Israel wiped entire Palestinian cities off the map. Writer, poet, and journalist Ahmed Abu Artema joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to discuss what he saw and experienced during the genocide and how he was evacuated to the Netherlands last month. He explains that: “they are claiming that [they] are fighting Hamas. They murdered 20,000 children, they destroyed 85 percent of the houses of Gaza, they destroyed the hospitals, the universities, and complete cities were wiped [off] the map. So what is Hamas? They’re problem is with the Palestinian people themselves, the Palestinian existence itself.”
Ali Abunimah discusses the significance of the “recognition” of the “State of Palestine” by a number of Western countries. Is it a step forward or a distraction?
On the Resistance Report, the Electronic Intifada’s contributing editor Jon Elmer brings us the latest resistance news from Gaza, along with a report on the Israeli military’s use of unmanned, remotely operated armored vehicles as bombs while the Israeli army’s operation Gideon’s Chariots Part 2 attacks Gaza City.
Produced by Pierre Loiselle, Nora Barrows-Friedman and Tamara Nassar.
Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA images