Global News Podcast: Israel military confirms deadly strike in Gaza refugee camp
BBC 11/1/23 - Episode Page - 35m - PDF Transcript
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I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Wednesday the first of November these are our
main stories. Israel says it's killed a Hamas commander in Gaza's largest refugee camp,
where airstrikes have reportedly left dozens of civilians dead. In Britain.
There was effectively no plans or any plan even to get a plan.
An inquiry into its handling of the COVID pandemic hears scathing evidence from close
aides to the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Pakistan's Human Rights Commission
warns of a looming humanitarian crisis as a deadline approaches for undocumented
Afghans to leave the country.
Also in this podcast.
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A huge explosion at Gaza's largest refugee camp is reported to have killed dozens of people
and wounded many more. The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out airstrikes on the
Jabalia refugee camp to eliminate one of the commanders behind the Hamas attack on October
the 7th. Daniel Higari is a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces.
The strike on Ibrahim Bihari caused the collapse of many structures there
because there was a wide underground network in Jabala, which is used for conducting terror
attacks against our troops. All the infrastructure collapsed and many terrorists were killed.
The Jabalia refugee camp is an area that Israel has declared an evacuation zone,
but many Palestinian civilians have refused to flee their homes. Footage from the scene shows
people pulling bodies from the rubble in the middle of a massive crater. Our correspondent in Jerusalem
Paul Adams sent this report on the attack.
The images from Jabalia are shocking. A vast crater surrounded by rubble and shattered buildings
and hundreds of people searching the wreckage where the dead and the terribly injured lie
waiting to be recovered. We're filling bags with children, he cries, replacing them in bags.
Seated amid the rubble, a boy and girl cry out for their father. Local journalists said
they counted at least 47 bodies after an airstrike that demolished several houses,
in this the largest of the Gaza Strip's eight refugee camps.
Outside the nearby Indonesia hospital, a long line of body bags.
Some say the number of dead could be much higher.
Inside, wards and corridors are packed with the injured. A doctor, Sueb Edeis,
desperately took her. Large number of injured has come to us after the large explosion that
shook the entire Jabalia refugee camp. Hundreds of injuries. They were just in their homes.
They were targeted while they were in their homes. Children, women, elderly. We have no idea
what to do. They are injured everywhere. This was a huge explosion. A vast column of black smoke
clearly visible from inside Israel at about the time the first chaotic reports came in.
One weapons expert asked about the crater, said it was consistent with the sorts of bombs the
Israeli Air Force is using to hit targets buried deep underground. Israel said it had carried out
a wide scale strike on what it called underground terror infrastructure embedded beneath buildings.
It said the strike had killed a Hamas commander and a large number of his men.
But Palestinian groups, including Hamas, are still firing rockets into Israel.
Less than 20 miles from Gaza in the coastal city of Ashdod,
four people were wounded in two separate attacks.
Paul Adams, as the war in Gaza has raged, we've talked about the millions of Palestinians trapped
there who are under constant bombardment. The Hamas run health ministry says more than eight
and a half thousand people have been killed in the past three and a half weeks. This is a story
of just one man, Khalil Qadr, a father who lost all his children in an airstrike, as told to BBC
journalist Mahmoud Basam in Gaza. Foreign journalists are not allowed to enter Gaza,
so Ferkel Keane has sent us this report from Jerusalem. You may find it distressing.
Khalil Qadr walks alone. The four children who might have played and danced along the road
beside him are dead. Up ahead is the mound of rubble where his house once stood,
and where 11 members of his family were killed over a week ago.
The house is next to Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafa, where every day of this war,
the staff received the wounded and the dead. And where Khalil Qadr was working,
the night his family became casualties. A massive bomb exploded that night.
He tells us, standing on broken concrete and twisted metal.
And my neighbors started showing up at the hospital, so I asked where was the bombing,
and they told me it was around my house. I had to run to the house to check on the family.
I tried calling, but no one was answering. And as you can see, the whole house was bombed.
Doug from the rubble, dead, his 70-year-old father, his two sisters, his brother,
his brother's wife, their two daughters, and his four children, Ibrahim nine years old,
a mile five, Keenan two and a half, and Rosa 18 months.
