UN calls for investigation into Gaza aid stations deaths
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called for an independent investigation into the reported killing on Sunday of at least thirty-one Palestinians near a US-backed aid distribution centre in Gaza. Israel denied that their forces fired at people near the site. UN human rights chief, Volker Turk, tells us the incident shows Israel's disregard for Palestinian civilians.
Also in the programme: Russia stands by its hard line demands at ceasefire talks in Istanbul, and the French parliament votes to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, in an attempt to right one of histories most infamous anti-Semitic scandals
(Picture: Palestinians who were killed in the Israeli army attacks near the American aid center in Rafah and the Muin area and Salahaddin Street in the east of Khan Yunis are being sent to their last journeys by their relatives at Nasser Medical Center in Khan Yunis city, Gaza on June 2, 2025. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.9 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:10.3 | Another incident involving multiple deaths in Gaza has prompted condemnation by the United Nations. |
| 0:16.3 | The UN Secretary-General called for an independent investigation after at least 31 Palestinians were killed |
| 0:22.4 | near an official aid distribution centre. More than one international medical charity said the patients |
| 0:29.0 | they'd treated had been shot at from all sides by the Israeli military. The IDF disputes that. |
| 0:35.6 | Merlin Thomas is part of our BBC Verify team. |
| 0:39.2 | The picture is very unclear at this point, and that is really worth emphasising. |
| 0:44.0 | So you're hearing claims and counterclaims swirling around this incident in Raffa or near the distribution centre there. |
| 0:51.8 | Remember, there are four distribution centres in Gaza, |
| 0:54.7 | which has been recently set up, and that only started last week, and it's part of the Gaza |
| 0:59.8 | Humanitarian Foundation, and they have taken over distributing aid, and there's already been |
| 1:05.3 | very chaotic scenes we saw last week. This kind of adds to that picture. We've seen videos |
| 1:10.6 | that they've shared with us |
| 1:11.8 | of CCTV footage from this one distribution centre. And in one part, you can see people |
| 1:17.9 | rushing and running away. And in one part of the video, you can see what appears to be |
| 1:22.9 | tracer fire. Now, that is an illumination of rounds of gunfire. It's something that comes kind of one in every |
| 1:29.7 | five rounds. And so we saw that coming. And so we've gone to military experts and we're also |
| 1:37.4 | speaking to audio analysis experts to kind of look at this audio, look at this video and see if they |
| 1:42.9 | can tell us any more about this. |
| 1:44.4 | BBC verifies word on the incident. |
| 1:46.6 | We've been speaking to the UN human rights chief, Falker Turk, about the wider course of the war in Gaza. |
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