The Israel-Hamas War hits a grim six month milestone

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🗓️ 7 April 2024

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After six months of intense human suffering, both sides of the Israel and Gaza conflict have experienced a collective trauma that will affect generations for years to come. It all started with a Hamas attack on Israel, which killed about 1,200 people along with the taking of 240 hostages. It was the single deadliest assault against Jews since the Holocaust. The Israeli response has been brutal, killing over 30,000 Gazans, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, mostly innocent women and children. The situation in the Gaza Strip is now dire, with millions not having enough food, housing, or medical care to meet the needs of a desperate population. Despite this, cease-fire negotiations continue to falter, and both sides remain far apart. After traveling to The Holy Land, USA TODAY World Affairs Correspondent Kim Hjelmgaard provides a special report for The Excerpt on the human stories that define this tragic conflict.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery app. The Today marks a grim milestone. It's been exactly six months since Hamas attacked Israel, killing about
0:36.1	1200 people taking another 240 hostage. It was the deadliest single assault against Jews since the Holocaust.
0:45.0	Israel's military response was swift and punishing,
0:50.0	executing a bombing campaign that has killed over 30,000 Gazans according to the Hamasron
0:56.9	health ministry. The vast majority of them are innocent women and children.
1:06.0	The situation in the strip is now dire, with not enough food, housing, or medical care
1:09.0	to meet the needs of a desperate population.
1:12.0	Meanwhile, cease-fire negotiations continue to falter and both sides remain
1:18.0	far apart.
1:19.0	Hello, I'm Kim Helngard, USA Today World Affairs Correspondent, and this is the excerpt.
1:26.0	Today is Sunday, April 7, 2024.
1:30.0	I recently traveled with Senior Video Producer Megan Smith to the Holy Land in order to share some of the human stories that define this tragic conflict.
1:39.0	In an entrenched war that could potentially last for many more months or even years, what both sides have
1:45.2	in common is an immense human suffering from a collective trauma that they may never recover
1:50.3	from. For me, it's not what happened in Israel.
1:53.0	For me, it's not what happened in Israel, it's what happened in the world.
2:05.0	It's like the world forgot that there is a war here.
2:09.0	We have 124 people of a day, we don't know their situation.
2:14.0	Shlomi Berger is the father of one of them,
2:17.0	19-year-old hostage Agam.
2:19.0	Agam was last seen on a Hamas telegram video being led on October 7th to a car while still in her
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