What is Hamas, and what’s happening in Gaza?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The one power station has shut down meaning an end to electricity supplies. Hamas has been ruling Gaza as a one-party state since 2007 and Israel has made it clear that it intends to wipe the group out.
Today on the podcast, Sky News data and forensic correspondent Tom Cheshire discusses the scale of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, and Middle East Correspondent Alistair Bunkall tells us more about Hamas and what comes next, as Israel prepares a ground offensive.
Podcast producer: Alex Edden
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:05.0 | Overnight, the Israeli military bombed another 200 targets in the Gaza Strip as their siege on Gaza titans following |
| 1:13.2 | Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel. Now Israel largely controls what goes in and out of Gaza. |
| 1:20.7 | They've now cut water and food supplies to the territory. And as we record this podcast, |
| 1:26.2 | Gaza is expected to plunge into blackouts as its last power plant runs out of fuel. |
| 1:33.4 | Life was already very tough for the people of Gaza even before this. |
| 1:38.8 | But now, as Israeli forces seemingly prepare for a ground invasion, the two million people who live there, |
| 1:45.6 | half of which our children, face what could be the deadliest assault on Palestinian territory |
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