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Gaza's Collapsing Buildings, Back to School, Everyday Necessities & Supplies Israel Prohibits · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_03: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, the mic's on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was a weird...
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what happened there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hit the wrong button.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fat fingers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mondo Weiss, Indie Media Award Honoree.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is going to be a hard one to listen to,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I get it for people who are, you know, trigger warning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Inside Gaza's death trap of collapsing bombed out buildings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, remember,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is the United States,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is the UK, and this is Israel that are doing this intentionally.
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  SPEAKER_00: That know all of this is happening and either are cheering it on or looking
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  SPEAKER_00: the other way or acting like they are not responsible for it when they are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright?
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what one of those bombed out buildings looked like.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just the other day in Khan Yunus,
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  SPEAKER_01: September 17th,
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  SPEAKER_01: Amr Adas pulls the remains of his family's clothes from the rubble of
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  SPEAKER_01: the Al Saada building, friends steadying him so he doesn't collapse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Structure fell onto the displaced families sheltering inside it,
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  SPEAKER_01: including his wife and five children.
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  SPEAKER_01: He places each item into an empty flour sack because that's really all he has.
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  SPEAKER_01: When he reaches the close of his two children,
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  SPEAKER_01: Bilal 6 and Dunia 12,
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  SPEAKER_01: who died when the building collapsed before dawn on Wednesday, he breaks into Wales.
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  SPEAKER_01: His screaming rises from the eastern side of the site,
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  SPEAKER_01: mixing with bulldozers, clearing rubble from the west for a second consecutive day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Friends and neighbors try to calm him, some with words, some with Quranic verses on patience.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not God's will, he shouts to no one.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the world's silence over our annihilation.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the lack of even the most minimal support in finding a safe shelter.
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  SPEAKER_01: It forces us to accept any place to stay in, no matter how dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_01: Adas 37 kneels at the site where he was rescued amid rubble and dust.
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  SPEAKER_01: He points to what was his children's room.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two were dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three survived.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stama 14 with multiple injuries.
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  SPEAKER_01: Malak 10 with a pelvic fracture.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Minatula, a year and a half old.
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  SPEAKER_00: He recalls that when the collapse began at 2.45 in the morning,
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  SPEAKER_00: he jumped to shield the infant,
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  SPEAKER_00: but his wife, Nawal, 32, had already covered her with her own body.
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  SPEAKER_00: He embraced them both as the building
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  SPEAKER_01: fell around them,
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  SPEAKER_01: screaming to his other daughters in the next room, come here, come here.
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  SPEAKER_01: The building kept collapsing for a few minutes and everything was falling on us
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  SPEAKER_01: and I heard nothing but the sound of bricks and concrete, he said.
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  SPEAKER_01: I could hear the screams of my four children in the next room,
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  SPEAKER_01: but I couldn't move and I could barely say a few words, hoping to reassure them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Suddenly the place went silent after the collapse finished and the voices
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  SPEAKER_01: of my children calling for me went silent too,
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  SPEAKER_01: especially, obviously, the two who died.
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  SPEAKER_01: When my children's voices stopped, it was the harshest moment of my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: That I was meters away from them and couldn't save them.
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  SPEAKER_01: The collapse of the Al-Saada building is not an isolated incident.
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  SPEAKER_00: According to the most recent UN OSAT satellite analysis,
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  SPEAKER_00: based on imagery from July of 2026,
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  SPEAKER_00: approximately 78% of all structures in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed
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  SPEAKER_00: since October of 2023.
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  SPEAKER_00: Including an estimated 282,904 damaged housing units.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because cruelty is the point.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, we know that the only people that are allowed bulldozers are Israelis.
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  SPEAKER_01: At the Al-Saada building,
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  SPEAKER_01: as it crumbled,
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  SPEAKER_01: Hadassah did not know at
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  SPEAKER_00: first whether it was an Israeli strike or a collapse.
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  SPEAKER_00: He heard neighbors calling,
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  SPEAKER_00: is anyone alive,
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  SPEAKER_00: and answered once, we're here, save us,
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  SPEAKER_01: before he can no longer speak.
