Prisoners, Propaganda, and the Battle Over the Gaza War Narrative
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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Despite a temporary pause in Israel’s massive bombardment and ground operations in Gaza, the humanitarian catastrophe continues to worsen. With more than 15,000 dead Palestinians and whole neighborhoods and towns left in ruin, Israel’s defense minister has defiantly vowed to dramatically escalate the attacks inside Gaza the moment the truce ends. This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain discuss the state of the war as well as the propaganda campaigns being waged by each side. Then Roy Yellin, head of public outreach at Israel’s leading human rights organization B’Tselem, discusses recent developments on the hostage and prisoner exchanges, how the crisis has impacted Israeli society, and describes the conditions faced by Palestinians when they are thrown into Israel’s military justice system. Yellin also explains the state sponsorship of violent Israeli settlers, the mass detentions underway of Palestinians in the West Bank, and the dangerous nature of Israel’s far-right Interior Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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| 0:57.0 | And I'm Murtaza-Hossain. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, Maiz, we're speaking right now in the midst of this period where there's been an extension of the temporary truce between Hamas and the Israeli state. |
| 1:12.0 | And I thought it would be good just to start off by kind of taking |
| 1:14.6 | stock since there's a pause in the massive bombardment and ground operations that have been |
| 1:20.3 | going on for many, many weeks, Although it's intensifying in the West Bank |
| 1:24.8 | and we can talk about that. |
| 1:25.7 | But in terms of Gaza, we have this moment |
| 1:29.3 | where there is this pause in the intense bombardment and ground operations to take stock of where things are in this |
| 1:37.7 | war right now because we don't hear almost anything about the ground war that's being fought between Hamas and |
| 1:46.4 | the Israeli forces. We did see during at least one of the hostage handovers Hamas choosing to do it right in the center of Gaza City, |
| 1:56.8 | a place that the Israelis had said that they had conquered. |
| 1:59.7 | So clearly there's a projection of an image that Hamas wants to |
| 2:04.6 | send during this moment when the eyes of the world are focused on it but give us |
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