This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 15th of October, these are our main stories.

The UN has accused Israel of trying to cut the north of Gaza off from the rest of the territory

and killing large numbers of civilians there in intensifying strikes.

India and Canada have expelled their top envies in a bitter row over last year's

assassination of a Sikh separatist in British Columbia.

Lily Ledbetter, a key figure in the fight for equal pay for women in the United States,

has died at the age of 86.

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The United Nations has accused Israel of trying to cut the north of Gaza off from the rest of the territory

and killing large numbers of civilians there in intensifying strikes.

The strikes in Jabalia and Gaza City killed at least 18 people on Monday.

This followed a deadly attack on the Al-A-Laxa hospital compound in central Gaza hours earlier.

Israel is not allowing international journalists from media organizations,

including the BBC independent access to Gaza.

Our special correspondent Fergal- Keene sent this report from Jerusalem.

There was an explosion, then the fire came.

It swept through the tents in minutes.

People had been camping in the grounds of Alaxa Hospital in Central Gaza,

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