Thank you, Journalist Youmna El Ssayed, for being another important voice in this harrowing time.

I have no words. I'm just crying so much while listening.

I watched Youmna during those horrific days and still follow Hani and Tareq from AJ English. Its a shame international mainstream media doesnt give a platform to journalists like Youmna to tell their story. Everyone should hear this.

We must keep raising the voices of those who are suffering! Please dont stop now, our efforts are forcing the corrupt leaders to listen

The story of the child carrying his brother in the backpack...horrific traumas... no words..

Good to see Youmna is alive. She is a very brave lady. One way to get the bad experiences out of her head is for her to write a book about her experiences in the last six months. Writing is very therapeutic. For example for people who have mental.issues the doctors ask the patient to write a letter to themselves. So youma go back to Al Jazeera reporting from Israel and write that book or several books inside yourself Who knows you can write a huge book on Gaza like Norman Finkelstein?

Thank you both. Sending love

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Great interview and great knowledge of all this too. Well said.

Incredibly heartbreaking 💔. May Allah grant you all Sabr.

You are very brave Yumna. All journalists should be fearless & human like you. A good interview - the right prompts & questions at the right time.

Youmna, you are one of the most brave humans that I have ever come across. I am so sorry that you, your family and people are going through this. Sometimes we, on the outside, feel hopeless. Our governments have no moral compass and have completely failed us. If I could snap my fingers, I wish we could provide you and all of your loved ones comfort. The world is witnessing pure evil. Thank you for sharing. We are all thinking of you.

Regarding her story about that boy and whether he will ever be okay again: My life is far less horrific than his, but still by the standards of my country out of the ordinary: My father was chronically I'll since I was nine years old, he died when I was eighteen. My older brother, my sole sibling was autistic and died three years ago, when I was twenty six. You carry on, but such things especially from a young age change you. You know how many things are just trivial in a way that many others understand only much later in life if at all. It leaves you more free at the cost that superficial joy does not get through to you. The experience of as family member being part of the suffering and the strain and living all these years through the experience that most people could not care less, leaves you knowing how much human relations are nothing but facades. Either you get my trust and I would trust you for my life or I do not make any real effort to be liked by you. That boy and other children might have a similar experience if they survive. Things in life seemingly important to others left appearing bland and not quite living only in presence ever. Always left a bit calculating not because of being narcissistic or evil, but because of that heightened awareness that others might let you down anyway and the fight for their sympathy might just not be worth it. Sometimes the way you are left changed is a gift, sometimes it is a curse, sometimes I am not sure until much later what it was in a situation. But and I can only humbly add, I have no real clue how the difference of his suffering make the effects on his psyche and personality different and if and how he is more surrounded by people going through that same horror changes something about that. I just wanted to give what insight I can without hiding the limitations to it.

😭😭😭😭😭😭 This reminds me about the civil we experienced during childhood. The horrors are unimaginable 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you both for this incredible interview, so difficult to listen to and so difficult to imagine how it must be to actually live through this horror. The trauma is unimaginable and unquantifiable. No one can ever blame any Palestinian who has gone through this calculated and orchestrated hell for doing what they might feel compelled to do in the future. They are the most dignified people but they have been pummelled by their vicious, corrupt and arrogant neighbours, fully supported by powerful politicians and capitalists. I pray that they all may one day return to live in peace in their beautiful and beloved Gaza. Everyone should be obliged to sit and watch this powerful and searing video. Thanks again to you both. 🙏🙏🙏🍉🍉🍉

I remember watching Youmna report from Gaza City after most of the other AJ English reporters had already moved south and being in awe of how brave she was. I had no idea just how brave. I had no idea at the time that she was doing those reports from Al-Shifa hospital that her family was being threatened by the Israeli military, further traumatizing her children, who were already terrified of the bombardments. And for her to be able to go on reporting from the south after having to flee to the north in such a horrifying way is yet another testament to her bravery. The entire Gaza bureau for Al Jazeera should get a Pulitzer for their outstanding work exposing this genocide.

Thank you for sharing.

Heartbreaking.

Thank you youmna for sharing your experience and raw feelings . Appreciate how difficult it is for you and hope you will find some healing in knowing how valuable it is to speak out and have your voice heard … much love ❤️

Her pain is unforgettable. Thank you for sharing. In shaa Allah, she gets justice

This is what people need to hear and stand for this is what we need to focus on , brave students in universities campuses can handle themselves.

