A Three-Minute Message from Gaza (w/ Mohamed el Saife)

Working People

More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's retaliatory assault on Gaza in the past month, including thousands of women, children, and elderly, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The real number is likely much higher… we don’t know how many people, dead and alive, are under the rubble right now. But we do know that the bombs continue to fall, every day, at rates unseen in this century. This is an absolute nightmare.

For the past month, we have been trying every single day to make contact with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, to get their stories on the show so people could hear directly from them. But, for obvious reasons, that has proven to be extremely difficult. Every single time we connected with someone and set up an interview, something would happen, we'd lose touch with them, their phone would stop working, and we'd have no idea if they safe, if they were alive. One of those people was Mohamed el Saife. Mohamed is an independent video journalist in Gaza, and the last message he sent us on October 15 said, “I am now on the ground, between life and death.” After that, we lost touch with Mohamed for over two weeks, and we feared the worst. Then, on November 9, we got another message. With the tiny amount of internet he was able to use, Mohamed sent us a three-minute voice message from Gaza.

Additional links/info below…

• Mohamed's PayPal account
• Mohamed's Twitter/X page and YouTube channel
• Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Reuters, "Gaza Death Toll Tops 10,000; UN Calls It a Children's Graveyard"
• Rob Picheta, Kareem Khadder, Teele Rebane, & Zohair Zabadne, CNN, "Gaza Hospital ‘Surrounded by Tanks’ as Other Healthcare Facilities Say They’ve Been Damaged by Israeli Strikes"
• Marc Steiner, The Real News Network, "Chris Hedges: Israel’s Endgame Is ‘Destruction of the Idea of Palestine’"
• Bethank McKernan, The Guardian, "‘A New Nakba’: Settler Violence Forces Palestinians Out of West Bank Villages"
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "Livestream: UK Workers Demand Ceasefire & an End to Israel’s Occupation of Palestine"
• Marc Steiner, The Real News Network, "‘The American Government Is the Only One That Can Stop This’: Ending the Genocide in Gaza"
• Marc Steiner, The Real News Network, "‘Something Is Different This Time’ Israel’s War in Gaza Continues"
• Chris Hedges, The Real News Network, "‘No Sanctuary’: Israel’s Long War on Gaza"

Permanent links below...

• Working People Patreon page
• Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!
• Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
• The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Jules Taylor, "Working People" Theme Song