Newshour Gazan doctor loses nine children in Israeli strike
A Palestinian doctor was at work in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when nine of her ten children were killed and her husband wounded by an Israeli airstrike. It is the latest tragedy as Israel's military campaign continues to place a huge toll on the civilian population. The Israeli military says 'the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review'. We hear from a Bulgarian doctor who is working at the hospital.
Also in the programme: The dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for "It Was Just an Accident" -- a movie shot in secret and inspired by his own experience in prison; and Five years after American author Jenine Cummins was vilified for her novel American Dirt, she tells us why she wrote her new book.
(Picture: Civil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis. Credit: Getty)
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