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UK government under pressure to stop selling arms to Israel after aid worker deaths
The government here is coming under increasing pressure to make a decision on the sale of arms to Israel following the deadly attack on a convoy of aid workers in Gaza.
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Gaza aid: Collective moral compass is ‘broken’, says children charity founder
We spoke to Arwa Damon, president and founder of INARA – a charity she set up almost a decade ago largely to provide care to children injured or traumatised by war.
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Israel says body of hostage recovered by special forces in night operation
Israel says its special forces have recovered the body of a man they say was killed while being held captive in Gaza.
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Israel Gaza: teens trapped in Al-Shifa hospital with no food (dubbed)
Israeli troops have been raiding Al Shifa Hospital since Monday, targeting militants they claim are inside the hospital – something Hamas has repeatedly denied. We reported earlier in the week on teenager Rafiq and his younger sister Rafif. They, along with hundreds of Palestinians are in critical condition and still trapped inside the hospital, too…
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Blocked Gaza aid trucks a ‘moral outrage’ says UN chief
The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has called the queue of aid-trucks waiting to be allowed into Gaza where people face starvation, ‘a moral outrage’. He was visiting the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, not far from Rafah, where almost half of Gaza’s population have been displaced and where Israel is threatening to launch…
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Famine in Gaza ‘more and more likely’, says Foreign Affairs Committee Chair
We’re joined by Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Conservative MP Alicia Kearns.
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Israel-Gaza war: life on the brink of famine at Ramadan
As Ramadan begins, the need for more humanitarian aid in Gaza is becoming increasingly desperate. As countries step up airdrops, the first ship due to set sail on a new maritime aid corridor was stalled today due to ‘technical difficulties’. It is northern Gaza which faces the most acute need, cut off from the rest…
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Gaza aid sea corridor could open this weekend, says EU Commission President
With the UN warning that a quarter of Gaza’s population is on the brink of famine, five people waiting for aid were reported killed today, hit by an international air drop when parachutes failed to open. As Israeli attacks continued, Britain called on Tel Aviv to allow more aid in by land and the European…
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Israel-Gaza: US plans to build port in Gaza to ship in supplies as Israel prevents more aid by land
Growing calls for Israel to allow desperately-needed aid into Gaza appear to be falling on deaf ears.
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Growing fears aid won’t reach Gaza after delivery deaths
There are growing fears that yesterday’s deadly incident in Gaza – in which more than a hundred people died trying to get food from a truck convoy – could make it even harder to deliver much-needed aid.
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How Hamas funds its $1 billion war chest
Iran is thought to support Hamas financially to the tune of 100 million dollars a year. But most of the one billion dollar war chest the group is thought to have accumulated, comes from investments. From tower blocks in Turkey to copper mines in Sudan, Hamas’ financial network spreads far and wide, carefully constructed to…
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‘We are doing everything… to get people out of harm’s way’, says IDF spokesperson
We were joined from Tel Aviv by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, a spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces.
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‘Hamas doesn’t have any interest in a two state solution’, says former State Department diplomat
We spoke to Aaron David Miller, who’s a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a former State Department diplomat who’s spent decades negotiating for peace in the Middle East. We began by asking how an event like today’s killing of Gazans waiting for food, could impact the ceasefire talks.
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Over 100 dead as Israel opens fire on Gazans scrambling for food, say Palestinians
In Gaza, health ministry numbers show the death toll has now passed thirty thousand. And growing desperation has led to even more tragedy near Gaza City. Palestinian health officials say Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd waiting for food aid, killing 112 people and injuring 760 others. It happened at around 4am local time…
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Israel and Hamas downplay progress on ceasefire deal
Israel and Hamas have both downplayed the US President’s suggestion that a Gaza ceasefire could be nailed down by next week.