Democracy Now! 2023-12-19 Tuesday
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for December 19, 2023; “Beyond Our Imagination”: Journalist Describes Total Destruction, with Fellow Gazans Buried Alive; Palestinian American Woman Tries to Save Family in Gaza After Her Mom Dies Awaiting Evacuation; Israel’s War on Children: Fadi Abu Shammalah on Horrific Ordeal Facing Kids in Gaza, Including His Own; Starvation as a Weapon of War: Human Rights Watch Denounces Israel for Denying Gaza Access to Food
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now. |
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| 0:34.0 | What we found there was that half of the population are starving. |
| 0:40.0 | The grim reality is also that nine out of ten people are not eating enough, are not eating |
| 0:47.4 | every day and don't know where the next meal is going to come from. |
| 0:52.3 | As the death toll in Gaza grows closer to 20,000, |
| 0:57.0 | Human Rights Watch has accused the Israeli government of using starvation |
| 1:01.0 | as a weapon of war in Gaza. We'll speak to Omar |
| 1:05.2 | Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director of Human Rights Watch in Amman. |
| 1:10.1 | Then we look at how the Biden administration's facing accusations |
| 1:14.8 | it's been too slow to help Palestinian Americans and their families trapped in |
| 1:20.0 | Gaza. We'll speak with a Palestinian-American woman in Detroit whose mother died |
| 1:26.2 | while waiting to leave Gaza for medical care. |
| 1:29.5 | We'll also talk to the head of Gaza's general union of cultural centers. He left Gaza a month |
| 1:35.8 | ago is now desperately trying to get his family out and to the United States. This comes |
| 1:42.1 | as calls grow for the U.S. to grant temporary |
| 1:45.0 | protected status or TPS to Palestinians already in the U.S. All about and more |
| 1:51.2 | coming out. Welcome to Democracy Now. |
| 1:57.0 | Democracy Now. |
| 2:00.0 | Or the Warren Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman at least 13 |
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