Why all eyes are on Rafah
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop its operation in Rafah, Israel hit a tent camp there, killing more than 45 displaced people. As the world condemns the attack, Israel’s war on Gaza continues.
In this episode:
- Akram Al Satarri, Freelance journalist
- Imran Khan, (@ajimran) Al Jazeera Senior Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by David Enders and Khaled Soltan, with Manahil Naveed, Catherine Nouhan, and our host Malika Bilal.
It was edited by Amy Walters.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
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, hell on earth, one of the deadliest days for Palestinians in Israel's war on Gaza. |
| 0:19.0 | Israel is facing international condemnation after airstrikes killed at least 45 people |
| 0:26.6 | sheltering in tents near a UN building in southern Gaza on Sunday. |
| 0:31.6 | The attack follows last week's International Court of Justice ruling, ordering Israel to stop its offensive in Rafa. |
| 0:39.0 | So what now? |
| 0:42.4 | I'm Malika Bilal and this is the take. |
| 0:51.4 | This is the moment an Israeli airstrike hit a Palestinian refugee camp in Rafa. |
| 0:57.0 | A fire tore through tents, burning people alive, in an area that Israel had designated a safe zone. |
| 1:09.0 | The bomb fell. The streets were filled with fire, and everything burned. |
| 1:15.2 | It was just days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop its |
| 1:20.3 | assault in Rafah. |
| 1:23.6 | The Israeli occupation forces targeted internally displaced people camp. |
| 1:30.1 | Akram al-Satari is a freelance journalist in Khan Yunus to the north of Rafa, where he's been watching this unfold. |
| 1:40.8 | That targeting resulted in the killing of dozens of Palestinians and the injury of around |
| 1:47.0 | 249 Palestinians according to the reports issued by the Palestinian Minister of Health. |
| 1:52.0 | Among those who were killed, children, women and elderly people. |
| 1:58.0 | We were sitting in tents when suddenly the camp was bombed. I lost five family members, |
| 2:03.4 | all burned completely. Among the victims were pregnant women. They kept telling us this area |
| 2:08.2 | was safe until we're bombed. And that bombardment resulted in a fire that was started in |
| 2:15.0 | the internally displaced people camp. |
| 2:18.3 | The people killed in the camp had been told by Israel they would be safe there, despite the |
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