Act One: I’m Fine, Don’t Worry
When Yousef Hammash left Gaza a year ago, his sisters decided to stay behind.
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Act One: Solving For Why
American doctors returning from Gaza compare notes and start to see a pattern. (28 minutes)
Act One: The Convention
Zoe Chace and Ben Terris follow Abbas Alawieh as he fights to broker a deal at the DNC – a way to potentially satisfy the people who voted “Uncommitted” in the primaries as a protest vote against Biden’s handling of the war in Israel and Gaza.
Part One: The Abduction
On this week’s show, we’re airing excerpts of interviews with former hostages produced by an Israeli podcast, Echad Bayom. In these interviews they describe, in a remarkably detailed and complicated way, what happened to them a year ago. We start with Chen Almog-Goldstein.
Act One
Yousef does not even want to think about leaving Gaza. (18 minutes)
Act Two: The 95
Reporter Dana Ballout sifts through a very long list—the list of journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas War—and comes back with five small fragments of the lives of the people on it. (10 minutes)
Act One
Over the course of one week in December, Yousef tries to get his sisters to safety, in Rafah. (29 minutes)
Act One: A Slow Decision Process That’s Mostly But Maybe Not Completely Over
For one kibbutz-dwelling family in Israel, the decision of where to land after the October 7th attacks goes back and forth… and back… and forth.
Act One: The Speaking Part
The story of a woman from Gaza City who ran out of words.
Act One
One of our producers, Chana Joffe-Walt, had a series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week.
Prologue
Saddam Sayyaleh’s job right now is trying to get trucks filled with aid into Gaza and he knows it’s nowhere close to what’s actually needed.
Postscript
In Israel and Gaza, children are directly facing the fact that the adults around them cannot protect them. (4 minutes)