What Israelis are thinking and feeling since the Hamas attack
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. is warning Hezbollah, and the United Arab Emirates are warning Syria, not to enter Israel-Hamas conflict. Could the war spill over into a regional tragedy?
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| 0:00.0 | This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. Hamas launched what it calls Operation Al-Aqsa Storm |
| 0:07.7 | from Gaza into Israel on Saturday. Israelis in the world were shocked at the size and |
| 0:13.8 | lethality of the attack. Armed terrorists descending on powered parachutes, gunmen bursting |
| 0:20.3 | through the border wall on motorcycles, rampaging through towns, killing men, women, and children, |
| 0:26.9 | dragging others into vehicles to be taken into Gaza as hostages. Soon after, |
| 0:32.8 | Israel's counteroffensive operation iron swords began. First on Israeli soil, then in the skies |
| 0:40.6 | over Gaza. Israel has called up 300,000 reservists, the most in its history. As we go to air today, |
| 0:49.8 | here's the toll of the dead and wounded in Israel and in Gaza. In Israel, 1300 killed, |
| 0:57.7 | more than 3,000 wounded, 150 Israeli hostages in Gaza, and in Gaza, more than 1,350 Palestinians |
| 1:07.2 | dead, more than 6,000 wounded, and the numbers will certainly climb in the coming days. |
| 1:13.4 | Tension in the Middle East is high, and the sorrow is deep. So today, we will simply listen |
| 1:23.2 | as people living through this hideous experience try to organize their thoughts even as they are |
| 1:30.0 | still in shock. We will hear from Jewish and Palestinian Israelis who have agreed to speak with us |
| 1:36.4 | today together. But first let's address the facts on the ground as we understand them now. |
| 1:43.0 | And we'll begin in Tel Aviv with Ethan Bronner. He's Israel Bureau Chief and Senior Middest |
| 1:47.8 | Editor for Bloomberg News. Ethan, thank you for joining us. Ethan, can you hear me? |
| 1:55.3 | Okay, it looks like we don't have a Ethan Bronner at the moment admittedly communications with |
| 2:02.5 | Israel have been a bit challenging. We'll come back to him as soon as we can get him back because |
| 2:09.0 | knowing the reality, the tactical reality on the ground is important. So let us now turn to |
| 2:15.1 | our other guests. Joining us today is Nadav Tamir. He's Executive Director of J-Street Israel, |
| 2:22.0 | a former diplomat who served under three foreign ministers as political officer in Israel's |
| 2:27.7 | embassy in Washington and as Consul General for New England. And he too is with us from Tel Aviv. |
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