Gaza worse than hell on Earth, International Red Cross chief tells BBC as aid centres close for day
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Gaza has become worse than hell on Earth, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross tells the BBC's Jeremy Bowen
Mirjana Spoljaric says Palestinians have been stripped of human dignity and international humanitarian law is being hollowed out
It comes as aid distribution centres in Gaza are closed today, as Israel's military warns roads leading to the sites will be considered "combat zones"
At least 27 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire close to an aid point on Tuesday, Hamas-backed local officials said - the third deadly incident this week near a site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)
The IDF said its troops fired shots after identifying what it described as suspects who moved towards them "deviating from the designated access routes"
Elsewhere, 12 Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli strike hit a school housing displaced people in Khan Younis, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency and a hospital official say
Israel does not allow international news organisations, including the BBC, into Gaza, making verifying what is happening in the territory difficult
‘These two children, what did they do?’
Tom Bennett
Reporting from Jerusalem
Our team has just spoken to Za‘rab Za‘rab, a father from Beit Lahia.
“I have no home left,” he says, explaining that he and his family were displaced from northern Gaza and forced to relocate to the south.
“I’m injured, and I have disabilities in my leg, stomach, and shoulder,” he adds.
Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter
Exclusive: Asaad al-Nasasra told PRCS he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were clinging to life
Wed 4 Jun 2025 09.41 BST
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has detailed the harrowing account of one of its paramedics, who told the organisation he heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were still clinging to life.
Asaad al-Nasasra, 47, was one of two first responders to survive the 15 March attack on a convoy of emergency vehicles in which 15 other medics and rescue workers were killed.
He told the PRCS that after the attack in Gaza he was detained and tortured for 37 days by Israeli forces.
India: Several feared dead after cricket stadium stampede
Local media has reported the incident took place near the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, where an Indian Premier League match was taking place.
Several people were reported killed in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in Bengaluru, the capital of India's southern Karnataka state, Indian media reported Wednesday.
The incident took place as thousands of fans gathered outside to celebrate a cricket match of the Indian Premier League.
Broadcaster NDTV reported that at least 11 people had been killed while The Indian Express newspaper reported at least 10 deaths and multiple injuries.
Five Alawites found dead after being detained by Syrian security forces, war monitor says
Five men belonging to Syria’s minority Alawite community have been found dead at a hospital, two days after security forces stopped the van they were travelling in and arrested them, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. According to the war monitor, the men had been “summarily executed”.
Five men from Syria’s Alawite minority were found dead in hospital two days after being detained by security forces, a war monitor said Wednesday, alleging they had been “summarily executed”.
Since the fall of longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, the Alawite community, which he hails from, has been the target of many attacks, including sectarian massacres which killed more than 1,700 people in March.
US’s most Canadian town is stuck in the middle of a trade war
Isolated from the rest of the US, Point Roberts businesses say a drop in Canadian tourism is economically devastating
Point Roberts, Washington, is about as Canadian as a US town can get. Littered with streets named after Canada’s provinces, its gas stations sell by the litre and about half of its 1,000 residents hold dual citizenship. Its sole grocery store, the aptly named International Marketplace, keeps both American and Canadian dollars stocked in its till.
That till hasn’t been getting much use in recent months. Ali Hayton, the International Marketplace’s owner, estimates business is down by 30% amid an unprecedented dip in Canadian visitors. “We’re hanging on by a thread,” she said.
As the war drums beat, Nato’s leaders have one big problem
With global tensions inexorably on the rise, Keir Starmer and his Nato allies are caught in a quandary - but the risk of war raises an existential risk for us all, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
The relentless beat of war drums within Nato gets louder by the day. Mark Rutte, the alliance’s secretary general, added to the noise by saying “we have to go further and faster” to expand Europe’s war machines.
With the US taking a step back and demanding more from across the Atlantic, the stakes could hardly be higher.
As Ukraine batters Russia with daring assaults, firebrand pro-Kremlin pundits rattle nuclear sabers
How will Moscow respond to the stunning Ukrainian drone strikes on its fleet of strategic aircraft?
So far, the Kremlin has stayed tight-lipped, saying only that it is waiting for the results of a formal investigation into the attacks, which struck air bases thousands of miles from the Ukraine border
But fury is being openly vented across the Russia media, with pro-Kremlin pundits and bloggers seething with calls for retribution, even nuclear retaliation.
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