Youmna ElSayed: how a year of war changes a life
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed was on the frontlines of Israel’s war on Gaza, reporting live on air with air strikes behind her and facing threats to her life. A year after October 7, she shares the toll of what she witnessed, as a correspondent and as a mother, and reveals the impacts of war that linger long after reaching physical safety.
In this episode:
- Youmna ElSayed (@YoumnaElSayed17), Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Sonia Bhagat, and Sarí el-Khalili with Phillip Lanos, Hisham Abu Salah, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Cole van Miltenburg, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
The Take production team is Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra, Catherine Nouhan, Cole van Miltenburg, Chloe K. Li, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Hisham Abu Salah, Khaled Soltan, Manahil Naveed, Marcos Bartolomé, Phillip Lanos, Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, and Tamara Khandaker.
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 | Hey everyone, it's Malika. |
| 0:10.0 | Just a reminder that the take is now also on YouTube. |
| 0:14.0 | That means you can now see me and our guests, |
| 0:17.0 | along with a lot of videos and photos of what we're talking about. If you want to watch |
| 0:22.0 | this episode or any of our other episodes, look up Al Jazeera the Take on YouTube. Now, here's the show. |
| 0:34.1 | Today, how a year of war changes a life. |
| 0:38.3 | This is a genocide, this is not a war. |
| 0:43.3 | Every single person in Gaza is a legitimate target to be killed for the Israeli army. |
| 0:51.3 | A Gaza correspondent on turning trauma into testimony on the world stage. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm Malika Bilal and this is the take. On October 7th of last year, Hamas launched an unprecedented attack into Israel, |
| 1:20.2 | an attack that seemed to take the world, including Israel, almost completely by surprise. |
| 1:26.6 | The death toll in Israel from October 7th is listed as 1,139. |
| 1:33.9 | Israel's response has also been unprecedented. |
| 1:38.4 | The listed death toll from its war in Gaza is now more than 40,000, |
| 1:44.0 | but medical experts estimate it could be in the |
| 1:47.2 | hundreds of thousands. It includes Al Jazeera journalists, as well as their families. Throughout |
| 1:54.4 | this last year, we've brought you voices from the Gaza Strip, who've shared the reality of covering |
| 2:00.0 | Israeli bombardment, all while trying to survive, |
| 2:03.6 | including the voice of Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent, Yomna al-Said. |
| 2:08.6 | Do you know anything about that? What can you report at this stage? |
| 2:12.6 | All right. |
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