Brief: Israel kills Palestinians seeking food, Hamas responds to US
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: Israel continued to attack Palestinians seeking aid. Hamas responded to a US ceasefire proposal. The Israeli government approved new settlements in the Occupied West Bank. It is day 604 of the war in Gaza, where more than 54,381 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Hind Khoudary, (@Hind_Gaza) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Nida Ibrahim, (@nidajourno) 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. |
| 0:04.0 | We're coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues. |
| 0:12.0 | Israel continued to attack Palestinians seeking aid. |
| 0:17.0 | Hamas responded to a U.S. ceasefire proposal. |
| 0:20.0 | The Israeli government approved new settlements in the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:24.6 | Today is Sunday, June 1. |
| 0:27.0 | It is day 604 of the war in Gaza, where more than 54,381 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:38.2 | On Sunday, Israeli soldiers once more opened fire on Palestinians seeking aid at a U.S. |
| 0:43.7 | organized food distribution point, killing at least 31 people. |
| 0:48.6 | At least 39 people have been killed since the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation took over aid distribution |
| 0:56.1 | from the United Nations last week. This is Al Jazeera's Hind Hodderi, reporting from the |
| 1:01.3 | central Gaza city of Dharalbala on Sunday. |
| 1:04.0 | We're still collecting more testimonies, and according to eyewitnesses and people who went |
| 1:10.7 | there, they received an announcement |
| 1:12.6 | by Israeli quadcaptors telling them to go to this distribution point. |
| 1:16.6 | So thousands, tens of thousands of Palestinians went to that area and then the Israeli quadcaptors |
| 1:23.6 | started firing a live ammunition on Palestinians. |
| 1:26.6 | They're still being transferred to the |
| 1:29.3 | hospitals and according to eyewitnesses they're also saying that there are people that |
| 1:33.6 | are injured and ambulances are unable to reach them because the Israeli quadcaptors |
| 1:39.3 | did not stop firing live ammunition. And there are some people who actually kept going despite |
| 1:45.5 | the Israeli live ammunition because they thought there is going to be food |
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