DeepSummary
The podcast episode features an interview with correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous and executive producer Layla El-Arian of Al Jazeera English's show Fault Lines, discussing their new documentary 'The Night Won't End: Biden's War on Gaza.' The documentary tells the stories of three Palestinian families impacted by Israel's scorched-earth war on Gaza over the past nine months, which has resulted in the deaths of nearly 40,000 Palestinians, including over 20,000 children according to aid organizations.
The guests describe the harrowing details of the cases they documented, including the execution of Palestinian men by Israeli soldiers, the killing of a 6-year-old girl named Hind Rajab, and the immense challenges faced by the journalists working in Gaza amid the violence and destruction. They also highlight the forensic analysis and verification efforts undertaken to corroborate the accounts and incidents depicted in the film.
The episode also touches on the silence and lack of coverage from Western media on the atrocities in Gaza, as well as the personal toll the conflict has taken on the guests, with Layla El-Arian revealing that over 200 members of her extended family have been killed in Gaza during this period.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Israel's recent military assault on Gaza has resulted in the deaths of nearly 40,000 Palestinians, including over 20,000 children, according to aid organizations.
- The documentary 'The Night Won't End: Biden's War on Gaza' provides harrowing accounts of three Palestinian families impacted by the violence, including executions and the killing of a 6-year-old girl.
- Journalists in Gaza face immense challenges in documenting the atrocities, with many being killed or losing loved ones amid the violence and destruction.
- Forensic analysis and verification efforts were undertaken to corroborate the incidents depicted in the documentary, including audio and video evidence.
- The US government and Western media have largely remained silent on the atrocities in Gaza, despite overwhelming evidence and even the killing of American citizens.
- The personal toll of the conflict is immense, with the guests revealing that hundreds of members of their extended families have been killed in Gaza.
- The documentary highlights the importance of remembering the human lives behind the death toll statistics and not reducing the victims to mere numbers.
- The conduct of the Israeli military in Gaza raises questions about the intentional targeting of civilians and the disregard for human life.
Top Episodes Quotes
- โThese statistics can become overwhelming, but it's very important that we remember that behind each of these numbers when we read the death tolls is a human being. It was a family, a parent, a child, a sibling that are being shattered, destroyed on a constant basis.โ by Jeremy Scahill
- โYou can hear 64 gunshots fired in just 6 seconds. So what earshot found on that call, which was a key portion of audio, is that you can hear 64 gunshots, you hear Layenne screaming, and these 64 gunshots that are all similar in characteristics, they're similar in loudness. And what they found was that the gunshots were about 74 milliseconds apart, which meant that the rounds being fired were up to 900 rounds per minute, which is far in excess of what an assault rifle like a Nikki 47 can fire, and is more consistent with israeli army weaponry, such as the machine gun that's mounted on a Merkava tank.โ by Sharif Abdel Kouddous
- โI honestly think we only know a small fraction of the crimes that have taken place in Gaza. When you look at what happened to Hindrajab, forensic architecture concluded that the soldiers who fired could likely see the family. So if soldiers are firing into a car while receiving no crossfire of a family that's unarmed, that's just trying to survive, what does that tell you about the way that they're conducting this war?โ by Layla El-Arian
Entities
Organization
Person
Location
Product
Episode Information
Intercepted
The Intercept
6/26/24
Throughout the past nine months of Israelโs scorched-earth war against the people of Gaza, the world has watched as the official death toll has increased by the day. Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed. These figures are likely a stark undercount of the true devastation. A recent report from the British aid organization Save the Children estimates that more than 20,000 Palestinian children are missing in Gaza. A new documentary by Fault Lines called โThe Night Wonโt End: Bidenโs War on Gazaโ tells the story of the war's impact on the lives of three Palestinian families in Gaza.
This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill speaks to the film's correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous and executive producer Laila Al-Arian, the Emmy award-winning executive producer of Fault Lines, Al Jazeera Englishโs flagship U.S.-based news magazine.
If youโd like to support our work, go to theintercept.com/join, where your donation, no matter what the amount, makes a real difference.
And if you havenโt already, please subscribe to the show so you can hear it every week. And please go and leave us a rating or a review โ it helps people find the show. If you want to give us additional feedback, email us at Podcasts@theintercept.com.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.