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11th May 2022: Today we DeepDive into Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists. This morning, veteran Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead by Israeli forces while reporting for Al Jazeera from a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin, occupied West Bank.

Eye witnesses say Israeli snipers shot at her and a colleague, Ali al-Samoudi, who was also wounded by a bullet in the back, despite them both wearing press vests and helmets.

According to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), at least 46 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israel since the year 2000 and no one has been held to account.

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. 

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5th May 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Palestinian digital rights defender, Mona Shtaya, for a DeepDive on all things related to the surveillance and online censorship of Palestinians.

Mona Shtaya is a Palestinian digital rights defender working in the MENA region. She works as an advocacy advisor at 7amleh (The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media).

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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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.

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20th October 2021: Mark Seddon is live with Dr Yara Hawari confronting the media bias Palestinians still face around the world today.

We'll be exploring the distortions, deceptions and downright mistruths often seen in mainstream reporting on Palestine, as well as the challenges Palestinians so often have to endure when they agree to give mainstream media interviews, when they're lucky enough to be offered them. And in doing so, we shall reveal exactly how Palestine can and should be reported on meaningfully in 2021.

Dr Yara Hawari is a Palestinian academic, writer and Senior Policy Analyst of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. In addition to her academic work, which focused on indigenous studies and oral history, she is a frequent political commentator writing for various media outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera English.

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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Palestinian digital rights defender, Mona Shtaya, exposes Israel’s weaponisation of artificial intelligence through its surveillance and automated target systems technology used to massacre Palestinians en masse in its genocide on Gaza.

“So we’re not speaking about Hamas fighters, we’re speaking about normal civilians who were just sitting in their homes and they were targeted for the sake of being Palestinians.”

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In a recent article for Mondoweiss, Shtaya argues that Israel’s participation in the first global AI treaty raises serious questions given how Israel has for months, “used advanced AI systems like ‘Lavender’ and ‘Habsora’ to target and kill civilians in Gaza, all while celebrating its role in drafting a treaty that claims to ensure responsible AI governance."

READ: Israel is joining the first global AI convention, here’s why that’s dangerous https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/israel...

Mona Shtaya is a Palestinian digital rights defender, working as the Campaigns and Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Actions; she is also a 2024 Migration and Technology Monitor Fellow and a non-resident scholar for the Middle East Institute (MEI) in the Palestine-Israel program.

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

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.

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23rd February 2022: We're live with Budour Hassan, Palestinian writer and legal researcher at the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), to hear the latest on what's happening on the ground in Sheikh Jarrah.

 

The Salem family of 12, including six children and the elderly mother, Fatima Salem – all of whom are Palestine refugees – face imminent forced ethnic displacement from their family home of 70 years. Palestinian residents are reportedly "under siege" in Sheikh Jarrah, with roads to the neighbourhood blocked off by Israeli Security Forces amidst ongoing abuse and intimidation of residents from Israeli settlers.

There have been reports of property damage, multiple injuries and arrests, including the arrest of eight children since Friday 11 February. The Salem family is one of 218 Palestinian families, which comprise of at least 424 children, living in the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan currently facing threats of forced ethnic displacement by Israeli authorities.

Humanitarian Country Team in Palestine, comprising United Nations Agencies and international and Palestinian NGOs released a statement on Friday 18th February saying:

"The United Nations has repeatedly called for a halt to forced evictions and demolitions in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem: under international humanitarian law, forcible transfers of protected persons by the occupying power are forbidden regardless of their motive."

“Something has Changed!” Dr Ramzy Baroud exposes the decline in US power on the world stage amid a rising China, and explores evidence that China can and will pose as the new sponsor and mediator in the Middle East.

Dr Ramzy Baroud is a renowned Palestinian intellectual, historian and journalist and author of many books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Palestine Chronicle.

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Mark Seddon is live with Great March of Return co-founder Ahmed Abu Artema. Ahmed describes the weekly 18-month March as a 'Scream for Life' by the people of Gaza in this illuminating Al Jazeera.

