Aid agencies warn mass starvation in Gaza is spreading

援助机构警告加沙地带的大规模饥荒正在蔓延

Global News Podcast

2025-07-23

29 分钟
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Dozens of aid agencies accuse Israel of withholding food and say mass starvation in Gaza is spreading. Also: Donald Trump secures a trade deal with Japan, and a couple reunite with their love letters - 60 years later.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Janette Jaleel and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 23rd of July these are our main stories.

  • Aid agencies warn that mass starvation in Gaza is spreading as 10 more deaths from malnutrition are reported.

  • Donald Trump agrees a trade deal with Japan under which the tariffs imposed will be lower than previously threatened.

  • President Zelensky faces major anti-corruption protests as Ukraine prepares for talks with Russia.

  • Also in this podcast... I thought it was the one of Monet.

  • It's had the same value as Monet.

  • We hear how love letters from 60 years ago that were stolen have been returned to the couple who wrote them.

  • More than a hundred international aid agencies and human rights groups are warning that mass starvation is spreading across Gaza.

  • They accuse Israel, which controls all the territory's border crossings,

  • of a siege and of not allowing food inside Gaza to be distributed.

  • Israel denies this.

  • The Hamas-run health ministry says 10 people have died from malnutrition in the past day after reporting more than 30 such deaths on Tuesday.

  • And its civil defence says that since early Wednesday morning,

  • at least 17 Palestinians, including five children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.

  • The Israel defence forces say they have hit more than 100 terror targets across the Strip.

  • But a growing number of critics in Israel itself question why the IDF are still fighting there.

  • International media outlets are not allowed to report freely from Gaza,

  • but this expectant mother described her life there now.

  • My name is Huda Motrabbiri.