While the world watched Iran and Israel, what happened in Gaza?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
As global attention turned to Israel and Iran, violence against Palestinians continued. In Gaza, people are still being bombed and starved. What does this moment reveal about who gets protected, and who is forgotten?
In this episode:
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Diana Buttu, (@dianabuttu), Human rights lawyer and analyst
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, and Chloe K. Li, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Kisaa Zehra, Mariana Navarrete, Melanie Marich, Remas Alhawari, Khaled Soltan, and our guest host Manuel Rápalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang and Noor Wazwaz.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, when bombs fall over Israelis and Palestinians, not everyone has a right to safety. |
| 0:18.0 | Those who are the most affected are the people in Gaza because this is precisely what Israel |
| 0:24.4 | wants. |
| 0:24.8 | It wants to continue this genocide in the dark. |
| 0:28.1 | What is this moment reveal about who is protected and why Gaza keeps slipping from |
| 0:32.8 | the headlines? |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Manuel Rapalo, and this is The Take. |
| 0:45.8 | My name is Deanna Butu, and I'm a lawyer based in Haifa. |
| 0:50.9 | Diana, welcome back to The Take during these trying times. Recent global headlines have been |
| 0:57.2 | focused on Iran, they've been focused on Israel, but you've written, don't take your eyes off |
| 1:03.0 | Gaza. Paint the picture for us that you think our audience needs to understand right now. |
| 1:14.2 | So let me back up a little bit. You know, back in, there was a ceasefire agreement that |
| 1:20.3 | was signed back January of this year, and the ceasefire agreement was supposed to last. |
| 1:28.5 | And then on March the 18th, Israel then broke the ceasefire and started bombing Gaza again. |
| 1:35.7 | And what then happened was the combination of Israel breaking the ceasefire |
| 1:40.7 | and Israel not allowing aid to get into Gaza, not allowing food and fuel and medicines, |
| 1:47.6 | etc. led to a lot of international condemnation, including by Europe, which hadn't been condemning |
| 1:55.0 | Israel up until that day. So as one of the means of diverting attention, Netanyahu decided that now was the time to then go after Iran. |
| 2:07.6 | Israel's bombing campaign on Iran was both relentless and systematic. |
| 2:11.9 | The stated aim was to destroy the country's nuclear program, but also with a view to weakening the Iranian government. |
| 2:18.8 | And that was one of the reasons that he attacked Iran because he was internally losing his |
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