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  SPEAKER_01: He heard neighbors, okay,
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  SPEAKER_01: his wife kept
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  SPEAKER_00: calling out until rescuers arrived,
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  SPEAKER_00: directed light toward them, and lifted the rubble with their hands and simple tools.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, they have no heavy equipment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Adas said he'd been pinned under stones and a concrete pillow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Adas, who was a motorcycle mechanic before the war and
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  SPEAKER_00: unemployed ever since,
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  SPEAKER_00: of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: that he accepted living in the bomb building because there was no other space.
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  SPEAKER_00: The occupation destroyed my home in Zaitoun,
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  SPEAKER_00: east of Gaza City,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is now inside the danger zone, and there was no room anywhere else, he said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some specialists told us that the place was dangerous and at risk of collapse,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we had no other options.
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel enormous guilt for accepting this choice and losing two of my children,
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  SPEAKER_01: but I swear to God, we had no alternative.
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  SPEAKER_01: A crime that happened with the knowledge of the entire world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Muhammad Al-Sawtari,
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  SPEAKER_00: 30, was also at the site, searching for his family's scattered belongings.
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  SPEAKER_00: His wife suffered moderate injuries,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Had to leave the hospital because she was nursing their two-month-old daughter,
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  SPEAKER_00: Misk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their older daughter, Sham, nine, suffered serious injuries
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  SPEAKER_01: and was admitted to intensive care.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't even imagine what that must be like.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their two other daughters were also injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now some local and international institutions have rushed to clear the rubble
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  SPEAKER_00: and pull out the victims.
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  SPEAKER_00: What if they had acted before that and provided us with dignified shelter?
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone warned us about the place too,
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  SPEAKER_00: but no one offered us any alternative and they left us in a dangerous building.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know yet whether my older daughter will even survive and I don't know
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  SPEAKER_01: where we'll go since all our belongings are under the rubble.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a crime that happened with the knowledge of the entire world and the UN
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  SPEAKER_00: and international institutions operating in Gaza must act now to force
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  SPEAKER_00: the occupation to allow mobile homes in so they can live with at least a minimum
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  SPEAKER_00: of dignity.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are no alternatives and if any exist, they're just worn out tents of fabric and plastic.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now they dream of nothing but a roof and walls.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even if they're collapsing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, fuck Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: This one's a tough one.
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  SPEAKER_01: With conventional building materials blocked by Israel's blockade,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're going to get to that soon,
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  SPEAKER_01: there is no practical pathway to rebuild,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is exactly how Trump and Kushner and Netanyahu and the rest want it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And with displacement ongoing,
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  SPEAKER_00: the only shelter available to tens of thousands of families is the ruins
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  SPEAKER_00: of what was already
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  SPEAKER_03: destroyed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Every detail points to death, but we cling to life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Several hundred meters away, college, Shabbat 33.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are like old men.
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  SPEAKER_00: 33.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ate food from a nearby communal kitchen with his wife, sister, and four children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adhai, 10, 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Asala's 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's got twins, Lana and Donna.
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  SPEAKER_00: 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: Unemployed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lives on the fourth floor of a bombed Islamic University building,
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  SPEAKER_00: separated from an internal corridor by a wall at risk of collapse,
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  SPEAKER_00: with a cracked ceiling, dangerous open floor edges, and an unexploded rocket nearby.
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  SPEAKER_03: Again, that's this guy, I believe, here.
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  SPEAKER_03: These are their houses now.
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  SPEAKER_00: This place since the war's first days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shabbat moved 11 times across the Strip before ending up here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only unoccupied place available when he returned from Al-Mawasi with
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  SPEAKER_00: the last truce in October of 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they, you know, ceasefire.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the official announced ceasefire.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think they're still claiming they're under, which is now a year old.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our homes in Beit Hanun were destroyed and that area is now behind the yellow line.
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  SPEAKER_00: This deathly option was all that was available to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We keep hearing the same story over and over, don't we?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're ready to leave if the relevant institutions provide us with mobile homes,
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  SPEAKER_00: but tents, God forbid, we lived our harshest days in them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not only that,
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  SPEAKER_00: but right now it was pouring rain and we know what happens when it rains in Gaza,
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  SPEAKER_00: flooding in the tent cities.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shabbat believes death in a building is more bearable than life in a tent
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  SPEAKER_01: and would still prefer death by bombing over death by collapse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that nice that he has to choose?
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  SPEAKER_00: Which one would you prefer?
