This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to Rufat al-Are.

He is a Palestinian academic and professor in Gaza City, currently there with his children.

As you'll hear in this episode a hell of a lot of bombing is taking place right now.

Warning you will hear his children in the background screaming as Israeli

bombs land just outside their house it's very important to hear these voices he's

going to give us an idea of what it's like to be trapped there in Gaza City right now on the ground as Israel bombs the place non-stop.

Support grassroots conflict journalism at patreon.com slash Popular Front. Hello Jay or how you doing? Hello how you doing? Oh fine thank you very much.

Great thanks very much.

Great, thanks so much for taking the time to do this.

I know communications are a little bit messy at the moment.

Yeah.

So, firstly, can you explain your situation in Gaza where you are what's been happening around you?

I'm currently in Gaza City, which is the most dangerous place in the world to be.

We speak like I'm talking to Can Berlin speak because the Israeli tanks are getting

closer and closer to where we are and where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are in the heart of Gaza City with many people

filtering in schools and hospitals in the area.

We speak about at the time when Israel has killed about 13,000

Palestinians about 5,000 children 2,500 women and the

two thousand hundred women in the numbers keep grow. I speak about around 60,000 housing units destroyed

the damaged infrastructure, electricity lines, at a time when Israel is preventing fuel, food, and even water

on the humanitarian issue people are like there are people literally dying

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