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Palestinian medical doctor Dr Mohammed Ashraf provides a harrowing account to Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq about his experience treating Gaza’s sick and wounded under Israeli genocide.

Over several months, 28-year-old Dr Ashraf who is from Gaza, treated hundreds of patients in the al-Shifa and al-Kuwaiti Hospitals, including undertaking a lower-leg amputation on a patient with no anaesthetic, as none was available due to Israel’s tightening of the blockade amid its ongoing genocide. PDD host, Ahmed Alnaouq, is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

On October 22, Israel bombed Ahmed’s family home killing most of his close family. Dr Ashraf recounts a heartbreaking story of receiving a young Palestinian girl whose family had been killed in an Israeli missile strike.

Waking up in hospital, alone and her face covered in shrapnel, she asks, “Doctor, am I in heaven?” She tells Dr Ashraf that her mother had promised she would wake up in a calm, peaceful environment, “going to heaven directly” if Israel did indeed attack their family home. She died in hospital shortly after her question to Dr Ashraf.

 

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In an exclusive interview with Palestine Deep Dive, Nobel Prize-nominated Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza speaks to Ahmed Alnaouq about his 108 days of exposing Israel’s genocide on Gaza to billions around world.

“I spent more than 23 days sleeping on the street outside the hospital. I was really worried to go to my house because you don't want to endanger your family… It was very cold and you sleep with the smell of bodies and you wake up to the screams of the mothers…it’s the smell of death. I know the smell of death,” Azaiza tells Ahmed.

Israel has killed more than 160 Palestinian journalists in Gaza since October. Azaiza’s footage and photography has reached billions around the world, with his Instagram account attracting more than 18 million followers eager to bypass mainstream media bias and see the reality of life on the ground in Gaza.

But Azaiza tells Ahmed he has lost hope in the power of images to affect change, yet continued his work in Gaza because it was “his passion and his duty.”

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

“Every Israeli accusation is a confession!” Jennine Khalik exposes Israel’s systemic and decades-long dissemination of lies through its strategic hasbara campaign.

Jennine Khalik is a Palestinian researcher and founder of Hasbara Tracker: https://www.hasbaratracker.com/

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

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A Deep Dive on the latest on Israel's unfolding genocide in Gaza, UK complicity with Israeli war crimes and a look at how this issue might play out in the UK elections.

Chris Doyle is the Director of Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding) and its lead spokesperson.

Mark Seddon is a former UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera English TV and Editor of Tribune. He has also worked as a Speechwriter for former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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Ahmed Alnaouq speaks to Yasmin and Yara, two organisers with Palestinian Youth Movement, about the history of student solidarity with Palestine, the growing student encampment movement and the role of Palestinians in diaspora in dismantling Zionism.

 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

 

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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.”

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"This is NOT a war, this is GENOCIDE!" Legendary Pink Floyd rock musician Roger Waters joins us in the studio with Matt Kennard and Ahmed Alnaouq for a DeepDive exposing Western media lies and the persecution of Julian Assange, the Israel lobby and the growing global movement demanding an end to Israel's genocide on Gaza.

Roger Waters is a British musician and was the creative force behind the iconic rock band Pink Floyd. He led the band through its "golden years", leading the writing duties on albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here and the Final Cut.

He has since gone on to have a successful solo career. Roger is now working on a memoire.

Matt Kennard is an investigative journalist, author and co-founder of ‪@DeclassifiedUK‬ Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

Interview recorded 25th June 2024.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Gaza scholar. Saleem is also an Arabic language poet, writer, voice-over artist and TV presenter. His interests span Arabic literature, modern science and technology, the history of science and Islamic architecture. Saleem has worked on various museum curation and media production projects, produced and presented a science show for Al-Araby TV, and often pens columns for several newspapers in the Middle East.

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

“There is a policy! Something that is organised and it is confirmed by the patterns and the scale of violations.”

UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese exposes Israel's systematic and widespread torture, torment, abuse and humiliation of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.