But what impact did the Great March of Return have on the outside world ? Did it draw global attention to the suffering of the people of Gaza? Or was it grossly misrepresented in the media? And what impact did the March have on the people of Gaza themselves?

The UN reported that over 270 Palestinians were killed and 36,143 injured (over 7,000 with live ammunition), with hundreds of amputations and tens of thousands of traumatised participants and family members. Can it really be considered a success?

More recently the International Criminal Court announced it will be investigating Israel for potential war crimes, including crimes committed against Palestinians participating in the Great March of Return. Is this a source of hope for Palestinians in Gaza searching for justice?

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“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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Palestinian-American legal scholar and attorney Dr Noura Erakat grants this is indeed a horrifying moment of despair for Palestinians everywhere but says giving up is not an option:

“Yes nothing has worked to stop this genocide and to liberate Palestinians, but does the opposite of that mean that we give up? Or does the opposite of that mean that we act with greater strategic acumen and foresight and try to think to ourselves, how do we do this differently? How do we do this better?”

Noura argues that the legitimacy of institutions such as the ICJ rest upon their responses to Israel’s genocide on Gaza,

“we already know this is a genocide, so it’s a way in which Palestine has inverted the lens. It doesn't matter what you say about Palestine at this point, it matters what Palestine says about your legitimacy and your institution.”

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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).

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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29th July 2021: Mark Seddon is in conversation with Palestinian- American entrepreneur, Sam Bahour, to learn more about his ideas around establishing a confederate two state model between Israel and Palestine, while DeepDiving into the biggest stories from Palestine today.

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American, born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio and is managing partner of Applied Information Management (AIM), a consulting firm specializing in business development with a niche focus on start-ups and providing executive counsel.

Bahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Center. He is currently an independent director at the Arab Islamic Bank, a policy analyst at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, and an advisory board member of the Open Society Foundations’ MENA Office.

Bahour serves in various capacities in several community organizations, including co-founder & emeritus member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (AVPE), and board member of Just Vision in Washington, D.C., among others. He writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets.

He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians (1993), tweets at @SamBahour and blogs at www.epalestine.ps.

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

International human rights lawyer and former senior UN official Craig Mokhiber exposes the Western media's role in the "machine of genocide" on Gaza and how it can be held legally accountable for its propaganda and bias reporting.

Citing the Nuremberg Tribunal and the Rwanda Genocide, Mokhiber exposes historical legal precedents where media companies and figures have been held accountable for their role in facilitating war crimes and violations of international law.

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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.

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27th June 2021: We're live with for a DeepDive illuminating the situation on the ground in Masafer Yatta, where thousands of Palestinians are facing imminent expulsion.

In the early 1980s the IDF declared the area a firing zone (“Firing Zone 918”), an action viewed by experts as a violation of international law and one clearly undertaken with the objective of forcibly displacing the Palestinian residents of the area to take control of the land.

Last month, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected the residents' claims to the land in favour of the military, declaring the region a closed-off training area following the two-decade legal battle. 

Residents fear expulsion and are already at the mercy of Israeli home demolitions and property confiscations while also facing regular harassment and violence from both the Israeli army and Israeli settlers.

We’re live with Basil Al-Adraa, a local resident, activist & journalist, and Yuval Abraham, a Jerusalem-based journalist and activist.

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Mark Seddon speaks to distinguished Palestinian leader Dr Hanan Ashrawi on the future for Palestine, covering Dr. Ashrawi's ascent to leadership in Palestinian politics, her recent resignation from the Palestine Liberation Organization, the post-Trump era, the future of the Palestinian leadership & the upcoming elections and how to translate global solidarity for Palestine into meaningful change.

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.

"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.

Dr Sara Husseini is the director of the British Palestinian Committee, an independent organisation bringing together an array of Palestinian experts to enhance the impact of Palestinian voices within parliament and beyond.

In a new report launched this week in UK parliament, BPC demands the British government radically changes its policy towards Palestine at this crucial hour amid Israel's unfolding genocide on Gaza.

