It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. Thanks to Bridget Bergen and Tiffany

Hanson for filling in last week. Happy Thanksgiving week to everybody and what a weird and uneasy one this is likely to be for many people right

we Americans will be feasting on Thursday giving thanks for a bounty knowing that

at the same time hundreds of Israelis and some Americans remain in captivity as

hostages in Gaza since the 7th of October and as thousands of adults and thousands more children

get killed there in the Israeli campaign to destroy Hamas.

What a weird cognitive dissonance it might be this week to have the family togetherness and abundance of Thanksgiving for many people while we're thinking

about the extreme suffering taking place at the same time on both sides over there.

On the Gazan Children, a New York Times headline yesterday read,

the war turns Gaza into a graveyard for children. The word graveyard was in

quotes as a quote from the United Nations. The article says,

Gaza, the United Nations warrants, has become a graveyard for thousands of children.

That's the quote, a graveyard for thousands of children. That's the quote, a graveyard for thousands of children.

Determining the precise number of children killed in Gaza in the midst of a fierce bombing campaign

with hospitals collapsing, children missing, bodies buried under rubble and neighborhoods in ruins is a

Cacifian task. Health officials in Gaza say that 5,000 Palestinian children have been

killed since the Israeli assault began and

possibly hundreds more. But the Times doesn't take those Hamas numbers at

face value as they shouldn't but it then goes on to say many international

officials and experts familiar with but it then goes on to say many international officials

and experts familiar with the way death tolls are compiled in the territory

say the overall numbers are generally reliable.

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