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Democracy Now! 2024-07-26 Friday

Democracy Now! Video

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for July 26, 2024; “Unspeakable”: Doctors Back from Gaza Say Death Toll “Much Higher,” Push Harris, Biden for Ceasefire; Meet the Journalist Who Lost Her Leg in Israeli Strike & Carried Olympic Torch for Slain Colleagues; Paris Olympics Slammed for “Social Cleansing,” Mass Displacement, Militarization & Greenwashing

Transcript

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0:00.0

And the From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:20.0

We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent.

0:30.0

Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris meets privately

0:35.6

with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after skipping his joint address to Congress.

0:41.6

We'll speak to two of the 45 doctors who volunteered in

0:45.5

Gaza and wrote an open letter to President Biden and Kamala Harris to demand an

0:50.6

immediate ceasefire.

0:52.8

We wanted the administration to know what we saw there, who violence is being directed against

0:58.0

there.

0:59.0

We also wanted to make sure that they're aware that the death toll on Gaza is certainly much higher than has been reported publicly.

1:05.6

Then as the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics happens today in Paris, we'll speak with the Lebanese photojournalist

1:15.8

Christina Aceh of Agence France Press.

1:18.8

She carried the Olympic torch in Paris Sunday to honor journalists wounded or killed on the job.

1:25.0

She lost her own leg in the same Israeli attack in southern Lebanon that killed Reuters videographer

1:30.6

Isam Abdullah in October.

1:32.3

Of course this is all for photographer Isam Abdullah in October.

1:33.0

Of course, this is all for my best friend,

1:36.0

Isam Abdullah and all the other journals we have lost this year.

1:41.0

This is all for them and to pay tribute and to honor them to honor their memory and

1:45.2

I will keep Aisomes memory alive and everything I do. It's all for him.

1:50.8

We'll also go to Paris to speak with journalist Jules Borckoff about

1:55.2

how the Paris Olympics are a lesson in green washing and with activist Paul

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