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The Story

A diary from Gaza - what happened next

The Story

The Times

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A year on from the October 7th attacks in which some 1,200 Israelis were killed and 251 taken hostage, Israel's bombardment of Gaza has resulted in the deaths of 40,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Our colleague Amal Helles was one of the few Palestinians to escape Gaza earlier this year. So what’s life been like for her since, and for her friends and family who remain in Gaza?

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Guest: Amal Helles, journalist, The Times and The Sunday Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Photo: Abdel Hakim Abu Dagen for The Times.

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From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones.

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Okay, I will tell you that I have just got a message from my mother.

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She sent me right now on the messenger.

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Just now.

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Yeah. She told me we are tired, exhausted, worried. We want this war to be end.'s how do you feel reading that I don't know actually I I have no word to say to them because I

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feel the amount of pain and the amount of

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