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After days of watching starving people being injured and killed while trying to collect food, Jeremy Lawrence, the United Nations human rights spokesperson, is asked what he and others can do when Israel refuses to change what its doing. "We need to continue speaking out"

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"You couldn't get a bleaker picture than what we've seen over the last few days. 62 people have been killed... merely for trying to access food for their families, for themselves" Jeremy Lawrence, United Nations human rights spokesperson

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"At least 58 Palestinians have been killed across the [Gaza] strip over the past 24 hours"

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"This system was set up by design to fail" Georgia Tacey from Save the Children is asked what she thinks about Israel taking over the distribution of aid & the system they've set up to do it.

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"Life has become incredibly precarious & dangerous here in Gaza, particularly for children after this 3 month blockade & the indiscriminate attacks on civilians and aid workers" Georgia Tacey from Save the Children speaking from Gaza

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The Israeli govt spokesperson is asked about people & govts who say what Israel is doing is genocide. The spokesperson says its a modern day blood libel & leads to attacks on Jews. He then accuses the interviewer of siding with Hamas.

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The Israeli govt spokesperson is confronted with the fact Israel has established 4 aid distribution sites in Gaza (none in the north) while the UN had 400 Israeli govt spokesperson: The UN want Hamas to stay in power, Hamas is in cahoots with the UN, the UN has to be removed

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Israeli govt spokesperson: ".. you need to verify, do your jobs" "We would love to verify this, but international journalists are not allowed into Gaza. Why not?" "... our priority is getting our hostages out, not Skys journalists in... real journalists enter Gaza with the IDF"

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A Palestinian girl: "My mother went with because of the hunger, because we were hungry... they took the dearest thing to us" Barbara Plett Usher: "The UN says Palestinians are faced with a grim choice, between the threat of starvation & the risk of being killed"

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Go and try and get food from an Israeli distribution site and risk being shot & killed, or don't and risk starving to death. Rachael Cummings from Save the Children speaking from Gaza

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Well done to Dominic Waghorn for mentioning his colleagues in Gaza who are being killed by Israel. As ever, the fact we're having to congratulate a journalist for reporting the facts is an indictment of the sorry state of our mainstream media

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UNICEFSs Rosalia Bollen asks, if you're a single mum with 2 young kids how can you get aid? You can't. But Israels aid distribution isn't about helping Palestinians survive. Its about keeping them in a permanent state of starvation, controlling them, moving them, & killing them

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"There are allegations.. witnesses describe.. doctors have described.. the Hamas run civil defence agency have said.. the Israeli army have said.. we've asked the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation & the Israeli army for comment on this.." BBC Verify consists of around 60 journalists

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So now people don't die in Gaza, they die in "Hamas controlled Gaza"

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19 months into Israels genocide and our mainstream media is still going with 'Hamas run Gaza health ministry' But when they say "Israel denies..." they never tell us Israel is led by a wanted war criminal, do they?

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A 5 year boy has been rescued after being trapped for hours under the rubble of his home. Israel is waging war on kids & the UK is helping them do it.

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"The Israeli forces opened fire randomly, shooting Palestinians in the upper part of their body, using quadcopters..." Hind Khoudary reports on Israel shooting people who were trying to collect the meagre aid Israel is allowing into the strip.

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We're being told Russia will invade unless we spend billions more on weapons. They want us to be in a permanent state of fear while the defence industry extracts billions & in a few years Healey will be sitting on the board of a defence company while the rest of us sit in poverty

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"The bullets came from the tanks" British surgeon Goher Rahbour is currently working at Nasser hospital in Gaza and he operated on people who were shot while trying to collect aid. He tells Sky News that they were clear - the IDF shot them.

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NHS surgeon Goher Rahbour is currently working at Nasser hospital. "What do you see of Hamas?" "Zero... what we're seeing is kids... a little girl with her foot hanging off.. a kid with his leg cut off at the knee.. another kid with shrapnel in their chest"

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NHS surgeon Goher Rahbour is currently one of several British doctors working at Nasser hospital in Gaza and the interviewer asks him how he & his team are coping. Goher prefers to talk about the strength of the Palestinian doctors.

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"The Hamas run civil defence agency says Israeli troops killed 19 people... waiting to gain access to the aid hub... any response from Israel?" The reporter tells us Israels response, but forgets to mention they have a record of lying to cover up what they've done

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Kevin Maguire is spot on here - the two child benefit cap is a cruel and callous policy that blights children's lives forever. And that is incredibly costly for society in the long run. And lets remember, Keir Starmer suspended Labour MPs for voting to scrap it! #GMB

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Susanna Reid: "The govt kept telling us there was a £22bn black hole & that's why they had to withdraw welfare benefits... but when it comes to war & defence we've suddenly got the money... the phrase that is used is warfare rather than welfare" #GMB

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Kevin Maguire: If you lift kids out of poverty, their lives will benefit. If you employ more teachers you improve education. If you employ more doctors & nurses you improve the NHS. But if you build a few more submarines are we really any safer? #GMB

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"Israeli forces have killed people waiting for food in Gaza for a fourth morning in a row. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the aid distribution centres backed by the US & Israel have become death traps"

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"The govt are calling it the biggest review of the water industry since privatisation" Except the govt established review is deliberately not looking at or considering ending privatisation & taking the industry back into public ownership.