"I do believe that they are de facto hostages of an unlawful occupation." Francesca Albanese

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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

We speak exclusively to the “godfather of human rights” Kenneth Roth on how the international community should be responding to the realities on the ground in Palestine and Israel today.

Kenneth Roth is an American attorney, human rights activist and writer. He was the executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022.

Writing for Deutsche Welle earlier this year, Roth asserts that after 56 years the pretence of Israel’s occupation being a temporary fixture can no longer be upheld, and what we actually witness today is a “one-state reality”, whereby Israel controls all the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River while subjecting Palestinians to an apartheid system of domination and control.

“After more than five decades of occupation and 30 years of the ‘peace process,’ it is no longer tenable to regard the repression of Israel’s occupation as a mere temporary phenomenon to be cured by a ‘peace process’ without end. The ‘peace process’ is moribund. While governments speak of a two-state solution, what we have today is a ‘one-state reality.’ Indeed, the main people still invoking the two-state solution seem to be Western officials desperately trying to avoid coming to terms with the unceasing nature of Israeli oppression.”

Andrew Whitley is founder & executive director of Geo-Political Advisory Services (GPAS) & Chair of the Balfour Project. Andrew has had an expansive career first as a journalist for the BBC & Financial Times, before serving as the New York Director of UNRWA & then as Policy Director & interim Chief Executive of The Elders.

UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Work Agency) was established in 1949 by the UN General Assembly to help and protect Palestinian refugees expelled during the Nakba in 1947-8 and today it is in dire financial crisis.

“The financial crisis facing UNRWA is deep and complex. It has been suffering from these issues for many years, but this year is the most dangerous. UNRWA will have no funds to serve Palestinian refugees after August,” Adnan Abu Hasna, the UNRWA representative in Gaza, told Mondoweiss earlier this month.

Today, over six million Palestinian refugees are registered with the agency, relying on it for essential services including education, food, healthcare and jobs.

Abu Hasna warned that all UNRWA services will be stopped by the beginning of September if they do not get the necessary funds. This will apply to all UNRWA programs, not only in Gaza, but in all the areas the agency works, including Gaza and the West Bank inside Palestine, as well as refugee camps in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. 

“Nearly half a million students in our schools are dependent on our services. We provide food to nearly 1.2 million Palestine refugees,” he told Al Jazeera.

“In a place like Gaza, any shaking of our programmes or our activities or services will threaten the stability and even the social fabric, as refugees are dependent on our cash assistance programme on education and health.” UNRWA runs 22 medical centres and 278 schools in Gaza, alongside several programs in human rights education, university scholarships, vocational training, and teacher training. 

Israel’s military occupation has morphed the entire occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air prison, where Palestinians are constantly confined, surveilled and disciplined, UN Special Rapporteur for the oPt Francesca Albanese demonstrates in a new report to the Human Rights Council.

While the report finds that since 1967, over 800,000 Palestinians, including children as young as 12, have been arrested and detained under Israeli military rules, Albanese notes that Israel’s “carceral regime” haunts Palestinian life even outside of prisons.

With blockades, walls, segregated infrastructure, checkpoints, settlements encircling Palestinian towns and villages, hundreds of bureaucratic permits and a web of digital surveillance, Palestinians are confined to a carceral continuum across strictly controlled enclaves.

Join us as we learn more about the nature of Israel’s carceral regime and its relationship to international law with three leading human rights experts:

Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967.

Sahar Francis, Palestinian human rights defender, lawyer and the General Director of the Palestinian human rights organisation Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.

Nery Ramati, Israeli human rights attorney defending Palestinian children. He was a partner in Gaby Lasky and Partners Law Office, a leading human rights office in Israel, specialising in freedom of expression and protest. 

With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visiting China earlier this month to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first Arab President to visit China since the China-Arab States Summit of Riyadh in December 2022, commentators have suggested China may well be placing more importance on Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine as a foreign policy issue.

