Israel Arrests Thousands in West Bank as Gaza Fighting Enters ‘Decisive Phase’
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Israel is arresting thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank while it ramps up the campaign against Gaza. Since Israel’s military operation launched after October 7, it has arrested more than 3,640 Palestinians, including 41 journalists and more than 200 children.
Brian Becker is joined by Tala Nasir, staff lawyer and spokesperson for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, located in Ramallah.
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| 0:00.0 | More than 15,000 people in Gaza have been murdered by the Israeli military in recent weeks. |
| 0:07.8 | That number will certainly go up. |
| 0:10.7 | Fighting is intensifying in both north and south Gaza. |
| 0:14.9 | Some Palestinian political prisoners have been released, but there are thousands more languishing in Israeli prisons. |
| 0:22.4 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:28.5 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:01.0 | Today we're talking with Tala Nasir. Tala is a staff lawyer and spokesperson for the Otomir Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Tala is speaking with us today from the Occupied West Bank. |
| 1:15.6 | Tala Nassir, welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:18.6 | Thank you. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:20.6 | Well, thank you so much for joining. |
| 1:22.6 | Tala, you are a lawyer. |
| 1:24.6 | Otomir Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, is advocating for, |
| 1:29.7 | speaking up for, and representing Palestinian prisoners. You know, in the American media, |
| 1:35.2 | we heard so much about the Israeli hostages who were taken on October 7th and almost nothing |
| 1:41.6 | about Palestinian political prisoners. It's as if they did not exist. |
| 1:46.0 | Like, so the American people getting spoon fed from the American mainstream media didn't even know, I don't think, in the main, about Palestinian prisoners. |
| 1:55.0 | Some have been released. Thousands more are in Israeli prisons. Let's first talk about how many people are in prison. |
| 2:02.6 | Why are they in prison? Does the Israeli government have their right to imprison Palestinian people? |
| 2:08.5 | And how many have been released? |
| 2:10.7 | Yes. So let me start with the released prisoners. Actually, in the past seven days when the truth began, actually, 240 Palestinian |
| 2:19.7 | women and children detainees were released from the Israeli occupation prisons. Among those |
| 2:25.3 | released are 71 women. Ten of them were held under administrative detention, in addition to |
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