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From Our Own Correspondent

After Jenin

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie introduces stories from the Occupied Territories, the Mediterranean Sea, Ukraine, California and Algeria. After violent clashes in Jenin last week, an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal seems as remote as its ever been. And with some Arab states now normalising relations with Israel, some observers say it is a sign some countries want to move on from the Palestinian cause. Jeremy Bowen hears one view that international support for a Palestinian state might eventually disappear from view, like the once ubiquitous Free Tibet movement has done in recent years. But, he says, a new generation of angry, desperate young Palestinians are driven to continue fighting their cause, whether the world is on their side or not. Almost 2000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe this year. But as Alice Cuddy found on a ship that had just rescued young migrants from The Gambia, the deaths do not seem to deter desperate teenage boys and young men from seeking a better life. The breach of the Karkhovka dam in Ukraine caused catastrophic flooding. But as the vast reservoir emptied, elements of the region's local history that had long been submerged began to see the light of day again. Vitaliy Shevchenko explores how Ukraine's fight for its future, is shedding new light on its past too. Californian officials have recommended the payment of reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans, for slavery and for the effects of racial discrimination. Chelsea Bailey meets one family seeking justice, after local authorities in Palm Springs burned down their family home back in the 1960s. Algeria boasts beautiful landscapes, old Kasbahs and well-preserved Roman ruins. But unlike other Mediterranean countries, it has hardly any tourists. Why not? Simon Calder has been to Algeria and has some answers. Producer: Arlene Gregorius Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman

Transcript

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BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

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Today we meet teenagers in football shirts playing games on a ship in the Mediterranean,

0:10.9

but then not on holiday, they're hoping for a better life in Italy.

0:15.7

Ukraine's fight for its future is shedding new light on its past, as a long submerged

0:21.1

history is seeing the light of day again.

0:24.8

In California, a black community burned to the ground could provide the spark for

0:29.6

the payment of reparations, as the Golden State considers how to atone for its past.

0:36.0

And we head to Algeria with its stunning landscapes and well-preserved Roman ruins, but few tourists

0:43.1

why aren't there more?

0:45.5

First to the Middle East on the town of Jenin in the occupied territories, Jenin is

0:50.4

home to a refugee camp, a densely populated neighbourhood of narrow streets that has become

0:55.9

a stronghold of the new generation of Palestinian militants.

1:00.0

They've become frustrated by the Palestinian authorities' ageing leadership and the restrictions

1:05.8

of the Israeli occupation.

1:08.8

Israel considers the camp a terrorist haven, and last week launched its biggest assault

1:13.9

on Jenin in 20 years, 12 Palestinians were killed, four of them teenagers under 18.

1:21.4

One Israeli soldier also died.

1:24.4

Israel says it only targeted militants that it called terrorists.

1:29.5

Jeremy Bohen was in Jenin to witness the aftermath, the latest in a conflict that's

1:34.0

lasted more than a century.

1:36.3

And he's been considering how much impact the Palestinian issue still has in the world.

1:42.5

On the night I arrived back in Jerusalem after the Israeli raid into Jenin refugee camp,

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