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Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR.

For the next two episodes, we're going to talk about the war in Gaza.

First we'll talk to Daniel Estrin, who has been NPR's correspondent in Israel and the

Palestinian territories for a long time.

He's been reporting on Israel and Gaza almost non-stop since the Hamas-led attack on October 7th.

Next week we'll talk to NPR Morning Edition host Le La Fadil about her reporting on

Palestinians who are living through this conflict. For today, Daniel.

Something that strikes me when I listen to Daniel's stories is that they have this way of going beyond the idea that you're either on one side or you're on the other side in this war.

Like this one story he recently did about an American story. or you're on the other side in this war.

Like this one story he recently did about an American Israeli professor,

Elon Troen.

Troen's daughter and son-in-law were killed in the October 7th attack and a hundred days later Daniel

went to check on him. The first thing I want to ask you is how are you? How am I? In Baroque music there's something called

the Baso Continuo. If you listen to Bach, there's that bottom line that continues and my

Baso Continuo is one of sadness.

He was also wrestling with how things have unfolded since October 7th.

Daniel asked him what his daughter might think about the Israeli offensive in Gaza,

the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have been killed,

and about Hamas.

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