Brief: Starvation in Gaza continues, New settlement announced
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 747 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: Israel continued to attack north Gaza. An Israeli minister announced an aggressive plan to build settlements. Palestinian journalists in Gaza fear for their safety. It is day 681 of the war in Gaza, where at least 61,369 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Taeq Abu Azzoum, (@TareqAzzom) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Ibrahim al Khalili, (@hema.alkhalili) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hamdah Salhut, (@hamdahsalhut) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hani Mahmoud, 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. |
| 0:05.7 | As Israel's war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, |
| 0:09.5 | were coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:14.4 | Israel continued to attack North Gaza. |
| 0:18.1 | An Israeli minister announced an aggressive plan to build settlements. |
| 0:23.2 | Palestinian journalists in Gaza fear for their safety. |
| 0:27.1 | Today is Sunday, August 17. It is day 681 of the war in Gaza, where at least 61,369 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:41.5 | Gaza is enduring summer temperatures above 30 degrees as Israel's attacks there continue. |
| 0:47.8 | Al Jazeera's Tarek Abouazoum reports on the area's lack of a sewage system, |
| 0:52.4 | raising the prospect of further outbreaks of disease. |
| 0:55.9 | Houses, apartment blocks, high-rise towers, shopping malls, and vital public infrastructure. |
| 1:04.0 | One of the worst hit is the sewage network. |
| 1:08.0 | Recently, Nassar Hospital, the biggest medical facility in Khan Yunus was flooded with sewage. |
| 1:13.6 | Doctors struggled to treat patients while dirty warts afloat into every corner of the makeshift warts. |
| 1:22.6 | It's in the emergency department, in the expansion of the emergency department, places that receive many injured patients. This department receives about a thousand patients every day for follow-ups |
| 1:33.3 | or injuries. It's now totally out of service because of the sewage. |
| 1:37.3 | Israel is expanding its ground operations, decimating what's left of residential areas and underground |
| 1:45.2 | series systems. The Palestinian Water Authority estimates more than 85% of Gaza's water |
| 1:51.9 | and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed. Medical agencies warn this collapse |
| 1:59.1 | is a breeding ground for diseases which could claim more lives |
| 2:03.4 | than the Israeli bombs and bullets. |
| 2:07.6 | Eleven more Palestinians in Gaza died from Israeli-imposed starvation on Saturday, bringing |
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