After the blackout: What's happening in Gaza?
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The Times
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
During a 34-hour communications blackout that began on Friday evening, Israel launched its ground invasion into Gaza. With thousands of Palestinians killed and conditions in the territory deteriorating, the UN secretary general has repeated his call for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian access. Israel has rejected this saying “calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas” and that it is committed to getting all its hostages back home. So, now that the IDF's troops have entered the densely populated strip -- what is the plan?
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| 0:00.0 | Israel is fighting the enemies of civilization itself. Victory over these enemies begins with |
| 0:15.0 | moral clarity. It begins with knowing the difference between good and evil, between |
| 0:21.1 | right and wrong. It means making a moral distinction between the deliberate murder of |
| 0:26.5 | the innocent and the unintentional casualties that accompany every legitimate war, even the |
| 0:32.7 | most just war. |
| 0:36.9 | Great number of people actually are taking hospitals as shelter. So people, during the |
| 0:44.3 | day they go to their homes but in the evening they come to these hospitals to spend the |
| 0:51.8 | night in there because the night in Gaza is really different from any other place in the |
| 1:00.5 | world. |
| 1:05.0 | There is this great danger now of law and order breaking down within Gaza. The UN is very |
| 1:09.8 | worried about it. Israel says that what it is doing is it's going to destroy Hamas but |
| 1:15.3 | if it succeeds in doing that then what do you have? You have anarchy. |
| 1:26.4 | This weekend there was a 34-hour blackout across Gaza where paramedics were unable to receive |
| 1:34.5 | any emergency calls just had to drive towards the sound of explosions. As panic rippled |
| 1:42.7 | across the Gaza Strip and Israeli troops began a ground incursion in the North. |
| 1:52.0 | The IDF rescued one of their soldiers who is held hostage by Hamas but says there's still |
| 1:56.0 | around 200 people being held captive in Gaza. |
| 2:03.8 | On Monday the UN chief for humanitarian and relief affairs said that the scale of the horror |
| 2:10.2 | people are experiencing in Gaza is hard to convey. |
| 2:16.2 | What happened in Gaza during those 34 hours? What's happening now? And now that Israeli |
| 2:23.0 | troops have officially entered the Strip a densely populated area of around 2 million residents. |
| 2:30.4 | What's their plan? You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday |
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