Thousands at risk after flooding in Gaza
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We hear how changes in polar bear DNA could help protect the Arctic animals from climate change. At least 12 people have been reported dead or missing as a result of a severe winter storm that has caused widespread flooding in Gaza. The Hamas authorities also say more than a dozen buildings have collapsed and tens of thousands of tents sheltering displaced families have been inundated. The UN is warning that 800,000 people are at risk from flooding, even as Israeli restrictions are preventing aid, including material for shelters and sandbags, from entering Gaza. Two months on from a US-brokered ceasefire, people in Gaza are still waiting for reconstruction to begin. Israel and Hamas blame each other, as the Trump administration urges both sides to move forward onto the second stage of the ceasefire deal.
Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. The path to Ghadir's tent in Gaza City is swimming with muddy water. Winter arrived here hard on the heels of war, before houses or lives were rebuilt. Rain streams through gaps in the flimsy canvas shelter Qadir shares with her husband and six children, displaced from their home in Jabalia during the war.
We want caravans.
We want our homes rebuilt, to go back to our houses. We long for concrete to keep us and our children warm.
As she speaks to our cameraman in Gaza, Qadir sweeps a fresh stream of water from the entrance to the tent. Every day I sit and cry for my children. All they think about is water and sweeping and working. It's bitterly cold. We're all coughing, suffering from diseases. Here we are, my family and I, living a life of humiliation. For weeks, Gaza has been stuck in the first phase of the ceasefire deal as Hamas has retrieved and returned the bodies of hostages from the rubble. Israel insists it won't move forward until all the hostages are back. But one is still missing. Rangvili was captured during the 7th of October Hamas attacks, a police officer recovering from a broken shoulder who went to defend a nearby kibbutz.
Vigils are held for him each week across Israel, including in his hometown of Meta, where his parents, Talik and Itzik, shared their anger at Hamas's failure to return him. They stole our kids. Our kids. They stole them.
Why do they keep him? They know where he is.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–8:58
2
What are the current flooding conditions in Gaza?
8:58–9:37
3
What legal challenges is Reddit facing in Australia?
9:37–10:48
4
What recent discoveries have scientists made about polar bear DNA?
10:48–11:22
5
What has been the impact of the severe winter storm in Gaza?
11:22–13:26
6
How are the Israeli restrictions affecting aid in Gaza?
13:26–33:50
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