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Democracy Now! 2023-10-16 Monday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for October 16, 2023; “Gaza Is Running Out of Life”: Human Rights Watch Sounds Alarm on Israel’s Collective Punishment; “A Textbook Case of Genocide”: Israeli Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Decries Israel’s Assault on Gaza; Remembering Issam Abdallah, Reuters Journalist Killed Covering Israeli Missile Strikes in Lebanon; 12 Journalists, Mostly Palestinians in Gaza, Killed in “Deadliest Time for Journalists”

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:18.6

We're seeing an unprecedented descent into darkness, no electricity, no internet, no

0:23.6

water, no food, no aid, bombs raining down on Gaza, more than 2,600 killed in Israeli

0:30.5

government signaling that they intend to commit mass atrocities, they must be stopped.

0:36.0

The death toll from the Israeli bombardment of Gaza has topped 2700, including over

0:42.7

1,000 Palestinian children.

0:45.7

Over 1 million residents of Gaza have been displaced.

0:50.1

We'll talk to Omar Shocker of Human Rights Watch, then the Israeli historian Ross Seigo,

0:56.9

who says Israel's assault on Gaza is a textbook case of genocide.

1:02.5

We're seeing a genocide unfolding in Gaza today, the Israeli attack on Gaza, which is quite

1:07.5

exceptional in its character as a Holocaust and genocide studies scholar as a Jewish Holocaust

1:14.9

and genocide studies scholar.

1:16.8

This is an urgent concern for me.

1:20.5

There may be still time to stop this unfolding attack, but we need to recognize it for what

1:26.3

it is.

1:27.7

Then over the past 10 days, at least 12 journalists, mostly Palestinian, have been killed in the

1:33.9

war.

1:34.9

We'll speak to the journalist Lama Alarian, her close friend, the Reuters journalist Isom

1:41.0

Abdullah, was killed in an Israeli artillery strike in southern Lebanon.

1:45.4

A lot of officials from many different political parties, and of course many journalists, friends

1:53.9

of his.

1:54.9

He was buried among his press jacket, and on top of his grave, they lined his grave

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