Brief: Ceasefire talks continue, settler attacks more organized
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: Israel ordered further mass evacuations across Gaza. Peace negotiations continued. Ceasefire negotiations continued. Israel will get more weapons from the US. It is day 317 of the war. At least 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
In this episode:
- Akram Al Satarri, journalist in Khan Younis
- Hamdah Salhut, (@HamdahSalhut) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Kimberly Halkett, (@KimberlyHalkett), Al Jazeera White House Correspondent
- Nida Ibrahim, (@nida_journo), Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced and mixed by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is The Take. We are coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza continues. |
| 0:13.0 | Israel ordered further mass evacuations across Gaza. Cease-fire negotiations continued. |
| 0:20.0 | Israel will get more weapons from the U.S. |
| 0:23.5 | Today is Sunday, August 18. |
| 0:26.2 | It is day 317 of the war. |
| 0:30.1 | More than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. |
| 0:37.2 | In the southern Gaza city of Han Yunus, journalist Akramal Satri said on Saturday that people |
| 0:43.3 | are increasingly unable to comply with Israel's orders to evacuate as fighting continues. |
| 0:49.3 | People are exhausted, people are desperate, and people are afraid, fearful. The situation has been |
| 0:58.0 | affecting their ability even to cover the costs of their movement from one |
| 1:03.3 | area to another given the frequent and rapidly frequent movement of the |
| 1:08.0 | population according to the instructive provided to them by the |
| 1:11.4 | Isal occupation. Some areas will be conflicted by the Isar occupation forces and then they become |
| 1:18.0 | designated as a conflict or pattle field by the Issa occupation in one day or even less than one |
| 1:25.0 | day. People according to the UN information, |
| 1:29.3 | around 89% of the Gaza Strip is considered a battlefield |
| 1:33.3 | where people are not allowed to stay in. |
| 1:35.3 | And 11% only of that area |
| 1:39.3 | is considered a designated humanitarian zone |
| 1:43.3 | where people can stay safely. |
| 1:46.0 | Palestinians who have been following the news about possible agreement of ceasefire |
| 1:51.0 | are not very optimistic about that, |
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