All right. Hello and welcome back to Colonial Outcast, episode six. We're going to be talking about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. This is kind of a different tack for us. Ever since I went live on social media and talking about the situation over there, it's been from the military and geopolitics niche. So we're going to be

delving into that for the first time today. I'm joined by co-host Mark Wayne and Zena Akele. She is a

Palestinian journalist and activist. You grew up in Jordan. Now you're living in the United States.

Thank you for having you.

Yeah, and I think that's all we're going to do for your bio.

You're actually pretty well established on social media.

We'll link that and your other links in the description below.

You don't like compliments.

No one does anymore.

So we're just going to move right along and begin talking about the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

There's a lot of conflicting information. And basically the media has painted the entire situation, the lack of food, schools being shut down, 1.7 million people internally displaced, kind of with a broad brush so that everybody has the

impression that what's going on in North Gaza is identical to what's going on in the quote-unquote

safe zone and Rafa, which is completely not true, as we talked about last night, and we're going to

get into that. So just to catch everybody up on how the media is portraying it,

I'm going to play a short clip by, I think it's NBC from about 10 days ago.

The situation has deteriorated since then, but the general principles,

well, the general circumstances haven't changed.

However, this is just, again, a demonstration of how the media is painting

this in a broad brush and then we're with a broad strokes. And then we're just going to jump in.

All right. So let me pull this up. All right, sending it.

Tonight, desperation growing, a crowd of displaced Palestinians and Rafa descending on an aid truck.

These are familiar scenes now as hunger grips the entire population.

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