How We Reached This Point in the Israel-Gaza Conflict
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
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Summary
Hamas killed over a thousand people, took others hostage, and even assumed control of several Israeli communities. Israel's military was caught completely unaware.
Now the Israeli military has laid siege to Gaza. Retaliatory Israeli air strikes have killed at least 800 Palestinians and displaced around 200 thousand people. They've cut off fuel, electricity and food supplies into the area.
How did we get to this point?
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tal Schneider, political and diplomatic correspondent for the Times of Israel, and Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland.
Additional reporting in this episode by Daniel Estrin and Aya Batrawy.
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| 0:00.0 | To be clear, there is regular violence between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. |
| 0:12.9 | Hamas loves rockets at Israel, which has a very sophisticated missile defense system, |
| 0:17.9 | known as the Iron Dome, and the impact in Israel is usually minimized. |
| 0:23.0 | Israel retaliates with airstrikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip. |
| 0:27.0 | That is how it often goes. |
| 0:28.9 | This past weekend was different. |
| 0:30.5 | I don't know if she's alive. |
| 0:31.8 | I don't know if she's dead. |
| 0:33.0 | I don't know if she's hurt. |
| 0:35.0 | I've known nothing. |
| 0:36.1 | I don't know if somebody captured her. |
| 0:39.0 | We started getting phone calls like from Arabs, from Hamas, that they are keeping my daughters. |
| 0:45.8 | And they say that they have my daughter, my beautiful daughter. |
| 0:49.4 | And they hear screaming of girls. |
| 0:51.6 | That is a Huba Maisel, whose 21-year-old daughter was at a music festival |
| 0:57.3 | when Hamas militants paraglided over the border and started shooting civilians. |
| 1:03.1 | Hamas killed more than 1,000 people, took others hostage, |
| 1:06.6 | and assumed control of several Israeli communities. |
| 1:10.6 | Israel's military was caught completely unaware. |
| 1:13.8 | Now the Israeli military has laid siege to Gaza. |
| 1:17.8 | retaliatory Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 800 Palestinians, |
| 1:22.0 | and displaced around 200,000 people. |
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