this afternoon (thursday 26th), 1.54-1.58pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by james menendez) concludes with …
“Will Gaza’s health care system be able to stem the spread of coronavirus?”
including interview by • bbc reporter tim franks with …
• matthias schmale, head of gaza operations, unrwa
(more…)yesterday evening (wednesday 25th), 10.08-10.14pm, on bbc radio 4
the world tonight (presented by razia iqbal) includes …
“In countries already affected by conflict, natural disasters or climate change, the death toll from the coronavirus will be higher. The warning comes after the confirmation of two cases in the densely-populated Gaza region, where a decade-long blockade has devastated the health service.”
including interviews with …
• gaza spokesman dr khamis abdelkarim elessi
• mark lowcock, under-secretary-general for hunanitarian affairs and emergency relief, united nations
(more…)yesterday evening (friday 13th), 10.23-10.28pm, on bbc radio 4 (repeated 1.20pm and 9.25pm saturday on newshour on bbc world service radio)
the world tonight (presented by matthew bannister) includes …
“Among them is the Gaza strip, where more than two million people live in tightly packed conditions, and where the World Health Organisation believes that urgent global intervention would be necessary if cases of COVID-19 are recorded … There have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus so far in Gaza.”
including interview with …
• bbc reporter tom bateman
(more…)this morning (wednesday 26th), 4.30-4.55am (repeated 12.30am), on bbc news tv (and repeated 4.06am 3.06pm and 8.06pm on bbc world service radio)
dr yasser abu jamei – mental health in gaza (interviewed by stephen sackur) (in the hardtalk series)
“HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, director of Gaza’s biggest mental health program. The past few days have seen rising tension in Gaza – Islamist militants fired rockets into Israel; the Israelis responded with air strikes aimed at the Islamic Jihad group. Hardly unusual and certainly not the stuff of international headlines but that in itself is telling. In Gaza conflict is the norm, so too an economic blockade that has long choked the economy.
What happens to a people living with trauma and collective despair?”
(see also #12 at https://www.idf.il/en/minisites/military-advocate-generals-corps/releases-idf-military-advocate-general/mag-corps-press-release-update-6/)
(more…)yesterday evening (wednesday 5th), 10.01pm, and 10.24-10.29pm, on bbc radio 4
the world tonight (presented by sean ley) includes …
“I want to say to your listeners, we already have one Gaza in the Middle East, in Gaza itself, with about two million people crammed in, there’s a new Gaza being created in the west of Syria, with three and a half million people, with terrorist groups in control, and with civilian life and livelihood at daily risk from bombardment and other fighting.“
including interview with …
• david milliband
(more…)this morning (sunday 22nd), 7.24-7.29am, on bbc radio 4
sunday (presented by edward stourton) leads with …
“This time last year, Israel allowed some 700 Palestinian Christians living in Gaza to travel to Bethlehem Nazareth and Jerusalem over the Christmas period. Early this month, the Israeli authorities announced they won’t be doing the same this year. They say many Gazans who are allowed to visit the West Bank outstay their permits. The episode illustrates the kind of pressures faced by the Christian minority in Gaza and the West Bank.”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter emily buchanan
• father ayesa falgea, orthodox priest-in-charge, church of the nativity
• souvenir shop owner and carpenter joseph jackaman
• son ilyas jackaman
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