The Sunday Story: Losing the Gaza They Knew

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🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Israeli government currently prohibits foreign journalists from entering Gaza. NPR's Leila Fadel found another way of reporting from inside the territory.

This week on The Sunday Story, we bring you an episode from NPR's Embedded podcast. Fadel speaks with host Kelly McEvers about voice memos she's been receiving from a Palestinian college student trying to survive as bombs fall around her in Gaza. And we hear from a Palestinian American family that escaped the war–only to find that it has followed them home.

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0:00.0	This is the Holy Month of Ramadan for Muslims around the world.
0:05.0	It's a time of fasting, prayer, and celebration.
0:09.0	But in Gaza with the Israeli Hamas war in its fifth month and warnings of famine growing, many
0:16.3	residents are too hungry and sick to experience Ramadan as they wish. Israel currently prohibits international journalists from entering
0:25.6	the territory so reporting on Palestinians in Gaza and the hardships they're facing is an ongoing
0:32.0	challenge. But NPR's Leilofado has been
0:35.2	finding ways to stay in touch. Today on the Sunday story my colleague and the
0:41.2	host of NPR's Embedded Podcast,
0:43.6	Kelly McEvers, talks with Leela about two stories she's been following.
0:48.6	One is about a Palestinian-American family who was visiting Gaza when the bombardment started and got stuck in the war.
0:56.0	The other is about a college student in Gaza who's been sending Lela voice memos for months. My cousin just went out this morning and he saw the troops from
1:08.7	a distance and he told us how they looked. They've shot people who were headed from the north to the south and it's
1:18.9	really dangerous to move right now and the bombs are just getting closer and louder.
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