As he walks, he picks out fragments of a life that no longer exists.
Some blue fabric catches his eye. A pajama set, baby Rosa wore in the days before the bombing.
He shows us a slow motion video of Rosa in the blue pajamas, dancing with her cousins.
They sway gently, smiling through an afternoon from another time.
Another video, four cousins on a swing.
Khalili had known war before in Gaza and worried about raising a family here. Yet Ibrahim, Amal,
Keenan, and Rosa were born to a couple who dreamed that their children would know a better life.
I remember in the 2014 war, my wife was pregnant. And our neighbors were bombed.
She was in her seventh month and almost fell down the stairs from the blast,
and I thought to myself, how can I bring children into this life?
I had a dream for each of my kids. Ibrahim was first in his school, and I dreamed of seeing
him as a doctor one day. Amal was very creative. She loved drawing, and she used to show me her
drawings, and sometimes I would draw with her. Keenan was very playful. Everyone loved him,
and he used to take care of his little sister. He was always there to protect Rosa,
and would say, don't touch her. She's my baby. And now they are all gone.
That report by Fergal Keane. The UN's Children's Agency, UNICEF, has warned the constant bombardment
will cause Gaza's young population to suffer generational trauma. James Elder is a UNICEF
spokesperson. Like many others, we have pleaded for the killing of children to stop.
Now, our gravest fears about the reported numbers of children killed, going from dozens into hundreds
into thousands, have been realized in just a fortnight. The numbers are appalling reportedly now
more than 3,450 children have been killed. Staggeringly, this number rises significantly
every single day. Gaza has become a graveyard for children. The Israeli President Isaac Herzog
has strongly defended the military operations in Gaza, insisting Israel is doing its best
to limit civilian casualties. He said it had to target Hamas' infrastructure, including homes,
because the group was using them to launch rockets. President Herzog was speaking to our
Chief International Correspondent Lise Dusset in Jerusalem. As Israel intensifies its military
operations in Gaza, the number of civilian deaths keeps rising, including thousands of children.
President Herzog said no one wanted innocent Gazans to pay a price,
but he insisted that Israel had a right to defend itself. Missiles fly on us to kill us.
What am I supposed to do by the right of self-defense? I have to eradicate the infrastructure
that launches the missiles. More than 8,000 dead, and last night we heard nearly 70 percent
are women and children. Why have they had to pay the price? Nobody wants them to pay the price,
God forbid. My heart goes out truly. But when you just deal with the right of self-defense,
what kind of self-defense do I have when people went in to our territory? Mr. Herzog said Israel
was urging civilians to move to southern Gaza for their safety. He rejected UN warnings that no part
of Gaza was now safe. The President kept returning to the same point, that after Hamas' atrocities
in southern Israel on October 7th, Israel, he said, was a different nation in unprecedented agony.
He dismissed warnings even from Israel's closest allies that its military operations
could create even more danger for Israel.
Please do set reporting. Police in New York say they're questioning a person about anti-Semitic
threats to Jewish students at Cornell University. Over the weekend, posts that used slurs and
threatened a mass shooting on campus appeared online. The FBI is treating the incident as a
potential hate crime. Neda Tulfik reports. No further information was released about
the person of interest or the investigation from either Cornell University, the police,
or New York's governor, Cathy Hockel, who on Monday visited students and assured them the
state was taking the threat seriously. In a statement, she said the individual was currently
in custody for questioning and that she was committed to combating hate and bias. The
Ivy League school has heightened security at its Jewish center. The Biden administration announced
yesterday new measures, including sending cybersecurity experts to schools to combat a
sharp rise in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents on campuses.
Neda Tulfik. Anti-war protesters have repeatedly interrupted a hearing on U.S. military aid at
the Congress building in Washington. The group raised hands, covered with red paint, and shouted
during the Senate hearing as the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, made the case for more
funds to support Israel and Ukraine. From Washington, here's our correspondent, Gary O'Donohue.
