Israel, Hamas, and how we got here

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This Israel-Hamas war is unlike the ones that came before it, says Haaretz’s Allison Kaplan Sommer. But it was years in the making, says Vox’s Zack Beauchamp. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On Friday, the Supernova Music Festival got underway in the Negev Desert, not far from
0:05.6	the Gaza Israel border.
0:10.2	And people were still dancing on Saturday morning around 6.30 when they saw paragliders
0:16.1	in the sky.
0:18.9	Some people kept dancing until they saw rockets, but then the music cut out.
0:25.0	And a war began.
0:26.0	The mass militants came to murder, humiliate, and to shatter Israeli's sense of safety.
0:33.4	Israel is changing the skyline of the Gaza Strip.
0:38.8	Flattening it.
0:39.8	Israel is also cut off Gaza completely.
0:42.7	No power, food, and water allowed in.
0:45.6	It's a total siege.
0:49.0	A brutal new chapter in a seemingly never-ending fight.
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