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to spend moments feeling like we're in a graveyard called a bomb building.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every detail points to death,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we cling to life and we consider staying in any building
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  SPEAKER_01: to be life and the tent
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  SPEAKER_01: to be real death.
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  SPEAKER_01: So dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_03: So dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, look at that.
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  SPEAKER_03: People go in these buildings.
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  SPEAKER_03: Again, this could collapse at any moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: A nightmare winter approaches, of course, for the third year in a row.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mahmoud Bassal,
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  SPEAKER_01: spokesman for Gaza's civil defense,
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  SPEAKER_00: said that the coming winter will prove to be a nightmare
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  SPEAKER_00: since bomb buildings become more prone to collapse with rain and wind.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 40,000 Palestinians are living in over 2,000 destroyed,
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  SPEAKER_00: collapse-prone buildings whose structural condition requires demolition,
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  SPEAKER_01: not habitation.
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  SPEAKER_03: And believe me, the Israelis are all too
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  SPEAKER_00: keen to demolish all of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Al-Saada building, he said, had been bombed by Israeli aircraft in November of 2023.
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  SPEAKER_00: More than 100 people had taken up residence inside it over the past year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some of the displaced left.
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  SPEAKER_01: The rest were asleep until the major collapse occurred at 2.45 in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some managed to flee within moments.
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  SPEAKER_01: While the rest were trapped among the rubble, some died, others were injured.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said,
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  SPEAKER_00: we pulled out 45 survivors since we arrived at the site only minutes after
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  SPEAKER_00: the collapse using our hands and primitive tools without any machinery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we requested help from the Egyptian delegation which did provide excavators and
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  SPEAKER_00: the Red Cross brought in an excavator at 7 a.m.,
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  SPEAKER_01: five hours later.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people that were trapped Hard to survive under all that,
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  SPEAKER_01: especially when they start digging and moving
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  SPEAKER_00: the rubble around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Devil Defense currently operates only 15 ambulance,
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  SPEAKER_00: firefighting, and rescue vehicles, down from around 75 before the
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  SPEAKER_01: onslaught began.
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  SPEAKER_01: It owns no bulldozers or heavy machinery.
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  SPEAKER_00: UN institutions have no alternative shelter to offer residents beyond tents,
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  SPEAKER_00: which residents consistently refuse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Civil Defense holds a detailed list of collapsed prone buildings,
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  SPEAKER_00: nearly all inhabited,
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  SPEAKER_00: whose residents refuse to evacuate without mobile homes and
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  SPEAKER_00: an alternative Israel refuses to allow it to Gaza, according to UN institutions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they can't get new stuff in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't want the tents because it doesn't keep them warm or dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And
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  SPEAKER_03: They can't get trailers, and the buildings are at risk of collapse, and
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  SPEAKER_01: this is where they sit.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said removing
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  SPEAKER_00: the collapse-prone buildings requires capabilities entirely unavailable now,
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  SPEAKER_00: but described a one-year plan achievable with around 50 pieces
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  SPEAKER_00: of heavy machinery alongside a suitable alternative for
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  SPEAKER_00: the displaced families living in them,
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  SPEAKER_00: which nobody is able to provide because
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel won't allow those trailers in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Masal described the international community's inaction as complicity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Aren't we in Gaza human beings who deserve life like everyone else, he said?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why the silence and weakness in the face of the occupation?
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  SPEAKER_01: The world is complicit in these crimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just awful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just fuck Israel in so many ways for all of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, now I want to get into this list here.
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  SPEAKER_01: One other thing, remember that Tense, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is back to school in Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_01: They went back to school this week for the first time,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know, since the fall, since the spring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever's, I don't know, a devastated environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Schools are tents, furniture scarce, and in many cases, almost non-existent.
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  SPEAKER_00: The infrastructure is severely deteriorated.
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  SPEAKER_00: Textbooks unavailable.
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  SPEAKER_00: The roads leading to educational centers are of course destroyed and dangerous,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the dropout rate among students who are forced to seek work to provide food
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  SPEAKER_00: for their families is at an all-time high.
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  SPEAKER_00: Children in Gaza are now several years behind their peers around
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  SPEAKER_00: the world academically and educationally by design, which Israel wants.
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  SPEAKER_01: If this situation continues, they will fall behind by years, not by years, but by decades.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here's video of the children going back to school and just what their classroom looks like.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was a different video where it showed the classroom and the building that they were...