The report titled, Justice, Freedom & International Law: A New Policy Framework for the UK Government on Palestine, demands the rights of the Palestinian people be finally upheld and also demands the rights of the Palestinian people be defended in the public realm and protected in Britain.

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Read more about BPC and subscribe to their mailing list: https://britpalcommittee.co.uk/contact

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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.

We're live with Francesca Albanese, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt).

Mark Seddon hears just what such a role entails at the UN and what powers are granted to it.

We also hear the latest on ongoing cases including the search for justice for the incarcerated Ahmad Manasra, the latest on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh as well as hearing the international legal perspective on Israel's ongoing colonisation of Masafer Yatta.

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3rd November 2022: We're live on YouTube with legendary rock musician, Roger Waters. Roger Waters revolutionised progressive rock music as a founder-member and the creative force behind Pink Floyd and today continues to sell out the biggest venues across the world.

His arena tour of the US "This Is Not A Drill" kicks off in July 2022, described by Roger as “a groundbreaking new rock & roll/cinematic extravaganza...” which is a "stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive, and a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious and precarious planet home."

It is also no exaggeration to describe Roger as a human rights warrior, who continues to champion the rights of marginalised peoples across the globe, from Ecuador to Palestine. Mark Seddon will be in conversation with Roger discussing Israel's ongoing assault on Palestinian children, as well as the latest news from the region.

We'll also be exploring what is being done to challenge Israel's apartheid and settler-colonialism around the world today, looking towards the growing student movement, the UK Labour Party conference hall, the ongoing occupation of Israeli weapons factories and towards the stands and players of elite football bearing the Palestinian flag. Tune in to hear all this and more, and to pitch your questions.

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6th April 2022: Aram Abu Saleh is Syrian writer, activist and graduate student from Majdal Shams, occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

Aram is currently finishing her graduate studies in Berlin, Germany and regularly writes academic, journalistic and literary texts for various publications including for the local Golan Jawlani newspaper, as well as for other Syrian and Palestinian outlets. Aram's been involved in the Syrian political movement in the occupied Golan since she was 13-years-old and is also a member of the Syrian Golan Youth movement.

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19th May 2021: Mark Seddon is joined by:

Hala Shoman Hala, 28, is a dentist, social anthropologist as well as human rights activist. Since 2012, she has volunteered in different fields related to youth empowerment, health and gender-based violence. Hala also was a regular demonstrator and volunteer paramedic/surgical assistant during the Great March of Return. She seeks a future in which we all live without occupation, discrimination and injustice

Dr Bahzad Alakhras  – Bahzad is a medical doctor from Gaza. He studied a masters in Child and Adolescents Mental Health at King's College London. Now, he works as a mental health doctor at Gaza Community Mental Health Program, an essential NGO working in the field in Gaza.

Raed Shakshak Raed, 23, is a Palestinian activist, writer and outreach coordinator for We Are Not Numbers. Raed is passionate about the art of story-telling and public speaking, and he is constantly engaged in youth empowerment activities and opportunities.

 

 

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24th March 2021: Mark Seddon interviews Col. Larry Wilkerson for Palestine Deep Dive.

Here they ponder whether any significant change will occur in the relationship between the United States and Israel following Biden's successful presidential election.

Larry suggests there will likely be no significant change in official policy, but with Trump, Pompeo & Kushner gone that is significant change in itself worth celebrating. But what about settlements, the ICC [International Criminal Court], the embassy move in Jerusalem and condemnation of 'kneecapping' in Gaza? Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson served as Chief of Staff fo

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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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27th April 2022: We're live with distinguished Palestinian politician, activist and physician, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, to hear the latest on what's really happening on the ground in Jerusalem and further afield in Palestine.

On Friday, 150,000 Palestinians travelled to Al-Aqsa, occupied East Jerusalem, on the third Friday of Ramadan where over 150 of whom were injured, including two journalists.

Viral footage showed drones dropping tear gas and a Palestinian journalist being treated from injuries after being struck with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the neck.

