Families accuse Hamas of deliberately starving hostages

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  You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

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  This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday 5th August.

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  The brother of an Israeli hostage seen in a recent video says Hamas is deliberately starving him.

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  Meanwhile,

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  a former Israeli security official tells us a plan to expand the military operation in Gaza is a big mistake.

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  President Trump has threatened India with even bigger tariffs

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  for buying Russian oil and why Elon Musk could soon get even richer.

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  Also in the podcast, Stella Remington, Britain's first female spy chief, has died.

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  One was thought to be OK to deal with the papers.

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  I mean, I could say to type and make the tea.

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  It was a bit more than that.

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  But women were not regarded as suitable to do the sharp end intelligence work.

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  We look back at her life.

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  In our previous podcast,

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  we heard that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering expanding military operations against Hamas.

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  Well, the latest reports suggest he's made up his mind,

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  with an official in his office quoted as saying,

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  a decision has been made, we're going to occupy the Gaza Strip.

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  If that's the plan, it goes against the wishes of many Israelis.

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