Brief: US approves $14 billion to Israel, blocks Palestine UN membership
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: The US voted against granting Palestinians full UN membership. Israel attacked Iran. The US Congress approved more military aid to Israel.
It is day 198 of the war. At least 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
In this episode:
- Gabriel Elizondo, (@elizondogabriel), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Akram Al Satarri, Freelance journalist
- Dorsa Jabbari, (@DorsaJabbari), 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 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. |
| 0:05.0 | We are coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war on Gaza continues. |
| 0:12.0 | The United States voted against granting Palestinians full UN membership. |
| 0:18.0 | Israel attacked Iran. |
| 0:20.0 | The U.S. Congress approved more military aid to Israel. |
| 0:23.6 | Today is Sunday, April 21st. It is day 198 of the war. More than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. |
| 0:34.6 | More than 23,000 of those are women and children. At least 8,000 people |
| 0:40.3 | remain missing. I shall now put the draft resolution to the vote. Will those in favor of |
| 0:48.8 | the draft resolution? At the United Nations on Thursday, the U.S. vetoed a proposal to grant |
| 0:53.8 | Palestinians full membership. |
| 0:56.0 | They currently hold observer status alongside the U.N.'s 193 members. |
| 1:02.0 | Al Jazeera's Gabriel Alizando reported from New York. |
| 1:07.8 | In remarks after the U.S. veto, Palestine's ambassador gathered himself as he talked about his people's quest for dignity and acceptance. |
| 1:17.6 | The chamber sat silent. Some diplomats were seen wiping away tears as he spoke. |
| 1:24.6 | We love life to live in freedom and dignity in our national homeland. |
| 1:31.9 | We will not disappear. |
| 1:35.3 | Palestinians in Gaza endured another week of horror as the war there continued. |
| 1:40.5 | On Friday, medical workers discovered a mass grave holding at least 50 bodies at Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunus. |
| 1:49.0 | One 50-year-old mother was screaming and calling her family members and asking them to come help her with a barrier |
| 1:59.0 | because she has been trying to find the body of |
| 2:02.2 | her daughter who's 18 years old. And then after 10 days, she found the body in hospital. |
| 2:09.5 | Freelance journalist Akram al-Satari reported from the scene, where excavation and efforts |
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