October 7th: A year of war through the eyes of those who lived it
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🗓️ 6 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | It's |
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| 0:07.0 | from NPR. I'm Scott Detro. As we approach one year since Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel, we bring you a special episode of State of the World. |
| 0:10.0 | It's a podcast from our colleagues in NPR's International Desk and you can find and follow State of the World on your podcast platform of choice for new episodes every weekday. |
| 0:19.0 | Today on State of the World, marking one year since the October 7th attacks, |
| 0:24.7 | looking back at a year that reshape the Middle East through the eyes of the World from NPR. I'm Greg Dixon and in this |
| 0:40.6 | longer episode today we're looking back at the years since the October 7th attacks on Israel. |
| 0:46.5 | Here's NPR's Daniel Estrin reporting on events that day. |
| 0:50.2 | Heavily armed Palestinian militants in Gaza flew across the border on paragliders. |
| 0:55.8 | They swam through the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 0:57.5 | They drove over land in pickup trucks through Israel's fortified border fence and they infiltrated several |
| 1:05.5 | Israeli military camps and at least five Israeli communities, residential |
| 1:10.2 | communities near Gaza and there are still gun battles going on with Israeli forces. |
| 1:15.7 | The attacks were led by the militant group Hamas. |
| 1:18.6 | By the time they were over, some 1,200 people were killed. |
| 1:22.3 | Another 250 were taken hostage and held in Gaza. |
| 1:26.7 | It was the deadliest day in Israeli history, |
| 1:29.5 | and it would lead to the deadliest war in Palestinian history. |
| 1:33.0 | Israeli ground troops have entered northern Gaza as part of an expanded military |
| 1:37.7 | operation against Hamas militants. |
| 1:40.1 | Israel declared war on Hamas and a few days later invaded Gaza, |
| 1:44.2 | unleashing barages from the air and ground that killed Hamas fighters but also many, many |
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