The Continued Assault on Gaza and the West Bank
On this episode of American Prestige, we speak to Dalia Hatuqa about Israel’s never-ending violence against Palestinians.
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The Continued Assault on Gaza and the West Bank | American Prestige
Derek welcomes back to the showDalia Hatuqa, a journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs and regional Middle East issues, to talk about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. They recap what has been happening to Palestinians in Gaza while the world was distracted by Israel’s war with Iran, discuss the lost generations of Gazan children, the massacres at “aid distribution centers,” increased home demolitions and settler violence in the West Bank, the current relationships of the Palestinian Authority and Jordanian government with Israel, the regional dynamics after the recent war with Iran, and what Netanyahu’s next move might be.
Read Dalia’s piece from March in The Guardian, “For Palestinians, this was never a ceasefire.”
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Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union inspect the damage at Kafr Malik village in the occupied West Bank on June 30, 2025, following an attack by Israeli settlers on June 25 that killed at least three Palestinians.
(Zain Jaafar / AFP via Getty Images)Derek welcomes back to the show Dalia Hatuqa, a journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs and regional Middle East issues, to talk about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. They recap what has been happening to Palestinians in Gaza while the world was distracted by Israel’s war with Iran, discuss the lost generations of Gazan children, the massacres at “aid distribution centers,” increased home demolitions and settler violence in the West Bank, the current relationships of the Palestinian Authority and Jordanian government with Israel, the regional dynamics after the recent war with Iran, and what Netanyahu’s next move might be.
Read Dalia’s piece from March in The Guardian, “For Palestinians, this was never a ceasefire.”
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Syria Offensive Against SDF, Israel Moves on Rafah, Trump and Greenland | American Prestige
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