Where Israel Vs Hamas Is Heading
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing a complete blockade of Gaza after Hamas militants killed more than 700 Israelis this weekend. The surprise attack caught Israeli intelligence completely off-guard, and has thrown the region into disarray, on the eve of landmark talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
What’s the next stage of this already-volatile conflict? And what’s next for civilians in the Gaza Strip?
Guest: Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent for The Economist
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| 0:48.0 | It can be tricky to determine how a conflict starts in the Middle East. |
| 0:52.0 | This region is so weighed down by disputes over land and identity |
| 0:56.4 | There's always some bit of new answers, scrap of context. |
| 0:59.6 | You run the risk of leaving out. |
| 1:01.9 | So instead of telling you how Israel's war with Hamas began this weekend, |
| 1:06.4 | I'll tell you what it felt like on the ground. |
| 1:10.9 | It was Saturday morning, Shabbat. |
| 1:13.4 | That's when the assault started. |
| 1:16.7 | One rocket after another, more than 2,000 of them. |
| 1:21.6 | That was shocking enough. |
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