6000 bombs in six days: life in Gaza
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Bombs have rained on the strip since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday. With food, water and electricity running out ahead of a ground invasion, one woman tells us the worst is yet to come. The Ukrainian war has reached Crimea. Kyiv is subverting Russian dominance in the Black Sea, could that prove pivotal (11:26)? And, how the death of Indian vultures has affected public health (20:12).
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| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:10.6 | And I'm AuraRe Ugunbe. |
| 1:12.5 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. The peninsula of Crimea |
| 1:21.4 | was annexed by Russia back in 2014 and remains both strategically and psychologically important to both sides in Ukraine's war. |
| 1:30.3 | We ask how Ukraine is managing to put more and more pressure on Russian forces there. |
| 1:35.3 | And a sudden drop in the number of vultures in India has had surprising and lethal effects. |
| 1:43.3 | We ask why taking them out of the food web may have killed hundreds of thousands of people. But first. Last night, more than a million Palestinians were sent a message from the Israel Defense Forces. |
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