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let's talk about one year of war in
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Gaza for Palestinians it's been 12
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months of unprecedented loss and
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suffering living here in Gaza feels like
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being trapped in a never ending cycle of
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trauma
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everything you hear or see about Gaza is
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just the tub of the iceberg no photo or
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video can convey the smell of death the
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sound of 24/7 drones the uncertainty of
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whether you or your family will make it
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through another day hangs over every
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moment of each day the number of
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journalists killed the number of medical
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workers killed the number of schools
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destroyed the percentage of amputated
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children this is the worst war and
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Modern History A lot has happened since
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October 7th 2023 so I'm going to run you
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through some of the main updates on the
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humanitarian crisis in Gaza what's going
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on with the Israeli captives what's
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going on with Hamas and where things are
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at with the
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ceasefire let's start with the human
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cost in Gaza remember we're talking
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about a tiny strip of land densely
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packed with more than 2 million people
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who can't leave where Israel has dropped
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thousands of bombs more than 40,000
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people have been killed according to
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gaza's health Ministry it recently
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published this list naming more than
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30,000 of the dead it's
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649 pages long the first 13 pages are
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all babies under one it's not until page
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215 that you see the name of an
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adult this year has been a Relentless
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cycle of loss loss of loved ones loss of
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homes and loss of
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livelihoods right now the un's highest
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court is deciding whether Israel's
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actions in Gaza amount to genocide an
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accusation Israel
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rejects Gaza has been devastated by
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Israel's bombing by May 2024 more than
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half of all of gaza's buildings had been
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damaged or destroyed according to the UN
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it's not just thousands of residential
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buildings but also roads Farmland
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mosques churches hospitals universities
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and
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schools the landscape uh is totally
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decimated and destroyed nearly everyone
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in Gaza 90% of the population has been
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forced to leave their
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home many people have had to pack up and
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move over and over again and are living
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in bombed out buildings tents and out in
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the streets
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the Israeli military has issued dozens
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of evacuation orders telling civilians
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to go to so-called safe zones while it
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says it goes after Hamas Fighters but
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even those zones are coming under
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Fire humanitarian agencies say nowhere
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in Gaza is
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safe daylight gives you a sense of the
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power that came from the air Israel says
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it targeted various Hamas field
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commanders but what that means is that
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Israel targeted a camp for the
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internally
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displaced their tarpo in tents no
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protection against Israel's military
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might Israel deemed this a safe Zone
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that wasn't alasi in September at least
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19 people were killed times and times
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again we have seen Israel justifying
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massacr in order to pursue the alleged
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healing of militant but by this token
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Israel is is given license to kill
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everyone in Gaza by simply claiming that
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it was to kill a Hamas from B this is
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indecent I mean it's beyond
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unlawful so what's happening with Aid
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delivery remember at the start of the
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war Israel imposed a Complete Siege on
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Gaza and and and
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Israel has been accused of using
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starvation as a weapon of War including
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by the un's special repor on the right
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to
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food in a report to the UN General
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Assembly he said Israel made its
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intentions to starve everyone in Gaza
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explicit then Israel used starvation to
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induce forcible transfer harm and death
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against people in the north pushing
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people into the South only to starve
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bombard and kill people in newly created
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refugee camps in the
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South around half a million people are
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facing catastrophic levels of food
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insecurity in other words they're facing
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famine in August an average of just 69
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Aid trucks entered Gaza per day which is
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a record low Aid groups say Israel is
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blocking 83% of the required food aid
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from reaching
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Gaza on top of all of that disease is
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spreading because there's not enough
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clean water the lack of clean water has
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led to 1.7 million cases of infection
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diseases that can trigger massive
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undeadly epidemics making water scarcity
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and contamination a silent bomb which
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has far less visibility than those that
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destroy buildings but uh no less lethal
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bomb the risk of disease is coupled with
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a desperate lack of Medical Care Doctors
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Without Borders says gaza's Health Care
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system is being methodically dismantled
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through Israeli attacks the blocking of
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Aid and the lack of protection for
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medical staff before the war Gaza had 36
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Hospitals now just 17 are partially
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functioning according to the UN it does
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feel like people are waiting for death
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death seems to be the only certainty in
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this situation um in all of
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uncertainty and and that's a really
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horrific reality uh for people to have
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on the ground here now for israeli's one
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of the biggest concerns since hamas's
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attack in October last year when more
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than a thousand people were killed has
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been the fate of the captives 251
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Israelis and foreigners were taken by
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Hamas and other groups into Gaza 117
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have got out alive through a prisoner
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swap Israeli Army operations or because
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Hamas released them
