2025-05-15
32 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritson and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 15th of May, these are our main stories.
The number of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza soars as the population teeters on starvation.
President Putin isn't there, neither is President Trump,
so what hopes are there for the first direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in three years?
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May the 15th is for the Palestinians Nakba, or the catastrophe.
It's today they commemorate the period when around 750,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes during the violence which led to the creation of the State of Israel and the war between Arabs and Jews in 1948. 77 years later,
their descendants in Gaza are facing another catastrophe as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sticks to his promise to destroy Hamas 19 months after the October 7 massacre.
Ahmed Hamad said that civilians in Gaza were helpless.
What we're experiencing now is even worse than the Nakba of 1948.
We've suffered massacres, hunger, killing and repeated displacement.
Now the Israeli military urges us to move to the western part of Gaza, claiming it's a safe zone.
But the reality is that we're attacked no matter where we go.
We fled south to Rafah, only for it to be bombed.
We escaped to Han Yunis and Deir el-Bala, only to see them bombed as well.