US deadline demanding more aid into Gaza expires
Newshour
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Israeli army has announced the opening of a new aid crossing into Gaza, just as a US deadline demanding the improvement of humanitarian conditions expires. As humanitarian agencies say the situation is still desperate, we'll hear from the Israeli military.
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(Photo: A UN-backed report recently warned there was an imminent likelihood of famine in northern Gaza. Credit: AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.4 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. We're starting the program in Gaza. Well, to be absolutely |
| 0:14.3 | precise about it, we're starting talking about Gaza, but from Washington, D.C. because today was the day that the Biden administration |
| 0:23.0 | had set as the deadline for Israel to improve the desperate humanitarian situation inside the war-ravaged |
| 0:29.6 | Palestinian territory. The clear threat was that failure would mean the U.S. curbing military |
| 0:35.8 | aid. Well, today, the State Department has pronounced that it is not going to change those levels of military assistance for the time being, but that more steps still need to be taken. |
| 0:46.8 | So what is the picture right now in Gaza? Is there any sign of the situation improving? |
| 0:52.3 | In a moment, we'll hear from the Israeli military agency overseeing aid deliveries. |
| 0:56.1 | First, here's our correspondent in Jerusalem, John Donelson. |
| 1:01.5 | Stretched out in front of five-year-old Nizar in a makeshift morgue in central Gaza |
| 1:06.2 | are white plastic body bags. |
| 1:10.5 | The small boy leans down and peeps into one of them. |
| 1:15.6 | He needs to see with his own eyes, which are filled with tears. |
| 1:21.1 | In the bag is his auntie. |
| 1:23.7 | His uncle, their children and Nizar's sister, Khaloud, were also killed |
| 1:28.3 | when Israel attacked a school, housing displaced families. |
| 1:32.4 | Israel's military says it was targeting Hamas. |
| 1:38.0 | God is all we need, cries Barra, Nizar's brother. |
| 1:45.3 | Much of Gaza is now unlivable. |
| 1:48.8 | A month ago, America once again demanded Israel take steps to reduce the number of civilian casualties. |
| 1:55.6 | The United Nations says more than a thousand people have been killed in the last 30 days. The majority it says |
| 2:02.5 | were civilians. There is food in Gaza. This is a bakery, hot, puffed up pitters, roll out of the |
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