{"id":39836,"date":"2025-10-24T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/un-official-recounts-scenes-of-despair-from-gaza-visit\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:16:13","slug":"un-official-recounts-scenes-of-despair-from-gaza-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/un-official-recounts-scenes-of-despair-from-gaza-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"UN official recounts scenes of &#8216;despair&#8217; from Gaza visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC&#8217;s Nick Robinson spoke to Head of the UN&#8217;s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Tom Fletcher about his recent visit to Gaza. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Fletcher recounted scenes of &#8220;despair and hopelessness&#8221; and said driving to Gaza City was like &#8220;going through the ruins of Hiroshima&#8221;, referencing the Japanese city struck by a nuclear bomb in World War Two. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">People in the UK can listen to the full interview with Tom Fletcher on <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002lfrt\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">BBC Sounds<\/a>. It will also be broadcast on BBC Two at 12:30 on Friday and BBC Radio 4 on Saturday at 17:30.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cd9klvdeg2no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#8217;s Nick Robinson spoke to Head of the UN&#8217;s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Tom Fletcher about his recent visit to Gaza. Fletcher recounted scenes of &#8220;despair and hopelessness&#8221; and said driving to Gaza City was like &#8220;going through the ruins of Hiroshima&#8221;, referencing the Japanese city struck by a nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39838,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39836\/revisions\/39838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}