Palestinian Journalist on Gaza: “There Are Situations Your Heart Can’t Take” | Amanpour and Company

The day after the October 7th attack, Israel launched its counteroffensive on Hamas in Gaza. The Israeli government claims it has killed thousands of militants and severely degraded the terror group's command structure. But after a year of war, airstrikes, tank fire, artillery and guns, more than 40,000 Gazans also are dead - including thousands of women and noncombatants and at least 16,000 children, according to the authorities there. Also among the dead are more than 100 journalists - the world's only eyes and ears since the banning of the foreign press. Youmna ElSayed, an Al Jazeera correspondent, joined this program last year from Gaza to describe the reality of working there. Since that interview, Youmna has fled Gaza with her family. Ten months on, she joins the show to discuss how hard it was to leave, and the stories she could not bring herself to tell at the time.
Originally aired on October 7, 2024
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[@commandZee]

Thank you. When I stopped seeing her on Al Jazeera I worried the worst may have happened. I'm so glad Youmna and her children are safe.

[@bernadettedunn6129]

🙏🏼thank you God for allowing this young woman to tell her side. Please continue to interview witnesses to this Genocide. They must be heard!

[@doctor_fever]

We need to see and amplify the images she describes. I'm confident that she told her narrative recognizing that many people would initially wonder whether a weapon of destruction and not a victim was in that knapsack. While we cannot expect these images to move the insane leaders of Israel and Gaza, we can employ them to influence sane leaders with hearts and clear minds.

[@lilyannal5159]

No proof Al Jazeera reporters are not a terrorists/reporters, she lies with straight face. Let see the fact: Reporters had hostages in his house. Not enough press report about Gaza war, seriously? She wants other countries to bail them out but she has not once call upon her people and/or Hamas friends to stop. Cause and Effect principle anyone? Scam/con artist---victimhood? Self-inflicted injury anyone,,,,

[@hajjiomary2383]

Same to me

[@luisdavidllense2293]

Yes, Democracy Now! also had her on, lately. So brave and outspoken. So glad she's OK.

[@bernadettedunn6129]

I have never been to Gaza and I too have survivors guilt. I am so broken 😩 watching how sadistic this war has been and just when I think I’ve heard everything I hear something even more diabolical than the crime before.

[@TheMomeni]

Stop terrorism and violence and everything will stop, but you can't do that, can you?

[@mariatod]

​@@TheMomeni the violence and terrorism has to be stoped on both sides but the primarily root and powerful side is the Israelis who started this in 1948, it is an ongoing tragedy and injustice that created Hamas and Hezbollaz as a reaction, as a symptom of it!

[@yaldaattai8342]

We must do what we can by firstly educating ourselves ourselves about how all this started and where we are today perhaps Ilan Pape would be a great place to start to understand the history then we need help our families and friends learn the truth about this Ethnic cleansing and genocide. Stand up for the oppressed express your sadness to the government through writing, protest or speech and then the rest is the hands of almighty when the right time comes and we have done what we can as fellow human beings you will definitely relieve your guilt. 🕊️🇵🇸💕🇦🇫🕊️

[@TheMomeni]

@@yaldaattai8342 tell Palestinians to put down arms and stop terrorism

[@loloh7103]

Thank you for including her and her humanity on your show.

[@rrubens3026]

Yes please keep it up. We cannot let the Palestinian suffering fall into the background

[@andypitt2848]

👏

[@dfgt-su9ki]

amanpour=aipac

[@Lynl1p]

This is why Blinken asked AJ to tone down the coverage. That is why I went to watch AJ. Israel doesn't want you to see the atrocities on civilians. I didn't want to just hear what Israel says is what is on Western media.

[@kevinjenner9502]

Politico. 6/5/24 “Israel targeted more than 120 US lawmakers in disinformation campaign”

[@gnostic268]

Blinken is a dual citizen and should never have been allowed to be in the U.S. government because he is a traitor, imo

[@IchabodSpoonbill]

I wanted to listen more, but the stories of the children were some of the most heartbreaking things I have ever heard. When will it end?

[@azalia423]

When we ban a i p a c .

