6000 bombs in six days: life in Gaza
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The Economist
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🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 26 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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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Aura Ogambi. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping |
| 0:13.8 | your world. |
| 0:17.8 | The peninsula of Crimea was annexed by Russia back in 2014 and remains both strategically |
| 0:23.8 | and psychologically important to both sides in Ukraine's war. We ask how Ukraine is managing |
| 0:29.6 | to put more and more pressure on Russian forces there. |
| 0:34.8 | And a sudden drop in the number of vultures in India has had surprising and lethal effects. |
| 0:41.8 | We ask why taking them out of the food web may have killed hundreds of thousands of people. |
| 0:56.0 | First, last night more than a million Palestinians were sent a message from the Israel Defense |
| 1:08.4 | Forces. |
| 1:09.4 | The idea of calls for the evacuation of all civilians from Gaza City, from their homes |
| 1:14.8 | southwards, for their own safety and protection and to move to the area south of Wadi-Aza, the |
| 1:22.3 | River Gaza, the Hamas terrorist organization waged a war against the State of Israel and |
| 1:29.0 | Gaza City is an area where military operations are taking place. This evacuation is for your |
| 1:35.4 | own safety. You will be able to return to Gaza City only when another announcement permitting |
| 1:42.3 | it is made. |
| 1:44.7 | The evacuation order comes ahead of an expected ground offensive, a response to Saturday's |
| 1:50.5 | attack where Hamas terrorists murdered 1,300 people in Israel. Since then, Gaza has been |
| 2:00.3 | pounded with air strikes. |
| 2:11.8 | Gaza authorities say over 1,500 people have been killed in the bombardment so far. |
| 2:19.4 | In the evacuation order, which was first shared with the UN, the IDF said Hamas terrorists |
| 2:25.6 | were hiding behind human shields in North Gaza, but insisted it was taking extensive efforts |
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