What Happened the Last Time Israel Invaded Gaza and What to Expect Now
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
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All signs suggest an Israeli ground invasion of the Palestinian territory is imminent. The last time this happened was in 2014.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter Gregg Carlstrom, who covered that conflict, to hear what we might expect if Israel invades Gaza again in the coming days.
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| 0:00.0 | Every weekday NPR's best political reporters come to you on the NPR Politics Podcast to explain the big news coming out of Washington, the campaign trail and beyond. |
| 0:09.0 | They don't just tell you what happened, they tell you why it matters. |
| 0:12.0 | Join the NPR Politics Podcast every afternoon to understand the world through political eyes. |
| 0:24.0 | On top of everything else, people in Gaza are dealing with an impossible question. |
| 0:29.0 | What do you say to kids when there are bombs falling all around you? |
| 0:32.0 | We try to calm the children down by telling them stories and telling them that these bombardments are only fireworks. |
| 0:41.0 | That's Rada Al-Hadad, media and communications officer for Oxfam, speaking with NPR Wednesday from Gaza where she lives. |
| 0:48.0 | But she can't completely hide the truth from her nieces and nephews. |
| 0:52.0 | Children are old like my family children started to realize that we are lying to them and these are not sounds of fireworks. |
| 1:01.0 | The situation in Gaza is dire. Six days after the militant group Hamas first launched its attack on Israel over the border. |
| 1:08.0 | Hamas fighters killed at least 1,300 people according to Israel. |
| 1:13.0 | Israel's response has been crushing. As of Thursday its military said it had dropped 6,000 bombs on Gaza. |
| 1:20.0 | Israel claims it's hitting Hamas targets. But witnesses in Gaza tell NPR that entire blocks have been reduced to rubble. |
| 1:27.0 | Al-Hadad says the nights are horrible. |
| 1:30.0 | I cannot imagine what would happen in the following a few hours. Am I going to be dead or alive? I really don't know. |
| 1:36.0 | And you feel like also helpless. You cannot do anything. You just wait for the day to come to see what happened in the night. |
| 1:46.0 | Palestinian health officials say more than 1,300 people have died in Israel strikes on Gaza. People there have nowhere to go. The border is sealed. |
| 1:55.0 | And Israel has stopped the flow of food, fuel, water, and electricity into Gaza. |
| 2:00.0 | It says the siege will continue until Hamas releases all the hostages it sees during its attack. |
| 2:06.0 | Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have tried to escape the bombing by sheltering at schools run by the United Nations. |
| 2:13.0 | Not all of these schools are safe very sadly. At least two of these schools sheltering that displaced have been hit by airstrikes. |
| 2:23.0 | Fortunately we did not have any casualties during the time. |
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