Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the show. The events in Gaza as horrifying as ever.

We now know around eight and a half thousand people have died, over three and a half thousand

children, a truly dreadful death toll, and must be said that it must be feared that the

where worst is yet to come. Now what I've been doing on this channel as best I can as well as

obviously my own videos commenting on what's happening is I've tried to elevate the voices that

we need to be hearing from right now. It's been a pretty broad range of people and that includes,

Palestinians both here and in Palestine, Israeli peace activists, Jewish peace activists here in

Britain, medics, experts generally, and today's no exception. We're very lucky today to have some

fantastic speakers who can speak from lived experience about the horror that is unfolding,

and that's what I'll be trying to do is best I can overcoming weeks.

Particularly, I have to say, one of the things which I found particularly disturbing is

when we talk when Palestinians are platformed in the media, it's often an interrogation as though

even though they have nothing to do with Hamas or the atrocities committed by Hamas, but they're almost

as though they're being prosecuted. I think this is particularly disturbing often when

his Palestinian is on air who have lost their relatives and lost their loved ones,

in gruesome episode, all of this, but that's one particularly disturbing facet of it. So it's

particularly important that those I interview, I provide the space to talk about

what's happening on their own terms. So we have a lot to talk about today.

Later on, we'll have a brilliant medic who has been to Gaza many times, who will talk about

humanitarian catastrophe, which is currently unfolding in Gaza. We're also very lucky to have

a man who's a Israeli man who's cousin was kidnapped by Hamas on the 7th of October who is

calling for peace, and shortly I will be speaking to Akmin Najar who is a Palestinian man who has

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