33 die of starvation in Gaza, say Hamas health officials

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

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  I'm Janet Jaleel and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 22nd of July these are our main stories.

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  Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says dozens of people have died of starvation in the past two days and the World Health Organization has denounced Israel

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  for attacking its aid operations,

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  calling it a pattern of systematic destruction.

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  Breonna Taylor, a case that sparked widespread Black Lives Matter protests.

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  A crackdown against keeping big cats as pets is launched in Pakistan.

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  We start in Gaza, where the Hamas-run health ministry says 33 people,

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  12 of them children, have starved to death in the past two days.

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  The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says that members of its staff,

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  as well as doctors and humanitarian workers, are fainting while on duty in Gaza because of hunger.

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  Juliet Tuma is UNRWA's communications director.

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  Gaza is a hell on earth.

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  Our own staff at UNRWA are fainting while on duty due to hunger and exhaustion.

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