New aid system in Gaza denounced
The United Nation's children agency UNICEF says starving people shouldn't be forced into combat zones to get food.
The United Nation's children agency UNICEF has spoken out against the aid distribution system that is run by the US-Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. It comes as Israeli troops reportedly killed forty-six Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza on Tuesday. We hear from the spokesman for the agency.
A Pentagon report says United States strikes on Iran's nuclear programme have only set it back by a few months. The Trump administration had claimed the bunker buster aerial assualt on Iran's key nuclear sites had "totally obliterated" the programme.
And Zimbabwe has moved forward with compensation payments to white farmers whose land was seized during the controversial land reform program that started over two decades ago. The deal has revived hopes of a final settlement after the government began reclaiming land from whites.
Presenters: James Copnall and Pria Rai
(Photo: A Palestinian carries a sack as he and others gather to collect aid supplies from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Credit: Hatem Khaled/Reuters)
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