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As pressure on Israel to formulate an exit strategy mounts, the fighting in Gaza seems to only intensify. Twenty-five thousand killed and counting there and while the Israeli military claims to have encircled the southern city of Khan Younes, it is also burying its dead after its deadliest firefight since October 7th. We will hear reactions to the twenty-one reservists killed.
For Israel’s prime minister, it is all happening as he faces the wrath of families of hostages who want their loved ones home safe and as US and European allies dial up pressure to do what Benjamin Netanyahu’s always resisted: work towards an actual two-state solution with the Palestinians.
It is also about political survival: Netanyahu faces a reckoning over security lapses on his watch when fighting ends, not to mention three corruption cases. For Israel, it is about a shattered sense of invincibility. For ordinary Palestinians, a nightmare. How then to end this cycle of death?
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Rebecca Gnignati and Imen Mellaz.
