Oct 16, 2023
Gaza Suffers DIRE Humanitarian Crisis As Water, Fuel Run Out
Palestinians attempting to flee Gaza in caravans are getting attacked.
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Gaza is experiencing a dire
humanitarian crisis.
With clean water, food and
fuel running out,
hospitals are being pushed
to the breaking point.
Hundreds of thousands are hoping to flee
to Egypt, but only those with a foreign
passport will be able to leave
if the border crossing opens.
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>> Speaker 2: The crisis in Gaza
has worsened to dangerous and
deadly levels as Israel has ordered
the evacuation of more than a million
Palestinian civilians from the south
before they begin their ground invasion,
which is expected to be brutal,
to say the least.
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Now, Israel has cut off the Gaza
population's access to electricity,
to food, to water, prompting warnings
of a dire humanitarian crisis.
In over a week of bombardment,
Israeli airstrikes have killed
at least 2,670 people in Gaza,
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including hundreds of children, according
to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Casualties in the besieged strip over
the past eight days have now surpassed
the number of those killed during
the 51-day Gaza-Israel conflict in 2014.
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In fact,
here's more on that evacuation order and
how those following it are often
attacked by airstrikes.
>> Speaker 3: Thousands of flyers raining
down from the sky urging the people of
Gaza City to evacuate within 24 hours,
a deadline that has come and gone.
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This is a very densely populated
area we're talking about here.
This entire area shaded in red you
see in front of your screen there,
home to more than 1 million people,
all of them told to make their way south.
A mass migration the UN has called
impossible to achieve because
the residents of Gaza have nowhere
to go and are getting no assistance.
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We have seen Palestinian men, women,
and children urgently trying
to make their way out.
Families packed onto that flatbed truck,
others fleeing on foot or
on carts pulled by horses.
Tonight, the Palestinian Health Authority
says at least 70 people, most of them
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women and children who were obeying those
orders to get out, have been killed.
Three caravans hit by Israeli
missiles as they fled south.
>> Speaker 4: Everybody from Gaza
is moving towards where we are.
1 million people, no food, no water.
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Where are we gonna put them?
But my thought is all these people
in the hospital cannot be evacuated.
Where's humanity?
Where's people's hearts in the world?
>> Speaker 2: In addition to that,
Amnesty International has put out its own
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information about what they're seeing
in Palestine, in Gaza specifically
in regard to Palestinian civilians and
the brutality they're suffering.
Our research team found that a convoy,
including a truck carrying around 30
people, eight cars, and
other nearby people, including women,
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children, and
people with disabilities was attacked.
Ambulances that arrived at the scene
were hit in a second attack and
rescuers injured.
At least 70 died, and
that's just one example.
So they're being told to evacuate,
and in the process of evacuating,
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which is an impossible task,
to say the least.
We're talking about more than a million
Palestinians who do not even have
the infrastructure or the ability to
evacuate half of Gaza within 24 hours.
But even those who follow the order
are being hit with airstrikes,
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which really leads me to question
what the real goal here is.
Because if there is a consensus,
an agreement, that Hamas,
which is the main target, has gone
underground in their extensive tunnels,
who are the airstrikes
really harming here?
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It's the Palestinian civilians
who are trying to flee to safety.
So I have a lot more detail to get into,
Cenk, but
I'm curious what your thoughts are.
>> Speaker 5: Yeah, along those lines,
Ana, why would Hamas keep the hostages in
the non-populated area that
Israel says they're going into?
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Why wouldn't they move them
into a different area?
Whether, by the way,
it's outside the country,
somehow they sneak them out, I have
no idea, move them to the south, etc.
Why would they just say, you guys
are invading to the northern section.
We will keep all the hostages there for
you just in case.
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So what's the point here?
So look, I've always been in
favor of ground forces instead
of random bombings,
let alone the non-random bombings.
And so
what do I mean by the non-random bombings?
Don't tell me you're not
doing war crimes if you hit
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an ambulance with your second strike.
The ambulance is not unclear.
We know what an ambulance is.
Everybody knows what an ambulance is.
Okay, so you hit the people that you
told to flee while they're fleeing.
Maybe that's an accident.
And I know a lot of people
would immediately say, well,
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since one side is angels and
the other side is all devils, and
that's probably likely,
even though we're all humans.
