Red Cross chief: 'Gaza worse than hell on Earth'

红十字会负责人:“加沙比人间地狱更甚。”

Global News Podcast

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2025-06-04

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The head of the International Red Cross says the situation in Gaza has become 'worse than hell on Earth'. Also: The search for South Africa's illegal mining boss, and could we see data centres in space one day?
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Jeanette Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 4th of June,

  • these are our main stories.

  • The Red Cross tells the BBC that Gaza is worse than hell on earth after dozens of Palestinians were killed trying to reach aid sites in recent days.

  • We have a special report on the man accused of masterminding illegal mining operations in South Africa.

  • The Australian woman who cooked a deadly mushroom lunch tells a court how she threw up the meal.

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  • A place worse than hell on earth.

  • That's the assessment of the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross talking about the situation in Gaza right now.

  • Mirjana Spoljaric told the BBC that Palestinians have been stripped of human dignity and that international humanitarian law is being hollowed out.

  • Her comments follow the killing this week of dozens of Palestinians who were trying to reach food distribution centres set up by a controversial new US and Israeli-backed organisation which has taken over the role of handing out aid in Gaza from experienced agencies like the Red Cross.

  • The group, called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,

  • has suspended its operations now for a day,

  • but there have been more deaths in Gaza,

  • with 12 Palestinians killed after an Israeli strike hit a school housing displaced people.

  • We'll have more on that in a moment, but first let's hear more from the head of the ICRC.

  • She was speaking to our international editor, Jeremy Bowen.