An inside look at how Israeli settlers are blocking aid to Gaza
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Israeli settlers are routinely attacking aid trucks on their way into Gaza. One Israeli human rights lawyer has made it her mission to stand in their way.
In this episode:
- Sapir Sluzker Amran (@Sapir_SLAM), Human Rights Lawyer
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Khaled Soltan, Sarí el-Khalili and Sonia Bhagat, with Amy Walters, Manahil Naveed, Duha Mossad, Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan, and our host, Natasha del Toro, in for Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad and Munera Al Dosari are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, why it's still so hard to get aid into Gaza. |
| 0:16.0 | They strew, scatter and smash, rice, flour and other much-needed food. |
| 0:23.8 | These Israelis are determined to prevent this aid from reaching Palestinians in Gaza. |
| 0:30.5 | As more and more people go hungry in Gaza, Israeli settlers are violently attacking the aid supply. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is the take. |
| 0:48.6 | It was a Monday morning in May. |
| 0:51.4 | Sapirz Lozkaramran, a human rights lawyer based in Tel Aviv, looked at her phone. |
| 0:56.9 | I got a message from a friend saying that the settlers are organizing in Tarkumia checkpoint, |
| 1:03.7 | trying to block the humanitarian aid. |
| 1:06.3 | Sapir's been documenting the actions of settlers to gather evidence to show the public |
| 1:10.7 | what they've been doing to block humanitarian aid going into Gaza. |
| 1:14.9 | I reached out to some friends, asked if anyone wants to come right now with me to talk |
| 1:20.5 | to me out, to document to understand a bit more about what's happening. |
| 1:25.1 | And then one friend decided to join us and when we arrived |
| 1:34.3 | so there was a few settlers there blocking the checkpoint with their personal locals personal |
| 1:41.8 | view calls there were mostly young teenagers, a few elders. |
| 1:47.1 | They're kind of laughing with the guards at the checkpoint. |
| 1:52.1 | In the area when the trucks are organizing in order to enter Hebron and then to Gaza, |
| 1:58.6 | we saw that some of the settlers are blocking the checkpoint with their cars. |
| 2:03.9 | We saw the trucks waiting to drive to Gaza, but then some of the trucks are already looted. |
| 2:12.0 | All over the floor, there were bags of flour and sugar, instant noodles, things like that. |
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