Reflecting on October 7th with Amir Tibon

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It’s been one year since the devastating October 7th attacks by Hamas into Israel. It’s a truly awful anniversary to observe for numerous reasons. In the past year, there’s been immeasurable horror, violence, destruction and death. It is estimated that at least 40,000 people have died in Gaza and there are still over a hundred hostages. Our guest this week survived the attacks on October 7th and the chaos that ensued. Amir Tibon is an Israeli journalist working for Haaretz Newspaper and is the author of a newly published book titled "The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands.” He joins WITHpod to discuss what has transpired over the last year, internal politics in Gaza now, the U.S. response and what he hopes will happen in the future.

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0:00.0	Hey there with pod listeners. I just want to say before we get in today's episode we
0:09.5	recorded it on September 25th so it was
0:14.0	about what's going on in Israel and Gaza and the region, but it was before some of the latest
0:18.0	exchanges between Hezbollah and Iran,
0:22.0	including the strikes in Beirut and the ballistic
0:25.5	missile attack from Iran so when you hear this conversation just now this was
0:29.5	recorded about two weeks ago.
0:32.3	You know I really believe that we will come back to live in a house and in the first weeks after
0:37.6	October 7 I thought Gaza would be destroyed and that it would remain like this for years and years and years.
0:44.9	And that may still be the case, but I really hope that it won't,
0:48.7	that there can be a way to rebuild it.
0:53.0	Hello and welcome to why is this happening with me your host Chris Hayes.
0:56.0	We are on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks by Hamas into Israel. And it's a truly awful anniversary to observe for a whole bunch of reasons. One, to revisit the horror of that day.
1:12.0	Two, the fact that a year later and there has been nothing but
1:17.4	more horror and violence and death estimates of 40,000 people dead in Gaza after the 1,300 Israelis killed.
1:25.2	There are still over 100 hostages the best that we know.
1:28.6	Trapped in Gaza, multiple hostages and Hezbollah in Lebanon in Lebanon the latest set of airstrikes
1:45.6	are still about a hundred thousand Israelis who are evacuated from the
1:48.4	north and can't live in their their homes there and I've been thinking
1:52.4	about how to kind of revisit this
1:54.0	anniversary. The best thing to do would be to talk to someone who lived through
1:59.1	it is a survivor of October 7th, was in a bunker with his family on the day of the attack, but is also a journalist who's written about it, reported on the Netnahu government, about the security failures that led to the attack
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