[@doctor_fever]

It will end when the people force it to end. The Rule of Change comes from studies showing that, whenever 3.5% of a population engages in nonviolent action to force change, change happens. Recently, Israelis hit that threshold twice; immediately after, Netanyahu struck Lebanon. Ultimately, tyrants are afraid of the people rising up. And when enough people rise up, they win.

[@Kit-se3zs]

I'm very pleased to hear from a Palestinian on national news who is allowed to speak freely on what Israel really does to people over there. Even if it's PBS alone who is doing it. Thank you Amanpour & Co. I'm glad she was able to get herself & family out safe. 🇵🇸❤️

[@evek2501]

It's really a testament to our media bias to have to thank a media company who interviews a journalist from a place experiencing genocide. You'd think our media outlets would be clambering to have access to information from Gaza. Instead, most of our media buries the truth.

[@azalia423]

Because of its doners, PBS has not been a leader in news.

[@TheMomeni]

Israel doesn't do anything to those people. They are doing it themselves stop terrorism and violence and watch your lives get better

[@doctor_fever]

​@@azalia423 I see Amanpour daily on PBS, which broadcasts every episode at least 3 times a week. How often does CNN show it? Either CNN or YT doesn't even allow Amanpour to post complete broadcasts here (I halfway expect YT - as it has done before - to pull this comment when it combs this page). In spite of some well-known bad actor fiscal sponsors, PBS has led with numerous news stories in the past decade, and continues to promote public participation even without a Fairness Doctrine in place.

[@azalia423]

@@doctor_fever Yes, thank you. I now turn to sites like Democracy Now to get the news.

[@Athome452]

I can’t stop crying for children in Gaza😭😭 all of Gaza, the world leaders must stop the criminal state of🇮🇱

[@TheMomeni]

Stop terrorism. Stop crying 😂😂

[@Pakh2n]

@@TheMomeniheartless and pure evil

[@NathanChesnaky]

emojis undercut the seriousness of what you are saying, but it is propaganda that you are buying anyway so I suppose it is ok. Are you (Crying face, crying face, sobby face) for the raped and murdered women and babies of Oct. 7th?

[@makestank4800]

I can't stop crying either. 😭Netanyahu needs to be in jail and no more money for the terrorist state of Israel. Why should I or anyone else's tax dollars go to that regime in Tel Aviv.

[@user-ss3ud7pp7f]

And kudos for Amanpour and Hari for allowing her to speak. Would never ever happen on the morel corporate channels,

[@carolyn7691]

How will Palestinians (and the rest of us) ever recover from this nightmare? My heart breaks for them. How will Netanyahu's government be held accountable for these crimes?

[@buddyneher9359]

Thank you for allowing some actual truth to be spoken. I wish every US taxpayer could see this interview and reflect on what their tax dollars are paying for, and demand accountability from their government.

[@genevievemariaforde1477]

Thank you Youmna Elsayed - a former Al Jazeera English journalist who fled Gaza last December to protect the lives of her young children - for your heartfelt account of the brutal reality - the genocide - which the Palestinian people under seige in Gaza have faced every day and night for a year now. Thank you also Hari Sreenivasin for this interview on Christine Amanpour and Company, which is aired on PBS and CNN International. Youmna is now living in exile in Egypt with her family, the decision to leave Gaza was very difficult for her. She said Palestinians who fled to Egypt are not allowed to work or send their children to school in Egypt and that makes their lives very difficult. I appeal to President al Sisi to change this restriction and allow the Palestinians who sought safety in Egypt to work and their children to go to school. That is their human right Genevieve Forde Aotearoa Planet Earth

[@jessieheartart]

@joebiden / @kamalaharris - where is your heart? where is your courage? where is your common sense?

[@TheMomeni]

Don't fall for #pallywood 🤌

[@priceofsilence557]

The veracity of her perspective, balanced by the empathy in how her narrative was upheld with compassion, would be an apogee in ethical reporting if it weren’t suppressed by the inherent political biases against her identity intrinsic to the reporting. Harrowing truth from two amazing journalists. In this I’m reminded by this discourse, of the value of an independent fourth estate in providing a conduit of perspective into the human condition when challenged by the brutality of the political variables anathema to the conscience of humanity. Rather than institutionalism for corporate agenda setting in framing reality to the lens of commercial market interests. Thank you all.

