Brief: Israel ignores ICJ ruling on Rafah, loosens settler restrictions
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 7 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: The Israeli military continued operations in and around the city of Rafah, despite an international court ruling to halt them. Arrest warrants were issued for Israeli and Hamas leaders. Israel loosened restrictions on settlers in the West Bank. It is day 233 of the war. At least 35,900 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
In this episode:
- Akram Al Satarri, Freelance journalist
- Nida Ibrahim, (@nidajourno), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Step Vaessen, (@stepvaessen), Al Jazeera Correspondent
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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. |
| 0:05.8 | We are coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza continues. |
| 0:13.3 | The Israeli military continued operations in and around the city of Rafa, despite an international court ruling to halt them. |
| 0:21.7 | Arrest warrants were issued for Israeli and Hamas leaders. |
| 0:26.1 | Israel loosened restrictions on settlers in the West Bank. |
| 0:30.9 | Today is Sunday, May 26. |
| 0:34.1 | It is day 233 of the war. |
| 0:38.8 | More than 35,000, 900 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. |
| 0:46.4 | In Gaza, people continued to seek shelters they feared a full Israeli military assault on the |
| 0:52.1 | city of Rafa. |
| 0:54.0 | In the nearby city of Han Yunus, journalist Akramal Satri said that people were arriving from |
| 0:59.2 | Rafa after having previously fled there to escape fighting in Han Yunus. |
| 1:05.6 | The Israeli occupation forces have been attacking East Raffah and have been pushing harder from East Raffa |
| 1:11.9 | towards South Raffa, next to the border, and have been advancing further into the Raffa |
| 1:19.8 | west. Apparently they're planning to attack the city or attack the Ashabura neighborhood, |
| 1:25.8 | which is the heart of Raffa city and one of the most |
| 1:29.4 | heavily populated areas in Raffa people who are in Raffa who are leaving and relocating and |
| 1:36.2 | sitting somewhere by the beach area and the area that is called the Mawasi that is mainly |
| 1:42.8 | agricultural area that has no infrastructure |
| 1:45.2 | whatsoever no sewage systems no services whatsoever and some of the people were also coming |
| 1:51.5 | back to their homes in khaniounis area and Gaza-central area the houses that they came to in most of |
| 1:58.3 | the cases are rubble but people decided to erect their tents and try |
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