Around two dozen protesters, their hands daubed in red paint, stood up during the hearing calling
for a ceasefire in Gaza, before being dragged out. Secretary of State Tony Blinken acknowledged
what he called the passions in the room, but said it was imperative for the U.S. to back its ally,
Israel. Mr. Blinken was also asked about humanitarian aid for Gaza, and whether $9 billion
designated for the conflict would all end up in the hands of people who needed it rather than
being siphoned off by Hamas. There will inevitably be some spillage. We haven't seen it to date,
but I think we have to anticipate that. But the overwhelming majority of the assistance,
thus far, is getting to people who need it, and we need more. On top of the humanitarian aid,
the administration is asking for $14 billion of extra security funding for Tel Aviv,
as well as $61 billion for Ukraine. But some elements in the Republican Party,
opposed to more money for Ukraine, want the issues separated, setting up a congressional
battle in the coming days. Gary O'Donohue. Meanwhile, the U.S. on Tuesday that another
66 aid trucks had entered Gaza over the last 24 hours, the largest delivery in a single day so
far since Israel imposed its siege on Gaza. The White House national security spokesman,
John Kirby, said food, water and medicine were allowed through, but he said the needs remained
huge and more deliveries were planned. It's the highest single-day delivery so far,
but again, it's a trickle compared to what needs to get in, and we're going to keep working that
very, very hard. Dozens of more trucks are expected to clear. We're obviously watching
this as closely as we can, and we hope that they all get in. The authorities in Egypt have said
they will take in about 80 severely injured Palestinians so they can be treated in Egyptian
hospitals. While international attention has been focused on Gaza, concerns are growing about the
other Palestinian territory, the occupied West Bank. The Shin Bet Security Service is reported
to have warned the Israeli government that violence could erupt there, as clashes between settlers
and Palestinians have increased. The UN's humanitarian office says violence by Israeli
settlers in the West Bank has risen since the Hamas attack. It's recorded more than 170 attacks
by settlers during that period. The violence has led to the deaths of at least 120 Palestinians.
One Israeli soldier has also been killed. The US has called on Israel to protect the Palestinians
living in the West Bank from militant settlers, as the White House spokesman John Kirby explained.
The President spoke to this himself, specifically talking about how dangerous it is that extremists
in the West Bank are killing innocent Palestinians, and it's got to stop. It's deeply concerning.
Each and every one of them is a tragedy too. Roy Yellen is a spokesperson for BetSlem,
an Israeli organization which monitors human rights violations committed by Israel in the
occupied Palestinian territory. Evan Davis asked him what's been going on in the West Bank
over the last three weeks. Since October 7th, we are documenting an unprecedented
optic in settler violence events in the West Bank, all over the West Bank, but particularly
in the most vulnerable, hurting communities where this pressure is really helping Israel achieve
a goal of forcibly displacing those communities from their homes and taking over their lands.
When you say you're documenting a rise in settler violence, can you give me an example
of what you mean, what we're talking about, what form this violence takes?
So anything from threatening people, from burying their access to their land, to destruction of
their property, cutting down their olive trees, or hurting their cattle, including physical violence
against those Palestinians. And we also documented incidents in the past three weeks where Palestinian
farmers were shot, shot to death by settlers. Killed by settlers. Can I ask, is there a judicial
process that would bear out these reports? I mean, I've seen things on social media and one never
knows quite what to believe or what the full story was. What is happening in these cases?
Because you're presumably reporting them or they are reported. They are reported, but the Israeli
policy for many years, for dozens of years, is actually to ignore and to provide settlers
with impunity from justice. This is why we are not looking at settler violence as something that is
coming from the ground, from the field, from below. It is actually sanctioned by the Israeli
government and it just serves as another means of taking over Palestinian land. In addition to
other more formal means like bureaucratic means, restrictions of movement, bearing Palestinians
from accessing very basic infrastructure like electricity and water, not providing them with
building permits, forcing them to build illegally and then demolishing their homes.
