1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Hey, guys, have a bunch of updates that we wanted 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: to provide you this morning coming out of Gaza in 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Israel's war on the Gaza Strip. Let's go ahead and 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: start with the very latest in terms of IDF targeting. 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: They have just struck a un run school within a 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: refugee camp. Estimates of casualties at this point are quite high. 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: The numbers I've seen are dozens of people killed, more 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: than fifty or at least fifty killed in that attack. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: This is a place in the northern part of the 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: Gaza Strip. It's in one of those refugee camps that 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: has been hit repeatedly. And the reason that the casualty 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: numbers appear to be so high is because you had 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: thousands of people who were sheltering in this un run school. 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: We do have a report from Katari affiliated Al Jazeera 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: on the ground showing some of the scenes of horror 16 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: that are unfolding there right now. Let's take a look. 17 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 2: Yes, the Jabelli At refugee camp has been bombarded again 18 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: by the uspect occupation forces and this time and you 19 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 2: United Nations shelter had been completely attacked by the Isbelian 20 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 2: forces where people are taking shelter in science this school. Now, 21 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 2: with the ongoing attacks that took place in the north 22 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 2: of Gaza Strip, the majority of people tinto unitenation shilters 23 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 2: and the vicinity of the Antonesian hospital in order to 24 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: be protected from these Waly occupation fire. 25 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: So this comes of course, as we have been continuing 26 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: to follow the carnate and the fallout from the rating 27 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: of Al Shifa Hospital, and I have some updates for 28 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: you there as well. So there are some conflicting reports 29 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: about whether or not the IDF demanded that everyone evacuate 30 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: from that hospital, but we can go ahead and show 31 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: you some of the scenes of chaos inside as doctors 32 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: say they rush to try to prepare patients as best 33 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: as they possibly could, many of whom you see here 34 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: are horrifically injured to attempt to flee and evacuate on foot. Now, 35 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: the IDF is saying that they were not demanding that 36 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: people evacuate, but we can see from radar images that 37 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: certainly there are hundreds of people leaving this hospital on 38 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: foot right now. And you can imagine just what an 39 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: unbelievably difficult, to use the lightest term possible situation, that 40 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: is you have people who are gravely injured trying to 41 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: flee with already you know, incredibly compromised wounds. There are 42 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: no vehicles, the roads are very difficult. It's it's incredibly dangerous, 43 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 1: and you already have quite a toll that has been 44 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: taken on human life here. You could put this up 45 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: on the screen. So the director of Alshifa Hospital and 46 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: Gaza reports that the a siege by Israeli forces has 47 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: now killed everyone in the intensive care unit. That is 48 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: twenty two people they said, who were in the ICU 49 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: unit who have already been killed from their wounds because 50 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: of a lack of electricity, a lack of basic supplies, 51 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: and I'm sure also partly a lack of manpower due 52 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: to how many people are in that hospital and we're 53 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: trying to seek care. You also had six dialysis patients 54 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: who have been killed at this point, and the latest 55 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: reports that I saw were, you know, at least four 56 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: of those premature babies that were dependent on the incubators, 57 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: and of course the incubators lost electricity when the hospital 58 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: ran on a fuel. At least four of those premature 59 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: babies have been killed at this point. Now you'll the 60 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: Israeli justification for this incredible assault on a hospital, which 61 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: typically is under international law completely out of bounds. It's 62 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: typically considered a war crime unless you have absolutely exceptional circumstances. 63 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: So you'll recall the case that they made to the 64 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: public of why it was that they needed to attack 65 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: this hospital. They said, this is basically ham OSCA and central. 66 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: They released computer generated image of all of the elaborate 67 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: layer and tunnel system underneath of the hospital that they 68 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: said was effectively operating as Hamas headquarters. They claimed there 69 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: may be hostages there, They claimed that there may be 70 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: a firefight from Hamas militants as they went into the hospital, 71 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: and so in order to justify what would otherwise be 72 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: a war crime, they've been trying to proffer some level 73 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: of evidence to the public to justify this assault on 74 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: the hospital, which again has already caused significant dozens of 75 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: lives lost because of the starving of this hospital of 76 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: fuel and then the raid on the hospital facility. So far, 77 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: they have not turned up a lot of certainly not 78 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: sufficient evidence, not a lot of evidence in general. We 79 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: showed you in one of the shows last week the 80 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: videos and the photos that they offered of guns that 81 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: they claimed they found on the premises. We also have 82 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: this put this up on the screen. This is sort 83 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: of the latest development. They released this video and images 84 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: of what they say is a tunnel that was used 85 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: by Hamas militants on the property of the hospital. However, 86 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: they say that they have not actually gone in the 87 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: tunnel in order to find out where it goes or 88 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: what may be inside. They say they're fearful of booby 89 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: tr which is something they've encountered in Hamas tunnels in 90 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: the past. I would just say number one, we should 91 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: be incredibly skeptical because of a lot of the Israeli 92 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: evidence that has been offered in the past that has 93 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: fallen apart, especially when they say, oh, sorry journalists, you 94 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: can't go in. Sorry, we haven't even been able to 95 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: go in. And also additionally, because recalled the distance between 96 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: the portrayal and the evidence that's being offered. Now, they 97 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: said they knew exactly where the locations of these tunnels where. 