Dr Barghouti recently told Al Jazeera that such increased confrontations on the ground in Palestine are leading to something that could become “a wide-ranging intifada”. 

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.

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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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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.

A ground breaking new Al Jazeera documentary exposes the horrific war crimes and sadistic activities carried out by Israeli soldiers during its ongoing genocide in Gaza over the last year and reveals the identities of the perpetrators.

But director Richard Sanders says finding information about the soldiers was not difficult because “they identified themselves” - many of the the soldiers had actually uploaded the footage to their personal social media pages and sometimes even to their online dating profiles.

Richard Sanders is a British journalist and award-winning filmmaker who also directed Al Jazeera's The Labour Files and October 7 documentaries.

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.

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13th October 2021: Mark Seddon is in conversation with

Zaha Hassan, human rights lawyer & fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as well as

Daniel Levy, political scientist, advisor, diplomat & President of the U.S. / Middle East Project.

Zaha and Daniel are co-authors of the recent Carnegie / U.S. Middle East Project report of the same name: Breaking the Israel-Palestine Status Quo which outlines how a "A new U.S. approach should prioritize protecting the rights and human security of Palestinians and Israelis over maintaining a peace process and attempting short-term fixes."

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.

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Mark Seddon speaks to former South African minister Ronnie Kasrils on all things apartheid.

Ronnie was a member of the National Executive of the African National Congress (ANC), a founding member of uMkhonto we Sizwe and served as South Africa's Minister for Intelligence Services 2004-2008.

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.

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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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31st March 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Ian Williams, President of the Foreign Press Association – New York City. They DeepDive further into the issue of the inconsistent application of international law, hypocrisy surrounding violations of the UN Charter, and explore what needs to be done to truly establish a genuine "rules based" new World order. 

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.

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

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14th July 2021: Mark Seddon hears from two seasoned activists on the frontline of campaigns in the UK and US for a timely discussion into 'How best to support Palestine'.

Huda Ammori is a British-Palestinian-Iraqi activist and campaigner, co-founder of Palestine Action. Palestine Action members are currently leading direct action campaigns in the UK, occupying various sites of companies they believe are heavily involved in the oppression of Palestinians, including sites they believe produce components for weapons used against civilians in Gaza.

Miko Peled is an Israeli-American author, writer, speaker and human rights activist. He is a vocal supporter of the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Movement and supports the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine.

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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 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.”

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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.

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.

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A DeepDive into the vaccine situation for Palestinians enduring Israel's occupation during COVID-19.

Dr Mustafa Barghouti is a physician, member of the Palestinian parliament and President of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.

Dr Yara Asi is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Central Florida, a Fulbright US Scholar for 2020 -21 and an Al-Shabaka Policy Member.

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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Israel and the Great Moving Right Show.

7th April 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Haaretz editorial board member and journalist, Gideon Levy 

 

 

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31st August 2021: Mark Seddon speaks to the phenomenal Noura Erakat this week discussing Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, settler-colonialism in Israel and the US alike, the 81 Palestinian bodies currently being held as 'bargaining chips' at a morgue in Tel Aviv University, the impending pregnancy of Anhar al-Deek who will likely give birth in an Israeli prison and much more.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice.

Noura is an editorial committee member of the Journal for Palestine Studies and a co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).

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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16th May 2022: We’re live with Gaza youth one year on since Israel’s devastating aggressions on the besieged enclave which killed over 240 Palestinians, including at least 66 children.

We catch up with two of panellists from last year's live show (Bahzad and Raed) where bombs could be heard falling in the background and meet a new member of We Are Not Numbers, Samah Atef.

Find out what life has been like on the ground in the world’s ‘largest open-air prison’ for Gaza youth as the mainstream media continues to largely ignore their voices. 

Samah Atef Samah is a Palestinian translator, content writer and member of We Are Not Numbers.

Dr Bahzad Alakhras Bahzad is a medical doctor from Gaza. He studied a masters in Child and Adolescents Mental Health at King's College London. Now, he works as a mental health doctor at Gaza Community Mental Health Program, an essential NGO working in the field in Gaza.