And in general, this policy is aimed in creating what is turned into international law as a
coercive environment. Roy, to what extent would the government accept the narrative that you've
just given me? Would they accept that they're not really trying to stop settler violence against
Palestinians or would they say that these are skirmishes that are occurring with provocations
on both sides and that they're not getting drawn to? I'm trying to get my head around
what they would say to what you're telling me. This government, it would be a little bit too
little too late with anything, they might say, because they have very public expressions of
support for this type of violence. We had in the beginning, on the very first month for this
government being in office, the minister of finance said to wipe out an entire Palestinian
city, Chawara, in the context of a pogrom that said, you know, hundreds of settlers committed
there. So this is not, you know, thinking in a conspiratorial way. There are very, very clear
expression of support for this policy. What do ordinary Israelis, and I know that Israel is
the Jewish communities of Israel are not all one and they're not all identical in their
thinking, of course. But what do other Israelis think of your group and what you're telling us,
Roy? Well, I think we're not miss popular now because of course there's a lot of anger towards
Palestinian in general in Israeli society. We've just, or we're still actually experiencing
atrocious war crimes committed against us by Hamas and other groups of militant Palestinians
from Gaza that enter Israel and committed the most horrible crimes. And as a group that advocates
for the rights of Palestinians, of course, we are not the most popular. That said, I think that
most Israelis are definitely opposing the settler violence and what goes on in the West Bank. They
don't support it in any way. Roy Yellen, a spokesman for Betsalem. Still to come on the podcast.
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wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Welcome back to the Global News Podcast. The Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan has warned the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of undocumented
migrants, mostly Afghans, could trigger a humanitarian crisis. It said the decision
by the Pakistani government amounted to forced repatriation. The Human Rights Commission said
people needed a chance to obtain legal papers. It had urged the UN to persuade the government to
extend the 1st of November deadline for migrants to leave Pakistan voluntarily. Thousands of
Afghans have rushed to the border ahead of the cutoff date. An estimated 1.7 million people
are facing expulsion. One migrant, Sarah, not her real name, describes what might happen to her
if she returns to Afghanistan. If we go back to Afghanistan, we will be killed by Taliban,
or we will be present. There is not any human rights agencies. There is not any UN agencies,
or there is not any United Nations to hear us. Today, we made a protest in Islamabad,
at least raise our voices. When I moved here before my coming in Pakistan on December 2021,
Taliban, they wanted to kidnap my 11-year-old son. And this is somehow that this is a very
difficult option, not just for me, even for my family, for my kids, that if we go back there,
the whole family life would be in danger. Our South Asia regional editor,
Ambrasa Netirajan, explained why after decades of hosting Afghan refugees,
the Pakistani government was doing this now. The relations between the Pakistani government
and the Afghan Taliban were sent in recent months after a series of attacks on Pakistani
security forces by Pakistani Taliban militants. Now, one of the reasons given by the government was
that if they look at the number of suicide attacks in the country out of 24, according to the
Pakistani authorities, nearly 14 were involving Afghan nationals. So that was one of the reasons
why they were pointing out about why they have taken this decision, asking all undocumented
migrants, not only Afghans they say, but then most of them are Afghan nationals and it is
estimated to be about 1.7 million people. Yes, a huge number of Afghans because Pakistan has for
decades welcomed people fleeing from the wars in Afghanistan. So this is going to be a huge
operation taking these people back. Tens of thousands of people have sought refuge in Pakistan.
Many of them have married people in Pakistan. They've set up business. Some have their kids.
They were born and brought up in Pakistan in the last 20 or 30 years. But many of them could not
get their documents. It takes time to get your documents. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes
months. Now the Pakistani authorities are insisting that they are focusing only on those
undocumented and that this has created panic among many of these people. As we speak, thousands of
people are rushing to the border because the government has asked them to leave voluntarily
up to the 1st of November and then they say they would start the crackdown. And many Afghan agencies,
they say that already hundreds of people have been rounded up by police. So people are now
trying to wind up their businesses and they are complaining because the situation in Afghanistan
is not conducive for a business and you're going to live under the Taliban administration. So they
are now caught in between the situation of where to go, where we are going from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
But many people are making this choice to go back to the country.
But a very difficult choice especially for women and for families with girls.
