[SOUND] This afternoon I met Blistia on the street [00:00:19] close to where her home once was. >> Speaker 3: Now it's not even safe to walk. [00:00:35] Like, as you can see here, this building caught a fire as well, other than the bombardments that happened. So it's not safe. Nothing is safe, literally. >> Now nothing is recognizable. >> Speaker 3: This is an ambulance. >> Speaker 4: So just some scenes from the ground there in Gaza as Israel continues [00:00:56] its bombardment in retaliation for the Hamas attacks on Saturday. Just a little update on where things are now. Let's skip to graphic two. The toll from six days of airstrikes has reached 1,537 killed, including 500 [00:01:13] children and 276 women, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. We're rapidly approaching more than 2,000 killed in the 2014 war, and even before the start of the ground invasion. More than 338,000 people have left their homes in search of safety. [00:01:31] There's little to be had. Both of the territory's exits into Israel and Egypt, of course, are closed. And late last night, there was breaking news that Israel has warned the United Nations to evacuate all of northern Gaza. That includes Gaza City. [00:01:47] Again, this is the main, the capital of Gaza. So this was according to the New York Times, the UN said, however, that in order to move about the 1.1 million people living there to the southern half of the territory within a 24-hour deadline, that would lead to devastating humanitarian consequences. [00:02:05] In fact, the UN has said this would be impossible. So again, what we're witnessing now is basically the assault on civilians without giving them time to evacuate. As you saw in that footage also, there was an ambulance that was targeted. [00:02:25] Not only are entire blocks being leveled, but specifically, aid workers and hospitals have been targeted. Let's just keep going with this a little bit. It's important to know just the scale. So one thing that has come out, and a lot of warfare experts have explained [00:02:42] just how devastating this is, is that Israeli Air Force says that they've actually dropped 6,000 bombs on Hamas targets, according to them so far. That is a staggering number over the course of six days, according to these warfare experts. [00:02:58] Israel, this is according to Mark Garlasco, who is an advisor at the Dutch organization PAX, for peace, and a former UN war crimes investigator in Libya, he said this. He said Israel is dropping in less than a week what the UN was dropping in Afghanistan in a year, in a much smaller, much more densely populated area, [00:03:17] where mistakes are gonna be magnified. Mistakes meaning, oops, we killed civilians. We can argue whether or not that would be a mistake. But here, according to the Israeli military, but why don't we look at some of this aerial footage? This is Gaza City before the bombardment started. [00:03:34] And then on the right, after, dust, pretty much. You see Beit Hanoun, which is another town in Gaza, before and after, again, rubble and dust. So we understand, yeah, that those are not just so-called military targets, you could argue. [00:03:52] And I believe the IDF knows this more than anyone, it's very difficult to distinguish and to only single out militants in such a densely populated area. And I'll kick it to you, Brett, but honestly, [00:04:08] it sort of feels like imagine if the United States were attacked, but only blue states, only where anyone had elected a Democrat. And Hamas has a militant wing. It also was the elected government of Gaza in 2007, [00:04:24] that partially kicked off the blockade. Whatever you think of their heinous actions, I just said absolutely abhorrent, imagine being singled out in a town because you voted Democrat. How would you distinguish who was a Democrat in your neighborhood and not? [00:04:43] But anyway, your thoughts on what's going on right now. >> Speaker 1: Here is the thing, is the complexity, and I think, the desire for a simple boiling down of everything, create sentences and metaphors like that. [00:04:58] I get what you're doing, and I've done it a billion times. That's what happens. Everybody tries to boil this thing down to, like, all right, in this one context, in this one way, this metaphor applies, and I know what you're doing, and [00:05:14] it's right to do, because in order to understand something very complex, we need to understand it piece by piece. And we need to understand that when someone says, this thing where children are being killed is the same [00:05:31] as an election, I'm not gonna solve the problem. I need to boil it down to how people feel during the discourse is really all I can do. And I'm doing a similar thing, and I mean, that metaphor boils it down to, [00:05:47] A, I didn't really fully follow it, and B, that completely discredits the way, kind of glosses over the way in which Hamas strategically, and some people will say, because they have to, others will say, because they're evil. [00:06:06] That's how they set up the battlefield, essentially. >> Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that's fine that you don't like the metaphor. What I was trying to- >> I don't not like the metaphor. I'm trying to say that metaphors like this are wildly helpful in understanding aspects of it, but in boiling it down to a simple metaphor, everybody needs to [00:06:24] understand that the metaphor is used to understand an aspect of it, but not the totality of it. >> Speaker 4: Okay, well, let's not speak in metaphors, screw metaphors. Let's talk about Doctors Out of Borders, who describe the conditions in Gaza's hospitals as, quote, catastrophic. As local authorities said the enclave's main power plant had run out of fuel, [00:06:42] this was yesterday, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned, without electricity, hospitals risk turning into morgues. Remember, with this evacuation warning of northern Gaza, a lot of people are wondering, where is there to go? There is nowhere to go, in fact. [00:06:58] And there have been reports that even people fleeing northern Gaza have been targeted in their cars. So it is unclear even when you get to south of wherever an invisible line the IDF has set up, whether you'd be safe there, where you would live there. Again, we're talking 360,000 people without a place to go, [00:07:18] refugees upon refugees. Gaza is 70% of Palestinian refugees as it stands already before this. [MUSIC]