819: Special Bonus Podcast — Yousef’s Week

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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One of our producers, Chana Joffe-Walt, had a series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week. They're so immediate – and particular to this moment in the war in Gaza – that we're bringing them to you now, outside of our regular schedule.

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0:00.0	Hello? Hi, this is Youssef Hamash? Yes, it is loud and clear.
0:12.4	Good. Do you? It is loud and clear.
0:13.0	Good.
0:14.0	Do you, is this still a okay time for you to talk?
0:18.0	Yes.
0:20.0	Okay.
0:21.0	Yeah, but it's a bit crazy outside the lots of crowdness, you know, there is a lot of traffic
0:24.8	especially from the children.
0:26.7	Let me find a quiet place.
0:29.2	Okay.
0:30.2	Close the door.
0:31.2	Yes.
0:32.2	Earlier this month, one of our producers. Close the door. The door. Yes.
0:33.0	Earlier this month, one of our producers, Kana Jafi Wald made this call to Yusef Hamash in Gaza.
0:39.2	He works for a humanitarian organization, the Norwegian Refugee Council, the NRC.
0:44.0	He's in his early 30s, got two kids, big extended family.
0:48.0	Kana talked to him a few times over the course of one week,
0:52.0	really knowing very little about him or his situation at the beginning.
0:55.4	And as you'll hear, more and more unfolds and gets revealed.
0:59.6	And it all feels so immediate and particular to these few weeks right now in the war in Gaza
1:06.2	that we wanted to bring it to you now. Like it feels like it's about right now.
1:10.0	We have other stories I should say about this war in the works including from
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