The Intelligence: on the ground in Gaza
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
There is little left, in terms of people or infrastructure, in the north of the strip. Our correspondent, embedded with the Israel Defence Forces, considers the humanitarian crisis growing in the south. Our film on American school shootings discovers the growing phenomenon of hoaxes known as “swatting” (11:49). And how, despite its ahistorical nature, “The Crown” will influence perceived history (19:28).
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| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Ora Okenbei. |
| 0:48.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:49.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:56.9 | When US police receive a report of a school shooting, |
| 1:00.0 | a full special weapons and tactics on SWAT team is immediately deployed. |
| 1:05.4 | But many such reports are hoaxes and it seems that there's a rising number of them. |
| 1:12.4 | And as the final season of the Crown of them. |
| 1:12.7 | And as the final season of The Crown comes out, a little pause to consider what it is. |
| 1:18.4 | Royal drama, soap opera, it's tempting to imagine it as something closer to historical record, which it certainly isn't. |
| 1:25.6 | It'll nevertheless change how history is seen. First up though, though. |
| 1:37.0 | For 40 days this has been the sound echoing through the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:48.4 | And this week it was accompanied by a devastating scene at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. |
| 1:55.0 | Israeli soldiers conducted a raid on the building that's been used both for medical treatment and for shelter. |
| 2:04.0 | Medical staff tried to evacuate as many patients as they could from the building, |
| 2:09.0 | while premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit were relocated to another section of the hospital. |
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