UN chief calls on Israel to halt its West Bank operation
Newshour
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🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The UN's secretary-general has called on Israel to halt its military operation in the occupied West Bank, saying it’s "fuelling an already explosive situation".
We hear from the territory and look at the Israeli accusation that Iran is supplying arms to Palestinian militants.
Also in the programme: Why the founder of the Telegram messaging app has been placed under formal investigation in France for complicity in organised crime; and why some say it's time to reintroduce once-extinct beavers into the wild in parts of the UK.
(Photo shows UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaking during a press conference. Credit: Lirio da Fonseca/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to New Zealand from the BBC World Service we're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez and we're going to begin again today in the Middle East and Israel's military operation against arm groups in the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:17.2 | It is widely considered to be the biggest operation of its kind there for a couple of decades and it's raising international alarm. |
| 0:25.1 | The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterresch has called on Israel to stop saying the |
| 0:30.0 | raids in cities such as Janine and Tulkaram are quote fueling an already explosive |
| 0:35.9 | situation with the fighting continuing in Gaza and across Israel's northern border |
| 0:40.8 | into Lebanon. |
| 0:41.8 | Khalid Abul al-Hiyab, a resident of Jilkaram, had to flee his home when it came under attack from Israeli forces. |
| 0:49.0 | We were asleep and woke up to gunshots at around 3.30 this morning. I started waking my wife up, telling her that they, the army, are shooting at the house. I was barely able to wake her up and they hit the house with a rocket. We ran, my wife and |
| 1:05.6 | I to another room. They fired another rocket. My son and his wife were on the second floor. They hit |
| 1:11.5 | them with a rocket. Look at the second floor. It's |
| 1:14.6 | collapsed. The house went up in flames as they shot three or four rockets. We |
| 1:19.4 | yelled at them that the house is in flames and we don't know where to go. |
| 1:23.0 | Well let's cross to the West Bank and talk to the BBC's John Donison who joins us today from |
| 1:30.8 | Janine and John I don't know what access is like but are you able to tell |
| 1:35.5 | what's going on in Janine? |
| 1:40.6 | Access is extremely difficult. We drove to Janine from Ramuller this morning and as we |
| 1:46.6 | approached the city we were told that all but one road into Janine had been shut off by the Israeli army and Palestinian local |
| 1:56.0 | taxi drivers warned us that Israeli soldiers had been shooting at |
| 1:59.9 | Palestinian cars so we made our way in and got to the center of Janine and you know normally |
| 2:05.6 | this is a big vibrant bustling city and today it is absolutely deserted barely a person on the streets and most businesses shuttered up. |
| 2:16.7 | So it's difficult, I'm just overlooking now the big urban refugee camp in the center of Janine about half an hour ago I saw an |
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