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Guard at US-backed Gaza aid centres says colleagues fired on hungry Palestinian civilians | BBC News
A former security contractor for Gaza’s controversial new Israel- and US-backed aid distribution sites has told the BBC he witnessed colleagues opening fire with machine guns on hungry Palestinian civilians who had posed no threat. In one such incident he said he witnessed a man in the crowd fall motionless to the ground and a guard who had been shooting laughed about it.
On another occasion he said a guard opened fire from a watchtower with a machine gun because a group of women, children and elderly people was moving too slowly away from the site.
When asked to respond the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the allegations were categorically false.
They referred us to a statement saying that no civilians ever came under fire at the GHF distribution sites.
The GHF began its operations in Gaza at the end of May, distributing limited aid from several sites in southern and central Gaza. That followed an 11-week total blockade of Gaza by Israel during which no food entered the territory.
The system has been widely criticised for forcing vast numbers of people to walk through active combat zones to a handful of sites.
Since the GHF started up, Israeli forces have killed more than 400 Palestinians trying to retrieve food aid from its sites, the UN and local doctors say. Israel says the new distribution system stops aid going to Hamas.
Describing the incident at one of the GHF sites – in which he said guards fired on a group of Palestinians – the former contractor said: “As that happened, another contractor on location, standing on the berm overlooking the exit, opened up with 15 to 20 shots of repetitive weapons fire at the crowd. “A Palestinian man dropped to the ground motionless. And then the other contractor who was standing there was like, ‘damn, I think you got one’. And then they laughed about it.”
The contractor, who spoke to us on condition of anonymity, said GHF managers had brushed off his report as a coincidence, suggesting that the Palestinian man could have “tripped” or been “tired and passed out”.
The GHF claimed the man who made these allegations is a “disgruntled former contractor” who they had terminated for misconduct, which he denies.
Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Lucy Williamson.
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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced the return of the £2 bus fare cap in most of England, but how will it be funded?
And, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, one of the first and most senior Labour politicians to publicly call for Keir Starmer to go, is expected to join Andy Burnham’s government. He’ll be joining fellow Starmer dissenters Wes Streeting and John Healey in the cabinet.
Adam Fleming is joined by Chris Mason and Henry Zeffman to unpack it all.
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00:00 How far could you get for £2?
03:00 What is the bus price cap?
07:00 Has it worked elsewhere?
08:03 Scotland’s Anas Sarwar to become a Lord
09:38 Who got the best jobs after ‘stabbing Starmer in the back’?
15:10 Anas Sarwar as Trade Minister
18:18 Wes Streeting gets caught laughing on mic
22:16 What could happen with income tax?
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Pressure is growing on India’s government amid protests involving thousands of students in Delhi.
Dozens were injured in a police crackdown on a march on parliament.
The so-called ‘Cockroach’ movement wants reforms to education and the resignation of the education minister.
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Wildfires continue to cause uncertainty for Spanish and French residents as more than 300,000 people have had to leave their homes.
The French interior minister said the Gironde wildfire has “a life of its own” and that firefighters are facing an “unprecedented situation”, while people in Bordeaux are growing “anxious and fearful”, one resident said, with the blaze around nine miles (15 km) from the outskirts of the city.
Over the border, Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez visited Valencia where more wildfires have broken out and said that the country was suffering under the effects of climate change.
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What do affordable housing, arsonists, tourism, the Welsh language and council tax have in common?
The answer… second homes.
In some parts of Wales, second homes make up nearly a third of all properties. For local young people trying to buy their first home, that raises a big question – are second homes pricing them out of the communities they grew up in?
In this video, we explore the impact of second-home ownership on housing affordability, local culture and community life in Wales. We hear from residents, experts and policymakers to find out whether second homes are a problem, or whether there are other factors making it harder for young people to get on the housing ladder.
From economics and housing policy to tourism and the Welsh language, this is a story about far more than property.
In this video:
00:00 – 30% of houses are second homes in certain parts of Wales
00:47 – Rhodri’s perspective as a young local from Crymych
01:27 – Who is buying second homes in Wales?
01:58 – Gareth Lewis breaks down why second homes are so complicated
03:21 – The impact of second homes in local communities
03:54 – ‘The Right to Live at Home’ campaign
04:46 – Meet Wynfford – he’s been campaigning since the 70s
05:29 – The campaign against second homes turns violent
08:00 – Council tax & planning permission explained
09:00 – Scenario 1: the costs behind a private second home
09:41 – Scenario 2: the costs behind renting a second home
10:31 – Beverley’s view as a second home owner
11:27 – Gwynedd, the county with the MOST second homes in Wales
12:04 – Carol’s view as a local landlord
13:28 – Greg’s perspective as a young local from the Gower Peninsula
13:52 – … and it isn’t just Wales facing this issue
14:50 – What happens next? Gareth Lewis explains
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We speak to the BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt about the wildfires raging across Europe, and ask him how to prevent these blazes from becoming the new normal.
More than 300,000 people in France and Spain have fled their homes as the fires continue. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said the climate emergency is to blame for the fires, and warned that “difficult hours lie ahead” as his country braces for another heatwave. One official said Spain is facing a “national wildfire crisis”.
French President Emmanuel Macron has held a crisis meeting in Paris to discuss the government’s response as wildfires burn near the city of Bordeaux. The flames there are so intense that they have created their own thunderstorms in the form of pyrocumulonimbus clouds.
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07:53 What you can do to counter the climate crisis
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