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The Documentary Podcast

The Lives and Deaths of Naftali and Mohammed

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Last summer the deaths of four innocent teenagers in Israel, three Jewish and one Israeli Arab, heightened tensions leading to the start of the 2014 Gaza war. Mike Thomson travels to Israel to speak with the friends and family of Naftali Fraenkel, one of the murdered Jewish schoolboys and those of Mohammed Abu Khdeir.

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Thank you for downloading from the BBC.

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For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use,

0:08.0

go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.

0:14.0

Hello, I'm Mike Thompson reporting from Israel.

0:18.0

Over the next hour, I'll be telling the story of the lives and deaths

0:22.0

of Naftali and Muhammad.

0:24.0

Israeli soldiers pouring into the occupied West Bank

0:28.0

on the hunt for three missing teenagers.

0:30.0

Israel says the boys have been kidnapped.

0:34.0

The missing are 19-year-old Isle-Efrak,

0:36.0

Naftali-Frenkel and Gilad Shire are both 16.

0:40.0

Naftali and Muhammad.

0:42.0

One Jewish, the other Arab,

0:44.0

were two of the four innocent boys kidnapped last summer.

0:48.0

Who were they?

0:50.0

And what do their lives tell us about the people caught up in the enduring conflict?

0:55.0

In the first half of the program,

0:57.0

I'll be talking to the Frankl family

0:59.0

about their 16-year-old son, Naftali.

1:03.0

This is from the day before the murder.

1:07.0

This is Naftali and this is Gilad

1:11.0

that was murdered with him.

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