Voice notes from Palestinians | What might happen to the 199 hostages
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily podcast, Sally Lockwood speaks to former Gaza correspondent Nicole Johnston about who controls the Rafah crossing and the people inside Gaza she’s in contact with as we hear voicenotes from some of them.
Plus, our security and defence editor Deborah Haynes talks about ongoing diplomatic efforts as Britons are among the 199 people taken hostage by Hamas.
Podcast producer: Emma-Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:00.5 | Hi, it's Sally here in the Sky News studio. We're talking about what's happening in the Middle East again. |
| 1:06.8 | And on this episode, we're going to be hearing from people inside Gaza. Connectivity, as you can imagine, is a challenge there. |
| 1:14.3 | So it's proved easier for some of them to send us voice notes. |
| 1:19.6 | I text most of my friends, but most of them, they don't have internet. |
| 1:25.1 | That's Cecil waiting in Cairo for news of her friends and family. |
| 1:29.3 | There is still people missing, actually. And the number of the injury, it's a lot. To be honest, |
| 1:35.8 | it's really hard. It's really miserable. And that's Sammy, Asil's father. So these voice notes are |
| 1:42.5 | being sent to my colleague, Nicole Johnston, who's based in |
| 1:46.0 | Sydney for Sky News, but used to live in Gaza as a journalist. And she's being sent these |
| 1:51.7 | audio messages from people that she knows who still live in Gaza. And we'll hear more from them |
| 1:57.6 | and Nicole later in the podcast. First, we're going to speak to our defence |
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