Hello and welcome to the G0 World Podcast.

This is where you can find extended versions of my interviews on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer, and today we are nearly nine months into the Israel-Hamas war.

In that time, around 40,000 Palestinians and over 1,000 Israelis have died, according to the Israeli army and the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.

As always, exact numbers are impossible to verify, given limited access to the Gaza Strip.

According to the United Nations, 60% of Gaza homes and over 80% of commercial buildings and schools

have been destroyed or damaged. The UN also warns that over a million Gazans could face the highest levels of starvation

by mid-July if the fighting doesn't end.

And War always reserves its harshest punishments for the most vulnerable, with UNICEF reporting

that nine out of every 10 Ghazan children lack the nutrition needed for proper growth.

Joining me today with the Palestinian perspective is Riyadh Mansour,

the permanent observer of Palestine to the United Nations.

He's a Palestinian American himself, the son of an Ohio steelworker,

and says that this moment in the Middle East is the most significant period

of transformation in his decades of representing the Palestinian people on the global stage.

And here's our conversation.

Ambassador Riyadh Mansour, thanks so much for joining us today.

I'm happy that you have me.

So I want to first introduce you a little bit to our audience as, you know, not only the representative

of the Palestinian Authority here in the United Nations, but also as someone who grew up here

in the United States. A little bit on your background, I think would be great.

Well, first of all, you know, thank you for having me.

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