Raed Shakshak Raed, is a Palestinian activist, writer and project manager at Pal-Casters. Raed is passionate about the art of story-telling and public speaking, and he is constantly engaged in youth empowerment activities and opportunities.

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16th March 2022: Mark Seddon is in conversation with distinguished Palestinian journalist and author, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, to understand just what it's like to witness the crisis in Ukraine unfold through the eyes of the Palestinian people.

They examine the apparent hypocrisy of the international community as well as the mainstream media in their response to Russia’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine in comparison to their response, or lack of it, to Israel’s ongoing 74-year occupation of Palestine.

This is not to be missed! What seems to be emerging on the global geopolitical stage? – Can new alliances form in the wake of shifting balances of power amidst the decline in US hegemony?

Can Palestine really be forced to choose between its Russian ally and US funds over the crisis in Ukraine?

And why are more public figures, the latest being Egypt's Squash champion Ali Farag, right now taking it upon themselves to speak up for Palestine on the world stage? 

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

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.

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Jeff Halper is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign.

Mark Seddon is in conversation with Jeff the night before his latest book launch with Pluto Press, "Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State".

“Israel aims to cancel and erase Palestinian life!” UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, and director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, expose the mechanics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Speaking to Palestinian journalist from Gaza, Ahmed Alnaouq, Francesca references her new UN report titled “Genocide as Colonial Erasure”, which documents how Israel is wielding its genocide as part of a broader, systematic and intentional state-organised forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians.

A new 800 page report published by Forensic Architecture titled “A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023”, uses innovative digital technology to illustrate Israel’s wholesale destruction of the Gaza Strip which has left “no safe place” for Palestinians under siege and bombardment, according director Eyal Weizman.

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

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.

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.

"All of that means BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions]! Urgent, immediate BDS by all states and UN bodies. It cannot be interpreted in any other way in my view."

Prominent UK human rights lawyer Daniel Machover breaks down the ICJ ruling on the nature of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and the duties which now fall on third party states to comply with the ruling. Support us: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/suppport

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

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.

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. 

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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15th September 2021: What's the latest on the Palestinian prisoner escapees?

Is it true the four who have been recaptured have since faced unimaginable torture?

What is the legality behind Israel's reported use of withholding Palestinian bodies and using them as 'bargaining chips'?

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.

“Between the Sword and the Neck” Educator and editor Hazem Jamjoum offers a fresh reading of the work of Ghassan Kanafani amid Israel’s ongoing genocide on Palestinians in Gaza.

Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972) is widely known as one of the great Arab novelists of the 20th century. His ability to use simple, almost mundane stories to speak to the human experience of colonialism and freedom in novels like ‘Men in the Sun’ and ‘Returning to Haifa’ continue to teach those who read them.

But Kanafani was more than a novelist, he was also a key political thinker, strategist and revolutionary whose analysis of Zionism and imperialism continues to inform and shape anti-colonial thought across the globe today.

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Hazem Jamjoum is a Palestinian educator and an editor with the recently-established publishing house Maqam Editions. His translation of Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine was published by 1804 Press in 2023, and his translation of Maya Abu al-Hayyat's No One Knows their Blood Type was released by the CSU Poetry Center in October 2024. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.

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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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6th October 2021: Mark Seddon is live with two special guests this week, shining a light on current efforts to reject Israel’s apartheid.

We’ll be exploring both the recent motion passed at Labour Party conference in the UK rejecting Israeli apartheid and calling for sanctions, and also the work of young conscientious objectors refusing to serve in Israel's military. We're delighted to be joined by:

Ben Jamal, Director of the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Mattan Helman, a conscientious objector who refused to be conscripted into the Israeli military, serving 110 days in prison as a result. He now sits on the Board of the Refuser Solidarity Network.

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.

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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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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10th February 2022: Lara Friedman is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP). In addition to her work at FMEP, Lara is a Contributing Writer at Jewish Currents and a non-resident fellow at the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP).

