Palestine Deep Dive

The Nakba Never Ended. Amid 76 years of Nakba and 7 months of genocide, Basma and Ahmed expose Israel's ongoing colonial project stealing as much Palestinian land as possible while erasing the indigenous population. Basma El Doukhi is a Humanitarian Scholar and Stateless Palestinian Refugee from Rashidieh Camp in Lebanon Studying a PhD in Migration Studies Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Please support our work: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDeepdive Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pdeepdivegram/ Daily news: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&id=ea848d5a28

Jawdat al-Khoudary's home was known as the most beautiful place in the Gaza Strip. Now, nothing remains of the house or garden. Khoudary, one of Gaza' most successful business men, whose family dates back nine generations in Gaza, had created a 100,000-square-foot oasis amid the besieged coastal enclave. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Yasmeen El Khoudary is an independent London-based researcher and writer specialised in Palestinian archaeology and cultural heritage. Chris Rose is the director of Amos Trust. But now, the mosaic paths which weaved between verdant groves of exotic plants and greenhouses filled tens of thousands of tiny cactuses from around the world have been turned to desert by Israeli bulldozers. And the ornate columns and chandeliers which filled his adjacent home have been torn down. n collaboration with Amos Trust: https://www.amostrust.org/ Please support our work: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Twitter: / pdeepdive Instagram: / pdeepdivegram

Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan exposes Israel's wholesale destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza and the unprecedented injuries sustained by civilians. He also uncovers the repression faced by healthcare workers around the world who are standing up for their colleagues in Gaza. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan is a Paediatric Neurologist and co-founder of Healthcare Workers for Palestine. He has previously taught medicine at hospitals in Gaza. Please support our work: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDeepdive Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pdeepdivegram/ Daily news: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&id=ea848d5a28

Matt Kennard breaks down Declassified UK's investigations into Britain's military activity towards Gaza amid Israel's ongoing genocide. He also exposes the role of the Israel Lobby in Britain and the colonial reality of Zionism. Matt Kennard is an investigative journalist and co-founder of @DeclassifiedUK. He is the author of three books: Irregular Army, The Racket & Silent Coup. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

Chris Gunness demands the UK immediately restores all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency which provides essential aid to Palestinians in Gaza. He also warns that third party states freezing aid to UNRWA at a time when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled it is ‘plausible’ that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza may well make these states complicit in that genocide. Gunness demands the UK and other third party states call for an investigation into the killing of hundreds of UNRWA staff by Israel since 7th October 2023. Chris Gunness is an award-winning journalist who spent 23 years at the BBC as producer, correspondent, and anchor. In 2006 he joined The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) in Jerusalem. In 2007 he was appointed Chief Spokesman and Director of Strategic Information and Advocacy for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). He left UNRWA at the start of 2020, and in 2021 established the Myanmar Accountability Project, a legal initiative which brings criminal prosecutions against war criminals in the Myanmar junta. Mark Seddon is a former speech writer for the United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, and a senior information officer for the president of the UN General Assembly, Maria Fernanda Espinosa. He was the director of communication, education commission, chaired by Gordon Brown, and a UN Special Envoy for global education. Mark was the first UN correspondent for Al Jazeera English TV, and New York bureau chief. He was the editor of Tribune for 13 years, and an elected member of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee.

Support 100% independent media proudly centring Palestinian voices against attempted erasure: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Hala Abulebdeh and Ahmed Alnaouq expose the horrific tragedies Israel has inflicted on both their families in Gaza. Speaking exclusively to Palestine Deep Dive, Palestinian Pharmacist and University of Glasgow alumna, Hala Abulebdeh, tells how she waited an agonising 45 days before hearing news of the fate of her family. Now after more than three months of silence, she has decided to “give her wounds a voice” by speaking out for the first time with a message to UK politicians that “they can be one of the governments that stops this genocide.” Support: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDeepdive Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pdeepdivegram/ Daily news: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&id=ea848d5a28

Richard Sanders is an award winning film director with over 25 years experience. He was Senior Producer on Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files, and his latest film with Al Jazeera’s Investigation Unit, October 7, has just been released. Al Jazeera says, “the I-Unit reveals widespread human rights abuses by Hamas fighters and others who followed them through the fence from Gaza into Israel.” But the investigations also finds that “many of the worst stories that came out in the days following the attack were false. This was especially true of atrocities that were used repeatedly by politicians in Israel and the West to justify the ferocity of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, such as the mass killing of babies and allegations of widespread and systematic rape.” Support 100% independent media proudly centring Palestinian voices against attempted erasure: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDeepdive Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pdeepdivegram/ Daily news: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&id=ea848d5a28

Nidal Younis is the mayor of Masafer Yatta and head of the Masafer Yatta village council. He has been active in attempts to save his community since the 1990s. Interview recorded February 29 2024. Masafer Yatta is a Palestinian hamlet in the occupied West Bank, which has been fighting for its survival. Israel's occupation forces declared this area made up of 12 Palestinian villages a firing zone in the 1980s. By 1999, the Israeli army had rounded up more than 700 Palestinian residents into trucks and expelled them to other villages. In 2022, Israel's Supreme Court rejected a petition against the eviction of more than 1,000 Palestinian inhabitants from the area. Support 100% independent media proudly centring Palestinian voices against attempted erasure: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/sup... Deep Dive Daily. Your Palestine & Israel news roundup, straight to your inbox. Subscribe now: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-ma...