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

Wow

[@TheMomeni]

#pallywood 😂😂 they are sure trained 🤭🤭

[@NathanChesnaky]

I don't understand how people are still trying to push the "Israel gets all the sympathy in the media" narrative. Are you kidding me? Literally before Israel had even responded to October 7th multiple major western news outlets were running op eds essentially blaming Israel and going through the usual "colonizer/genocidal/apartheid" nonsense from people who clearly don't understand what any of those words mean. (fun fact, Palestine actually is trying, and failing, to commit a genocide on Israel. Like an actual genocide, meaning an attempt to wipe an entire people off the face of the map. Thank god they aren't as good at military tactics as they are at raping women, right? You phrased one thing right though; "her narrative" was upheld. You are certainly right on that.

[@priceofsilence557]

@@TheMomeni you realize how pathetic victim blaming reads at this cultural moment in history right. How it communicates the banal depravity the hypocrite might seek to hide, right? Grow up.

[@TheMomeni]

@@priceofsilence557 😂😂

[@christineh2843]

This poor woman Youmna, you are courageous...I feel deep respect and compassion for you. My heart goes out to you and all the Palestinians. I am deeply ashamed and infuriated at my government for being complicit in this horrific genocide on these poor people. That's why I will not be voting for harris or tRump. The only way to vote is 3rd party at this point. I can not ever vote for anyone complicit in genocide.

[@kevinjenner9502]

Palestinian/American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head by the IDF while wearing a bulletproof vest emblazoned with the word PRESS, front and back.

[@harshamahtani5554]

My god. I don't know whether I feel more heartbroken, or furious. Furious at the entire Western world that we kinda always thought stood up for human rights and "civilization". Cruel. That's what we are. She is an amazing woman, an amazing journalist, an amazing human being. And we have failed her and her people SO badly. And all by design.

[@rrubens3026]

The western media has been absolutely disgusting and horrible on this, and they don't care.

[@doctor_fever]

War is hell. Violence is hell no matter who commits it or who promotes it. Sadly, journalists cannot strike, as they the public's only connection with truth. At some point - like right now - We the People must commit ourselves and enlist others to engage regularly and effectively with our elected representative everywhere. There are more of us. The 3.5% Rule of Change reports that nonviolent protest wins 100% of the time when enough citizens rise up. While Israel recently reached that threshold twice, we are saddened that most Gazans who dissent suffer horrific consequences from Hamas. So, again, it is up to US to make a difference. When we organize, we win.

[@NathanChesnaky]

Maybe feel heartbroken that Hamas didn't build a single shelter of any kind for its people. Maybe feel furious that Hamas attacked Israel knowing full well Israel would retaliate as it did (Hamas was counting on it) Be furious that all of this could end tomorrow if Hamas would surrender, or even just release the hostages and agree to a cease fire. Her people have continuously failed themselves. Let's put Israel out of the picture for just a minute, do you think Palestine is a good example of a just and free society, where all people are treated equally? Do you think women are free in Gaza? Homosexuals? (oh wait they kill them). non-Muslims? You are literally holding up one of the most brutal and repressive societies on this earth up as some sort of grand example of all the good things the world could be. It is just bafflingly naive.

[@rrubens3026]

@NathanChesnaky nice try but the Israelis like Ben Gvir and the like are no different towards women and gays.

[@NathanChesnaky]

@@rrubens3026 yea I'd beg to differ but you want to try to address literally anything else I said? How about the women part? want to make a case that women are treated worse in Israel? How about religious freedom? Is there more religious freedom in Israel or Palestine. You know what, nevermind.

[@AzizaSayed-n5l]

Thx Yuma for visiting South Africa 🇿🇦 u always welcome ❤

[@hamzamahdi104]

Fighting for freedom equality equality people land and sovereignty is not terrorism at all free illegally oppressed occupied Palestine 😢😢😢😢😢😢❤

[@mimicocto]

Please publish the open letter sent by 99 US doctors who served in Gaza to Biden and US congress. Do you have courage to do that? Do you have humanity to do that?

[@doctor_fever]

While I cannot recall for sure, I would bet Amanpour has previously covered that letter. Reviewing broadcast transcripts is the fastest way to find things like that.

[@NathanChesnaky]

who are you even talking to though

[@azalia423]

No more arms or funding to the colonizers.

