BBC 英语学习 News Review 以色列-加沙战争一个月

The Israel Gaza War one month on.

This is news review from BBC Learning English.

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Now the story. It's now a month since the Israel Gaza War broke out.

Israel began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed 1400 people and kidnapped more than 200 others.

On 7 october, more than 10000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by air and artillery strikes carried out by the Israeli military in response.

You ve been looking at the headlines bes what's the vocabulary that can help people understand this story?

In English, we're looking at cease fire, humanitarian corridor and escalate.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

Let's look at our 1st headline.

This is from Sky News Israel Hamas war, benjamin Netanyahu speaks about potential for ceasefire.

We're looking at the word ceasefire, which means a temporary stop or pause during fighting during a war.

Now, uh, we can understand this word better if we break it into two parts.

We can yet. So the 1st part is cease, which means stop.

This is quite a formal word.

We don't really use it in everyday English.

The 2nd part of ceasefire is fire.

Yeah. So fire here is a term connected to the military, and it means fight with weapons.

So, according to this headline, the Israeli Prime Minister, benjamin Netanyahu, has spoken about stopping fighting a potential ceasefire in the Israel Gaza War.

Now, in the news, we often hear the word ceasefire, with the verbs Hold and fail.

If a cease fire is holding, it means that the agreement to stop fighting is successful.

But if a ceasefire is failing, it means the fighting is continuing despite this agreement to stop fighting this ceasefire.

OK, let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This is from the International Business Times.

Israel Hamas conflict Israel shuts down, reopened humanitarian Corridor for evacuations.

Amid Hamas shelling, we are looking at this expression Humanitarian Corridor.

The 1st part humanitarian contains that word human.

And so it is about humans and looking after humans.

Corridor is a place, e.g., in a building, like an office or a school, where you can walk from one place to another.

That's right. So a humanitarian corridor is a safe area where people can move from a dangerous place to safety.

And this headline is saying that Israel has closed a humanitarian corridor that was previously open.

Now, this idea, this concept of the humanitarian corridor, is very common in conflict and war, and so you will read it and hear it and see it in news headlines.

And one more thing to note is that humanitarian corridors are not only used to allow people to move, but also to let aid and emergency services in and out of areas.

Let's look at that again. Let's have our next headline.

This is from BBC news Night.

How could the conflict escalate? We are looking at the verb escalate, which means to go up or increase.

You might know that thing in a shopping center, the moving stairs that take you from one level to another.

That's an escalator. But this verb escalate here is used in the context of war.

It is an escalate means to become more serious or more intense.

So this headline is asking about how the conflict might change as more time passes.

Now, there's a lot of war and conflict in the world, and so therefore you will see this word escalate used often in news reports, but you will also see the opposite word,

which is de escalate. That's right.

De Escalate means

the size or level of violence becomes smaller, rather than bigger.

And you'll notice that it has

this prefix D at the beginning.

That prefix is often used to mean the negative, or the opposite of something.

Let's look at that again. We've had cease fire, a pause in fighting, Humanitarian corridor, a safe space for movements of people and aid and escalate become more intense and serious.

If you're interested in learning more language about conflicts, we have other programs that might interest you.

Thank you for joining us. Ankaby Bye.

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