Rockets and shelling continue in Israel and Gaza

As Israel intensifies its assault on Gaza and Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into Israel, we hear about the fear among residents on both sides. We’ll also get more audience questions about the crisis answered by our regional experts.

Our regular coronavirus expert Dr Megan Murray from Harvard Medical School joins us to explain the decision in the US to allow fully vaccinated Americans to stop using face masks. We’ll also talk about the sharp rise in the number of people infected with the Indian variant of coronavirus in the UK and why the government might speed up the delivery of second doses of Covid vaccines.

Earlier this week we heard from health care professionals who had left or were thinking of leaving their jobs because of the pressures on the frontline during the pandemic. Today we play a conversation with therapists in the US and the UK, who discuss potential solutions and explain how challenges for doctors and other health care workers began long before the arrival of the pandemic.

(Photo: Palestinian women walk at the site of destroyed houses in the aftermath of Israeli air and artillery strikes as cross-border violence between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants continues, in the northern Gaza Strip May 14, 2021. Credit: Mohammed Salem/Reuters)