[@khankhan21-t4x]

Sister ,Your have faced real evil,we believe unseen evil exist in the world,but you are real witness of seen evil.May Allah safe our brother sister and children from the human evil.

[@ifsanakauser7194]

Thanku to this show

[@thomasthomasphilp4393]

I wish there were leaders like Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela in the Arab world.

[@silvinacarrizo2726]

Youmna ElSayed ✌🏻🇵🇸✌🏻

[@christineleitner960]

I thank you for sharing your story Youmna. This conflict needs to end. It should have ended long ago. There is no excuse for this lack if humanity. For targeting anyone other than Hamas. Far too many innocents have been displaced, killed, maimed, starved, have little to no access to medical care which is propagating Polio.

[@MIA_DaDe]

@christineleitner960 Yep.. where is your post showing concern about the innocent Israeli civilians killed Oct 7 2023? I couldn't find that in your comment history? Where are your posts condemning Hamas for the harm it has brought to its own people since they took over Gaza? You're either, bigoted, ignorant or a hypocrite. Pick one?

[@christineleitner960]

@@MIA_DaDe There is no excuse for what occurred on October 7th. As my post clearly notes, Hamas is to blame, not innocent civilians. Innocent civilians that include Jews, Non-Hamas Palestinians, international aide workers and reporters.

[@marcinbenedek789]

@@MIA_DaDe and where is your post condemning killing of civilians by Israel? Maybe a post of yours about destruction of universities or about cutting the food supply to Gaza? Where is it?

[@thelaughingcat7051]

Such a brave woman. You are telling his story now.

[@EdBenji]

Such a liar more like it..

[@hanifabaig1601]

​@@EdBenjiit's not the eyes that are blind it's the heart!!

[@azalia423]

@@EdBenji You've lost your humanity.

[@Farr-nx7sv]

Ask yourselves why there is disproportionate coverage. You should be discussing Israel's ban on journalists every five minutes since last year. October 6, 2023: The deadliest year for Palestinian children.

[@BernieCornelia]

I miss your reports. Alhamdulillah for your safety

[@coleengoodell7523]

Egypt just got put on my naughty list. The list is getting long. You don't withhold an education from traumatized children, you do the opposite, for these little ones of God. Thank you for following the path that you knew you needed to take and for your voice to be heard, your convictions, your gift, on behalf if the Palestinian people. You're children are precious, you did as you were directed, their lives and safety must come even before your job. For you were entrusted with them, to care and protect them, to raise them up for they are a true gift from God. Take heart my sweet strong sister, you are loved. ♾

[@LloydChristmas-vx2wh]

No Arab country wants to take in the Palestinians. Look at the history of what the Palestinians do to their hosts, and find out why.

[@Pakh2n]

So difficult to listen to the story of the boy with blue bag or the father with the bodies of their kids in bags. It is one of the most heartbreaking stories of my life. I cried so loud in my house just to heal the pain I was feeling at that time. I can’t imagine her pain. We have all been scarred by these images but nothing can compare to what is felt by those in Palestine and those how experiences this evil by Israhell!

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: ▪︎If policies of Superior Race ideology,Dehumanization,Starvation,Gassing (White Phosphorus),Concentration Camps,Pogroms,Ethnic Cleansing,etc are repeated ▪︎Must be recognized as - Apartheid 2 or Holocaust 2?

[@bannersxyz]

No one else on earth would ever hurt all those children . No one else on earth would ever hurt Palestinians.

[@WTF_1984]

Unfortunately, there are a lot of terrorists in Gaza...mostly peaceful pregnant bearded children, according to the Ministry of Lies, oh, pardon the Ministry of Health

[@Johnny-ql2vd]

When the Press is band …. The bells and whistles in your head/ conscious should be going off .

[@RexJordan-s8x]

Thank you

[@MrSteadfast]

United States owe Palestinians tens of billions of dollars in reparations. In addition, we should give ALL innocent Palestinians permanent residence right. I know this may be extremely controversial because many Americans, especially on the right side of the ideological spectrum, may not like it, but this is the least we can do. Nothing else we can do can come even close to making up for the evil we've done to them.

[@pennyfurr3216]

Israel won’t let international journalists in to report on what is happening.

[@kieranoconnor4334]

Thank you for you courage in first bearing witness and secondly telling us. It is very hard to listen to but we must......We will not forget. As-salamu alaikum

[@elenaenia6741]

I am glad you are alive!