Yes, those who have been studying in Pakistan. So what kind of schools they're going to have
back in Afghanistan? As you know, the Taliban have banned most of the education for girls,
especially from secondary school onwards. So it is going to be a challenge. One,
two, women can work in Pakistan. They can even do business. But when they go into Afghanistan,
what kind of opportunities are there? Because the Taliban have shut most of the job opportunities
except for certain fields for women. And Brassan Atarajan. An official inquiring to the COVID pandemic
in the UK has heard a claim that the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson believed older people
should accept their fate so the young could boost the economy. The statement came from the diary
of the former Chief Scientific Advisor Patrick Valance. Two of the former Prime Minister's top
aides have also been giving evidence. One of them, the former Downing Street Director of
Communications, Lee Cain, said Mr Johnson didn't have the right abilities to deal with the COVID-19
pandemic. It was the wrong crisis for this Prime Minister's skillset,
which is different, I think, from not potentially being up to the job of being Prime Minister.
I think if you look at something like COVID, you need quick decisions and you need people to hold
the course and, you know, have that strength of mind to do that over a sustained period of time.
So I felt it was the wrong challenge for him emotionally. The former Prime Minister's Chief
Advisor Dominic Cummings was asked why Mr Johnson hadn't been told of the growing crisis when he
was on holiday in mid-February 2020, a time when many other countries were realising and
responding to the scale of the public health emergency. I did not regard, and neither did other
people, we did not think that asking the PM to come back and talk to Cobra or Whitehall in general
at that point would have been productive. In fact, I thought it would have been counterproductive
because I thought he would have said to everybody what he thought at the time, which was
this is another swine flu, it's all another rubbish media hoax, it'll work, nothing will
happen, blah, blah, blah, blah. The real danger is the economy getting talked into a slump.
Our political editor Chris Mason gave us this analysis of the inquiry so far.
The overriding impression of what we're seeing at the COVID inquiry this week is one of dysfunction.
Claims of a shambles at the heart of government. At just the moment, government was more important
to more people than it had been for decades and decades. This inquiry matters because
accountability matters. It matters so lessons can be learned given the number of dead for a start.
And it matters too for the reputations of a former Prime Minister and the current one.
Boris Johnson's character is being routinely and consistently trashed by those who worked
most closely with him. Mr Johnson and his successor but one Rishi Sunak will also give
evidence that dredging up of Mr Sunak's decisions then, still with the capacity to contribute to
his political fortunes now. Chris Mason, King Charles has told an audience in Kenya that there's
no excuse for the atrocities committed by the British authorities during the colonial era.
The King is on a state visit at a time when the UK is keen to improve ties with Kenya.
But the King did not formally apologise for past abuses, a gesture many activists have
demanded. An estimated 10,000 people were killed during Kenya's fight for independence.
From Nairobi, our Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Wichelt, sent this report.
At the Presidential Palace in Nairobi, a ceremonial welcome and 21 gun salute for King Charles and Queen
Camilla at the start of this state visit. The King then laid a wreath at the tomb of the
unknown warrior in Uhuru Gardens. It was here 70 years ago that the British authorities set up a camp
where they detained some of those involved in an uprising against colonial rule known as the
Mao Mao Rebellion. The uprising was led largely by members of the Kikuyu tribe, many of whom had
been displaced from their land. There were atrocities on both sides, but the uprising was crushed with
great brutality. Mao Mao suspects were tortured, some were castrated, more than a thousand were
executed. Tonight in Nairobi's State House, the former seat of the British colonial governors,
King Charles has addressed a state banquet and acknowledged the pain felt by many Kenyans
during the uprising. He spoke with feeling he expressed sorrow and regret, but stopped short
of offering an apology. The wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow
and the deepest regret. There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed
against Kenyans as they waged a painful struggle for independence and sovereignty,
and for that there can be no excuse. As King Charles must reflect the British government's
policy. Ten years ago it offered £20 million in compensation for the handling of the Mao Mao
uprising, but there is a strong feeling that an apology cannot be made for actions for which
the present generation was not responsible. The palace will be hoping tonight's remarks will draw
a line under the matter. Both governments are keen to look to the future. Nicholas Wichel
Following in the footsteps of Qatar, it now looks as if Saudi Arabia will host the men's
football world cup in 2034 after Australia decided not to bid for the event. No other
countries had shown interest in staging the tournament ahead of the FIFA deadline on Tuesday.