On May 24th, Chinese Ambassador Geng Shuang addressed the UN and strongly condemned Israel’s "illegal expansion of [Israeli Jewish] settlements”, its “unilateral action” and its “provocations” in Jerusalem, as well as raising the issue of “the plight of the Palestinian refugees”.

This comes off the back of China’s successful brokering of a landmark deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran on 6th April, soon after which China's new Foreign Minister, Qin Gang, reportedly consulted with Palestinian and Israeli officials on "steps to resume peace talks". Given the United States’ long-standing and overt support for Israel, something which has angered Palestinians who feel that this proves the US can never be an honest broker in any efforts to bring about a just and lasting resolution to the region, is China looking to take advantage of this situation and what could increased Chinese influence mean for the Palestinians?

We’ll be unpacking: how China’s Belt and Road Initiative incorporates Israel and Palestine; whether accusations of human rights abuses against the Chinese government, particularly its treatment of the Uyghur minority, will affect its relationship with Palestine; the nature of China’s vision for peace in Palestine and Israel; and what a broader shift in the global balance of power could mean for the region and for Palestinians in particular?

Ian Williams is President of the Foreign Press Association, New York & Columnist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

Mark Seddon was speechwriter for former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Al Jazeera Television’s first UN correspondent in New York.

The UK government has announced that it will press ahead to pass its long-anticipated ‘Anti-BDS Bill’ which has drawn strong condemnation from campaigners across the UK and beyond.

The Economic Activity of Public Bodies bill, if enacted, will prevent public bodies (eg universities and local councils) from divesting from companies and organisations found to be complicit in Israeli crimes against Palestinians.

The bill is due to be debated by the House of Commons in the first week of July. Its stated purpose is "to prevent public bodies from being influenced by political or moral disapproval of foreign states when taking certain economic decisions".

But at a time when Israel further entrenches its settler-colonialism and apartheid by the day, killing Palestinians at an unprecedented rate, shooting journalists, expanding its illegal settlements, demolishing Palestinian homes and upholding its besiegement of millions of Palestinians in the open-air prison of Gaza, this bill is being widely interpreted as an attempt by the UK government to maintain Israel’s impunity in the face of growing solidarity with Palestine. While the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign claims the government’s main target is campaigns in support of Palestinian rights, it also suggest those pushing for action against deforestation, environmental pollution and the exploitation of children and workers could also be affected by the Bill.

Ben Jamal is the Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), the largest organisation in solidarity with Palestinians in the UK. PSC has been leading the efforts to prevent this bill from passing into law. Jamal’s family were among the over 750,000 Palestinians driven from their homes in the 1948 Nakba.

Aimee Shalan is the Co-Director of Makan and Chair of the British Palestinian Committee. Shalan was the former CEO of Medical Aid for Palestinians and the former Director of Friends of Birzeit University (FOBZU). Aimee holds a doctorate in the Politics of Palestinian Literature. Shalan was born in the UK with her family originally hailing from Haifa, having been forced to leave in the 1948 Nakba.

Palestine Deep Dive continues its UK event series, opening up space for Palestinians to be heard articulating their own discourse, this time hosting esteemed Palestinian author Dr Ghada Karmi to celebrate the launch of her latest book with Pluto Press, One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel.

In April, PDD hosted Mohammed El-Kurd to explore the pressing need for a media landscape which no longer marginalises and excludes Palestinians, but centres their voices, experiences and agency,

This time Mark Seddon speaks with Ghada Karmi at the Frontline Club to learn more about her vision for Palestinian liberation, one of equal rights for all between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Karmi argues the 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as masking the expansion of Israel's apartheid regime. Seventy-five years ago,  Ghada Karmi and her family in Jerusalem were among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were exiled during the Nakba. She has since become one of the most vocal proponents of the single democratic state in Palestine-Israel in which all inhabitants of the lands would have equal rights.