So the angels would never,
ever hit a civilian convoy on purpose.
Okay, how about the ambulance?
No, that's a war crime, and
that seems pretty on purpose.
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And so, okay, I mean,
what Hamas did is brutal.
Watch what we do, that what,
where you kill more civilians,
which has already happened, more children,
which has already happened?
So where's the moral high ground?
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>> Speaker 2: There is
no moral high ground.
There's no moral high ground.
You targeting civilians,
there's no moral high ground.
There was no moral high ground for
Hamas when it targeted Israeli civilians.
There's no moral high ground for
the IDF as it bombs the hell out of entire
neighborhoods in Gaza, leveling them,
and absolutely destroying and
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murdering innocent civilians
who have done nothing wrong.
And then you hear this argument by
some Israeli officials that, well,
I mean, look, back in 2006,
the Palestinians voted in Hamas.
Well, more than half of the population,
that was 18 years ago.
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More than half of the population
is under the age of 18.
Collective punishment is a war crime,
and that is currently what is happening.
That is currently what is
taking place right now.
I have no issue with the Israeli
government and the IDF going after Hamas,
especially after what they did
to innocent Israeli civilians.
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But brutalizing and killing innocent
Palestinian civilians is not okay.
And that is currently what
is happening right now.
You can't argue that,
we're warning the civilians.
We're telling them to evacuate.
We're giving them 24 hours to evacuate.
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And then in the process of doing so,
you do the airstrikes that kill
these innocent Palestinian civilians
who are fleeing for safety.
>> Speaker 5: So look,
we try to be as productive as
humanly possible on the show.
When we do critique, we try to give
you what they should do instead.
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And so for my purposes, that's why I keep
saying ground troops, if I was them,
I would have gone after
the hostages right away.
And you say, well,
that endangers the ground troops.
I know,
that's kind of the point of troops, right?
So I wouldn't have dropped
bombs on civilian buildings.
For what reason?
Now, if you go in with
your ground troops and
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it turns out that Hamas does this thing
that Israeli propaganda always says and
never actually proves,
just hiding behind the children, right?
And as you're trying to kill Hamas,
the children are being used as human
shields or other human civilians, etc.
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Okay, and they happen to die in
that context, I understand, right?
I hate it, but I understand.
But one, they've never proven that.
I have seen IDF soldiers using
Palestinian children as, guys,
I saw a video of it clear as day.
I've never seen it in regards,
if you're saying, well,
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they're hiding among the civilians of
all of the 2.2 million Palestinians.
So we're just gonna kill indiscriminately.
That's not really Hamas
hiding behind the civilians.
That's you saying,
I don't give a damn about the civilians.
When you cut off water for everyone,
I don't know if you know this,
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human beings need water to survive.
And it doesn't take long for people to
start getting desperate without water,
especially for their kids.
>> Speaker 2: Aren't they
concerned about the hostages?
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, and-
>> Yeah, because when you cut off water,
fuel, supplies,
humanitarian aid in Gaza, and you do so
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with the idea that you're trying to apply
pressure to Hamas to release the hostages.
The hostages are in Gaza,
in the very area that is being bombed and
brutalized as we speak right now.
>> Speaker 5: Yeah, and listen,
guys, I know emotions are raw, and
what happened to Israel was terrible and
our hearts go out to them.
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But if you are in the camp of saying,
I don't care if they cut off the water and
electricity, you're saying all those
babies that are on incubators,
they're all gonna die.
Everybody who's on life support in Gaza,
in hospitals,
they're all gonna die,
and you're okay with that.
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Look, I have to be honest with you.
Even if you're an ally, a friend,
a supporter of the show, that's barbaric.
If Hamas said,
I don't care if grandmothers
on life support die in Israel.
I don't care if Israeli
babies in incubators die.
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I would love to cut off their electricity.
I would call them barbaric and disgusting.
Do not do likewise.
You say, it's too much to ask.
No, it's not too much to ask.
To not do likewise is Hamas.
That's the bare, bare,
bare minimum to ask.
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And Hamas cannot control all of Israel,
but
Israel controls all of
the Gaza territories.
And, guys, look, these words
get super emotional and touchy.
I know, I lived it more than anybody.
