Death Toll in Gaza Now Exceeds 5,000

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The dystopian images coming out of Gaza, as Israel continues its scorched-earth campaign, show horrific destruction and the killing of civilians. Over the weekend, Israel escalated bombardments in Gaza, raising the death toll to over 5,000 with more than 62 percent of fatalities being women and children, according to the latest U.N. reports. There is a growing concern Israel’s war on Gaza will draw other nations into the conflict, including Lebanon, Iran, Egypt, and Turkey. This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain are joined by Yousef Munayyer, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and the head of the Palestine/Israel program at the Arab Center Washington D.C. They discuss the institutional support for war against Palestine, the shutting down of pro-Palestinian voices, and the broader regional and political implications of an intensification of the war.

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1:00.2	Welcome to intercepted. I'm Jeremy Skahill and I'm Murtaza Hussain.
1:11.8	How am I? I mean, it's just watching the watching the coverage of the bombing of Gaza is
1:18.4	it's really horrifying and I was gathered with you know some friends this weekend including
1:23.1	people that work very intensely on the Palestine issue and they were asking me because of my
1:28.5	coverage of war on terror and Yugoslavia and other things like if I had seen something like this
1:34.0	and you know I just got me to thinking that you know of the US war in Iraq I mean you had you did
1:38.9	have scorched earth bombing that took place and certainly during Shakhanah and then you know
1:43.8	much later you had in the in the war against ISIS you had the leveling of Mosul and other cities
1:49.8	but looking at the imagery coming out of Gaza and you know one former Israeli official actually
1:55.6	did make a comparison to Dresden I mean what we're seeing is like a a Chechnya style leveling
2:02.3	of the ground or it is from other era US wars I mean it's you look at that and you you then put
2:09.3	that together with the fact that the people that are being targeted here that are being killed in
2:14.0	the largest numbers that are being punished are overwhelmingly young people overwhelmingly civilians
2:21.0	and then to watch the most powerful leader in the world Joe Biden actively cheering it on it really
2:27.7	jars you as well I'll say it I mean just as an American it feels it feels shameful you know
2:33.7	it's very shocking because for a number of years we've seen US officials criticize Russian
2:38.7	actions in more time Russian actions the Syrian government other adversaries and yet they're
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