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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. So instead, the US plans to go round its main ally in the Middle East. In his State of the Union speech tonight, President Biden will announce that the US military is to build a temporary port in…
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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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‘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 Gaza: Rafah assault to secure ‘total victory’ says Netanyahu
As Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen battle in Gaza, efforts to strike a ceasefire deal have picked up pace.
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Palestinian artist paints Gaza’s loss
We hear so much about the heavy death toll and the destruction of homes and buildings in Gaza but alongside those horrors of war there’s a whole generation of young people who say they’ve lost any hope for the future. Many of their schools and universities have been destroyed – dreams now reduced to the…
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UK-registered cargo ship attacked by Houthis off Yemen coast
The Israeli war cabinet member, Benny Gantz has said the country’s forces will begin an offensive in the southern Gazan city of Rafah next month, if Hamas has not freed the remaining hostages by the start of Ramadan. More than a million Gazans are now sheltering in Rafah, after being forced to flee their homes…
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Panic as Israeli forces storm southern Gaza’s main hospital
Israeli forces have stormed southern Gaza’s main hospital – they claim to be searching for the bodies of hostages.
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Israel Gaza war: Netanyahu tells military to prepare plan to evacuate Rafah
Israel’s Prime Minister has told the military to prepare a plan to evacuate Rafah. More than half of Gaza’s population is currently sheltering in the southern city, crammed next to the border with Egypt.
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Israel-Gaza: Netanyahu says no ceasefire, pledging ‘total victory’ over Hamas
Israel’s Prime Minister has declared that there is no other solution but total victory over Hamas, which he believes is a matter of months away. It deals a blow to hopes of a ceasefire deal between the two sides.
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Inside Rafah: ‘We can feel the house shaking all of the time’, says filmmaker
We spoke to filmmaker Yousef Hammash, who also works for the Norwegian Refugee Council, and is sheltering in Rafah with his family. The signal in and out of Gaza remains very patchy, but we began by asking him how close he is to the new Israeli offensive.