[@johnkelley1426]

"There are situations your heart can't take" - is an acknowledgement of the human history one does not know. Ideals are peaceful; history is violent. - Wardaddy Collier

[@kayluxon5207]

Stay safe

[@marlonjaimon8325]

Mr Sreenivasan your abhorrent line of questioning is despicable. You being a parrot to Joe Biden and Bibi is not journalism. Please do your due diligence. Kudos to Aljazeera

[@AnalyseThat]

Horrible. Thank you for bringing this story.

[@Lynl1p]

Excellent interview.

[@sabrinayounisaden7238]

Who knows if that who has his young brother,s body pieces in back pack if he is still alive because the al Nasar hospital was since besieged by israel occupation forces and then destroyed,

[@raihanshirazi5884]

I hope USA and all other western countries open their eyes and truly see what's happening.....free Palestine!!

[@nahedha3253]

Unfortunately the politicians are heartless!!! No empathy!

[@yaskahu682]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@user-vr4fm5zw8m]

Yes it still a crime .stop this war now 😢😢

[@AuralioCabal]

Hamas could have stopped their miser,surrender the Hostages and sue for Peace, but Palestinians wont do that..😮

[@chlorophyllmorelikeboraphy6874]

KZbin will suppress this

[@iq-ride9329]

The number of martyrs in Gaza exceeded 300,000 martyrs and missing persons. Finally, someone credible (THE LANCET, a British Medical Journal), crunched the numbers and the real genocide figures came to light. Estimates are based on epidemiological studies that conclude that for every person killed as a result of military action, between three and twenty additional people are killed as a result. This means that the death toll may exceed 646,000 martyrs. The number of killed and missing in Gaza/Palestine far exceeds the publicized number of "over 38,000 Late June the news reported 21,000 children are missing or imprisoned. How do the 21,000 relate to the 38,000 killed by the Zionist Regime? What is over 38,000? Is it 38,001? 38,010? 38,100? 39,000? 360,000? 3,600,000? As of the last third of April 2024: I read an anonymous posting that claimed that the actual number is 200,000 victims, within a week, an anonymous German person, set the number of victims at 1/3 million, or 333,333 killed and missing. I wondered how they came up with those number until last week when news came out about the AI program and how it works. Raw data: 1- The number of people on the list is 37,000 2- The average Palestinian family size is 5.6 individuals in the Gaza Strip. 3- The number of “dumb” bombs dropped on Gaza and used to support this AI program is 29,000 bombs. 4- According to a Wall Street Journal report, Israeli bombs have destroyed over 300,000 of the 439,000 homes in Gaza, which is more than 70% of the homes in the city. 5- The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that at least 40,000 of those homes have been completely destroyed. Calculations: 1- Numbers of people on the list X Average Gaza family size 37,000 X 5.6= 207,200 2- The number of “dumb” bombs X Average Gaza family 29,000 X 5.6= 162,400 3- WSJ report on homes destroyed X Average Gaza family 300,000 X 5.6= 1,680,000 4- The UN report on homes destroyed X Average Gaza family 40,000 X 5.6= 224,000 Ignoring the 1,680,000 as outlier, and looking at the other 3 numbers, we find the MEAN to be 162,400 and the average 207,200+ 162,400 + 224,000 =593,600. 593,600 / 3= 197,866 This means, the death toll in Gaza is nearly six times the number being publicized. Nut&Yahoo wants to continue the WANTON GENOCIDE FOR TWO YEARS TO COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE THE POPULATION.

[@LloydChristmas-vx2wh]

Or you can stop committing terrorism against Israel and all around the world. You lose wars because you want take on an extreme version of Islam and neglect science and peace. BTW: she was six years old.

[@splashesin8]

You had me until the AI program entered the calculating, according to the methods of whomever might have been the designer of the parser. It is no doubt massively bigger numbers killed, which is horrible, all the way around. What person is magically empowered to stop it?

[@iq-ride9329]

@@splashesin8 What person is magically empowered to stop it? Magic is not needed. Decency is needed, but none of the world leader has any drop of decency. Macron showed some backbone, but was over ruled by his deep state the same day. The world is being run by evil.

