What you need to know about Gaza

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🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Sixty Palestinians were killed at the Israel-Gaza border yesterday, the day the U.S. moved its embassy to Jerusalem. Vox’s Yochi Dreazen breaks down the conflict, the history, and whether there’s a way forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.5	Today is Nakba Day. It's a somber anniversary of a day in 1948 when some 7-100,000 Palestinians
0:32.0	left or were forced out of the new state of Israel.
0:36.6	And Israel marks an anniversary too, just one day earlier.
0:40.7	But there's a key difference for Israel.
0:42.7	It's a happy thing.
0:43.9	It's all about Israeli independence.
0:47.0	These night and day anniversaries, they're the perfect metaphor for what's going on right
0:51.7	now in Israel and the Gaza Strip.
0:54.5	Yesterday in Israel.
0:55.9	We welcome you officially and for the first time to the embassy of the United States here
1:03.1	in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.
1:06.2	Yesterday in Gaza.
1:07.2	It is turning into a pretty grim day here.
1:12.0	Gaza's have been protesting for six weeks leading up to today's anniversary, and over
1:17.0	a hundred people have died in those protests.
1:20.6	It's one of the most desperate situations on the planet, and Yohi Dresan is here to help
1:26.6	us understand it.
1:27.6	He's the host of Vox's worldly podcast.
1:30.6	I think what we need to do really is talk about the embassy, talk about the protest in Gaza,
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