Brief: Israel bans UNRWA, US presidential campaign enters final day
The Take
Al Jazeera
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🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: Israel's parliament voted to shut down UNRWA. Israel continued widespread attacks in Lebanon. U. S. presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigns. It is day 394 of the war in Gaza, where at least 43,259 Palestinians have been killed. There is one day until the US presidential election.
In this episode:
- Hind Al Khoudary, (@Hind_Gaza) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Zeina Khodr, (@ZeinakhodrAljaz) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Teresa Bo, (@TeresaBo) Al Jazeera Correspondent
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're coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza and Lebanon continues. |
| 0:12.0 | Israel's parliament voted to shut down UNRWA. |
| 0:18.0 | Israel continued widespread attacks in Lebanon. U.S. presidential candidates |
| 0:22.9 | wrapped up their campaigns. Today is Sunday, November 3. One day remains until the U.S. presidential |
| 0:30.1 | election. It is day 394 of the war in Gaza, where more than 43,259 Palestinians have been killed. On Monday, Israel's |
| 0:44.1 | Parliament, the Knesset, voted to ban the United Nations Relief Works Agency, or Unruwa, |
| 0:50.5 | which provides services to millions of Palestinians in occupied Palestinian territory and to refugees across the region. |
| 0:58.1 | This is Unrua spokesman Tamara Arrafai, speaking to Al Jazeera after the vote. |
| 1:03.6 | If these laws are implemented, the Knesset bills, then they're likely to prevent UNRWA from working in the entirety of the |
| 1:12.6 | occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and in Gaza. |
| 1:17.6 | What effectively this means is that most likely international staff will no longer have visas |
| 1:23.6 | to go into Israel or the OPP. No work permits will be given to our Palestinian colleagues. |
| 1:30.6 | No possibility to pass through Israeli checkpoints, |
| 1:33.6 | meaning our trucks, our convoys, our humanitarian supplies, |
| 1:36.5 | will not be able to cross into the OBT, including Gaza, |
| 1:41.3 | during this huge humanitarian catastrophe. |
| 1:45.1 | No coordination on the safety of trucks, convoys, and their operations will be possible with the Israeli government. |
| 1:53.3 | And mostly on our premises, including, or maybe mostly in East Jerusalem, will be taken over. |
| 2:00.2 | So effectively, if these bills are implemented |
| 2:04.9 | over the coming few weeks or a few months, the risk is that our entire operations services |
| 2:12.0 | to Palestine refugees in the entirety of the occupied Palestinian territory will collapse. |
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