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.

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.

Yousef does not even want to think about leaving Gaza. (18 minutes)

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)

Over the course of one week in December, Yousef tries to get his sisters to safety, in Rafah. (29 minutes)

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.

The story of a woman from Gaza City who ran out of words.

One of our producers, Chana Joffe-Walt, had a series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week.

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.

In Israel and Gaza, children are directly facing the fact that the adults around them cannot protect them. (4 minutes)