What Is Life Like For Palestinians Under Occupation?

Hello and welcome to a very special bonus edition of Empire with my old friend Raja Shahada. Raja, welcome to Empire. Thank you. I'm very glad to be here. We are speaking, I believe, from Ramallah under a rain of of uh of Iranian missiles and debris heading overhead.

Yeah, four four already this morning. Landing in Ramallah or or just passing overhead? No, landing close to Ramallah, but we can hear the bombs and the reverberations. And this on top of the most um violent period of settler activity that I've certainly read about in my lifetime. That's true, that's true.

Almost okay daily. settler attacks that are very vi very violent in Amala villages. But you are in the middle of the town, so at the moment shielded in a sense from the worst of the, it's more the outlying villages and and and and so on than farmsteads that are getting the the worst violence at the moment. I keep thinking so far, so far we are shielded, yes. Raja, um perhaps before we go any further, I should first of all say um it's just me today, uh, as Anita has uh another project today.

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