[@nahedha3253]

Heartbreaking 😢

[@tanyawilliams8254]

💔 😢

[@zubeidaebrahim599]

Amanpou do have mercy

[@Lynl1p]

Netanyahu government reminds me of Stalin like cruelty.

[@deboraandrade132]

😢😢😢😢😢😢I don' t want to live in a workd like this anymore.

[@Jake-jr2zh]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@Steve-mo4qp]

Not one word; not a one about HAMAS. The love of children, all children, must bring a call for Iran and Hamas to stop. Whoever you blame for the war, (and blame is empty rhetoric) if Hamas stop and Iran take their weapons elsewhere, you can make the war stop. Call it out for the sake of the children and for all decent people.

[@yaskahu682]

Ya Allah free Palestine 🤲🏼🤲🏼🤲🏼

[@louisesumrell6331]

A mainstream media outlet tells the truth? Only a year late...smh

[@hamzamahdi104]

When injustice become law so resistance become the duty free Palestine 🇵🇸 😢😢😢😢😢

[@mumsow]

💔😓

[@slg8470]

she sounds extremely fake, fake tears etc.. disgusting propaganda piece from a mouthpiece for hamas

[@evaprsasimonovic1433]

You don’t have heart, just hatred.

[@ysw8291]

But westerners have a big heart....

[@salehahussain6073]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@MakePeace123]

Make a difference Vote Jill Stein Green Party

[@doctor_fever]

With respect, nope. Never Stein. That's the way to get Netanahu's best friend - Donald Trump - back in control of our government. Trump is already collaborating with Putin and Netanyahu in real time, along with his other cronies who help him as much as they can. Voting for Jill Stein will elect a man whose son-in-law already has plans to develop Gaza into a seaside resort for the rich. Where will Gazans go? The tyrants won't be able to kill them all. But the chaos they create strives to divide us and keep us from thinking straight. Let's get our head back on straight. Stein will elect Trump, who will help Netanyahu clear Gaza of Gazans. Stay away from Stein and all 3rd party candidates. Defeat Trump with the landslide necessary to quash his 90+ baseless election challenges already filed.

[@samreenahmed259]

Shame on world powerful countries

[@BernieCornelia]

Why did you leave? Seriously. !

[@dfgt-su9ki]

amanpour=aipac !!!!!

[@skontheroad]

365 days in a year, and of course, you choose THIS day to discuss the difficulties of a Palestinian. Who was able to leave, no less..... always keeping it classy as usual!

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

Stop being a monster. That's a human woman. The world is catching on to your tricks

[@hamzamahdi104]

Free illegally oppressed occupied Palestine 🇵🇸 😢😢😢😢

[@tonya3308]

Palestinians are oppressed by themselves. They support Hamas. Hamas brought this on to their people while the leaders of Hamas live the good life elsewhere. Where is the outrage?

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

Bibi funded hamas. Bibi ordered the fence left unguarded on 7 oct

[@doctor_fever]

Amanpour has been doing especially great work in these terrible years of horror and hate, most recently covering a series of positive developments in the Mideast (if not in the United States - yet). This said, it is very disappointing not to see the above broadcast's interview with Israeli and Palestinian activists working together and bringing the first positive news about efforts among their people to replace the violence their leaders foment with peaceful coexistence. That interview shares the story in a new and unique way; I can't recommend highly enough the value of sharing it.

[@jimhoffman6979]

Will Yahya sinwar ever be held accountable for the crimes of Hamas against the Palestinian civilians who opposed Hamas between 2007 and 2023? Will someone please report on the crimes of the Iran backed Hamas Terrorist Group?

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

Why did bibi make sure hamas was funded?

[@SM-B1]

🤮🇮🇱🤮

[@Troller_007]

Europe & US took all Ukrainian Civilian refugees , so why can't 57 OIC nations take in all Palestinian civilians ??? if Saudi Arabia is for Islamics only , then declare Israel/Gaza/West Bank for Jews only.

[@LloydChristmas-vx2wh]

No Arab country wants to take in the Palestinians. Look at the history of what the Palestinians do to their hosts, and find out why.

[@YonieZukowsky51]

In working democracies people's lives have a chance to improve although there is no guarantee that this will happen. Under Hamas rule your fate for misery is sealed. Hatred is not a solution.

