This episode of Palestine This Week begins with Israel’s latest unprovoked escalation: a bombing in Qatar targeting Hamas’s negotiating team. Nasim Ahmed and Mouin Rabbani assess the implications of this unprecedented strike, reportedly carried out with the approval of US President Donald Trump. The discussion explores what the attack reveals about Israel’s approach to diplomacy, the credibility of ongoing negotiations, and the growing fragility of regional stability.
Attention then turns to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, as newly revealed Israeli military data confirms that most Palestinians detained are civilians, not fighters. Combined with internal Israeli reports that over 83 per cent of those killed in Gaza are non-combatants, the evidence points to a war being waged against a people rather than a movement.
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