Palestine Deep Dive

We're live for a vital DeepDive focusing on the impact of Israel's latest bombardment of Gaza, as well as the 15 years of siege and destruction it has imposed, on Palestinian children in particular. At least 45 Palestinians have been killed, including 16 children, in Israel's latest aggression on Gaza. Half of Gaza's two million population are children, living under siege in one of the world's most densely populated places. Hosted by Ahmed Alnaouq, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza whose story was the inspiration behind the formation of We Are Not Numbers, we're live with: Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei – Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme Hind Wihaidi – A 17-year-old Palestinian musician and writer living in Gaza. Rana Shubair – Palestinian author of two books, "My lover is a Freedom Righter", and "In Gaza, I Dare to Dream". Rana is also a mother of three children. 

We're live with Francesca Albanese, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt). Mark Seddon hears just what such a role entails at the UN and what powers are granted to it. We also hear the latest on ongoing cases including the search for justice for the incarcerated Ahmad Manasra, the latest on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh as well as hearing the international legal perspective on Israel's ongoing colonisation of Masafer Yatta.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 27th June 2021: We're live with for a DeepDive illuminating the situation on the ground in Masafer Yatta, where thousands of Palestinians are facing imminent expulsion. In the early 1980s the IDF declared the area a firing zone (“Firing Zone 918”), an action viewed by experts as a violation of international law and one clearly undertaken with the objective of forcibly displacing the Palestinian residents of the area to take control of the land. Last month, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected the residents' claims to the land in favour of the military, declaring the region a closed-off training area following the two-decade legal battle.  Residents fear expulsion and are already at the mercy of Israeli home demolitions and property confiscations while also facing regular harassment and violence from both the Israeli army and Israeli settlers. We’re live with Basil Al-Adraa, a local resident, activist & journalist, and Yuval Abraham, a Jerusalem-based journalist and activist.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE   June 15th 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Ahmed Alnaouq, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza whose personal story was the inspiration behind the creation of We Are Not Numbers, a youth group devoted to amplifying Palestinian voices under occupation and training their next generation of writers. Together they will be picking apart the Western media's coverage, or lack of it, on the realities Palestinians face on the ground under Israel's occupation. Tune in as they shine a light on the journalistic double standards of major Western outlets seen in the reporting of recent events, such as the killing of the iconic Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, by Israeli forces last month.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   June 8th 2022: Palestine Deep Dive celebrates the book launch of Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out (Clarity Press). Deep Dive’s host, Mark Seddon, is joined in the studio by the book’s co-editor Dr. Ramzy Baroud and one of its many Palestinian contributors, Dr. Ghada Karmi, also joined via video link is co-editor Prof. Ilan Pappé. Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times and former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera online. Prof. Ilan Pappé is a distinguished Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Dr. Ghada Karmi is a leading Palestinian activist, academic and author of three books, the most recent of which is Return: A Palestinian Memoir (2015). Dr. Karmi has practiced as a doctor of medicine, served as vice chair of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) and was a research a fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies at the University of Exeter.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   16th May 2022: We’re live with Gaza youth one year on since Israel’s devastating aggressions on the besieged enclave which killed over 240 Palestinians, including at least 66 children. We catch up with two of panellists from last year's live show (Bahzad and Raed) where bombs could be heard falling in the background and meet a new member of We Are Not Numbers, Samah Atef. Find out what life has been like on the ground in the world’s ‘largest open-air prison’ for Gaza youth as the mainstream media continues to largely ignore their voices.  Samah Atef Samah is a Palestinian translator, content writer and member of We Are Not Numbers. Dr Bahzad Alakhras Bahzad is a medical doctor from Gaza. He studied a masters in Child and Adolescents Mental Health at King's College London. Now, he works as a mental health doctor at Gaza Community Mental Health Program, an essential NGO working in the field in Gaza. Raed Shakshak Raed, is a Palestinian activist, writer and project manager at Pal-Casters. Raed is passionate about the art of story-telling and public speaking, and he is constantly engaged in youth empowerment activities and opportunities.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   11th May 2022: Today we DeepDive into Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists. This morning, veteran Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead by Israeli forces while reporting for Al Jazeera from a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin, occupied West Bank. Eye witnesses say Israeli snipers shot at her and a colleague, Ali al-Samoudi, who was also wounded by a bullet in the back, despite them both wearing press vests and helmets. According to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), at least 46 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israel since the year 2000 and no one has been held to account.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 5th May 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Palestinian digital rights defender, Mona Shtaya, for a DeepDive on all things related to the surveillance and online censorship of Palestinians. Mona Shtaya is a Palestinian digital rights defender working in the MENA region. She works as an advocacy advisor at 7amleh (The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media).

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   27th April 2022: We're live with distinguished Palestinian politician, activist and physician, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, to hear the latest on what's really happening on the ground in Jerusalem and further afield in Palestine. On Friday, 150,000 Palestinians travelled to Al-Aqsa, occupied East Jerusalem, on the third Friday of Ramadan where over 150 of whom were injured, including two journalists. Viral footage showed drones dropping tear gas and a Palestinian journalist being treated from injuries after being struck with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the neck. Dr Barghouti recently told Al Jazeera that such increased confrontations on the ground in Palestine are leading to something that could become “a wide-ranging intifada”. 

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   6th April 2022: Aram Abu Saleh is Syrian writer, activist and graduate student from Majdal Shams, occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Aram is currently finishing her graduate studies in Berlin, Germany and regularly writes academic, journalistic and literary texts for various publications including for the local Golan Jawlani newspaper, as well as for other Syrian and Palestinian outlets. Aram's been involved in the Syrian political movement in the occupied Golan since she was 13-years-old and is also a member of the Syrian Golan Youth movement.