Brief: Gaza famine spreading, Israel completes demolition of university
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 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: Gaza is experiencing famine. Ceasefire talks were continuing. Protests at US universities continued as graduation ceremonies began. Gaza's largest university is completely destroyed. It is day 212 of the war. At least 34,600 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
In this episode:
- Hind Al Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza), Journalist in Gaza
- Hamdah Salhut, (@hamdahsalhut), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- John Hendren, (@johnhendren), journalist for Al Jazeera
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. |
| 0:04.2 | We are coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza continues. |
| 0:10.6 | The World Food Program said Northern Gaza is now experiencing full-blown famine. |
| 0:16.7 | Ceasefire talks were continuing. |
| 0:18.8 | Protests at U.S. universities continued as graduation ceremonies began. |
| 0:24.0 | Gaza's largest university is completely destroyed. |
| 0:28.0 | Today is Sunday, May 5. |
| 0:32.2 | It is day 212 of the war. |
| 0:34.9 | More than 34,600 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. |
| 0:41.8 | What I can explain to you is that there is famine, full-blown famine in the north, |
| 0:47.1 | and it's moving its way south. |
| 0:49.6 | That's Cindy McCain, the director of the World Food Program, |
| 0:53.1 | speaking to NBC News earlier this week. |
| 0:56.1 | In the central Gaza city of Dera-Bala, reporter Hind al-Kodhoudhry said on Sunday that the Israeli |
| 1:01.9 | military, which controls all aid entering Gaza, continued to prevent sufficient supplies from being |
| 1:07.7 | distributed. The Israeli forces are challenging them with putting them coordination, giving them |
| 1:15.2 | green lights to enter, and it's not enough. |
| 1:19.3 | They need full access, and they need continuous and safe access to be able to deliver as much food as they can to different parts |
| 1:31.3 | of the northern coastal strip. |
| 1:33.3 | In Cairo, mediators continued to seek an agreement between Hamas and Israel to end the fighting, |
| 1:41.3 | though major sticking points remain. |
| 1:43.3 | Al Jazeera's Hamda Salhut filed this report on Saturday from Tel Aviv. |
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