Forced from her home in 1948, Karmi came to the United Kingdom as a refugee and later trained as a Doctor of Medicine at Bristol University. She established the first British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972 and was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Her previous books include the best-selling memoir In Search of Fatima (2002) and Return: A Palestinian memoir (2015).

Mark Seddon was the first UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera English and is a former editor of Tribune Magazine.

Streamed live at 2pm ET | 7pm UK | 9pm Palestine on Wednesday 10th May:

Dr Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian journalist, media consultant, author, internationally-syndicated columnist and Founding-Editor of The Palestine Chronicle.

Rana Shubair is a Palestinian author, mother and language trainer from Gaza. She specializes in English language training, testing and translation.

At least fifteen Palestinians have been killed in the early hours of Tuesday morning and throughout the day in a series of Israeli military attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.

More than 40 Israeli warplanes carried out attacks for nearly two hours starting at 2am on Tuesday (23:00 GMT Monday). At least four children and four women have been killed, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Social media users report among those killed in Gaza was Dr Jamal Khaswan, a well-known dentist and Director of the Al Wafa hospital. He was reportedly killed alongside his wife and son.

Palestinian journalist Dr Ramzy Baroud argues Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza are likely being waged by Israel's political leadership, “to ensure that the political crisis in Israel can be averted” and says the ferocity of the attacks imply Israel “intends to kill as many Palestinians as possible” and that we may well be anticipating "continued Israeli attack on Gaza” in the days to come.

Dr Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian journalist, media consultant, author, internationally-syndicated columnist and Founding-Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Rana Shubair is a Palestinian author, mother and language trainer from Gaza. She specializes in English language training, testing and translation.

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Tayab Ali is Head of International Law at Bindmans and Director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP)

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

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Mark Seddon speaks to multi award-winning Palestinian photographers Najib Joe Hakim & Ahmad Al-Bazz about frontline photojournalism under apartheid & the power of cultural resistance in the diaspora.   Najib Joe Hakim is an award winning Palestinian-American documentary photographer and artist based in San Francisco, CA. He is the recipient of the 2020 Rebuilding Alliance Storytellers Award for his projects Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay, Born among Mirrors and video Cooking Lessons: A Palestinian American Story. In 2019 he was an Art Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and his digital collage "Sending Wings instead of Arms" placed 1st in a global competition sponsored by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.   Ahmad Al-Bazz is a multi-award winning Palestinian video-journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Nablus, occupied West Bank. In 2012, he became a member of the Activestills documentary photography collective. Ahmad regularly reports and publishes pieces at Mondoweiss and +972 Magazine and also works as a freelancer for Defence for Children International - Palestine. In 2020, he was shortlisted for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. Between 2015-2019, two of his short documentaries received several regional and international awards, including the Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel Award for Best Arab Short Doc (2015) and the Alexandria Short Film Festival Award (2019). Ahmad’s first feature length documentary was recently pitched at Cannes and should be released later this year.

Mark Seddon is live with Richard Burden, a former Labour MP for Birmingham Northfield (1992 to 2019). He also chaired the Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group (2001 and 2019). He is a Trustee of the Balfour Project and Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East. He also served for 10 years scrutinising government as a member of the House of Commons International Development Committee.

We DeepDive into the UK government’s current performance when it comes to Israel & Palestine and also look ahead at what Keir Starmer’s Labour Party could do differently in power if it is genuinely committed to upholding human rights and international law in the region.

Ambassador Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom speaks to Palestine Deep Dive’s Mark Seddon. The ambassador illuminates the U.K.'s century of broken promises and missed opportunities towards Palestine, including the lack of leadership of the British government for continuing to refuse to recognise the State of Palestine.

He places responsibility for Israel’s ongoing impunity on the West for refusing to hold Israel accountable for its ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people.

The ambassador highlights how the U.S. is at risk of losing impact and influence on the region by refusing to reverse Trump’s policy decisions, and predicts the continuation of Israel’s far right trajectory, if the West continues to allow Israel to be unaccountable on the world stage.

