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The Owen Jones Podcast

Shot Dead In Front Of His Eyes - Devastating Account of Gaza Horror w/. James Elder

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Don't look away.


With UNICEF's incredible James Elder. Support UNICEF's Gaza appeal here: https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/children-in-gaza-crisis-appeal/

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0:00.0

Now I've been speaking to James Elder, the brilliant James Elder, from UNICEF, who is in Gaza right now,

0:05.7

and obviously every time I've spoken to him, it's been, well, educational in every sense of the word, it's one of the best communicators we have in terms of someone in Gaza telling the world exactly what's going on, the humanitarian catastrophe that has enveloped the

0:22.5

the Palestinian people in Gaza.

0:24.2

James, it's such a, always a pleasure to speak to you.

0:27.3

You're obviously in Raffer.

0:28.4

I can hear a drone above you.

0:29.6

Can you just explain just so everyone's aware of what's going on there.

0:34.7

Yeah, the drones haven't stopped. Oh, and I mean, I'm very conscious.

0:36.0

This is 250 days of this for people.

0:38.5

So my last two nights have been sleepless.

0:41.6

The first night was a very, very heavy

0:43.4

bombardment. I thought I knew what that sounded like. This was someone banging pots

0:47.2

next to your head. Last night was a drone. It's pillows over your head,

0:51.5

everything you try. It's a lawn mower right next to you people here have had

0:55.4

250 days days of that there's psychological trauma that people have been pushed into

1:01.6

the like enforced forced chaos.

1:03.6

So yeah in the last half hour

1:06.1

Apache helicopters firing many many explosions and then these drones which are

1:10.4

armed drones but also

1:11.7

surveillance and some kind of psychological torture.

1:16.0

And again, eight months of this for people.

1:20.7

As many people have told me, I'm, it's too much. I have now had these heartbreaking moments of sitting with young people, many of whom have lost loved ones, have lost a brother or sister and have said to me, enough, enough. I want a missile, he's a quote unquote, I want a missile, is a quote unquote, I want a missile to hit me tonight to end this, to end this, to have people forced into this, to into these positions.

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