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The Take

Brief: Siege of northern Gaza enters 16th day, Netanyahu calls Trump

The Take

Al Jazeera

News Commentary, Politics, Daily News, News

4.7748 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

As Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: The Israeli military killed nearly 100 Palestinians in strikes in Gaza's Beit Lahiya. Israel's siege of northern Gaza entered its 16th day. Fighting continued on the Lebanese Israeli border. It is day 380 of the war in Gaza, where at least 42,603 Palestinians have been killed. There are 15 days until the US presidential election.

In this episode:

  • Hind Al Khoudary, (@Hind_Gaza) Al Jazeera Correspondent
  • Imran Khan, (@ajimran) Al Jazeera Correspondent
  • Phil Lavelle, (@phillavelle) Al Jazeera Correspondent

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm David Enders, and this is The Take.

0:05.0

We are coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza and Lebanon continues.

0:12.0

The Israeli military killed nearly 100 Palestinians in strikes in Gaza's Bait Lejia.

0:24.5

Israel's siege of northern Gaza entered its 16th day.

0:28.1

Fighting continued on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

0:31.1

Today is Sunday, October 20.

0:35.0

15 days remain until the U.S. presidential election. It is day 380 of the war in Gaza, where more than 42,603 Palestinians have been killed.

0:46.3

Survivors of airstrikes and shelling described the horror they experienced Saturday night and Sunday morning

0:52.3

as Israeli forces continued their assault

0:55.2

in northern Gaza and a siege of the area that is now more than two weeks old.

1:01.1

We feel dead. Even now as we're leaving, we feel like we're bodies without souls. The bombardment

1:07.8

was intense and merciless around our house.

1:12.5

Bodies are left in the streets.

1:14.0

They've become food for dogs,

1:17.9

while all the men are being tortured in schools by the Israeli military.

1:24.1

Al Jazeera's Hind al-Khoudari reported from Darabala in the central part of the Gaza Strip,

1:25.9

which is cut off from the north.

1:33.3

At Bait Lahia, we're talking about 73 Palestinians killed that were transferred into the hospitals, but we're talking about five families.

1:35.3

Most of them are missing their beloved ones under the rubble.

1:38.3

Those who are injured are in critical situation.

1:41.3

And we're talking about hospitals that do not have any medical supplies

1:46.0

no medicine they do they barely have fuel to operate their ICU units and the surgery units so the

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