98 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: They issued graphical representation showing the different areas of the 99 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: hospital complex that they said contained these Hamas tunnels and 100 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: were being used as command centers, etc. So far and 101 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: now we're multiple days in they have not shown anything 102 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: that looks even close to what they were presenting this 103 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: as and from an American perspective. Also important to remember, 104 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: the day before this hospital raid, John Kirby, NSC spokesperson, 105 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: basically went out to the public and said, oh, we 106 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 1: have our own intelligence that backs up the Israeli claims. Again, 107 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: so far, nothing approaching the case that they lay down 108 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: has actually been proven. We've had pictures of ten or 109 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 1: so guns and a box of dates in some WD 110 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: forty and Furthermore, BBC actually caught them manipulating some of 111 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: the evidence that they claimed to be using to prove 112 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: that Hamas was using this hospital for military purposes, something 113 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: that again the doctors who work at this hospital also denied. 114 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: Let's take a look at this BBC report of what 115 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:34,559 Speaker 1: they found. 116 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 3: This IDF animation, posted in late October, claims to represent 117 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 3: a Hamas tunnel system underneath the hospital, but having been 118 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 3: inside Al Shifa since early Wednesday, Israel's yet to produce 119 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 3: evidence of the tunnels. It has allowed the BBC and 120 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 3: Fox News to film at the hospital, though only locations 121 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 3: of Israel's choice. This is what they found. Israel also 122 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 3: released its own seven minute video which BBC vera fire 123 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 3: is analyzed. A watch visible in that video suggests it 124 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 3: was filmed a few hours before the BBC arrived, and 125 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 3: this IDF video was posted, then deleted, then reposted, this 126 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 3: time without a section referring to an Israeli soldier who'd 127 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 3: been held hostage. I don't know when this was used 128 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 3: the last time. Also in the video, we see a 129 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 3: room with an MRI machine and. 130 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: If you zoom in and we get some light over here, 131 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: what you will be able to see are is military equipment. 132 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 3: The BBC was shown the same room, and what we 133 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: see in the two videos doesn't precisely match. For example, 134 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 3: there's one gun in the IDF video two by the 135 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 3: time of the BBC footage. Israel has told BBC Verify 136 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 3: this is because more weaponry and terrorist assets were discovered 137 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: throughout the day and as always an AK forty seven. 138 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 3: Israel also says its video is a single shot with 139 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 3: no edits, but this appears to be an edit. We 140 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 3: don't know the reasons for that edit nor how significant 141 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: it is. The IDF, THOUGHPE says suggestions it's manipulating the 142 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 3: media are incorrect. The IDF video also shows military equipment 143 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 3: in other locations that we can't verify how it came 144 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 3: to be there, and what we see in this IDF 145 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 3: video doesn't equate to Israel's description of Al Shifa as 146 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 3: an operational command center for hamas the US is using 147 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 3: a different phrase saying Al Shifa was used as a 148 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 3: command and control node that implies a much smaller facility. 149 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 3: Israel is adamant this hospital was a command center, but 150 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 3: for now at least, it's either not found supporting evidence 151 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 3: or it's not sharing it. 152 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: You'll remember too, this was the video that originally was 153 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: put up, as evidenced by the IDF that it was 154 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: taken down for a time, then it was edited and 155 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: re uploaded. This was the video, as they point out, 156 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: that supposedly had no edits whatsoever. All they catch them 157 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: making it edit. And then they also catch, you know, 158 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: the number of guns changing in this location where they claimed, oh, 159 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: this is just what we found there, and you know, 160 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: they made a variety of excuses for that, so so far, 161 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: and even you know, Western media outlets like the New 162 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: York Times reporting that this evidence falls far short of 163 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: what they claimed in going in originally to Al Shifa 164 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: and again stakes here obviously incredibly high. For the human 165 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: beings who, you know, dozens of whom have already lost 166 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: their lives at this hospital, the doctors who have been 167 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: operating in unimaginable circumstances doing their best to preserve as 168 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: much life as they possibly can, the thousands of people 169 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: who had sheltered here, the hundreds of patients who had 170 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: been trying to seek care, trying to survive through all 171 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 1: of this. And if you target a hospital without extraordinary 172 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: circumstances of it being used aggressively for a central military purpose, 173 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: that is a war crime. So that's why evaluating this 174 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: evidence and understanding what happens here so incredibly important. So 175 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: in addition, you now have a shifting narrative from the 176 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,959 Speaker 1: Israelis about exactly what they expected to find at the hospital. 