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World Service,24 Oct 2026,49 mins

Palestinians describe 'collective punishment' in occupied West Bank

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Israel has begun demolishing buildings in the West Bank after a Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers on Friday. We hear from a Palestinian politician in the West Bank. Also in today’s programme: We go to Brazil, where President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his conservative challenger, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, have taken part in the final televised debate ahead of tomorrow’s presidential runoff vote; and, this month marks 20 years since the release of Amy Winehouse’s award-winning album Back to Black. Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Noga Tarnopolsky, a journalist covering Israel and the Palestinian territories, in Jerusalem, and Hugh Lovatt, Senior Policy Fellow for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Photo: Israeli troops patrol the West Bank city of Nablus - 24 Oct 2026. Credit: Alaa Badarneh/ EPA / Shutterstock

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