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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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Israel has carried out waves of airstrikes and artillery fire in Gaza, reportedly killing at least 60 people, some of them while queuing for aid. Medical officials say about 20 people were killed in an airstrike on a beachfront site in Gaza City. One eyewitness said women and children were present when a warplane fired. What is the strategy of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when it comes to the war in Gaza? Also in the programme: We get a rare glimpse of life in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, under Russian occupation for three years; and we hear from a Norwegian lottery winner who was a millionaire for 15 minutes. (File photo: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement during a visit to the site of the Weizmann Institute of Science, which was hit by an Iranian missile barrage, in the central city of Rehovot, Israel June 20, 2025. Credit: Jack Guez/Pool via Reuters)
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley. |
0:11.2 | The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, can count the recent wave of a tax he ordered on Iran as a big domestic win. |
0:18.9 | Polls suggest more than 80% of Jewish Israelis support what he did |
0:22.5 | and believe is where Israel was victorious. |
0:25.4 | What isn't yet clear is what Mr Netanyahu plans to do next to capitalize on that win, |
0:31.1 | perhaps to realize what he's claimed are new opportunities |
0:34.1 | to secure the release of hostages still being held in Gaza. |
0:38.3 | In the meantime, the Israeli offensive in Gaza continues. |
0:41.6 | At least 60 people have died today, some of them, while queuing for aid. |
0:46.0 | Medical officials say about 20 people were killed on an airstrike on a beachfront cafe. |
0:51.2 | One eyewitness says women and children were present when the war plane fired on the |
0:56.2 | site. This man saw the blast and ran to help. Everyone was happy sitting in the cafe. They were |
1:04.5 | escaping the sadness. Then the missile hit. It tore into the children, the women, the men and the |
1:10.0 | workers. No one was spared. |
1:12.2 | And these Palestinians had gathered at a school in Gaza City, which was hit by an Israeli |
1:16.8 | airstrike. |
1:20.3 | We were sleeping under gas protection in the middle of the night. At 12 o'clock, there was |
1:25.8 | airstrikes. I couldn't go back to sleep when I found the whole |
1:29.3 | school was being evacuated. They said they want to bomb something behind the school. I took the |
1:34.6 | children and went out to the street. Look at us. We're not just numbers and pictures. Every day |
1:41.4 | matters like this. We're human beings. |
1:45.4 | Our Lord created us to live like you, like others. |
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