Khaled Elgindy is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute where he also directs MEI’s Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. He is the author of the newly-released book, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump, published by Brookings Institution Press in April 2019.

British-Palestinian journalist Hamza Yusuf investigates whether the UK might be complicit in Israel’s widespread and systematic torture of Palestinian detainees and hostages.

In a recent article for Declassified UK, Hamza Yusuf exposes campaigners’ fears that the flight paths of Royal Air Force (RAF) surveillance flights which continue almost daily over Gaza might be informed by intelligence Israel obtained through torture.

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Declassified reports that Charlotte Andrews-Briscoe, a lawyer at the Global Legal Action Network, believes it, “possible, if not probable, that information and assurances Israel gives to the UK are founded on information derived from torture”.

READ: RAF SPY FLIGHTS OVER GAZA RISK COMPLICITY IN ISRAELI TORTURE by Hamza Yusuf and Phil Miller in Declassified UK

https://www.declassifieduk.org/raf-spy-flights-over-gaza-risk-complicity-in-israeli-torture/

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June 15th 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Ahmed Alnaouq, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza whose personal story was the inspiration behind the creation of We Are Not Numbers, a youth group devoted to amplifying Palestinian voices under occupation and training their next generation of writers.

Together they will be picking apart the Western media's coverage, or lack of it, on the realities Palestinians face on the ground under Israel's occupation.

Tune in as they shine a light on the journalistic double standards of major Western outlets seen in the reporting of recent events, such as the killing of the iconic Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, by Israeli forces last month.

Mark Seddon exposes how for over a year now the UN has been effectively powerless at stopping Israel's genocide on Gaza, illuminating the limitations of António Guterres' leadership as Secretary General and also highlighting the UN's weak attempts to get aid into Gaza.

He also exposes Israel's ongoing war against UNRWA and explains the process of how Israel could well be expelled from the UN while offering his perspective on whether the UN is indeed a dying institution.

Mark Seddon is a former UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera English TV and Editor of Tribune magazine. He has also worked as a Speechwriter for former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He is now director of UN Studies at the University of Buckingham.

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.

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.

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We're looking at the threats the movement has faced in the UK especially and how they might be connected to Israel’s ongoing settler-colonialism on the ground.

With attacks on NGOs, human rights defenders and activists in Palestine itself and with apparent attempts to permanently conclude the Question of Palestine in Israel’s favour through Trump’s Deal of the Century and defunding of UNRWA in particular, we’ll be looking at how to renew effective solidarity with Palestine in an atmosphere of crackdown and repression.

We’re delighted to be joined by two prominent campaigners and organisers with many years experience at the heart of the Palestine solidarity movement, Ryvka Barnard and Akram Salhab.

Ryvka Barnard is the Head of Civic Space at War on Want

Akram Salhab is a British-Palestinian organiser and migrant justice campaigner. He was recently the lead voice featured in Channel 4’s documentary examining the Palestinian experience of British colonialism.

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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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

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.

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.

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28th June 2021: Who Keeps Arming Israel? with Andrew Feinstein & Dana Aboul-Jabine We DeepDive into the arms trade with Israel with two very special guests:

Andrew Feinstein: writer, campaigner, former African National Congress MP and Founding Director of Shadow World Investigations

Dana Aboul-Jabine: British-Palestinian campaigner who’s worked with the UK’s homeless & refugee communities in Europe, now Development Manager for Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)

“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

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Support us: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support

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Recording from our live streamed at book launch event at the Frontline Club, London: A Rogue Reporter Vs The U.S. Empire with Matt Kennard, Lowkey, Huda Ammori, Ahmed Alnaouq. Eight months into Israel’s ongoing genocide on Gaza - one funded, armed and enabled by the United States - it has never been more urgent to shine a spotlight on the American Empire and the mechanics of its operation.

Matt Kennard’s 'The Racket' does just that.

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Drawing on a decade of investigative reporting from all corners of the world, including many while working for the Financial Times, Matt Kennard exposes the intricate web of exploitation shifting wealth and power away from the masses and into the hands of an unaccountable corporate elite.