I believed in Turkish propaganda.
And so for
a long time when I was growing up,
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I refused to call it
the Armenian genocide.
You know why I call it
the Armenian genocide now?
Because genocide has certain
definitions and it has certain pillars.
One is killing innocent civilians,
targeting them based on who they are,
not based on what they did.
So a group attacks you.
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That's what they did.
Collective punishment is who they are,
right?
Another pillar of genocide
is mass relocation.
>> Speaker 2: That's exactly right, and
that's what's happening
right now as we speak.
>> Speaker 6: That's what
happened to Armenians.
>> Speaker 5: That's exactly right.
>> And that's why it's a genocide.
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>> Speaker 2: That's why as I watch
the footage of what's happening,
as I watch the absolute merciless nature
of the attacks towards civilians in
the Gaza Strip, how could you not call it
ethnic cleansing or a genocide, honestly?
So I wanna give you more
details because the situation,
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the lack of resources, has gotten so
bad that they have run out of body
bags in Gaza in order to basically
deal with all the dead bodies.
The lack of fuel has all sorts of
disastrous consequences, not only for
the hospitals, but also for
the bulldozers that they need in order to
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get through the rubble and
get to the bodies underneath the rubble.
Bodies are piling up in literal ice cream
trucks as a result of what's going on.
They have run out of medicine,
painkillers.
Obviously, the hospitals that are located
in the part of the Gaza Strip that
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the Israeli government is demanding
be evacuated, they can't do that.
You're talking about people who have
severe illnesses, disabilities.
They can't just get up and leave and
evacuate to the other
half of the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb,
who's with Doctors Without Borders,
said the following.
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Two hours we searched for drinkable water.
Even drinkable water is
not available anymore.
There is food, no electricity,
no pumping of normal water as well.
The hospitals are barely working.
They are bombing all day.
We don't know what's going to happen
tomorrow and where we are going.
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And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel has
restored water to Southern Gaza,
where many Gazans have been told to flee.
However, the director of the water
authority there has said that they did not
know if water was available because, guess
what, you need electricity in order to
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pump water for use, and
that had not been restored yet.
Aid has been piling up on the Egyptian
side of the Rafa crossing,
the only entrypoint into Gaza
that Israel does not control.
But so far,
the crossing appears nonfunctional.
Egypt says that airstrikes on the Gaza
side have made roads inoperable,
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and Jordan has said it is seeking
assurance that aid convoys will not
be targeted by Israeli warplanes.
Now, Secretary of State Antony Blinken
arrived in Tel Aviv this morning, and
there are some conflicting reports.
Because he argues that he is working
with the Israeli government along with
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some of the neighboring
countries in order to
create corridors to get humanitarian
aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
He said Rafa will be open,
Blinken told reporters during
a stop in Egypt on Sunday.
We're putting in place with the United
Nations, with Egypt, with Israel,
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with others, the mechanism by
which to get the assistance in and
to get it to the people who need it.
However, this is really important, there
are conflicting reports coming from Egypt.
Egypt had been allowing some aid to pass
into Gaza through the Rafa crossing, but
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stopped those shipments since Tuesday,
following Israeli airstrikes on
the Gaza side of the junction.
Of course, there is no one in the Israeli
government entertaining the idea of
Palestinian refugees coming into Israel.
Of course, not, that could never happen.
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But keep in mind,
Israel is a relatively wealthy country,
especially compared to Egypt,
which is expected to take on
the burden of Palestinian refugees
even as the entrypoint into Egypt
continues to get airstriked.
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It's just incredibly frustrating
to see the lack of humanity.
Now I wanna go to one more video
because this war has the possibility
of spreading to neighboring
countries as well.
In fact, journalists have already
died as a result of this war.
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Wanna give you the details after
we take a look at this video.
>> Speaker 7: The US is
working to contain this war,
but it's already spreading
to the West Bank,
where more than 40 Palestinians have
been killed in violent clashes.
And in Lebanon,
where the deputy chief of Hezbollah,
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a militant group that supports Hamas,
said it would act when the time is right.
An Israeli strike in Lebanon near the
border with Israel today hit a group of
foreign journalists, killing a Reuters
videographer and injuring six others.