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  SPEAKER_01: This is how they had to walk to school.
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  SPEAKER_03: Across all this rubble.
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  SPEAKER_03: Fuck Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I believe that Colin and Reef are going to do a story from Mondo Weiss
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  SPEAKER_01: about back to school in Gaza tomorrow night.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next...
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't even need to be said, but bombing children is not self-defense, obviously.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, kneecap, we've heard of them, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: They got canceled by Glastonbury Festival last year,
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  SPEAKER_00: or maybe even two years ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: because they said Free Palestine
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  SPEAKER_01: on stage and the BBC cut away.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Hmm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, they said they killed a four-year-old over a kite at the end of August.
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  SPEAKER_01: Reef and Colin covered the kite stuff over on INN News a couple weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: NICAP points out some things that Israel officially prohibits or stops from entering Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_00: Toys, wedding dresses, cancer medication.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nappies,
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  SPEAKER_00: which are diapers here,
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  SPEAKER_00: baby bottles, footballs, meaning soccer balls, crutches, and musical instruments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, in their mind, to inflict a level of dehumanization and pain that's hard to imagine.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I got more.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because...
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  SPEAKER_00: This guy in the Irish Times, Colin Sheridan, could not sound more Irish than that.
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  SPEAKER_00: The everyday things Gaza cannot get and why Ireland should not look away.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he starts here,
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  SPEAKER_00: Here is an incomplete list of everyday items that Israel has denied the people
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  SPEAKER_00: of Gaza in flagrant breach of its obligations under international law.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chocolate, spices, baby formula.
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  SPEAKER_00: Canned fruit,
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  SPEAKER_00: fruit juice,
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  SPEAKER_00: dried fruit, nuts, seeds,
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  SPEAKER_00: potato chips, pasta,
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  SPEAKER_00: fresh meat,
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  SPEAKER_00: frozen beef, frozen mutton, vinegar, sage, cardamom, cumin, coriander, ginger.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: What will coriander do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Will they try to put coriander in the eyes of an IDF soldier as a weapon?
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  SPEAKER_00: Nutmeg.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, look out for the nutmeg.
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  SPEAKER_00: Glucose, because God forbid diabetics actually were able to survive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Industrial margarine,
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  SPEAKER_00: industrial salt,
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  SPEAKER_00: flavor enhancers,
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  SPEAKER_00: soft drink gas, dates,
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  SPEAKER_00: infant formula,
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  SPEAKER_00: animal feed, cooking gas, cumin, C-U-M-I-N, Lili, cumin, not human, oh my God.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's plenty of humans there already.
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  SPEAKER_00: Baby bottles, wedding dresses, shoes, baby wipes, diapers, combs, dustpans.
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  SPEAKER_00: The list goes on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Soap, shampoo and detergent, cutlery, mattresses, bedsheets, matches, light bulbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have no electricity, but they can generate electricity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rechargeable lights, rechargeable batteries, hearing aid batteries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aerosol cans, furniture, heaters, toilets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember we talked about the lack of dignity and lack of toilets
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  SPEAKER_00: and portable toilets, tarps,
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  SPEAKER_01: tent poles,
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  SPEAKER_01: metal pallets, toys,
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  SPEAKER_01: plastic toys,
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  SPEAKER_01: electronic games,
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  SPEAKER_00: gaming chairs, joysticks, scooters, football, anything that might actually be fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Books, newspapers, crayons, paper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything that might be used in a classroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Screen protectors,
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  SPEAKER_00: screen splitters,
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  SPEAKER_00: digital screens, LED screens, cellular phone screens, accessories, chargers.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: You think they may need chargers?
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  SPEAKER_00: Camera tripods and light rings?
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  SPEAKER_00: Remote controls, card readers.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes on and on.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: This list is insanely long.
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  SPEAKER_03: I could be reading for an hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is collective punishment of Palestinians.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not merely food, but the means of growing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not merely water, but the means of finding, cleaning and pumping it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not merely medicine, but the equipment required to administer it.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: This column, this is an opinion column.
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  SPEAKER_00: It usually runs to a thousand words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eight hundred
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  SPEAKER_00: of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied
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  SPEAKER_00: the people of Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's almost no opinion here.