The pair also discuss the rise in awareness of the apartheid discourse surrounding Israel and Palestine, Western media bias and the ambassador’s hopes which lie outside of the political elite, but instead at the feet of ordinary people on the streets of the Arab world and across the United Kingdom for bringing about meaningful change from the bottom up.

Mark Seddon is live with Diana Buttu and Omar Baddar for a Deep Dive illuminating the latest iteration of Israel's evermore extreme right wing government. 

We'll be exploring the Netanyahu-led government's rhetoric and actions which have already included explicit calls for more land grabs across the West Bank and the expulsion of more Palestinians from their homes.

We'll also be questioning the nature of the ongoing protests in Tel Aviv and what they reveal about the wider concern among the Israeli public, or lack of it, for the millions of Palestinians enduring Israel's ongoing occupation.

Diana Buttu is a lawyer and analyst based in Haifa. Her commentaries have appeared in the NYT, Washington Post, Boston Globe, CNN and the Guardian among others. She is also a DAWN fellow. 

Omar Baddar is a Palestinian-American political analyst. He previously served as communications director for the Institute for Middle East Understanding, deputy director of the Arab American Institute, a co-host and producer with Al Jazeera, and executive director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts. He holds a master’s degree in political science, with research focusing on U.S. policy toward Palestine and Israel, and his media appearances include MSNBC, BBC, and Al Jazeera, among many other outlets.

Mark Seddon speaks with Kenneth Stern: Is Free Speech on Israel Under Attack?

Kenneth Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. He is an award-winning author and attorney, and was most recently executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation. Before that he was director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee, where he worked for 25 years.

Mr. Stern was the lead drafter of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's “working definition” of antisemitism. In December 2019, Stern published a piece in the Guardian: "I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/antisemitism-executive-order-trump-chilling-effect

Palestine Deep Dive and the Foreign Press Association (New York) are live with the ‘the Godfather of Human Rights’ Kenneth Roth, for a DeepDive into Harvard’s reported decision to block him from taking up a fellowship over his organisation’s criticism of Israel’s human rights record.

The Harvard Kennedy School has allegedly bowed to pressure, according to the Nation, during a period when major donors and prominent Jewish organisations were particularly unhappy that Human Rights Watch, which Roth directed from 1993-2022, has recently accused Israel of practising apartheid.

According to Human Rights Watch’s 213 page report published in April 2021 illustrating the nature of Israel's apartheid, Israel systematically oppresses the Palestinian people both across the occupied Palestinian territory and within Israel itself.

Join Mark Seddon and FPA President Ian Williams as we learn why Roth feels his senior fellowship position at Harvard has been blocked, and what challenges human rights campaigners are facing today over criticism of Israel.

Mark Seddon is live with Andrew Whitley, founder & executive director of Geo-Political Advisory Services (GPAS) & Chair of the Balfour Project. Andrew has had an expansive career first as a journalist for the BBC & Financial Times, before serving as the New York Director of UNRWA & then as Policy Director & interim Chief Executive of The Elders.

Tune in for a DeepDive illuminating Britain's historic and ongoing role in the oppression of the Palestinian people, and hear what Andrew thinks Britain can and should be doing today to start to undo these injustices.

This podcast was produced on Monday 28th November.

On Wednesday 30th November, Leah Tsemel, Hammouri's lawyer, was informed that Israel intends to deport Salah Hammouri, resident of occupied East Jerusalem, to France on Sunday 4th December.

Mark Seddon, former speech writer for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Al Jazeera English’s first UN Correspondent, is live with two very special guests:

Francesca Albanese – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967

Leah Tsemel – Human Rights Lawyer and Legal Representative of Salah Hammouri

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Mark Seddon is live with Ian Williams, President of the Foreign Press Association, New York & Columnist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'.

They discuss Benjamin Netanyahu's lead in Israel's fifth election in four years with vote counting almost complete, setting him up to form what may be the most right-wing government in Israeli history.

