Gaza's Humanitarian Crisis: The Truth
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As Gaza is plunged into humanitarian catastrophe, we have the latest analysis from:
Asad Rehman, director of War on Want
Em Hilton, co-founder of Na'amod
Dr. Nick Maynard, surgeon who has worked in Gaza
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the show. We are now a week and a half into a war crime, which has been |
| 0:18.8 | committed. I need to be clear about that, and I'll speak about that with my guests as |
| 0:22.5 | well, which has been committed against the people of Gaza by an Israeli state, which is |
| 0:27.6 | armed and backed by the West, which is why we're devoting so much time to discuss this, because |
| 0:34.2 | our government is directly complicit in exactly what's going on. And obviously this happened |
| 0:38.9 | after the horrendous events of the atrocity committed by Hamas, which we discussed last week |
| 0:44.4 | with the Israeli Human Rights Organization, Betzalem. Now, before I bring in my guest, because |
| 0:49.3 | it's so important and times like this that I passed the mic to voices who are from what |
| 0:56.3 | educated in what exactly is going on in the grounds and also elevating the voices that we need |
| 1:01.5 | to hear from at time like this. But just in terms of what we know, because we often hear about |
| 1:05.0 | the fog of war, so it's very, very important that I say this to begin with, which is we know that |
| 1:09.9 | Israel has declared a total siege at the Israeli Defence Minister very clearly said that all water, |
| 1:15.9 | food and electricity will be cut off from Gaza in pursuit of what he called human animals, |
| 1:20.9 | and he further said that we will eliminate everything. We know that a siege of such |
| 1:26.3 | description is against international law. It's against the Geneva Conventions. We know that Israeli |
| 1:32.1 | officials are boasting that they will turn Gaza into a city of tents. We know that one of Israeli's |
| 1:37.5 | top military lawyers says if you want to destroy Hamas, then you have to destroy Gaza, because |
| 1:41.6 | everything in Gaza almost every building there is a stronghold of Hamas. And I say that because |
| 1:47.6 | a leading light in the Labour party in support of what's going on says that those that is what |
| 1:53.6 | can't possibly be a violation of international law, because their actions have signed off from |
| 1:57.3 | the lawyers. I've just quoted from one of those lawyers, so we know exactly what we're dealing with. |
| 2:01.4 | We know that the forcible removal of civilian populations under threat of violence is a war crime. |
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