One year of devastation in the Middle East
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On the 7th October Sharone Lifschitz's parents were taken as hostages by Hamas. One year later her father, along with almost 100 other hostages, have not returned and the entire region stands at a crossroads.
Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced by the ensuing conflict as Israel have conducted air strikes, first on Gaza, currently on Lebanon and Yemen.
How did this conflict escalate so drastically? On this episode of the podcast Sharone Lifschitz and Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, join from London, and speaking from Beirut we hear from journalist Hanna Davis and Yalda Hakim, lead world news presenter at Sky News.
This episode was recorded prior to Iran's missile attack on Israel on the 1st October.
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| 1:51.0 | I call my mom, which is the one that usually answer and she didn't answer. |
| 1:57.0 | Then I called my father, he didn't answer and then I called my brother. |
| 2:02.0 | And my brother answered with the kind of voice I've never heard before. |
| 2:08.0 | On October 7th, 2023, Sharon Lischitz was with her family on a train to York. They were due to collect a new family pet. |
| 2:17.0 | You know, he said it's as bad as can be. They've broken the fence. We lost touch with servants after less than an hour ago and they were in the safe |
| 2:28.8 | rooms. Plans were quickly cancelled. I think I was in a coffee shop when I saw on my phone |
| 2:34.9 | video in which so-called journalist is standing just behind my parents house. All around him there was shooting. All around |
| 2:46.7 | him there were motorbikes with militants and he was saying we've occupied the important Zionist settlement of Niroz. It's tiny and |
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