WHO condemns Israeli attacks on facilities in Gaza
Newshour
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The World Health Organization says Israel's offensive in central Gaza has compromised its efforts to continue working, after its facilities came under attack. Also on the programme, we speak to the Kenyan human rights activist who was arrested on suspicion of terror offences; and Australia's pristine waters off its south coast have been inundated by a toxic algal bloom.
(Photo: Smoke rises during Israeli strikes amid the Israeli military operation in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, July 21, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:06.9 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. And we're starting the programme in Gaza with one specific |
| 0:13.5 | new development, which comes amid a bigger and ever more alarming picture. The new development has |
| 0:19.7 | been the Israeli assault |
| 0:20.9 | on the central Gazan city of Deraalba, |
| 0:24.1 | which has seen World Health Organization facilities |
| 0:26.2 | attacked staff to tame to the outrage of senior WHO officials. |
| 0:31.6 | We'll get more on that in just a moment. |
| 0:33.6 | But as a measure of the bigger picture, |
| 0:35.3 | well, we have two new statistics today. |
| 0:38.3 | One is from elsewhere in the United Nations saying that since late May, the Israeli military |
| 0:43.7 | has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking aid, figures which the Israel Defence Forces |
| 0:50.7 | dispute. The other statistic comes from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry |
| 0:57.3 | that more than 33 people, including 12 children, have died of malnutrition just in the last two |
| 1:04.7 | days. Asma Mustafa Mustafa is one of those who can attest to the hunger and the insecurity over the |
| 1:10.7 | search for food. |
| 1:11.7 | Asma incidentally won the Global Teacher Award in 2020. |
| 1:16.1 | She's been forced to flee her home in Gaza City, flee westwards to the coast. |
| 1:20.9 | She sent the BBC this voice note. |
| 1:23.2 | I couldn't believe it. This is the ninth time that I am being displaced with my two daughters, |
| 1:28.4 | with my family. I couldn't believe it. We have been hungry for days too. We didn't know where to go |
| 1:34.4 | and we couldn't move. In all Gaza Strip, there is nothing to eat. What's worse is that so-called |
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