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the bodies of 37 captives have been
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recovered and returned to Israel some of
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them were killed by Israeli forces
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according to various reports in August
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Israeli soldiers located the bodies of
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six captives in a Hamas
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tunnel Israel accused Hamas of Killing
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Them Hamas said it held Israel
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responsible because it had refused to
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sign a ceasefire deal 97 captives remain
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unaccounted for
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mon there have been protests in Israel
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led by some of the captives families
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calling on prime minister Benjamin
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Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire that
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would save their loved
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ones the incident in August when six
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captives were found dead triggered the
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biggest protest so
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far the life of more than 100 Israelis
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men women young
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girls um their life are not the first
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priority of the Israeli government this
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is something that makes you
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think where are they taking us where are
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they taking the Israeli people Jews and
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Arabs despite the big street protests
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Netanyahu looks pretty secure
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politically a poll in May showed that
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39% of Israelis thought the government's
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military response against Hamas and Gaza
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had been about right and 34% thought it
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had not gone far enough okay so what
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about Hamas Israel has always said the
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aim of its war is to eliminate the group
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12 months on that hasn't happened Israel
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has said that it's killed a senior Hamas
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Commander Muhammad daf in July although
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Hamas says he's still alive and then
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hamas's police iCal leader isma Han was
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assassinated in Iran most people think
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Israel was behind it hamas's military
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leader Yahya Sinar has replaced Han
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Sinar is thought to be in Gaza now when
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it comes to hamas's fighting capability
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we don't have exact numbers on things
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like ammunition or the number of
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Fighters they've lost before the war
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Israeli officials estimated that Hamas
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had around 30,000 Fighters recently the
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Israeli Army said it had killed 17,000
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Fighters but gave no details about how
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it arrived at that
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number Hamas itself hasn't released any
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figures but says it's still got the
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capacity to keep up the
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fight we don't really know the details
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of what condition Hamas is in they've
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been very good at hiding their abilities
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or the Damage Done to
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them but clearly Hamas has been damaged
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I mean you can't sustain a year of the
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most intense aerial bombing in modern
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history and come out totally intact uh
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but they're still fighting they're still
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carrying out operations uh in uh in Gaza
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so where do things stand with the
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ceasefire deal remember Israel and Hamas
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aren't speaking directly to each other
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the US along with mediators from Qatar
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and Egypt are driving the negotiations
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in late may US President Joe Biden
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presented a three stage ceasefire plan
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it involved Israeli forces withdrawing
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from Gaza and all the captives
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eventually being released in exchange
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for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel
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and a final stage ending the war and
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reconstructing Gaza at the time Hamas
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said they'd go for it if Israel did but
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Netanyahu said he wouldn't sign up to a
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deal that included a permanent end to
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the war since then there have been more
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negotiations and another obstacle has
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emerged this is the Philadelphia quor
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Netanyahu started insisting that Israeli
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troops should remain in a strip of land
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along gaza's Southern border with Egypt
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known as the Philadelphia Corridor which
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Hamas is against all this makes the
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prospect of a ceasefire anytime soon
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look increasingly Slim in early
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September the US Secretary of State said
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a deal was 90% there but a recent report
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in the Wall Street Journal quotes us
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officials saying they no longer believe
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a deal is likely before the end of Joe
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Biden's presidency in
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January and now the backdrop is even
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more fraught with what's going on in
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Lebanon in the escalation in the fight
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between Israel and Hezbollah which is an
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ally of
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Hamas Israel's bombing campaign and
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ground defensive in Lebanon has
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displaced one million Lebanese people
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about a fifth of the
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population more than 2,000 people have
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been killed including hundreds of women
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and children and several Hezbollah
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commanders okay I need to uh bring you
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some breaking news the Israeli Army has
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officially announced that it has killed
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the uh head of Hezbollah Hassan nasrala
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this is probably the most
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significant point that we could say
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repres presents very likelihood or high
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likelihood of a of a major escalation
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and I think that unfortunately that
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means we're in a likely scenario of an
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even worse level of warfare and
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escalation than we've even seen over the
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last Almost 12 months since October 7th
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so one year into the Gaza War the
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Outlook is really really Bleak and
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unless something big changes it's hard
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to see where the answers are going to
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come from people need to know that Gaza
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is more than just a war zone it is home
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to over 2 million people trying to
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survive amid unbearable conditions we
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are resilient but we're not superheroes
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and we need the world's help to end this
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suffering one of the big features of
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this war has been the role of
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international law we've explained how it
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works and why some people feel the whole
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system is failing the people of Gaza and
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elsewhere you can watch our reason
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explainer here
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