Two Israeli hostages freed from Gaza
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The men - held by Hamas - were rescued from a residential building in the city of Rafah. Also: Kenyans mourns the tragic loss of their world record breaking marathon runner, and how Taylor Swift's boyfriend is looking forward to a special celebration after his Super Bowl win.
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| 0:00.0 | Unmissible stories from around the globe from the BBC World Service. |
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| 0:30.6 | Two hostages in Gaza have been rescued by the Israeli military. |
| 0:34.0 | Dozens of Palestinians were reported killed during the operation. |
| 0:38.0 | Tributes have poured in for the holder of the men's marathon world record, |
| 0:42.0 | Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum, who's been killed in a car accident. |
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| 1:13.0 | We look at what went wrong. |
| 1:18.8 | Up until today, the Israeli military |
| 1:21.3 | had only been able to rescue one of the hostages taken to |
| 1:24.6 | Gaza on October 7th but that tally has now risen to three. Israel announced on |
| 1:31.4 | Monday that it had freed two men who were being held by Hamas fighters in a residential building in the city of Raffa. |
| 1:38.0 | Edam Béjorano is a son-in-law of one of the men, Louise Ha. He described the moment when they were reunited. |
| 1:45.6 | We saw them, a lot of tears, hugs, not many words, just being together surrounded by the family and surrounded by our |
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