This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to journalist Ari Flansreich.

He's been on the ground covering the conflict, the new war between Israel and Palestine.

He's going to be talking to us about the dire situation on the ground, explaining how and why this is happening now,

and the various reactions to the war between Israelis and Palestinians.

We will also be running an episode speaking to people directly on the ground in Gaza, but as you can imagine it's quite

difficult to make that call happen right now considering they're under daily

bombings. Support Popular Front at patreon.com slash Popular Front at Patreon. So,

popular front. So before we get into how this all started, well it's starting a long time ago,

but before this recent war started, tell me how have you been, what you've been doing?

You've been on the ground pretty much

non-stop working where have you been what you've been doing

so ever since things popped off that was October 7th so that was roughly two weeks ago.

I've been basically moving, rotating between the two borders.

So I spent a good amount of time at the beginning

on the Gazan border in what they call the Gazan envelope. So I visited in Kofaraza, which is one of the

sites of the massacre. I was interviewing IDF soldiers. I interviewed the commander

who actually led the counterinsurgency.

And his team, they were the ones who managed to basically take control

after roughly 48 hours.

And after that as things began escalating in the north I've been on the Lebanese border.

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