UN Accuses Israel of Genocide

Amanpour

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Israel's ground offensive into Gaza City has begun. It comes as a United Nations independent inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli government rejects the findings, maintaining that it's acting in self-defense against Hamas. To discuss this all, Professor at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Nadav Eyal joins the show from New York. Also on today's show: Firas Maksad, Managing Director of the Middle East and North Africa at the Eurasia Group; NYT Chief Africa correspondent Declan Walsh & Sudanese political analyst Kholood Khair; NYT reporter Sheera Frenkel; a 2018 interview with actor/director Robert Redford, who died today at 89 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	As Israel's ground offensive in Gaza begins, a UN inquiry alleges the country is committing genocide.
0:18.0	We have the details. Then...
0:20.0	The other side will let it get in...all there's a difficult situation.
0:23.6	No medical treatment, no food.
0:26.6	People are suffering a lot in Al-Fashir.
0:28.6	Sudan's spiraling civil war.
0:30.6	I asked regional reporter Declan Walsh and Sudanese analysts Kulut Herr about the desperate choices
0:36.6	people are facing there.
0:38.3	Also ahead.
0:39.3	It's going to spread everywhere. People are going to share it. People are going to watch it.
0:42.3	A murder watched by millions.
0:44.3	In the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting, New York Times reporter Shira Frankel tells Harisarina Vosin
0:50.3	why violent videos go viral.
0:52.3	Plus, the passing of a Hollywood legend.
0:55.0	We revisit Christian's 2018 conversation with the late Robert Redford. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Biona Goliagga, New York, sitting in for Christian Amunpur.
1:20.1	Israel's long-threatened ground offensive into Gaza city has begun. More than 100 Palestinians
1:25.3	have been killed across the enclave in less than 24 hours.
1:28.8	That is, according to local health authorities. Shaken by an intense night of airstrikes,
1:33.5	many residents are now carrying what remains of their belongings as they attempt to flee further south.
1:39.2	It comes as a United Nations independent inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
1:47.1	The Israeli government rejects the findings, maintaining that it's acting in self-defense against Hamas.
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