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That's kind of conversation to your soul.

That's conversation between your soul and the night. Hello, American Prestige listeners, it's Derek, and I am very grateful to be joined once again by Dalia

Hatuka. Dalia is a journalist specializing in Israeli-Palestinian affairs. She writes about

regional Middle East issues. She's a tour de force and she's been on the show a couple of

times. We're very grateful to welcome her back. Dalia, thank you so much for coming back to the

show.

Thanks for having me.

So I think we need to start with an update on the situation in Gaza. It's been a few weeks since we talked about Gaza,

and particularly we haven't talked about it since the start of the Israeli, the 12-day war, as Donald Trump calls it,

between Israel and Iran, during which time, I think, if anything, while the world's attention was

distracted by that conflict, you heard stories. I read stories with,

you know, interviews with Palestinians in Gaza saying things are actually getting worse,

as hard as that is to imagine that the Israelis took the opportunity to ratchet up the violence,

ratchet up the oppression in Gaza.

Can you talk a bit about how things have been going there for the last couple of weeks?

Yeah.

Especially for the last couple of weeks.

Yes, of course.

So Gaza is basically hanging by a thread.

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