doing to us is unjust. It's sinful. They're lying to us. My brother was |
| 1:02.0 | killed. My younger brother. He went to get food for his children. Why did they kill him? Isn't that |
| 1:08.1 | wrong? Isn't that sinful? Well, I've been talking to one of the doctors at |
| 1:12.5 | NASA Hospital, where most of the casualties were taken. She's Melena Angelova Chi, a Bulgarian |
| 1:18.9 | doctor temporarily seconded to Gaza. This morning, my colleagues came to work saying that they had |
| 1:26.1 | a lot of difficulties to reach the |
| 1:27.8 | hospital because the roads are not possible with their community buses. |
| 1:33.5 | They had to walk long distance until they were able to be in the bus and coming here. |
| 1:39.5 | At 7.35, there was shooting in an aid center. |
| 1:45.0 | People were alerted that food will be distributed, and then there was mass shooting. |
| 1:53.4 | I heard numbers of 200 injured brought into the hospital within four hours. |
| 2:00.1 | Certainly the emergency department at the moment is |
| 2:03.5 | extremely busy with many young men who are severely injured, intubated on ventilators, and we are |
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