Brief: Israel kills more journalists, UN to end Lebanon mission
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: Palestinians in Gaza City are fleeing Israel's offensive with nowhere to go. Israel killed more Palestinian journalists. The UN has voted to end its deployment to South Lebanon. It is day 695 of the war in Gaza, where at least 63,371 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Ibrahim al Khalili, (@hema.alkhalili) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hind Khoudary, (@Hind_Gaza) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Zeina Khodr, (@ZeinakhodrAljaz) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Shihab Rattansi (@shihab_rattansi) 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 Munera AlDosari 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. As Israel's war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, |
| 0:09.1 | we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week, Palestinians in Gaza City are fleeing Israel's offensive with nowhere to go. |
| 0:20.0 | Israel killed more Palestinian journalists. |
| 0:22.6 | The UN has voted to end its deployment to South Lebanon. Today is Sunday, August 31. It is |
| 0:29.6 | day 695 of the war in Gaza, where at least 63,371 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:40.3 | Palestinians from Gaza are being displaced once again as Israel intensifies its efforts to take over the area. |
| 0:47.3 | Al Jazeera's Ibrahim al-Halili joined a family fleeing the city's Jabalya neighborhood on foot, |
| 0:52.3 | with their belongings being carried on a donkey |
| 0:55.1 | cart. Demolition operations are taking a place in a neighborhood, forcing these people out. As we |
| 1:03.4 | have spoken to them, they are heading west of Gaza City, which is already backed with hundreds |
| 1:09.0 | of thousands of displaced Palestinians who fled their homes in eastern parts of the Gulf Strait |
| 1:13.6 | like Azayana Ashijaya neighborhoods. |
| 1:16.6 | And now they are living in very dire conditions, no water, no humanitarian aid arriving to these desperate Palestinians |
| 1:26.6 | who sought refuge in the streets. |
| 1:30.3 | I can't even tie our things properly. They always fall off us and we have to tie them back up again. |
| 1:37.3 | We left our area because the situation there was very dangerous. |
| 1:40.3 | We don't know what to do and where to go. |
| 1:43.3 | I'm heading towards West Gaza, but without |
| 1:46.1 | knowing exactly where I should go, I was in the South and I couldn't find a place for myself to stay. |
| 1:53.2 | Hopefully I can find a place to set up a tent. Everything here is useless and everywhere is unsafe. |
| 1:59.6 | The Israelis attack every single place. |
| 2:01.6 | I think our house has been leveled by now. |
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