A warning this week that this episode contains graphics language that some listeners might find distressing.

In this episode of Battle Lines, we speak to Defence Editor Danielle Sheridan, Middle East correspondent Nataliya Vasilyeva and Senior Foreign Correspondent Sophia Yan.

Danielle speaks about the Israeli forensics teams searching through ash as they look for teeth to identify Hamas victims, Sophia takes us inside her investigation into Hamas assets in Turkey, and Nataliya explains her reporting into the experiences of the Israeli Bedouin.

Plus Assistant Comment Editor Francis Dearnley takes on the difficult task of trying to sum up the history of the region.

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Contributors:

David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.

Nataliya Vasilyeva (Middle East Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter.

Danielle Sheridan (Defence Editor). @SheridanDani on Twitter.

Sophia Yan (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @sophia_yan on Twitter.

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.

Read Inside the gleaming developments that made Hamas a $1bn terror group, by Sophia Yan: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/30/property-developments-hamas-1bn/

Read Israeli police sift through ash as they look for teeth and bones to identify Hamas victims, by Danielle Sheridan: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/01/israel-victims-body-bags-ash-hamas-gaza/

Read I’d rather be back in Ukraine, say refugee children sent to Israel, by Danielle Sheridan: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/31/ukrainian-refugee-children-israel-kfar-chabad/

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