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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, the ordinary Brits on an extraordinary mission to evacuate children from Gaza. |
| 0:18.9 | Over the summer, the government promised to bring hundreds of desperately sick and injured children from Gaza to the UK for life-saving treatment. |
| 0:26.6 | We are accelerating efforts to evacuate children from Gaza who need critical medical assistance. |
| 0:33.6 | Dozens of countries across the Middle East and Europe have rescued thousands of Palestinian children with unbelievable injuries. |
| 0:41.3 | After almost two years of stalling, Britain was finally stepping up. |
| 0:47.3 | But so far, only a handful of children have safely made it through on the government scheme. |
| 0:53.3 | And meanwhile, four friends, ordinary citizens, got together and worked out a way to bring kids |
| 1:00.8 | here themselves. |
| 1:01.8 | We've seen the entire healthcare system. They're destroyed. We all felt that we had some of the |
| 1:06.3 | skills, some of the network, and certainly the drive to try to do something which could save lives, |
| 1:14.4 | improve lives, specifically for children. |
| 1:17.6 | Even with the ceasefire, |
| 1:19.7 | Gaza is the single most dangerous place in the world for a child to exist. |
| 1:24.3 | Israel has killed more than 20,000 children. |
| 1:27.3 | More than twice that number have been maimed. |
| 1:29.3 | At one point, more than 10 children lost one or two legs every day, |
| 1:35.3 | making the strip home to proportionally more young amputees than anywhere else on the planet. |
| 1:40.3 | But behind these statistics are families enduring unimaginable choices. |
| 1:46.4 | Any given day, you end up breaking down in tears because you're seeing the most devastating |
| 1:50.9 | injuries and when you look at that child, you see your own child's face. If I was born in |
| 1:57.7 | Palestine, that's my family, that's my child. |
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