Inside a Gaza Village: “All of Us Will Die, but We Don’t Know When”

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Gaza Ministry of Health has calculated that more than 7,000 Palestinians have been killed, including nearly 3,000 children, by the latest Israeli bombing on Gaza. Those living in Gaza are under the constant threat of airstrikes, with little food, water, or access to medical care. This week on Deconstructed, Maram Al-Dada, an aviation engineer based in Florida, joins Ryan Grim; Al-Dada’s family is in Gaza, where he grew up. By the time of the interview, a shocking 46 members of Al-Dada’s family had been killed by Israeli attacks, with the rest wondering when their moment will come. Al-Dada talks about his childhood in Gaza, the escalating restrictions placed on Palestinians, and his family’s experience during these past few weeks.

Note: This episode was recorded on Thursday evening (October 26), before the Friday evening escalation by Israel and before Gaza lost cellular and internet service.

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0:00.0	Following weeks of a relentless bombing campaign coupled with the shutting off of food,
0:16.1	water, and fuel, the death toll in Gaza has climbed above 7,000.
0:21.6	More than a million people have been displaced internally, significantly more than half
0:25.6	the population.
0:27.5	Among the areas of Gaza that has been targeted is the city of Hanyunis in the south, home
0:32.3	to more than 100,000 residents.
0:34.8	Air strikes are everywhere and as we speak, there is heavy artillery shillin going on in
0:40.9	the eastern part of the city of Hanyunis and there are bombing more homes and destroying
0:46.6	more infrastructure.
0:48.7	There are air strikes carried out by sophisticated, attack jits destroying every bit and every
0:57.9	sign of life in the Gaza Strip.
1:01.1	It's the aftermath of an Israeli air strike that hit a complex of residential buildings
1:06.2	in Hanyunis in the early hours of the morning.
1:10.3	Israeli army says it's targeting Hamas operatives, not civilians.
1:17.4	The south is supposed to be the safe side of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of left the
1:22.5	north, heating Israeli warnings.
1:31.3	I'm Ryan Grimm, this is deconstructed and today we're going to be joined again by
1:36.1	Maram Al-Dada, an aviation engineer from Orlando who you may remember from a February
1:40.6	episode.
1:41.6	I interviewed him then about organizing he had done with the Florida Palestine Network
1:45.6	during the last Gaza War in 2021 where he joined Maxwell Frost at a rally and he later
1:50.6	lobbied him to stand firm on Palestinian human rights.
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