The Emotional Impact of the Israel-Gaza Conflict on Jewish and Palestinian Americans

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🗓️ 15 October 2023

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It's been more than a week of war in Israel and Gaza, following Hamas attacks in southern Israel that left more than 1,300 Israelis dead. In response, Israeli air strikes in Gaza have killed more than 2,500 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials. The intense violence — and the prospect of more to come — is having a deep emotional impact on people who care about both Israelis and Palestinians.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Aziza Hasan, executive director of NewGround: A Muslim Jewish Partnership for Change, and Alyson Freedman, a member of Sisterhood Salaam Shalom.

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0:12.5	Feel comfortable about tomorrow.
0:23.0	All sites are losing no one wins in a war.
0:28.0	People only lose in a war.
0:30.5	Hassan Abu Ghalyun is the tribal reconciliation chief in the city of Rahat, an Israeli city about 20 miles from the Gaza border.
0:38.0	He spoke with a team of NPR journalists as he returned from the funeral of Tariq Muhammad,
0:43.0	who was killed in an attack by Hamas last Saturday.
0:46.0	I'm an Arab Israeli who has relatives in the Gaza Strip and also in the West Bank.
0:56.5	And I have relatives here.
0:59.5	We already have people who are killed and we have people who are kidnapped.
1:03.5	My heart is bleeding for the ones in the east side or the ones on the west side.
1:08.5	All of them are the sons of Adam.
1:13.5	It's been more than a week now after that violent initial attack that killed more than 1300 Israelis.
1:20.0	More than a week of war.
1:22.0	Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed more than 2500 Palestinians according to Gaza health officials.
1:28.0	Gaza is under siege.
1:30.0	More than a million people have been told to evacuate on short notice.
1:34.0	Israel's military prepares a ground invasion of Gaza City.
1:37.5	Gada Al-Hadad is a media and communications officer for Oxfam in Gaza.
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