177 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: We brought you some of this in the show last week. 178 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: Going in, it was, you know, Helma's HQ. Then suddenly 179 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: after they went in, it was, well, we didn't really 180 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: expect to find the hostages there. Of course, Hamas fled 181 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: before we showed up. Of course they brought a lot 182 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: of what they had there with them, and now they 183 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: are actively and aggressively targeting the very area of Gaza 184 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: that they had told people to flee to. Remember, millions 185 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: of people have already been forcibly displaced in Gaza. One 186 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: out of fifty six residents of Gaza has already been 187 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: killed or injured. And they told people that you have 188 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: to leave the north, you have to go to the south, 189 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: otherwise you're going to be considered a terrorist and you're 190 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: going to be subject to attack. But guess what, the 191 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: south is not safe, and in fact attacks on the 192 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: south have ramped up since they have told people to 193 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: flee to that part of the Gaza strip. So go 194 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: ahead and put this up on the screen. This is 195 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: a catch from Matt Binder. You can see on one 196 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: graphic you've got them the IDF saying, oh, of course 197 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: hamas Hq is under al Shifa. And now you have 198 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: a former Israeli Prime minister saying, well, actually hamas Hq 199 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: now is in Conunis, which is a city in the 200 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: southern part of Gaza, where many people went and fled to. 201 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: So now we have at least twenty six Palestinians just 202 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: now killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential neighbor 203 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 1: in Conunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. This is according 204 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: to Al Jazeera. You can see this reporting up on 205 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,959 Speaker 1: the screen. So they've now moved on from Gaza City 206 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: is basically completely obliterated. There is nothing left there effectively 207 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: to go back to the majority of homes, residential buildings, schools, 208 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: apartment buildings, mosques, church, hospitals, etc. I mean, it's just 209 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 1: it's just rubble. There's nothing left. And so what they 210 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: told people is okay, you leave there and go to 211 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: the south and you'll be safe. And one of the 212 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: places people fled to is communists and now it's coming 213 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: under aggressive attack. But that is not the only place. 214 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: Put this up on the screen from NPR. Their report 215 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: here quantifies just how it's not that the south has 216 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: you know, consistently been struck. It's actually the attacks on 217 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: the south, southern part of the Gaza Strip, where people 218 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: were told to move to, have escalated since they told 219 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: people to leave the north. They're actually hitting the places 220 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: that they fled to harder after people moved out of 221 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: the north. So they say Israel told Palestinians to evacuate 222 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: to southern Gaza and stepped up attacks there. Families have 223 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: risk journeys through the blasted landscape of destroyed buildings and 224 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: corpses along the road that Israel is designated as a 225 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: humanitarian corridor through the war. For the few hours each 226 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: day that the road is open, people carry or drag 227 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: wounded loved ones. They push wheelchairs with patients just down 228 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: of surgery, and hospitals have now stopped working. Mothers pull 229 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: along weary children who look around with blank fearful stairs. 230 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: But what awaits Palestinians who move south is still life threatening. 231 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: The evacuation areas are both heavily bombarded and in a 232 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: dire humanitarian crisis, as Israel's blockade of fuel and control 233 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: of aid into the Gaza Strip leaves people searching for 234 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: food and access to clean water. They're underscoring there the 235 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: horrific humanitarian situation for everyone in the Gaza Strip, the 236 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: fact that there is wildly insufficient food, wildly insufficient water, 237 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: basically no fuel whatsoever, has created an absolute humanitarian catastrophe, 238 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 1: with diseases spreading rampantly and people desperately just trying to 239 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: find the next meal enough to feed and keep them 240 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: and their families alive. They go on to say Israel's 241 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: use of the term evacuation. For sending Palestinians to southern 242 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: areas is really probably because it conjures up an idea 243 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: of a safe route to a place of safety. This, 244 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: according to Caitlin Proctor, research fell at the Center on 245 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: Conflict Development and Peace Building at the Geneva Graduate Institute. 246 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: But the reality is there is no safe place left 247 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: in Gaza for people to go, and so that's where 248 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: we are today. We have horrors that unfolded at Alshifa Hospital, 249 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: horrors that unfolded at this un run school within a 250 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: refugee camp, and now horrors unfolding in southern Gaza where 251 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: people thought perhaps they may be safe. Already millions forcibly 252 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: displaced from their homes. And of course all of this 253 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: calls into question what is the future of the Gaza Strip. 254 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: There's nothing to go back to in Gaza City. It 255 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: has effectively been turned into rubble. The meme of the 256 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: parking lot, you know, just obliterate it. All that's effectively 257 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: been done already in Gaza City. And as I said before, 258 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: the toll on the population here is unfathomable. One in 259 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: fifty six, one in fifty six. Think about that, Palestinians 260 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: in Gaza, already killed or wounded, and now the vice 261 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: grip of the IDF tightening around even the southern part 262 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: of Gaza and raising the question of what is the 263 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: future for these people anywhere. We've of course tracked closely 264 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: here the statements of Israeli officials about how their ideal 265 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: solution would be to push them out of the Gaza 266 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: strip altogether. There's another report this morning that they're hoping 267 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: Egypt will just take over completely and again effectively displace 268 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: these people permanently from their homes once again. But twenty 269 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: twenty three, as one Israeli security Cabinet member put it, 270 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: and that is the state of affairs that we are 271 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: looking at today. We'll be back on Monday. We'll be tracking, 272 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: of course, everything that unfolds under the weekend. Over the weekend, 273 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: we've already got a bunch of updates we want to 274 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: bring you on Monday as well, So everybody enjoy your 275 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: weekend and we will see you soon.