Brief: Israel leveling Gaza City, Hind Rajab film wins award
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: Israel is demolishing parts of Gaza City. Israel has destroyed 90% of Gaza's schools. A film about Hind Rajab is honored at the Venice Film Festival. It is day 702 of the war in Gaza. Where more than 64,368 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Patty Culhane, (@PattyCulhane) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Ibrahim al Khalili, (@hema.alkhalili) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Wilson Dizard, Al Jazeera Producer
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. |
| 0:05.0 | As Israel's war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, |
| 0:09.0 | we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:13.0 | This week, Israel is demolishing parts of Gaza's city. |
| 0:17.0 | Israel has destroyed 90% of Gaza's schools. A film about Hind Rajab is honored at the Venice |
| 0:24.4 | Film Festival. Today is Sunday, September 7. It is day 702 of the war in Gaza, where more than 64,368 |
| 0:36.3 | Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:40.3 | Israel has begun systematically leveling parts of Gaza City, including some of its landmark |
| 0:46.3 | buildings. |
| 0:47.3 | Al Jazeera's Hany Mahmoud filed this report from Gaza City on Saturday. |
| 0:52.3 | It's becoming a pattern in Gaza City. |
| 0:55.4 | Israeli forces destroyed the Susi Tower on Saturday, |
| 0:59.5 | shortly after threatening to bomb several areas. |
| 1:03.2 | Panicked, people fled, unsure if Israel would strike again. |
| 1:07.8 | Families who had little now have nothing, |
| 1:13.6 | returning to rubble and a twisted metal. I was living in a tent. I was displaced from Beitlehia in the north. They told us to leave |
| 1:19.6 | the north so we headed to Gaza City and set up a tent there. But then they bombed a tower and the |
| 1:24.1 | tent was completely destroyed. Now we no longer have a tent and I have no money |
| 1:27.9 | at all to get another one. Despite being surrounded by death, many Palestinians are refusing |
| 1:33.9 | to leave. Taking their chances with the attacks in Gaza City over the attacks on a crowded |
| 1:40.3 | tent camp. The attacks on a susi comes the day after Israeli forces leveled another |
| 1:46.0 | high rise, the Mushetha Tower. And with more apartment blocks threatened, Israel is ensuring |
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