This episode features the song “Aside” by Normcore, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Links to this weeks stories :

00:20 Israel and Palestine Conflict (Only Story)

• Conflict between the Israeli military and Hamas, a Palestinian national terrorist group 
• The Iron Dome, IDF’s anti-ballistic missile system being tested consistently for the first time
• Decades long conflict reignited, Israeli aggression highlighted 
• The world is focused largely on the atrocities on both sides, in much larger quantities from the Israeli side
• Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no end in sight, his government becomes very popular with little internal opposition 
• Israel destroyed an AP building in Gaza, drawing international ire
• Israeli casualties at 10, Palestinian casualties at 197, 58 being children 
• Qatar, Egypt, and the US have all attempted to broker a deal, non being successful