Our sports editor, Dan Roan, says there are conflicting views about whether Saudi Arabia,
which just a few years ago was being called a pariah for its part in the gruesome murder of
a journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, is a suitable host. If you thought the Winter World Cup in Qatar was
a one-off, then think again. Less than a year since the Middle East staged football showpiece event
for the first time, it's emerged neighbouring Saudi Arabia is set to play host in 2034. Once
again extreme heat is likely to make the traditional summer slot impossible, but anyhow the manager of
Saudi-owned Newcastle United has given the prospect his backing. I think that our trips out there have
been to two different places. Wherever we went was really well organised and we were well looked
after so I think if that's a sign of what a World Cup might look like then I think you can be
rest assured that everything will be structurally really good. With FIFA's president Gianni Infantino
known to be close to the Saudi crown prince, the governing body appeared to pave the way for the
Gulf Kingdom by limiting possible bidders and fast-tracking the process. Saudi Arabia, just like
Qatar, is facing criticism over its human rights record. Steve Coburn is from Amnesty International.
Migrant workers are regularly exploited. Those are the migrant workers that would end up building
stadiums and the other infrastructure. We know that anyone who criticises the regime is imprisoned
and we know that communities are discriminated against so there are huge huge risks in doing
this tournament. In recent years the Saudi government has invested billions of pounds
into a range of sports from football and golf to boxing and Formula One. Insisting the unprecedented
spending is about modernising the kingdom, diversifying its economy and inspiring its people,
but with the World Cup itself now on the horizon the accusations of sports washing will only intensify.
Downrone, here in Britain the way you speak has traditionally been seen as clear proof of your
class and background. Now there's new evidence that the cockney accents spoken in working class
parts of London and the plummy tones of the English upper classes are in decline. Researchers
analyse the voices of nearly 200 young people from across South East England and London
and group them together by how they pronounced vowels. Three new accent categories have emerged
which the researchers say are due to the increased movement of people, the spread of universal
education and a growing emphasis on a so-called correct way of speaking. Our correspondent Zoe
Conway has been taking a listen. Researchers at the University of Essex found that the accent is
dying out among young people in the South East. They've discovered that they no longer sound
like Barbara Windsor. You ain't gonna hit me again we're not gonna go for a second take are we? I said
I think that one didn't work the first time. But nor do they speak posh like the Queen's received
pronunciation. My own family often gather round to watch television as they are at this moment.
Instead one of the researchers Amanda Cole says they identified three dominant new accents. We
recorded young people all aged between 18 and 33 and we then had a computer algorithm that we
developed that essentially like listened as much as you know computer can. The algorithm came up with
three different accents. One in four people they listened to spoke estuary English a sort of
softer version of cockney which means they sound like the singer Adele. Oh my gosh yeah I mean we
weren't supposed to live there this long or like you know while the upper classes are increasingly
talking in S S B E standard southern British English think Prince Harry. Yes of course highly
competitive but for those of people who are asking what was that all about. Multicultural
London English is the third most commonly heard accent in the study as spoken by the rapper Stormzy.
He literally found me and said I've made something for you. Like what the research seems to suggest
is that the link between class and accent is weaker than ever. Zoe Conway reporting on the
rich variety of English accents. And that's all from us for now but there will be a new
edition of the global news podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics
covered you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcastatbbc.co.uk. You can also find us on
X at Global NewsPod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll the producer was Liam McCheffrey
the editor is Karen Martin. I'm Jeanette Jolial until next time goodbye.
Machine-generated transcript that may contain inaccuracies.
The IDF says its jets carried out the attack in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing a Hamas commander; Palestinian officials say dozens of civilians were killed. Also: deportation looms for Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia is set to host the 2034 football World Cup.