Unicef: Situation for children getting worse in Israel-Gaza war
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Residents of Rafah say western areas of the overcrowded city have come under heavy fire, over the past 24 hours, with Israeli helicopter missions and street battles. We hear from a spokesman from the UN's agency for children.
Also in the programme: South Africa is on course for a historic coalition government after the centre right Democratic Alliance announced it would join the African National Congress; and researchers say Pacific grey whales are rapidly getting smaller.
(Photo: Girls walk while carrying a container as Palestinians flee Rafah following heavy fighting, 13 June 2024. Credit: Hatem Khaled/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:07.7 | London I'm Paul Henley. After elections in South Africa the African National |
| 0:12.2 | Congress which had governed the country for three decades, |
| 0:15.4 | now finds itself obliged to join an old political rival in a coalition. |
| 0:19.9 | The leader of that party, the Democratic Alliance, has called it a new chapter for the country. |
| 0:24.5 | The agreement will see Cyril Ramaposa re-elected president. |
| 0:28.3 | We'll bring you more on South Africa a bit later. |
| 0:31.4 | First, more than eight months into the war in Gaza, the fighting continues. |
| 0:35.4 | Residents of Raffer say Western areas of the overcrowded city have come under heavy fire |
| 0:40.7 | over the past 24 hours, according to the Garzan Health Ministry run by Hamas. |
| 0:46.0 | More than 37,000 people have been killed since the start of hostilities. |
| 0:50.7 | The United Nations Health Agency says a significant proportion of Gaza's population |
| 0:55.3 | is facing catastrophic hunger and famine-like conditions with thousands of children |
| 1:00.6 | potentially starving. |
| 1:02.4 | James Elder is a spokesperson for the UN. of children's |
| 1:02.5 | James Elder is a spokesperson for the UN Children's Agency |
| 1:06.0 | UNICEF. |
| 1:07.0 | He spent recent days trying to move around Gaza and compare the |
| 1:10.1 | situation there for children with his experiences in Gaza six weeks ago. |
| 1:14.4 | He's been speaking to the BBC's Michelle Hussein. Incredulously but unsurprisingly |
| 1:19.6 | it's much worse people's coping capacity physically, financially, |
| 1:23.7 | certainly psychologically has been smashed. So of course now that I'm back six weeks |
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