Now more relevant than ever, this 2nd edition contains a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. T

his book will transform everything you thought you knew about how the world works-and in whose interests.

Matt Kennard is co-founder and chief investigator at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow at the CIJ in 2014-2016. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, DC, New York, and London.

He has also author two other books: Irregular Army (2012) and Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy (2023). Join us as Matt Kennard guides us on his journey of reporting across United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East before taking a DeepDive into Palestine today.

Joining Matt for the discussion is the critically acclaimed hip-hop artist, political campaigner and journalist Lowkey, British-Palestinian and Iraqi researcher, campaigner and co-founder of Palestine Action Huda Ammori and Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, Ahmed Alnaouq.

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24th May 2021: Mark Seddon is in conversation with Jan Kavan, a former President of the UN General Assembly and former Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic.

They discuss the international legal implications for Benjamin Netanyahu and others who authorised air strikes that killed & maimed civilians in Gaza.

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15th March 2021: Mark Seddon speaks with Loay Elbasyouni for Palestine Deep Dive. 

Loay Elbasyouni is an electrical engineer, originally from Beit Hanoun - Gaza, and was electronic lead for the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter which recently landed on the Red Planet. These are highlights from his first English language video interview following his recent success.

Learn the full story of his fascinating journey from Gaza, Palestine, to working with NASA in the U.S. on their latest mission.

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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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. 

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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.

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14th June 2021: We're DeepDiving into Israel's continued attacks against journalists and media organisations attempting to report across Palestine on Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

And we'll also be examining the repression Palestinians and Palestine advocates alike face on social media amidst reports of growing censorship. We're live with two fantastic guests in conversation with Mark Seddon:

Mariam Barghouti – Palestinian writer and researcher

Mona Shtaya – Local advocacy manager at 7amleh

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June 8th 2022: Palestine Deep Dive celebrates the book launch of Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out (Clarity Press).

Deep Dive’s host, Mark Seddon, is joined in the studio by the book’s co-editor Dr. Ramzy Baroud and one of its many Palestinian contributors, Dr. Ghada Karmi, also joined via video link is co-editor Prof. Ilan Pappé.

Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times and former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera online.

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. Ghada Karmi is a leading Palestinian activist, academic and author of three books, the most recent of which is Return: A Palestinian Memoir (2015). Dr. Karmi has practiced as a doctor of medicine, served as vice chair of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) and was a research a fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies at the University of Exeter.

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Tariq Ali argues recognising Palestine as a state "means nothing" and that what states should really be implementing is the de-recognition of Israel.

Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome. Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes is his latest. He's also written five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review.

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.

“This is the most significant international humanitarian law ruling in human history!"

Tayab Ali exposes the importance of today's International Criminal Court ruling issuing the arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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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23.04.21: Mark Seddon is live with Mohammed Sabaaneh

“I’m Mohammad Sabaaneh, Palestinian cartoonist, I live in Ramallah. I have just finished my masters degree from the UK, I got a Chevening Scholarship. I finished my masters degree in illustration at the University of the Creative Arts. I published my first book in the United States, in the UK and Spain and now I am working on my second book. It is going to be a comics book and I will publish the first edition with Street Noise published in the United States, also I will publish it in the UK”

“Mohammad welcome, thanks for that great introduction. My name is Mark Seddon, I’m in Britain and I have worked with cartoonists most of my life as a journalist as well but from the safety of their homes in Britain where they don’t face arrest and where they have licence really to draw and say what they want.” “It must have been very difficult to work as you have done in an environment where there is no real room for criticism?”

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26th May 2021: Mark Seddon is joined by Amany Khalifa and Budour Hassan assessing the situation on the ground in occupied East Jerusalem and further afield amidst reports of continued forced evictions, violence towards and mass arrests of Palestinians by Israeli forces.

Amany Khalifa is Local Mobilization Coordinator for Grassroots Al-Quds

Budour Hassan is a Legal Researcher for Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre

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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