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Weekend: Could Israel’s offensive in Gaza be nearing its end?

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Could Israel’s offensive in Gaza be nearing its end?

10/12/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Could Israel’s offensive in Gaza be nearing its end?

The head of the Israeli army says there are signs that Hamas is falling apart

The head of the Israeli army says there are signs that Hamas is falling apart.

The head of the Israeli army, General Herzi Halevi, told IDF soldiers that there are signs that Hamas is collapsing. Meanwhile, the World Food Programme warns that half of Gaza’s population face starvation. 
 
Also on the programme: the president of the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu says the UN climate summit has to represent a "COP of hope" if his country is to survive; and the project to give the world free access to Ireland’s precious medieval manuscripts. 
 
Joining Paul Henley in the studio to discuss all this and more are Laurie Goering, a London-based journalist and climate editor at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Christopher Sabatini, senior research fellow for Latin America at the Chatham House think-tank.
 
(Picture: An Israeli army APC near the Gaza border with Israel, 09 December 2023 Credit: ATEF SAFADI/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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