Rapid Response: Gaza in crisis, w/Mercy Corps’ Arnaud Quemin

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Keeping calm in a crisis is essential — and extremely difficult. In this special Rapid Response, we hear what it’s like right now in the Gaza Strip. Mercy Corps’s Arnaud Quemin talks with Bob Safian from Amman, Jordan about how his team in Gaza is coping, sharing first-hand accounts from those on the ground. As director of the humanitarian organization’s Middle East operations, Arnaud himself had to relocate from Beirut due to the crisis. He shares how he’s trying to help his team and others in need. Despite high emotions, he says, there’s an imperative to stay neutral, to enable eventual progress.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,
0:07.8	with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.
0:17.0	We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.
0:24.8	So search for rapid response in your podcast player and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes.
0:31.2	I'll see you on the other side.
0:34.0	Safe is a very questionable notion these days in Gaza.
0:38.0	The first week our team was receiving horrible messages
0:42.0	of people who are trapped in basements.
0:44.0	They were asking to send people to take them out.
0:47.0	We were looking for ways to make that happen and we could not.
0:51.0	We had some tragedies in the families of our staff. One lost his wife, another
0:56.6	one was wounded without child. Emotions are running very high in our team in Palestine and around the world.
1:21.0	That includes the Gaza Strip, which offered a fragile life for residents. the I'm Bob Safian former editor of Fast Company, founder of the Flux Group and host of Masters of
1:36.2	Scale Rapid Response.
1:38.0	I wanted to talk to Arno because he has a team on the ground in Gaza who he's trying both to protect and to leverage to help others.
1:46.9	Mercy Corps CEO Jeda McKenna has been on this show twice before, to talk about the Ukrainian
1:52.4	refugee crisis after Russia's invasion
1:55.0	and earlier this year to talk about a deadly earthquake in Syria and Turkey.
2:00.0	Arno comes to us from on the ground in the Middle East,
2:03.6	and in fact has shared some direct recordings
2:06.1	from teammates inside Gaza itself.
2:09.0	These recordings have been kept anonymous
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