Brief: Israel intensifies bombing across Gaza as Palestinians flee Rafah
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 12 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: Palestinians in north and south Gaza were fleeing increased Israeli bombardment. The US stopped delivery of some munitions to Israel. Another mass grave has been uncovered. It is day 219 of the war. At least 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
In this episode:
- Akram Al Satarri, Journalist in Gaza
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Tareq Abu Azzoum, (@TareqAzzom), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Patty Culhane, (@PattyCulhane), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hamdah Salhut, (@hamdahsalhut), 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 |
| 0:08.6 | roundups as Israel's war in Gaza continues. Palestinians in North and South Gaza were fleeing |
| 0:17.7 | increased Israeli bombardment. The U.S. stopped delivery of some munitions to Israel. |
| 0:24.2 | Another mass grave has been uncovered. |
| 0:27.7 | Today is Sunday, May 12. |
| 0:30.4 | It is day 219 of the war. |
| 0:34.1 | More than 34,900 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. |
| 0:42.3 | Israel this week ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from the southern Gaza city of Rafa, |
| 0:48.3 | as it began intensive military operations in the area. |
| 0:51.3 | More than a million people, about half of Gaza's population, have taken refuge there |
| 0:57.0 | as they fled fighting elsewhere. Israeli infiltration forces have just ordered around one-third of |
| 1:03.9 | Raffa city to leave Raffa. That includes people who are residents of Raffa and also the entire |
| 1:09.6 | displaced people. Freelance journalist Akram al-Satari said the people, many of whom had been displaced multiple times, |
| 1:16.6 | were fleeing with what they could carry, even as they didn't know where exactly they would go. |
| 1:21.6 | Upon that notification, people were frantically trying to get whatever they can. |
| 1:26.6 | Some of the people are pulling their |
| 1:28.5 | stuff on the animal board cards, but without animals they're pulling it themselves. Some of the |
| 1:33.2 | people are contacting their relatives and some of the people are walking by foot for the sake |
| 1:37.9 | of just escaping from the area. While they are trying to do that, the heavy bombardment can |
| 1:43.7 | still be here in all different parts of Raffh area, |
| 1:47.0 | especially in Raffa Eastern area. |
| 1:50.0 | Israeli forces on Saturday and Sunday were bombing Jabali a refugee camp in northern Gaza, |
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