Aya Batraoui
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1,564 appearances
188 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4d ago
Aya Batraoui’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's always been designed as an aid in the government to prosecute people that they think other people wouldn't testify against. But another sort of clever part of the prosecution plan here is to paint the underlings as victims, right? Because somebody could think, well, this is a person who likes to be close to power and
who gets a lot of money for doing bad things for Diddy, and this is sort of a bad actor here.
NPR's Aya Batraoui has more. Overnight Israeli attacks targeted three displaced families sheltering in makeshift tents, two of them in northern Gaza and one in the south. Gaza's health ministry says 23 people were killed in those separate attacks.
The Abolruz family was hit hardest, losing 10 people who burnt to death when their tent was struck in a sandy area called Moesi that Israel's military has told people to shelter in. Video from the incident shared by rescue crews shows a tent engulfed in fire.
The death toll in Gaza from the past 18 months of war has surpassed 51,000 people killed by Israeli fire, a third of them children, according to the Gaza health ministry's public records. Dubai.
I'm not happy with him. Let him know it. And if I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me.
The World Food Program says all of its 25 bakeries in Gaza have shut down because they've run out of flour and fuel as a result of Israel's blockade. The UN Food Agency tells NPR it's also distributing its final food parcels to the neediest families and only has food supplies to last two more weeks to support charity kitchens that provide many with their only meal of the day.
Israel's military says there's plenty of food in Gaza. The government says the blockade is to pressure Hamas. Mona Dehlis, a mother standing outside one of the shuttered bakeries in Gaza, tells NPR she's searching for food to feed her three daughters. Her youngest is underweight. Dehlis says she can't afford the price of a large sack of flour, which has soared to $80.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News Dubai, with reporting by Anas Baba in Gaza City.
Israel's military released a statement saying its soldiers shot out, quote, suspicious vehicles, killing a number of Hamas militants overnight on Sunday. The military says after an initial inquiry, it determined that some of the vehicles were ambulances and fire trucks. These findings were announced five days after the crew of 15 went missing.
The statement offers no further details on the fate of the crews inside. Gaza's civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basel says the body of one missing rescue crew worker has so far been found, apparently buried in the sand by an Israeli bulldozer. And he says based on what they've been able to gather from the scene, there are likely no survivors.
The Red Crescent says it's found only four destroyed ambulances that it too says were buried in the sand. Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
Now the bombs have stopped. I think now is a good time to ask him to sit and think about what it's been like.
I still think he's in a little bit of a fight-or-flight mode, like, because he hasn't really settled in yet.
From then on, Ea was on the phone with Anas almost every day. Trying to figure out how we tell the story together and what the story should be. It was a very intense, very intense time.
This is the sound of Gaza's biggest hospital, Al Shifa. All of its beds are full, like all of Gaza's hospitals, clinics, and medical centers, serving its population of two million. Every functioning hospital is at full capacity. the stream of wounded and dead. So he was there interviewing staff, documenting some of the cases coming in, just getting us information of what it was like on the ground.
I remember having this call with him and he was like, OK, this is the situation. They're telling us to evacuate to the south, all of Gaza City. It was kind of like panic mode.
I've been talking to them all week. It's been sheer terror and trauma. They tell me the sounds of the bombs this time are different. And even Israel has said that this war is different and that the response will be harder and harsher than Hamas has ever seen. I can hear in my voice, like my voice, like quivering and going away because it had been such an intense week.
Already had been like seven days of nonstop reporting and calls. And yeah, like I can hear in my voice that, already like a sense of exhaustion. I spoke with our producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, who also had to leave with his family.
He told me scenes of mothers carrying their babies and walking by foot for miles, fathers walking with kids on their back, young children having to walk for miles and miles, all of them trying to head south.
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