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844 - Journey to the End of the Night feat. Kavitha Chekuru & Sharif Abdel Kouddous (6/24/24)

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and filmmaker Kavitha Chekuru to discuss their new film The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza. The film examines the lives of three families as they try to survive the continued assault on Gaza. Will and Felix discuss the film, the civilian toll of the war, the U.S. state departments continued obfuscation around civilian casualties, and the complete breakdown of international human rights law around the war. The film is available in its entirety on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECFpW5zoFXA&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish

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The All I want to be easy to be is in trouble.

0:24.0

We're in trouble.

0:27.0

We're in trouble.

0:28.0

So, all I'm in a way to jump.

0:31.0

Hello everybody, it's Monday June 24th and today on the show Felix and I are

0:39.6

joined by the journalist Sharif Abdul Caduce and the filmmaker Kavita Chacaru, who are the behind a new documentary

0:49.3

produced by the Al Jazeera Fault Lines program titled, The Night Won't End.

0:54.0

This is a documentary that examines Israeli war crimes

0:57.8

against Palestinian civilians

0:59.2

through the lens of three families in Gaza and, of course, also looks at the US's role in this

1:06.2

conflict. Sharif and Kavita thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having

1:10.4

us. Yeah, thanks for having us. Kavith, I want to start with you as the director of this film because I've said before on this show that the experience of

1:20.0

witnessing this war and to call it a war sticks in my throat it really doesn't do

1:25.2

justice to what we've been seeing over the last nine months but like it has if you

1:30.0

if you wake up every day and look at your phone and see images of unspeakable human suffering and cruelty, even if, you know, no matter what you feel about it, I think human beings have like a natural, like defense mechanism against it where you become numb to it and after a while it just

1:44.8

seems sort of it can become commonplace it just becomes a kind of kaleidoscope of horror.

1:49.2

Kavitha for you like as the director of this movie,

1:53.6

how do you feel about, like, what this movie does

1:56.3

is that in examining these three families,

1:58.2

it takes them out of like your cell phone screen

2:00.9

or an immediate video, and it gives images and voice to Palestinians in

2:06.2

Gaza that sort of like through through film breaks out of the cell phone

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