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  SPEAKER_00: These aren't metaphors.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're documented fact.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each one, a small but essential piece of existence, weaponized to collectively punish a people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So take the selfies,
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  SPEAKER_00: stay apolitical,
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  SPEAKER_00: play the fixtures, stage the concerts, sign the contracts, enjoy yourselves.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: But don't mistake comfort for innocence, nor proximity to power for moral impunity.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: Every photograph,
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  SPEAKER_00: sycophantic chuckle,
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  SPEAKER_00: football match performance and transaction is a subtle endorsement of
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  SPEAKER_00: a blunt instrument of evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: It all comes at a cost.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's simply not you who's being made to pay it.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, Vicky Ice Cream.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: Who wrote this?
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: This is Colin Sheridan in the Irish Times, Lili.
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  SPEAKER_01: An outstanding piece.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I got more.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to talk fuck Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's Brian Tashman, and I'm going to have a video about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: For over a year,
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  SPEAKER_00: boxes containing 900 wheelchairs meant for people in Gaza,
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  SPEAKER_00: children in Gaza,
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  SPEAKER_00: have been sitting in a warehouse in Egypt because Israel won't let them in,
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  SPEAKER_00: classifying them as potential weapons.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is a story out of the ABC in Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Company.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've got the video here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two minutes and change.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's watch this.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is unreal.
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  SPEAKER_02: Packed in this shipping container in Jordan are hundreds of wheelchairs,
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  SPEAKER_02: still a long way from the young Palestinians they were destined to help.
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  SPEAKER_02: We are now feeling great pain when we see these donations.
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  SPEAKER_02: Almost 600 wheelchairs from New South Wales based Kids on Wheels arrived in February last year.
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  SPEAKER_02: This batch of 350 came in October from wheelchairs for kids in WA.
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  SPEAKER_02: What is stopping these wheelchairs being allowed into Gaza and reaching the children?
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  SPEAKER_02: Jordanian officials asked for permission from Israel to send the first batch in
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  SPEAKER_02: a humanitarian convoy 18 months ago.
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  SPEAKER_02: But that request was rejected and remains pending,
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  SPEAKER_02: which is stopping officials from applying for another shipment.
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  SPEAKER_02: One source telling the ABC the Israelis see them as items that could be pulled apart
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  SPEAKER_02: and used to make a weapon.
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  SPEAKER_02: They do not pose any threat.
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  SPEAKER_02: The news has reached the factory where they were built.
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  SPEAKER_03: We weren't terribly pleased that they're still in a warehouse in Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_03: So the sooner they come out of there and get to the kids, the better.
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  SPEAKER_02: The wheelchairs are designed for rough terrain and to last.
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  SPEAKER_03: As the children grow, the chair grows with them.
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  SPEAKER_03: So from the age of four or five to about the age of 16, they can fit into this chair.
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  SPEAKER_02: Australia's Minister
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  SPEAKER_02: for International Development says Israel should allow humanitarian aid
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  SPEAKER_02: to flow unhindered to Gaza, including wheelchairs for injured children.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel's Aid Coordination Agency, COGAT,
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  SPEAKER_02: refused to answer the ABC's specific questions about the Australian donations.
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  SPEAKER_02: But said it approves the entry of wheelchairs into the Gaza Strip
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  SPEAKER_02: without any restrictions on numbers.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's not only wheelchairs like these which are languishing outside of the Gaza Strip.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is a hope that that may change sometime soon.
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  SPEAKER_02: Even though there's a fear the status quo will continue.
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  SPEAKER_02: Packed with love, but yet to be delivered.
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  SPEAKER_02: Matthew Doran, ABC News, Aman.
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  SPEAKER_03: Fucking horrible.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: 900 wheelchairs for the children that can grow with them.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah,
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  SPEAKER_00: by the way,
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel created the largest collection of child amputees and amputees period in
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  SPEAKER_00: the history of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now they're not allowing the equipment that would allow these amputees to get around freely.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck Israel.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's...
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  SPEAKER_01: The worst, I swear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every week,
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like they can't inflict more horrifying punishment on people,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they find ways to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just awful.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck these people.
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  SPEAKER_00: No!
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: We just fucking lost the stream!
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_03: Is that what you want me to say?
• 28:09
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• 28:25
  SPEAKER_03: And when they told you everything, I said, were you safe?
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  Were you safe?