Leaks, Lies & Spies: The Scandal the UK Media REFUSED to Touch. An Exclusive Conversation with the Makers of Al Jazeera's the Labour Files

Since the mainstream media won’t do its job, we'll do it for them!

Mark Seddon is conversation with makers of Al Jazeera's The Labour Files exclusively for Palestine Deep Dive.

Richard Sanders is an award winning film director with over 25 years experience. He was Senior Producer on the Labour Files and made the second film, on antisemitism.

Peter Oborne is an award winning journalist and author who features in the series. He is a former political commentator of the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. He now writes about politics for Open Democracy and Middle East Eye. He is the author of The Triumph of the Political Class, The Rise of Political Lying and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism.

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Dr Mustafa Barghouti describes the situation in Gaza as the “worst ever made-made humanitarian disaster”.

He exposes the systematic and deliberate healthcare catastrophe inflicted by Israel on Gaza with diseases spreading, wide-spread starvation, lack of clean water, shelter and sanitation amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment and devastation.

He lays the blame at the ongoing impunity granted to Israel by the international community and demands a seismic shift in state policy, calling for immediate and harsh sanctions on Israel by all states.

Dr Barghouti calls for Palestinian healthcare workers and journalists alike to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their services to humanity.

Dr Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative and the President of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society.

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

We'll be taking a closer look at the challenges of protecting Palestinian heritage sites and antiquities under Israel’s occupation and will be illuminating Israel's attempts to appropriate the past, often in violation of international law according to archaeologists and UN officials, in order to deepen its control over the land.

We're live with two very special guests: Dr Hamdan Taha reestablished the Palestinian Department of Antiquities in 1994, serving as its Director General (1995 – 2004). He was a professor in the Department of Archaeology at Birzeit University and also served as the Palestinian Deputy Minister of Tourism (2014) and as National Director of the World Heritage Program in Palestine (2002 – 2014).

Dr Iman Saca is a Professor of anthropology specializing in community archeology, Chair of the Department of Sociology Anthropology and Criminal Justice at St. Xavier University - Chicago. As part of her research, Iman also worked on listing two important sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List; one in Palestine (Battir Land of Olives and Vines) the other in Qatar (al Zubarah Archaeological site).

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi & Mark Seddon on Labour, Palestinian rights & surviving the party's ruling National Executive Committee.

Mark Seddon is live with Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, co-founder of Jewish Voice for Labour and newly elected member of the UK Labour Party's National Executive Committee (NEC).

Naomi topped Jeremy Corbyn's list of recommended candidates for the recent NEC elections, despite Jeremy having been suspended himself from the Party in October 2020.

Mark Seddon is also a former elected member of Labour's NEC where he attempted to persuade Tony Blair from within the Party that a war on Iraq would be disastrous, as well as costly and illegal.

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23rd June 2021: Currently working together on a new publication, "Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out", this will be a timely discussion illuminating the process of producing this compilation of perspectives which aims to provide a new Palestinian discourse fit for today's challenges to achieving Palestinian freedom.

We'll be hearing whether recent new-found unity across Palestine in protest against the ethnic cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah and the devastating bombardment of Gaza, in what has been called the "Unity Intifada", already points to the materialisation of a new vision.

Prof. Ilan Pappé is a distinguished Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.

Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian-American journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons (Clarity Press).

We're live for a vital DeepDive focusing on the impact of Israel's latest bombardment of Gaza, as well as the 15 years of siege and destruction it has imposed, on Palestinian children in particular.

At least 45 Palestinians have been killed, including 16 children, in Israel's latest aggression on Gaza.

Half of Gaza's two million population are children, living under siege in one of the world's most densely populated places.

Hosted by Ahmed Alnaouq, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza whose story was the inspiration behind the formation of We Are Not Numbers, we're live with:

Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei – Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme

Hind Wihaidi – A 17-year-old Palestinian musician and writer living in Gaza.

Rana Shubair – Palestinian author of two books, "My lover is a Freedom Righter", and "In Gaza, I Dare to Dream". Rana is also a mother of three children.