Dr Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian Author, Academic and Doctor of Medicine, who was forced from her home in Jerusalem in the Nakba of 1948. Hala Hanina is a Women's Rights Activist and PhD Student from Gaza. Support 100% independent media proudly centring Palestinian voices against attempted erasure: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Deep Dive Daily. Your Palestine & Israel news roundup, straight to your inbox. Subscribe now: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&id=ea848d5a28

The Bomb That Killed My Family | Ahmed Alnaouq, Huda Ammori & Andrew Feinstein Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Huda Ammori is a British-Palestinian-Iraqi activist, campaigner and co-founder of Palestine Action. Andrew Feinstein is a Jewish ex-African National Congress MP who served under Nelson Mandela. He is also an award-winning writer, journalist and filmmaker specialising in the global arms trade. He is the founding director of Shadow World Investigations. Support 100% independent media amplifying Palestinian voices against attempted erasure: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support

Stephen Marks is Jewish member of Jewish Voice for Labour. He is a former county councillor and was previously elected to the Labour Party’s National Constitutional Committee. Jenny Manson is a British Jewish activist, author, former civil servant, former Labour Party councillor for Colindale on Barnet London Borough Council, and co-chair of Jewish Voice for Labour. Interview recorded on Wednesday 24th January.

Dania Abul Haj is a Palestinian lawyer from occupied Jerusalem. She is a Legal Officer for the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians. Tayab Ali is the Director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians. He is also Head of International Law at Bindmans LLP. Support our work proudly amplifying Palestinian voies: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Subscribe to our daily newsletter: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&id=ea848d5a28

Hosted by investigative journalist and co-founder of @DeclassifiedUK, Matt Kennard. Matt is the author of three books: Irregular Army, The Racket & Silent Coup. Mohammed El-Kurd is an internationally touring and award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organiser from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. Hala Hanina is a Palestinian women's rights activist and PhD student from Gaza. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

Prominent UK Human Rights Lawyer Daniel Machover says: - Genocide Convention MUST BE INVOKED at International Court of Justice - ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has “FAILED IN ONE OF HIS MAIN DUTIES” to create a deterrent for Israel’s crimes against Palestinians - Netanyahu CAN be arrested Daniel Machover is a leading British human rights lawyer who has represented clients in some of the most high profile civil cases in the UK including the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Daniel is a partner at London law firm Hickman and Rose and a co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights. He has previously managed to obtain arrest warrants in the UK for former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni and former Israeli general Doron Almog, who are both accused of war crimes against Palestinians under occupation. Mark Seddon is a former UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera Television who also served as a speechwriter to the former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Sir Vincent Fean is a former British diplomat and ambassador with 39 years of experience. He served as Consul-General in Jerusalem (2010-14), Ambassador to Libya (2006-10), and High Commissioner to Malta. An Arabist, he has engaged in senior policy-making, government affairs and negotiation in Whitehall, the Middle East and Western Europe. He is now Vice-Chair of the Balfour Project (www.balfourproject.org), a UK charity raising awareness of Britain’s historic responsibilities in Palestine and Israel, advocating for lasting peace with justice, security and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis alike.

Palestine Deep Dive and Double Down News host an emergency event, Gaza Frontline, hearing from four Palestinians from Gaza on Nov 8th at the Frontline Club, London. The discussion is chaired by investigative journalist Matt Kennard, co-founder of Declassified UK. For a month now, Israel, a nuclear-armed military superpower, has conducted its biggest and harshest bombardments against the captive population of the Gaza Strip, leaving nowhere safe. Now under “complete siege”, Palestinians are not only killed from direct bombardment, crushed under the rubble, but suffer an imposed starvation, dehydration and a collapsed medical system. A considerable number of respected human rights organisations and experts have expressed concern that Palestinians are at grave risk of genocide by Israel. More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s bombardments, including over 4,000 children. Since October 7th, Israel has also reportedly ramped up its oppression of Palestinians under occupation in the West Bank and Jerusalem, killing Palestinians daily and committing other human rights violations such as arresting and detaining Palestinians without trial and committing torture. Despite Israel continuing to commit atrocities in front of our eyes, Western governments refuse to call for an immediate ceasefire and a lifting of the siege to restore electricity, fuel, water, food and to provide urgent humanitarian relief. Right now, as their families remain under blockade and bombardment, it has never been more urgent to hear Palestinians in their own words present both the facts on the ground and what must be done to end this ongoing crisis once and for all. Panel: Matt Kennard (chair) is co-founder and chief investigator at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London, UK. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, DC, New York, and London. He is the author of two acclaimed books: Irregular Army (2012) and The Racket (2015). His new book Silent Coup is out now. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, a collective which trains the next generation of Palestinian writers to publish their stories in English. Ahmed obtained a Chevening Scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in international journalism from Leeds University before serving as advocacy and outreach officer for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. His writings have been published in many publications including The Washington Post, The New Arab and Arab News. He has appeared live in interviews across the Western media, speaking on channels such as Sky News, the BBC and MSNBC. Dr. Shahd Abusalama is a Palestinian academic born and raised in Jabalia Refugee Camp, northern Gaza, currently based in London, UK. She recently got a Ph.D. from Sheffield Hallam University which explores the historical representations of Gaza and its refugees in documentary films, and is to be published by Bloomsbury next year, under the title, "Between Reality and Documentary". Dr. Abusalama is also an artist, activist, and the author of Palestine from My Eyes blog which was published as a book in ltaly in 2013. She is also a co-founder of Hawiyya Dance Company which showcases Palestine’s folkloric Dabke and music to UK audiences and beyond to amplify anti-colonial and anti-racist causes. Dr. Mohammed Seyam is a medical doctor from Gaza, currently in London pursuing his MSc in Global Healthcare Management at UCL. He is a global diabetes advocate and educator, a Young Leader at the International Diabetes Federation, and the MENA chapter lead at T1International. Mohammed’s work focuses on access to health and health delivery, especially in Non-Communicable diseases. Saleem Lubbad is a full-time physicist working on the development of Nuclear Fusion Energy He was Oxford University’s first...

