Battle Lines: Israeli troops push deep into Gaza & investigating Hamas' property portfolio
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A warning this week that this episode contains graphics language that some listeners might find distressing.
In this episode of Battle Lines, we speak to Defence Editor Danielle Sheridan, Middle East correspondent Nataliya Vasilyeva and Senior Foreign Correspondent Sophia Yan.
Danielle speaks about the Israeli forensics teams searching through ash as they look for teeth to identify Hamas victims, Sophia takes us inside her investigation into Hamas assets in Turkey, and Nataliya explains her reporting into the experiences of the Israeli Bedouin.
Plus Assistant Comment Editor Francis Dearnley takes on the difficult task of trying to sum up the history of the region.
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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.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Read Inside the gleaming developments that made Hamas a $1bn terror group, by Sophia Yan: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/30/property-developments-hamas-1bn/
Read Israeli police sift through ash as they look for teeth and bones to identify Hamas victims, by Danielle Sheridan: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/01/israel-victims-body-bags-ash-hamas-gaza/
Read I’d rather be back in Ukraine, say refugee children sent to Israel, by Danielle Sheridan: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/31/ukrainian-refugee-children-israel-kfar-chabad/
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:04.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Things could really go either way because of this dilemma that Hezbollah faces. This should be the moment to do |
| 0:14.2 | what they've always said they were going to do, but also they've got a lot of |
| 0:16.8 | problems to deal with at home, so maybe they won't. Many of the children I |
| 0:20.6 | did speak to were incredibly homesick and would rather just return to Ukraine. |
| 0:25.0 | But regardless, they were in a safe place and could ultimately sleep at night without the constant threat of missile attacks, until October the 7th. |
| 0:33.0 | A number of baduins were taken hostage and to me this fixed volumes to just how indiscriminate |
| 0:39.0 | the Hamas attack was. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm David Knowles and this is battle lines. I'm going to a battle line. Anachu, Bemilhama, Lobe Mifza, Lobisovim, |
| 0:55.0 | Bemilhama. |
| 0:56.0 | Terrorist Kumas unleashed pure undivorous evil in the world, |
| 1:00.0 | but sadly the Jewish people know perhaps better than anyone that there is no limit to the |
| 1:05.5 | depravity of people when they want to inflict pain on others. |
| 1:09.4 | Like every place I go I go run away and I just find bombs and I find dead people and like maybe one day |
| 1:17.2 | I'll end up like them but it's a really scary thing for me. |
| 1:20.3 | People telling me that you know mostly this is about my mask, but they're also angry with |
| 1:26.0 | absolutely everybody. |
| 1:27.2 | I'm begging the world to bring my baby back home. |
| 1:33.0 | It's Friday, the 3rd of November. |
| 1:36.0 | In this episode of Battle Lines, I speak to Defence Editor Daniel Sheridan, |
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