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#GMB pitching working people vs families with kids in poverty. Except two thirds of kids in poverty are in households where somebody works The question should be 'is it fair for billionaires to pick up the cost of lifting kids out of poverty', & I think most people would say yes

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"We were already seeing ethnic cleansing.. we could see from the blockade of aid, & the destruction of buildings and health facilities & the killing of civilians that this is ethnic cleansing" Claire Manera from MSF

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Claire Manera from MSF is asked about the "incident where so many people have been killed and injured". The interviewer is talking about yesterday, when Israel massacred people who were trying to collect aid.

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On Radio 5 last night Stephen Nolan spoke to British surgeon Victoria Rose, who is working in Gaza "Are you operating on more people tomorrow?" "Yes, I've got a list of 10, but that will probably increase" "And what type of operations?" ".. people who have been blown up"

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Stephen Nolan "You sound angry" Victoria Rose "I am.. the footage is everywhere. I don't understand why we are still actively supporting it. This is the needless killing of thousands of children" "But we are not actively supporting it" "We are by financing weaponry to Israel"

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On Radio 5 last night British surgeon Victoria Rose, who is working in Gaza, spoke to Stephen Nolan & called out his programme & the UK media for using the phrase 'Hamas run health service'. After providing the BBCs justification for doing this, Nolan told her, "you sound angry"

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On Radio 5 last night Stephen Nolan spoke to British surgeon Victoria Rose, who is working in Gaza "Have you seen dead children? "I see dead children every day..." "Shot? "Yes... in March I saw a child shot in the head once a week. Shot in the head once a week"

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"Safe passage... opening of the borders... use our established distribution points to get that aid to people as quickly as possible.. people also need basic services - water, fuel, shelter, healthcare" Sam Rose from UNRWA on whats needed in Gaza.

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Sam Rose from UNRWA explains that the organisation has a proven track record of delivering aid to Palestinians across the Gaza strip. Which is of course one of the reasons why Israel is trying to stop them doing it.

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"Its been horrific.. the killing of these people, desperate people trying to get aid, the response to that - an outright denial of any incident..." Sam Rose from UNRWA on events yesterday, when Israel massacred people trying to collect aid

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A report on the well established guidelines for delivering humanitarian aid & why Israels plan doesn't meet them.

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Following the massacre by Israel yesterday, many of the injured were taken to Nasser hospital. British doctor Milena Angelova-Chee is working there and describes what happened.

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Theres footage, multiple witnesses testimonies, & the dead & wounded were taken to the hospital. On the other hand Israel, which has been murdering people for 19mths & has a history of lying to cover up what they've done, says they didnt do it Competing narratives, the BBC says.

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Israel lies.

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"Geoff Hoon.. lets just set this all in a bit of context" Hoon was found guilty of breaking lobbying rules after promising he could access & pass on info from the MoD. He was stripped of his parliamentary pass & sacked from his position at NATO. Context like that, you mean?

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"Yesterday was one of the worst days I've ever spent in Gaza" Claire Manera from MSF speaking from Nasser hospital, where victims of yesterdays massacre by Israel were taken.

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"The sites are in extremely dangerous areas in a red zone & the distance is very far, & once they get there they have to fight for the food that they can get & then they're being shot at" Claire Manera from MSF on how Israel distributes the tiny amounts of aid its letting in

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Claire Manera from MSF speaking from Nasser hospital in Gaza on the challenges Palestinian healthcare workers are facing

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Speaking from Nasser hospital, where victims of yesterdays massacre by Israel, Claire Manera from MSF explains that healthcare workers are donating blood to try and keep patients alive (theres a shortage because people suffering from malnutrition are often unable to donate)

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Claire Manera from MSF: "It is a man made disaster... there's children in the hallways and its horrific.. they're in agony. What we need is for this to stop immediately, and for the world to take a stand right now"

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"Israeli forces have bombed northern Gazas only dialysis centre [it] was serving more than 160 patients with kidney disease. This attack comes just wks after the site reopened after a previous assault. At least 41% of Palestinians with kidney failure have died during Israels war"

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Overnight Israel bombed a tent in Al Mawasi while the family inside were asleep, killing 4 Palestinians. Hind Khoudary reporting on the attack a few minutes ago.

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Robert Jenrick claims one of the people he approached on the tube told him he was carrying a knife but he didn't report it to the police because "its not about me, the video" Susanna Reed: "you made it all about you, the video was literally all about you" #GMB

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