As hostilities entered the thirteenth day, Israel's relentless bombardments on Gaza continued, resulting in an additional 307 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours (as of 17:00), according to the United Nations. This brings the cumulative fatality toll in the Gaza Strip to 3,785, including at least 1,524 children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Hundreds of additional fatalities are believed to be trapped under the rubble. Former UN correspondent for Al Jazeera and speechwriter for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Mark Seddon, is joined by: Raz Segal, an Israeli historian and an Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, where he is also an Endowed Professor in the study of Modern Genocide. Chris Doyle, Director of the Council for Arabic-British Understanding Karim Ali, a Palestinian advocate and co-founder of the Gaza Sunbirds, Palestine's first para-cycling team. His family originate from Haifa and Sabareen

On UN World Mental Health Day, Palestine Deep Dive presents: Palestine’s Mental Health Crisis: Personal and Collective Trauma Under Israeli Occupation Dr Samah Jabr is the Director of the Mental Health Unit of Palestine’s Ministry of Health in the West Bank and is a trained psychiatrist. Her practice goes beyond clinical consultation and training, but also addresses the wider Palestinian community's suffering from the ills of Israel's oppressive occupation, apartheid and settler-colonialism. According to Dr Jabr: “The Israeli occupation is not only a political issue, but indeed a mental health problem. The injustice, daily humiliations, and trauma each and every Palestinian experiences have caused a repetitive injury, both to the individual and collective minds of my people. In Palestine, abuse and trauma are ongoing, enduring, and they affect every aspect of Palestinian life. Individual personalities are impacted, as is the value system of the community as a whole.” Palestine has an overwhelmingly young population. In previous shows we’ve focused on Gaza’s child mental health crisis; 80% of Gaza’s children now report living with depression, grief and fear according to Save the Children. Join us this time as we Deep Dive into Palestine’s Mental Health Crisis as a whole at this tumultuous moment.

Picking up from where we left off in our June show “Defending the Right to Boycott: Confronting the UK’s Anti-BDS Bill”, (covered here in Al Jazeera) we’ll be learning whether the UK government has indeed been paying attention to British-Palestinians who have been voicing their deep concerns about the moral and legal legitimacy of this Bill, or whether they have attempted to erase them from the discussion altogether, as some reporters have recently claimed. We’ll also be taking a closer look at the trade union conferences just kicking off in the UK, as well as the upcoming party conferences to assess what the trajectory for advocacy around Palestinian rights in the UK at a time when it has never been more urgent to make space for Palestinians to be heard and lead from the front in discussions which affect them most.

This summer marks 17 years of Israel’s hermetic siege and blockade of Gaza, the longest siege of the 21st century. Israel has been placing Palestinians under a suffocating blockade, which constitutes an unprecedented form of collective punishment in a stark violation of international humanitarian law, say Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. The 2.2 million Palestinians living in Gaza today have endured rounds of Israel’s lethal aerial assaults delivered with world-leading industrialised military technology on an imprisoned population, leaving 80% of Gaza’s one million children living with depression, grief and fear according to Save the Children. In 2012, the United Nations projected Gaza would be unliveable by 2020. Today in 2023, Palestinians continue to endure a crisis manufactured by Israel’s blockade, with spiralling unemployment, where 98% of water is undrinkable, where electricity blackouts continue daily and where a majority of the population are forced to rely on international organisations and aid for humanitarian relief. By any rational judgement, Gaza today is indeed unliveable and yet Palestinians must endure it. We hear from young Palestinians living in Gaza today who demand for their humanity to be recognised by the international community. For this show, we collaborate with We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led Palestinian nonprofit project in the Gaza Strip. It tells the stories behind the numbers of Palestinians in the news and advocates for their human rights. Hamza M. Salha Fatima Elzahraa Shaat Roaa Aladdin Missmeh