Battle Lines: Israel-Gaza - Introducing our new podcast
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Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
"The smell of bodies hangs in the air"
As Israel’s IDF pounds the Gaza Strip after a surprise attack of Hamas Terrorists killed over a thousand Israelis, soldiers and civilians the world looks on in horror as the war rages on.
Battle Lines, a new podcast from The Telegraph, combines on the ground reporting with analytical expertise to aid the listener to better under the course of the conflict. The new weekly podcast will bring the best of The Telegraph’s Israel-Palestine reporting in one place and will be a crucial resource for anyone hoping to better understand what’s happening in Israel-Gaza.
In this first episode, The Telegraph's leading journalists bring you analysis, explain what it's like reporting on the ground and consider what we know about the other global actors keeping a close eye on the war.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Nataliya Vasilyeva (Middle East Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter.
Danielle Sheridan (Defence Editor). @SheridanDani on Twitter.
Sophia Yan (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @sophia_yan on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegram. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi. Tony Diabah here, the telegraphs US editor in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:14.0 | I've launched a new free to read newsletter from the US editor, |
| 0:17.0 | featuring inside from our correspondence around the world |
| 0:20.0 | and for provoking opinion from leading journalists in both Britain and the USA, |
| 0:24.0 | the newsletter is packed with the best of the telegraphs global coverage. |
| 0:28.0 | Telegraph.co.uk forward slash from the US editor to sign up. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm David Noles and this is Battlelines, Israel Gaza. |
| 0:43.0 | For some time the podcast team here at the Telegraph |
| 0:45.4 | have been planning to launch a new show about conflict, defense |
| 0:48.6 | and the shifting tectonic plates of geopolitics |
| 0:51.1 | following our extensive and sadly now long-running |
| 0:53.6 | coverage of the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:55.8 | We had aimed to get the new show off the ground in the next few months. |
| 0:59.1 | Then, two weeks ago, our plans had to be sped up. |
| 1:05.8 | Israel's military is in the war. |
| 1:09.1 | It's not in the war, it's not in the war. |
| 1:15.0 | The terrorist group of us, at least pure unadulterated evil in the world, |
| 1:19.3 | but sadly the Jewish people know perhaps better than anyone |
| 1:23.1 | that there is no limit to the depravity of people |
| 1:25.5 | when they want to inflict pain on others. |
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