Israel blames 'technical error' for Gaza children's deaths

以色列将加沙儿童死亡归咎于“技术错误”

Global News Podcast

2025-07-14

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The IDF has blamed a "technical error" for a Gaza strike that hit metres from the target, killing six children collecting water. Also: the prisoner who escaped hidden in a bag, and the beetles who love eating books.
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  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Janet Jaleel and in the early hours of Monday 14th July, these are our main stories.

  • Israel blames the so-called technical error for an attack that killed 10 Palestinians,

  • most of them children, who'd been queuing for water at a Gaza refugee camp.

  • The Iranian president is reported to have been wounded when Israel bombed a secret underground headquarters during last month's war.

  • The former Nigerian president and military ruler Mohamed Oubahari has died at the age of 82.

  • Also in this podcast...

  • When I see a book chewed up by a beetle,

  • no matter how many copies are published and how replaceable the book is,

  • a piece of culture has been lost.

  • We hear how hungry beetles in Hungary have wreaked havoc on the country's oldest and most valuable collection of books.

  • Ten people, six of them children,

  • who'd been waiting to fill water containers at a distribution point in Gaza,

  • were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday.

  • The Israeli army issued a statement blaming a technical error,

  • saying it works to mitigate harm to civilians as much as possible.

  • With no let up in Israeli attacks on the devastated territory,

  • Dozens more Palestinians have been killed this weekend.

  • The NASA hospital says 24 of them were killed near an aid distribution site on Saturday.