[@sahrsahr-yx6vc]

Theodore all the elevator fair I like in little rock I'll have Easter holiday la Liga Adidas Pharrell hello what channel

[@rahwahaile3735]

What question is " why do you live "? Shame on you!

[@bleep957]

😂 when your own journalists hold kidnapped civilians, there's a serious problem .

[@NathanChesnaky]

Objective journalist and PR spokesperson are two very different things. Weird this journalist has no images, no interviews, no direct stats unless I missed something.....As I stated before she is more of a commentator than any kind of legitimate journalist, and if you take everything she says as absolute fact without even an ounce of doubt, you should ask yourself why certain narratives are so easy to accept without scrutiny.

[@desmmart]

Don’t start a war you cannot win! That is the lesson here. You people are talking around the true issue. Hamas started the war, you should be telling them to stop firing at Israel and surrender

[@opalbeach9626]

45,000/200?

[@Stella.S.T.E.L.L.A]

Same thing for the other side. Do not start occupation you cannot handle its consequences. How pathetic…

[@TruthAlways_]

You need help

[@BernieCornelia]

Seriously dude. Your lack of knowledge is astounding.

[@opalbeach9626]

@@BernieCornelia no body lacks knowledge here, except for you, Bernard Cornelia. We know history, we read, we are well informed. Now be respectful of others' opinions.

[@wladyslawjagiello]

I am sickened about all the people killed. What I don't understand is why Hamas doesn't give back the hostages to stop these brutal attacks in Gaza?

[@omardumbrell435]

If the Israelis had agreed with the terms of every ceasefire deal Hamas has agreed to those hostages would have been returned months ago.This is not about freeing the hostages, it's about Israel punishing the Gazans for having the audacity to attack them.

[@noureddinebenchama8786]

Israel has been an apartheid regime even ex prez Carter had to admit it! Americans protesting home demolitions Rachel Corrie) was bulldozed by Israel without much as a rebuke by USA complicit government. Deep down it’s not Israel planning, it’s becoming clear we see an American planned genocide to have a new Middle East that pleases the powerful. No care for humanity.

[@shinesjvx]

Not the audacity to attack ...but the audacity to do what they did to the daughters and mothers of Israel. And then the Gazans cry about their women and children. But what they truly did to women was absolutely despicable.

[@harshamahtani5554]

The times of Israel reported ages ago that they tried to return the hostages immediately after Oct 7. Netanyahu said no. He wanted to use the hostages as an excuse to bomb Gaza and ethnically cleanse it. He has thwarted deal after deal after deal. Nobody holds him to account so why would a little fascist like him do anything differently?

[@cj4021]

@@shinesjvx You should educate yourself, and I genuinely mean that. The claim you're making was thoroughly debunked nearly a year ago by Max Blumenthal and the investigative reporters at The Grey Zone. That narrative was cynically pushed after the 40 ba.bie.s story was found to be a fabrication, and to manufacture consent for the Governments involved to continue their on.sla.ught. No person de.ad or alive out of the thousands of survivors came forward or were medically treated for r@.p.e Not saying atroci.i.ties didn't happen. But to peddle that fabricated angle to manufactu.r.e consent for the indefensible is a new low. Don't take my word for it, it was debunked by Is.ra.eli news and The NYT story that originally made the accusation "Screams Without Words" absent of evidence has been quietly shelved by the NYT. Unfortunately, that framing was aimed at people just you, and it apparently worked.

[@ebog4841]

No such thing as a "Palestinian." Don't believe me? Ask the "palestinian" leaders themselves. ask anyone who lives in the middle east and understands history.

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

Then why do u h8 them so much if there's no such thing?

[@ebog4841]

@@MrJoeBobSmith i LOVE them. they're just not "palestinian" (ok fine, I will admit: AT MOST 0.1% of them are actually from where they claim to be- Palestine. but... dude... that's LESS THAN A TENTH OF A PERCENT.)

[@vinvin4001]

Have the terrorists released all the Israeli hostages and surrendered?

[@ferhanakhan5706]

No the isnreali trrsts have not released the plstn hostages.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Maybe you shouldn't have murdered 1200 civilians and taken 250 hostages. Maybe next time you won't?

[@brianjacobs4056]

PBS- Please publish how much this woman takes from Islamist organizations, or is it just hatred for Jews that informs her content.