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As the situation in Gaza deteriorates.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu appeared before cameras today
to say this is only the beginning,
that Israel is striking at its
enemies with unprecedented might and
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will eradicate Hamas.
>> Speaker 2: And the Pentagon is
concerned that this is going to spread to
countries like Iran and Lebanon.
That's part of the reason why the Biden
administration has sent some carriers,
two different carriers, to the region in
order to deter Iran from getting involved.
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Let's go to graphic nine here.
Further escalation of the long-running
conflict increasingly risks spilling over
regionally.
Prompting the Pentagon to order
a second carrier strike group and
squadrons of fighter jets to
the region as a deterrence to Iran and
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Iranian proxies such as
Hezbollah in Lebanon.
So I am worried that this is going to
expand and it's gonna turn into, honestly,
a world war.
Because some of the Israeli
airstrikes have actually hit Syria,
as you saw in that video.
Some of them have hit Lebanon.
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You have all these accusations in
regard to Iran supporting Hamas.
And it could spread to a war with Iran as
well, although the Biden administration is
attempting to prevent that from happening
by sending those carriers and other aid.
So Cenk,
what do you think about all of that?
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Do you think that this is gonna calm down
in any way or is this just gonna expand?
>> Speaker 5: So
I'm super worried about it expanding.
And if I was the Prime Minister of Israel,
again, just to be constructive, what
I would tell my military is, hey, you got
a Hezbollah group firing rockets at us.
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Make sure you take them out,
obviously, right?
But be super careful because we
don't want the war to spread.
There's no way Hamas is going
to beat us trapped in Gaza.
There's a 0% chance of that.
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But if we drag Lebanon in and
we drag Syria in, and
then, God forbid,
we drag Iran into the war, that's the only
scenario under which Israel is
actually under significant danger.
I don't mean local danger.
I don't mean danger of terrorism.
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We know that that exists, but
I mean existential danger.
So why is Netanyahu constantly
going around and poking every bear?
So I'm not against the strikes against
Hezbollah and Lebanon, I get it.
But they preemptively destroyed
the tarmac in the main terminal in Syria.
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Maybe they have intelligence that
the Syrians were gonna launch strikes
from there.
But if the Syrians launch
strikes against Israel,
Israel would have every
right to retaliate.
So I don't know that Syria
was ever going to do that.
That would be significantly surprising.
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But now,
Israel has officially attacked Syria.
Now, Syria has a right to self-defense.
And for everybody saying,
Israel's got a right to self-defense.
I hate the Syrian government.
I hate Bashar al-Assad.
We've gotten into very fiery debates
with other people online about it.
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I think they're butchers in a lot of ways.
But now you guys are the ones saying
self-defense allows for everything.
So now Bashar al-Assad and Syrians have
the right to self-defense on anything?
No, of course not, that's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous, but why are you
constantly agitating for a bigger war?
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It's madness, and Netanyahu has been
trying to get Iran into a war for
the last decade at least.
And he begged Trump,
get out of that peace deal.
I don't want peace.
I don't want peace with Iran,
Netanyahu said a thousand times.
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Why are you trying to endanger Israel,
let alone the whole world?
What is wrong with this monster?
Both Hamas and the right wing government
of Israel constantly say, war,
war, war, war, kill, kill, kill.
Enough, God damn it.
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Protect your own civilians,
let alone everyone else.
What are you endangering Israel for,
you lunatic?
How would a war with Iran help Israel,
how?
On what planet does it help Israel?
It helps Netanyahu.
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I'm a wartime prime minister.
I'm the only one who could protect you
by starting larger and larger wars.
Look at how stupid I was where I didn't do
any intelligence and let them butcher you.
What happened, Netanyahu?
I thought you were a tough guy who
was supposed to protect Israel.
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Now the Israeli citizens know,
86% in a poll said Netanyahu should have
done his job and gotten intelligence.
But instead, look at this,
more violence, more war, more bloodshed.
Netanyahu thinks that
helps him politically.
He's a disgusting person.
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You don't see what Hamas did and how
disgusting they were, and then say, yeah,
I'll outdo them, and I'll get into
Israel and do even bigger trouble.
The problem isn't the innocent
Israeli citizens or
the innocent Palestinian citizens.
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The problem is the leadership,
warmongers on all sides.
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