The European Union condemns the killing of Palestinians in an Israeli operation to rescue hostages in Gaza
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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The high representative of the EU, Josep Borrell, said that reports of -- what he called -- "another massacre of civilians" were appalling. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than two hundred Palestinians were killed in the Israeli raid, to rescue the four hostages. Also: President Biden says France remains America's best friend, after a wide-ranging discussion with his French counterpart in the Élysée palace, and tributes are paid to the Nasa "Earthrise" astronaut William Anders who has died in a plane crash aged 90.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Sunday the 9th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.4 | The European Union's High Representative has strongly condemned the killing of |
| 0:14.4 | Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday. It happened during Israel's military operation to free |
| 0:19.8 | four hostages. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the rescue had proved |
| 0:25.2 | that Israel did not surrender to terrorism. And the French President Emmanuel Macron and his |
| 0:30.4 | U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, have stressed the enduring strength of the alliance |
| 0:35.0 | between the two countries. |
| 0:39.2 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:40.2 | The best time of my entire life. I'm a hundred years old. The D-Day veteran who returned to Normandy and got married. |
| 0:47.0 | The D-Day veteran who returned to Normandy and got married. The European Union has condemned in the strongest terms the killing of Palestinians during an |
| 1:00.6 | Israeli military operation in Gaza on Saturday. |
| 1:03.0 | Hostages held by Hamas were rescued from a refugee camp, |
| 1:07.0 | but during the process there was what the EU's high representative Joseph Burrell called |
| 1:12.0 | a massacre of civilians. The operation |
| 1:14.9 | involved airstrikes and intense gun battles with Hamas in and around the Nusserrat |
| 1:19.4 | refugee camp. But the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, focused on the Israelis who'd been freed. |
| 1:25.6 | Israel just carried out a remarkable rescue operation of four hostages held by Hamas. This operation required ingenuity and courage of the highest |
| 1:35.7 | unit and our soldiers performed in an unmatchable way. We're committed to |
| 1:41.4 | getting the reuse of all the hostages and we expect Hamas to |
| 1:44.5 | ease them all, but if they don't do whatever it takes, we get them all back all. |
| 1:50.2 | Hamas is committing war crimes every day, including the Old Rame deus |
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