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Is Israel deliberately trying to make Gaza uninhabitable? – Podcast

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With 40% of homes destroyed in the strip, legal experts are raising the question of ‘domicide’ – but what it is it, and is it taking place in Gaza?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Is the Israeli government deliberately making Gaza unlivable.

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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. It's been nearly 10 weeks since Hamas launched its brutal attack in Israel and since the Israeli government retaliated. In that time the air strikes on

1:07.6

Gaza have barely stopped. More than 18,000 people have been killed according to the

1:13.9

Garzan Health Ministry.

1:15.9

1.9 million people have been displaced.

1:20.2

And the space for them to find possible shelter, the place the Israeli Defence Force says is safest for them, has shrunk to an area the size of Heathrow Airport.

1:32.0

There's nowhere safe in the whole of Gaza.

1:35.0

The IDF has not declared any area out of bounds when it comes to carrying out strikes, even the area along the coast that they have on and off declared

1:48.9

to be a humanitarian zone. They have also said that Hamas have launched rocket strikes from there

1:58.0

and so they will not rule out strikes on that area too. So they are now being careful not to declare anywhere a safe zone

2:07.2

rather referring so-called humanitarian zones. those 1.9 million people are struggling to get food, water, shelter and medical care in their own country.

2:28.0

The Israeli government says it won't stop the bombing anytime soon.

2:32.0

And even if it did, where would those people

2:35.1

return to when more than a third of their homes have been destroyed? The

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