On Nakba Day, Trump tours the Gulf as Gaza starves
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Gaza is starving. As Palestinians mark 77 years since the Nakba, families are still under bombardment, cut off from aid and struggling to survive. With US President Donald Trump touring the Gulf, what will it take to bring relief to Palestinians?
In this episode:
- Youmna ElSayed (@YoumnaElSayed17), Al Jazeera correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, and Tamara Khandaker, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Kisaa Zehra, Remas Alhawari, Mariana Navarrete, and our guest host, Natasha del Toro. It was edited by Alexandra Locke.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. 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, as Palestinians mark the Nakhba, in Arabic, the catastrophe, Gaza is living it now. |
| 0:18.0 | The UN has called for urgent international action to get aid into Gaza amid fresh warnings |
| 0:23.4 | that nearly half a million people there, one in five of the population, now faces |
| 0:28.2 | catastrophic hunger. |
| 0:31.1 | Gaza is on Trump's agenda as he tours the Arab Gulf. |
| 0:34.9 | Will his visit make a difference? |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is the text Gulf. Will his visit make a difference? I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is a take. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm Yomna Sayyid. I am Al Jazeera English correspondent in the Gaza Strip. I am currently in Cairo, Egypt after I was able to evacuate with my husband and kids from Gaza in late December, 2023. |
| 1:04.6 | Welcome back to the take. |
| 1:07.4 | We've followed your story and know that you've been a refugee with your family in Cairo for over a year now. |
| 1:16.0 | How have they been? |
| 1:18.1 | Well, Natasha, I mean, of course, maybe it's not a secret that I am an Egyptian. |
| 1:25.8 | I carry an Egyptian passport, |
| 1:28.3 | but this does not change the reality |
| 1:31.3 | that it does not grant any benefits |
| 1:36.3 | to my Palestinian husband or Palestinian children. |
| 1:42.3 | It has been a very difficult year since our evacuation as a family. It's almost |
| 1:52.5 | impossible to disconnect from the reality of what is happening just kilometers away across |
| 1:59.5 | the border in Gaza. |
| 2:01.9 | You know what they're going through. |
| 2:04.4 | You lived it. |
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