The Hamas Terror Attack One Year Later

Amanpour

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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One year ago today, at 6:29am, Hamas invaded Israel, and committed the most heinous of crimes, murdering more than a thousand people, mostly civilians, and taking 250 hostages - scores are still captive today. 23-year-old Romi Gonen was taken hostage that horrific day from the Nova music festival. She spent her 24th birthday, this summer, in captivity. Every single day her mother Meirav has been fighting tirelessly to bring her home from Gaza. Meirav spoke with Christiane for the first time late October last year. She joins the show again today from Tel Aviv. Als on today's show: Rana Salman, Co-director, "Combatants for Peace" & May Pundak, Israeli Executive Director, "A Land for All"; Al Jazeera English correspondent Youmna ElSayed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	The unbearable sorrow of being.
0:13.0	One year since Hamas invaded Israel, killing and kidnapping.
0:17.0	Meirav Lesham Gonen tells me about the never-ending nightmare
0:21.0	of trying to bring home her 24-year-old daughter,
0:25.0	Romey.
0:26.0	Then.
0:27.0	We are very, very deeply in trauma, still.
0:30.0	Today we are actually united in grief, but we are also united in hope.
0:34.1	Israeli and Palestinian human rights activists come together on their battered but
0:38.9	unbowed dream for peace. Plus life after coming out of Gaza hasn't been easy at all.
0:47.0	Twelve months of trauma, Al Jazeera English correspondent Yumna El Sah shares the pain of war and fleeing Gaza with Harry Sri
0:56.2	Rinavas. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. One year ago today at 6.29 a.m. Hamas invaded Israel
1:27.7	and committed the most heinous of crimes murdering more than a thousand people, mostly civilians, taking 250 hostages,
1:36.4	scores of whom are still captive today.
1:39.6	Across the country today, ceremonies began at that precise time to remember what has happened to them all and to their nation.
1:47.6	There were also protests even on this day at the government's failure to uphold a unique contract with its people, to never leave anyone
1:56.4	behind, to bring home every last hostage no matter the cost.
2:01.6	Some hostage families held their own event that criticized
2:04.5	Prime Minister Netanyahu while the government created its own pre-recorded tribute. The
2:10.4	past year since Hamas invaded has been a catastrophic trauma for Israel and for Jews all over the world.
2:18.0	The ensuing war has been a catastrophe for Palestinians and the wider regional war that was so feared back then
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