The Killing Fields of Gaza

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are demonstrating and calling for their right to return to their ancestral lands for the fifth Friday in a row. Israeli forces have been responding with force, killing at least 40 demonstrators and wounding thousands. On episode 6 of Deconstructed, two Israeli activists join Mehdi to speak out against Israel’s human rights abuses of Palestinians. Hagai El Ad is the executive director of B’Tselem and Avner Gvaryahu is a former Israeli paratrooper and current executive director of Breaking the Silence.

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0:00.0	Israelis do not know what's happening on the ground.
0:02.6	Israelis don't understand a situation in Gaza today.
0:04.8	Israelis don't understand what it's like to live as a Palestinian.
0:07.7	And they only remember there are Palestinians when there's violence.
0:14.9	I'm Mehdi Hassan. Welcome to deconstructed.
0:30.0	They were all unarmed and all killed over the past few weeks
0:33.3	by Israeli snipers using live ammunition at the Israel Gaza border.
0:37.9	Every week Palestinians continue to gather there as part of their ongoing
0:42.8	great march of return protests.
0:45.2	And every week Israeli soldiers continue to shoot, murder, and
0:49.4	maim them in their hundreds and thousands.
0:52.6	Today on deconstructed I'll speak to two brave Israeli activists
0:56.3	who campaign to protect the human rights of Palestinians
0:59.2	and for an end to what has become the longest military occupation of the modern era.
1:07.7	These commands are flaggently illegal.
1:10.2	This is not complicated. You don't need to be an IITL expert to look at this reality
1:14.8	and immediately recognize that shooting live ammunition at unarmed demonstrators
1:19.9	is absolutely unacceptable.
1:22.2	This week the killing fields of Gaza.
1:24.5	Four Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli gunfire and Friday.
1:32.5	At least 39 Palestinians have been killed in a four weeks of demonstrations
1:36.1	against the Israeli blockade.
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