Brief: Israel and Hezbollah trade heavy fire, more evacuations in Gaza
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 25 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 carried out its most significant strikes in Lebanon since the war began. Peace talks remained at an impasse. Israel continued issuing evacuation orders for people with nowhere to go. It is day 324 of the war. At least 40,223 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
In this episode:
- Zeina Khodr, (@ZeinakhodrAljaz) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hamdah Salhut, (@HamdahSalhut) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Mahmoud Alshawa, (@mahmoud.alshawa), freelance journalist
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. |
| 0:05.0 | We are coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza continues. |
| 0:11.0 | Israel carried out its most significant strikes in Lebanon since the war began. |
| 0:16.0 | Peace talks remained at an impasse. |
| 0:19.0 | Israel continued issuing evacuation orders for people with nowhere to go. |
| 0:23.6 | Today is Sunday, August 25. |
| 0:26.6 | It is day 324 of the war. |
| 0:29.6 | More than 4,223 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. |
| 0:35.6 | Before the morning, we have |
| 0:38.3 | had a hzbollah to attack Israel. |
| 0:41.3 | Israel announced on Sunday it had carried out preemptive attacks overnight |
| 0:45.3 | against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:48.3 | Hezbollah itself announced it it launched more than 300 rockets |
| 0:51.3 | at Israel around the same time. |
| 0:56.6 | This is Al Jazeera's Zaynha Hoda in Lebanon. |
| 1:00.7 | Well, Hezbollah now says that it carried out its retaliation. |
| 1:05.0 | It's much-awaited and promised retaliation for the killing of one of its top commanders in Beirut in an Israeli strike on July the 30th. |
| 1:10.2 | It released a few statements, providing some details, |
| 1:14.6 | saying that it launched hundreds of rockets, |
| 1:17.4 | which opened really a corridor, |
| 1:19.6 | to allow armed drones to hit sensitive sites. |
| 1:23.4 | Hezbollah sources are saying that they targeted an insensitive site north of Tel Aviv. |
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