Dec 4, 2023
Hundreds KILLED Over One Day In Unimaginable Ceasefire End Allegations
Reports of extreme devastation come out after allegations of over 700 Palestinians killed in Gaza during one day after the ceasefire truce ended and new Benjamin Netanyahu plans, following Israel's claims of a truce violation with Hamas. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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Wanted to give people a couple
of the quick updates on some
of the stuff we talked about
the close of last week.
Apparently, allegedly, inside of the first
24 hours after the ceasefire ended and
both sides are saying
the other side violated it.
Who the hell knows?
700 Palestinians had been killed,
which if that was the total
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death toll for the entire thing,
it would be horrific.
That was one day, and on top of that, so
we found out that the IDF has been
dropping leaflets with QR codes on it
into the area to tell people which
grid sections, because Gaza doesn't
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exist as like an organic place with
culture and locations and all that.
It is now chopped up into grids.
>> Speaker 1: My God.
>> Speaker 1: That they need to flee and
just, more south, however far you are,
go more south,
go more towards the coast and
I'm sure those areas won't be
bombed tomorrow or anything.
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So that's going on.
And there's also reporting on Netanyahu,
this is again because they talked about
this earlier in the conflict, but
he is going to the leadership of both
Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
His plan is they're going to thin
out the population in Gaza, and
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just send people to some other country,
not people or anything, just wherever,
just go somewhere and don't be here
anymore because you don't belong here.
It's horror in every sense of the word.
Existential, deep cosmic horror.
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What we're seeing play out.
>> Speaker 2: Absolutely,
and at the same time,
Haaretz just confirmed that that
story about 40 beheaded babies,
that came out early after October 7th,
that was fabricated actually.
And also the baby cut out of a pregnant
woman, that was also fabricated.
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That's Haaretz,
that is an Israeli newspaper.
They did a deep dive into that and
they found no, that was made up and
it was part of a propaganda machine
that allows and paves the way for
a mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza,
that again, as you said, ongoing.
1600 people have been killed in total
since the end of the ceasefire.
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It's wild, but we can't lose faith.
I please urge everybody to continue
to call your representatives.
Honestly, get them on board.
It is all and the least we can do.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%.
By the way, I get why people might
have believed that early on.
I mean, that was a story inside of
a lot of horror that was going on.
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I get why people would believe that.
I also get why you would tell that lie
because it's a quick way to get people on
board for something that will result in
the deaths of thousands of actual kids.
Not hypothetical, they actually died.
And there's reporting coming out by the
way, of I think it was premies that had
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been left behind in some of
the hospitals were bummed and just died.
Actual infant and newborn deaths.
I know that those don't matter as
much as the hypothetical ones,
the hypothetical ones serve their
purpose in terms of propaganda,
but actual children are dying right
now and tomorrow and the next day.
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And I didn't think that we were going
to really dive into this a bunch.
But yeah, it's.
>> Speaker 2: I mean,
it's good to kick off with it.
Look, every day it's a new,
fresh horror, but
if we let it slip from our minds and
our headlines, what are we doing here?
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So thank you for giving it some time.
>> Speaker 1: The audience for
giving it time to actually care.
And I honestly,
I know when they poll people.
What do you think about
the US's role in this?
They're very critical of Biden, I want to
know what I can actually draw from that
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because obviously every young Republican
is just going to say that they're against
what Biden does, even if they would
do the exact same thing or even less.
>> Or worse.
>> Speaker 1: But we assume that young
Democrats and leftists and liberals and
all that are against it.
And I hope that they're not just against
it when you prod them like, by the way,
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think about this.
You weren't thinking about it, but
think about it and what position you have.
I hope that they just have that position.
And I wonder I don't want to try to
draw too many lessons from TDR or
whatever, but I know we've talked
about this behind the scenes.
Like, how many videos have
we done about this conflict?
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Do you have any idea how little people
seem to care about those videos at
the very least?
And I understand there's a lot of news
coverage about, but like, the only way you
can seem to get people to care about
Gaza is like, I hope George Santos says
something about it because that's
the only way anyone is going to tune in.
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So I try not to draw too much from
that because it's just too depressing
if I do that.
But if you're watching this not live, we
roped in the live audience that they have
to listen this because
they're already here.
But if you clicked on it, do you
understand how rare you are compared to,
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that's really frustrating.
>> Speaker 2: But look, sometimes people,
arguably the dysfunction in
Washington is a lot easier to swallow
than the mass murder of civilians.
So we get it, we know that climate change
stories, albeit incredibly important,
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also don't do it, but we're still going
to cover them from time to time and also,
like, it's YouTube, man.
You're having a meal and
you're trying to get through, and
I think other platforms
sometimes might be the venue.
Although suddenly Instagram is my least
happy place to be on the Internet.
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>> Speaker 1: Partly blame your husband.
I mean, he's bringing humor to it,
but it's still dark stuff there.
>> Speaker 1: No yeah.
>> Speaker 1: But anyway, yes.
So, look,
like the Secretary of Stay is saying,
we're pushing behind the scenes for
more protections against civilians.
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So I have to assume that of those 1600,
all hamas is what I assume.
Yeah, no, your larger point totally
makes sense because it is even like
if this is the stuff you pay attention
to every day, you have to mentally and
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emotionally have it a little bit
at arm's length because it is too
horrible to fully think about,
and it's continuing right now.
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