
Palestinian Poet On Life in Gaza Amid Israel’s Retaliation
Clip: 10/11/2023 | 5m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Mosab Abu Toha describes the situation in Gaza as Israeli retaliatory airstrikes continue.
With Gaza’s main electrical plant shut down the Ministry of Health is saying hospitals on generators will run out of fuel by Thursday. More than 1,100 have been killed in Israeli retaliatory airstrikes, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The number includes 4 medics whose ambulance was reportedly bombed. Christiane speaks with a resident of Gaza about what is happening on the ground.
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Palestinian Poet On Life in Gaza Amid Israel’s Retaliation
Clip: 10/11/2023 | 5m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
With Gaza’s main electrical plant shut down the Ministry of Health is saying hospitals on generators will run out of fuel by Thursday. More than 1,100 have been killed in Israeli retaliatory airstrikes, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The number includes 4 medics whose ambulance was reportedly bombed. Christiane speaks with a resident of Gaza about what is happening on the ground.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>> WE TOLD YOU THAT GAZA'S MAIN ELECTRIC PLANT HAS SHUT DOWN, AND NOW, THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH THERE IS SAYING HOSPITALS ON GENERATORS WILL RUN OUT OF FUEL BY THURSDAY.
THESE FACILITIES ARE ALREADY OVERWHELMED, AS ISRAEL CONTINUES TO HAMMER GAZA WITH RETALIATORY STRIKES AGAINST HAMAS POSITIONS, BUT SO MANY OTHERS ARE GETTING KILLED, AS WELL, ACCORDING TO THE MINISTRIES THERE.
MORE THAN 1,100 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED, ACCORDING TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH.
AND THAT INCLUDES FOUR PARAMEDICS, WHOSE AMBULANCE WAS THERE ARE SOME OF OUR COLLEAGUES, AS WELL.
I'M JOINED MOSAB ABU TOHA.
IN AN OPINION POST FOR "THE WASHINGTON POST," HE WRITES, "IN GAZA, NO ONE CAN BELIEVE THEIR EYES."
SO, MOSAB ABU TOHA, WELCOME.
TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING IN GAZA RIGHT NOW.
>> THE EXPLOSIONS, THAT HAS DROPPED -- THAT ARE DROPPED BY ISRAEL FROM TIME TO TIME, AND -- WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF WATER YOU , RUNNING OUT OF ELECTRICITY, WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF MEDICINE, AND WE ARE FULL OF FEAR OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
>> HAVE YOU -- YOU KNOW, YOU'VE OBVIOUSLY LIVED THROUGH MANY ROUNDS OF THIS.
HOW DOES THIS COMPARE WITH PREVIOUS TIMES THAT THERE HAVE BEEN THESE AIR STRIKES AND OTHER, YOU KNOW, MILITARY OPERATIONS INSIDE GAZA?
>> WELL, I THINK ISRAEL IS FOCUSING ON SOME AREAS FROM TIME TO TIME.
JUST YESTERDAY, THEY STARTED BOMBING AN AREA THAT'S JUST A FEW KILOMETERS AWAY FROM ME.
ABOUT 20 PEOPLE WERE KILLED.
SO, THEY KEPT BOMBING THAT AREA FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS.
AND JUST EARLIER YESTERDAY, THEY ALSO BOMBED ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH IS CONSIDERED MORE SECURE, ONE OF THE MOST SECURE AREAS IN THE GAZA STRIP.
BUT NOW, I LOOK AT THE PICTURES ON FACEBOOK AND DIFFERENT MEDIA, AND I CANNOT RECOGNIZE WHETHER THIS BUILDING WAS A HOSPITAL, WHETHER IT WAS A CLINIC, WHETHER IT WAS A TOWER, OR MAYBE A PHARMACY OR A KINDERGARTEN EVEN.
THEY CHANGED THE LANDSCAPE BY CONTINUING TO BOMB THE PLACE FOR HOURS NONSTOP.
AND ALSO, BY PULLING DOWN HOUSES ON TOPS OF THE PEOPLE INSIDE OF THEM.
NOW, BY JUST A FEW HOURS AGO, THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR PUBLISHED A STATEMENT THAT SAYS THAT ABOUT 23 FAMILIES, 23 WHOLE FAMILIES WERE WIPED OUT FROM HISTORY.
WE DON'T KNOW WHO IS NEXT.
IN MY HOUSE, I HAVE ABOUT FOUR FAMILIES, I HAVE MY FAMILY, MY BROTHER'S FAMILY, TWO SISTERS OF MINE THAT HAD TO MOVE TO OUR PLACE, BECAUSE THE HOUSE WAS CRITICALLY DAMAGED BY A NEIGHBORING BOMB.
WE HAVE TEN CHILDREN INSIDE THE HOUSE.
>> CAN I ASK YOU SOMETHING?
>> THE OLDEST IS 80 YEARS OLD.
>> MOSAB, THE IMAGES OF THE DOZENS OF ISRAELIS HAUNT ME.
HOW COULD THE MILITANTS KILL ALL THESE SOLDIERS AND TAKE SO MANY OTHERS AS PRISONERS?
YOU CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT ISRAEL WILL KILL HUNDREDS, EVEN THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS IN GAZA.
I'VE NEVER FELT SO TERRIFIED.
SO, YOU KNEW WHEN HAMAS -- YOU KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AFTER THIS UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK INSIDE ISRAEL?
>> YEAH, I -- I KNOW AS A GAZAN MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE AS A GAZAN, BECAUSE ISRAEL HAS BEEN MAD AT US, HAS BEEN BOMBING US AND KILLING HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS, WITHOUT ANY MILITANTS FROM HAMAS, FROM THE GAZA STRIP, INFILTRATING AND INVADING THE NEIGHBORS TOWNS AND CITIES.
AND NOW, WITH THIS KIND OF LAND INVASION BY THE MILITANTS, I CAN IMAGINE, IF THEY KILLED 1,000 OR 2,000 IN MAY 2021, THEY WOULD KILL MAYBE TEN TIMES MORE THAN THAT.
I WOULD EXPECT THAT, BECAUSE ISRAEL KILLS US WITHOUT HAMAS DOING -- GOING INTO ISRAEL, PRISONERS, ESPECIALLY SOLDIERS.
I MEAN, THIS WAS, OF COURSE, VERY HUMILIATING FOR ISRAEL, AND -- >> ALL RIGHT, MOSAB.
>> THISSER IF IF TERRIFIES US.
>> YEAH, I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID.
IT TERRIFIES YOU.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING WITH US.
Survivor of Hamas Attack on Israeli Festival Tells His Story
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Clip: 10/11/2023 | 6m 9s | Sahar Ben-Sela tells his story of surviving the Hamas attack on an Israeli music festival. (6m 9s)
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