Israel razes Gaza City as UN commission declares genocide
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Israel launched a major ground offensive in Gaza City, where around 900,000 people are living. It follows weeks of bombardment, destroying residential buildings and forcing Palestinians to flee the city for what they fear may be the final time. As a United Nations inquiry adds to the findings that Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide, what will regional powers do now?
In this episode:
- Youmna ElSayed (@YoumnaElSayed17), Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tracie Hunte, Sarí el-Khalili, Haleema Shah, and Noor Wazwaz, with Melanie Marich, Kylene Kiang, Chloe K. Li, Kisaa Zehra, Farhan Rafid, and our guest host, Natasha Del Toro. It was edited by Alexandra Locke.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, Israel's ground invasion of Gaza City. |
| 0:15.0 | An Israeli air strike on this building has displaced hundreds of people in this area. People move to the coast |
| 0:21.9 | and on the streets. They don't know where to go. As Israel escalates as assault on the people of Gaza, |
| 0:29.0 | a UN inquiry finds its actions constitute genocide. So now what? I'm Natasha deleltoro, and this is The Take. |
| 0:47.7 | Before we continue with today's show, if you're watching us on YouTube or Spotify, |
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| 1:03.6 | The link is in the show notes. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm Yem Nassayyid, Al Jazeera English correspondent in the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm currently in Egypt after I evacuated Gaza in the end of December 2023. |
| 1:25.1 | Yuma, welcome back to the take. We always really appreciate having you on. So Israel has |
| 1:31.0 | been pounding Gaza City with airstrikes in preparation for this ground invasion that's |
| 1:36.9 | happening now. It's estimated that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians could still be in Gaza |
| 1:42.8 | City. Maybe you could tell us what does this look like |
| 1:46.2 | on the ground? Well, first of all, Natasha, it's always been Israel's strategy to pound the Gaza |
| 1:54.4 | strip or to pound the area in which it has or prepares to enter into that area. |
| 2:03.3 | We've witnessed this in Gaza City before in the first ground invasion in 2023 and it has |
| 2:09.7 | happened again in south in the southern part of Khan Yunus and in Raphah, where these areas have been completely turned. |
| 2:19.4 | These cities have been completely turned into empty remote areas because of that strategy. |
| 2:26.0 | Now, what Israel has been doing in the past week is the continuous bombarding of all the high-rise |
| 2:33.4 | buildings and all buildings in Gaza City. |
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