[@bidenator9760]

Seriously, on 10/7?

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

I think Bibi's govt made 7 oct happen

[@tonya3308]

Just think - all the pain and suffering in Gaza is all caused by Hamas. Why doesn't the Palestinian people speak out against Hamas? Iran? Playing victim when you caused this mess is a bit on the crazy spectrum.

[@misstwizzletoes9421]

This whole interview is a manipulation: I got half way through and couldn’t take anymore. This journalist is wearing a keffiyah which shows straight away where her allegiance lies: to Hamas extremists-not the people of Gaza. She cloys for sympathy; she plays victim. She claims Gaza gets little TV coverage but that is not true at all-it gets tons. I’m sorry her home nation has been bombed and there are plenty of reasonable arguments to make for how the Israeli war retaliation efforts may have become disproportional but she doesn’t make them: instead it’s just the victim card over and over again as if Hamas extremists don’t bear some responsibility for the suffering of the people they’ve been governing. And, the boy with the backpack-why such melodrama needed when telling that story? And, how anyways does a five year old dead child fit in a backpack? A five month infant, sure-that would be plausible. But not a five year old kid. And, why does the interviewer not bother to challenge her on her accounts-or; even question if she thinks a resolution could be brought about somehow so Gaza could be made safe again and the remaining hostages brought back home? Simple: he doesn’t challenge her because it would interfere with all those crocodile tears she is emoting out-and, that the progressive audience of this channel want to see that they can then use to legitimize their anti-Israel biases.

[@youmnaelsayed1924]

The Kuffiya is a Palestinian scarf! Not for any party it resembles the Roots of the olive trees which is our heritage and the fishing nets which are the main source of our food in Palestine. At least do some reading before you just say nonsense out loud and fool yourself in front of others. :)

[@Troller_007]

"Ezz-slaam" - poisons human soul, perverts human mind.

[@MohamedElHayouni-x4l]

your thoughts are a real poison to human min if you think Islam is poison. lack of knowledge and ignorance is very obvious in your thinking, never argue with ignorance. you lost already the debate.

[@LloydChristmas-vx2wh]

I'm sorry about all the civilian deaths, but notice this video conveniently doesn't address who started this war, downplaying the Israeli victims. No Arab country wants to take in the Palestinians. Look at the history of what the Palestinians do to their hosts, and find out why.

[@noureddinebenchama8786]

Let’s assume it was a terrorist attack on October 7. Does that explain this year long genocide? No! Watch a documentary about the Israeli apartheid & don’t forget the Palestinians were kicked by force out of their land. Don’t follow MSM, it’s the last media to wake up!

[@ometalogos]

No country should be forced to receive expelled people from their lands just because the expeller wants it that way, what the hell are you thinking?

[@jakerobbins5674]

Ok but no matter who started it, is it really ok to be bombing so many innocent people? It’s not always appropriate to try to be super fair to ‘both sides’ when making a moral judgement like this.

[@ferhanakhan5706]

I get that people like u with an Ideology of a Supreme rayce, do not care about the fact that this did not start in oct 7. And that u feel how dare the plstns have the audacity to resist. They should just have taken it with a smile. Which is some sick way of thinking

[@ferhanakhan5706]

get that people like u with an Ideology of a Supreme rayce, do not care about the fact that this did not start in oct 7. And that u feel how dare the plstns have the audacity to resist. They should just have taken it with a smile. Which is some sick way of thinking

[@kuntalsarma5106]

You can't take her for her word, why would the kid with the backpack approach her at the hospital and not rush to the doctors to save his brother. They make up stuff.

[@adityadutta2033]

'cause you won't be able to comprehend it. They are in such state which you will never be able to understand.

[@BernieCornelia]

You are so naive.

[@EdBenji]

She was probably one of the people clapping & cheering when terrorist drove around Gaza with the dead Israeli girl in the back of a pickup truck!

[@ShajahanAli-z6w]

war means America business 😂😂😂😂

[@bernhardschaefer5740]

Gaza a is not a war zone- it’s Babi Jar.

[@gailpearce3337]

Boo hoo lets have a big sook over it if cant take shit dont give it 🤨

[@hamzamahdi104]

Free illegally oppressed occupied Palestine 🇵🇸 😢😢😢😢