2025-07-22
30 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Tuesday the 22nd of July these are our main stories.
Israel is facing heightened international criticism over its actions in Gaza.
Nearly 30 countries have issued a joint statement condemning what they called the drip feeding of aid to Palestinians.
One of Jeffrey Epstein's victims has called on the Trump administration to release more information on the late sex offender.
Bangladesh is mourning at least 20 people,
many of them who died when an Air Force training plane crashed into a school compound.
Also in this podcast,
a British woman agrees to return a painting her husband bought in good faith to the Italian museum from where it was stolen decades ago.
She gets nothing for giving it back, but...
She doesn't have to compensate the people of Belluno for having their painting for half a century.
She is a good person.
Not everyone will do this.
We begin in Gaza where an Israeli ground offensive in the center of the territory is reported to have killed several people and destroyed homes and mosques in the city of Diabala.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled after the Israeli military issued an evacuation order on Sunday.
The UN Humanitarian Affairs Agency says the offensive will deal a further blow to efforts to keep people alive.
Families of Israeli hostages, some of whom are believed to be being held in the area,
have said the operation is endangering the lives of their loved ones.
Meanwhile, many of those now fleeing Deir al-Bala have been displaced multiple times.
Lila Ezzat al-Shana and her family, two of whom are disabled,