Brief: US veto on Gaza at UN, Palestinians take refuge in dumps
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: Displaced Palestinians are forced to live on garbage dumps. The US again vetoed a UN resolution to end the war on Gaza. An update on Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Today is Sunday, September 21. It is day 716 of the war in Gaza, where more than 65,208 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Hind Khoudary, (@Hind_Gaza) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- James Bays, (@baysontheroad) Al Jazeera Diplomatic Editor
- Charles Stratford, (@stratfordch) 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, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:12.0 | This week, displaced Palestinians are forced to live on garbage dumps. |
| 0:18.0 | The U.S. again vetoed a UN resolution to end the war on Gaza. |
| 0:23.2 | An update on Dr. Husam Abu Safia, the hospital director from Gaza detained by Israel last year. |
| 0:30.1 | Today is Sunday, September 21. It is day 716 of the war in Gaza, where more than 65,208 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:42.3 | Palestinians in Gaza continue to flee Israel's attack on Gaza's city, with virtually nowhere to go. |
| 0:50.3 | Al Jazeera's Hind Hoddi filed this report report about families who have been forced to live on a |
| 0:56.3 | garbage dump in Dara Bada, in central Gaza. With nowhere else to go, this stretch of toxic ground |
| 1:03.8 | has become their only refuge. We were displaced like many people from the north because of the destruction and the devastation. |
| 1:13.6 | We were searching all over for a decent place where we can stay, but that costs money to rent a small piece of land. |
| 1:19.6 | We can't afford that. We kept looking around, but we didn't find any other place but here. |
| 1:24.6 | As you can see, it is nothing but garbage, sewage, all kinds of pollution, |
| 1:29.3 | bacteria and germs. I'm cooking my food in the midst of garbage. Where else can we go? We are |
| 1:35.7 | trying to clean as much as we can until we figure out a way out of this misery. This makeshift camp in |
| 1:42.7 | Dair El Balah is one of the many scattered across central Gaza. |
| 1:47.0 | Since the intensified military operations in Gaza City, |
| 1:51.0 | entire neighborhoods have been flattened fortising tens of thousands to flee south, |
| 1:57.0 | many on foot with nothing but what they could carry. |
| 2:02.8 | On Thursday in New York, the United States once more used its veto power to block a United |
| 2:08.7 | Nations Security Council resolution demanding an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 2:14.5 | The U.S. also continues to refuse to issue a visa for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas |
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