Thank you Youmna

I’ve got nothing to say! The suffering is too much! I have no idea how these brave people are going through these days, hours, moments…

Incredible fortitude. Such a detailed account of the destruction, the difficulties, the atrocities, the injustice and the cruel oppression experience by this young lady and her family. Yet she has not uttered one word of abuse or a single curse towards the Israeli people. This lady described periodic attacks over the years and it's clear she's been enduring this way of life for a long time but this time it's been beyond anything that has gone before. Having watched so many accounts over the last 6 months, this lady is very representative and typical of the Palestinian people in general, dignified, resilient and human and nothing like how the Israelis would like to portray them. In contrast watching the Knesset is like watching vicious, vindictive, brutal, hateful rats attacking each other, dishonest and duplicitous and devoid of compassion or humanity. Israel has destroyed all the world support they had on Oct 8th and over the last 6 months they have revealed who and what they really are.

She uses the word "captives" for the Israeli hostages which includes a 1 year old child, Kfir Bibas.

Thanku so much for sharing your incredible and sad and beautiful story, lov jean

This deserves many more views/listens. May peace prevail. Free Palestine.

This is such an important interview thank you 🙏

We will never forget We will never forgive Freedom to Gaza Freedom from the river to the sea ✌️🇵🇸✌️🩷

God saved you to tell this story. You will tell the world the truth. God bless you, God bless 🇵🇸

Yes, Youmna, the International Community, especially, the West, has failed you and your people. Nevertheless, long live the Palestinian people. Victory will be yours by Allah's mercy and grace ❤

What a strong beautiful brave woman. May God protect her and her family

“War” like this shouldn’t be happening in 21st century, even the 7th isn’t an excuse for this destruction abuses. The humanity of it all!

I don’t think any of us from the west could even comprehend 1% of the amount of trauma the Palestinian goes through in the last 6 months…and yet half the population is comprised of children…I can’t even imagine how much damage it is doing to the people let alone the children 😭

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Only 7.6 people seen this incredible interview?? Or someone manipulating the numbers

On the 7th, it is crucial to understand that there were no direct attacks on civilians, only collateral damage. Out of the 1148 total names on haaret dataset, 403 were military personnel, 59 belonged to the police, and 668 were civilians. Ratio of civilians to military personnel killed on the 7th was 1 . 6 : 1 - lower than any of the iTf "mowing" operations, which has a ratio of 6 : 1 According to UN OHC data from 2008 to 2022; The collateral damage on the 7th was significantly lower than any of the ITf "mowing" operations, which had a ratio of 6:1 When including all casualties, not just deaths, the collateral damage ratio of the "mowing" operations it is a staggering 162:1 On the 7th, with 462 military personnel out of 1148 total, the ratio of civilians to military personnel was a mere 1.6:1 which is a hundred times lower than the 162:1 ratio from the 162,000 accumulated casualties over only 14 years of "mowing" operations. A 162 :1 ratio means that for every 162 civillians, 1 military personnel is a casualty. The 7th had a ratio of 1.6:1, a hundred times lower. The reported ages of the victims are as follows: 0-4: 2 civilians 5-12: 8 civilians 13-17: 14 civilians 18-25: 132 civilians 26-40: 119 civilians 41-60: 55 civilians 61+: 40 civilians Active duty military personnel: 18-25: 258 active duty military personnel 26-40: 60 active duty military personnel 41-60: 17 active duty military personnel 61+: 1 active duty military personnel haaretz datasheet titled title: xsraxl's Dead: The Names of Those Killed in Hxmxs Attacks, Mxssxcres and the xsrxel-Hxmxs Wxr There is a more detailed report of of oct 7th titled "I scrapped the information about 1096 of the 1460 killed on 7th of October Attack. Children Less than 1%" -Yocheved Lifshitz account - 'they treated us well' -Yasmin Porat account - 'i.T.f kxilled my husband' Civilians were taken to have swaps for the civilians rotting in prisons without charge on the other side. An excess of ten thousands, all before the seventh UN Human Rights Office (UN OCHA) PA Civilians 2008-2023: 2008 - 2,325 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 1,440. 2012 - 3,992 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 255. 2014 - 17,533 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 1,492. 2018 - 31,259 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 300. 2019 - 15,491 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 138. 2020 - 2,581 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 30. 2021 - 19,183 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 349. 2022 - 10,345 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 191. 2023 up to September - 8,508 Wounded Civilians, Deaths 227. civilian deaths on the other side - 2008: 3 , 2012: 6 , 2014: 73 , 2018: 9 2019: 10 , 2020: 0 , 2021: 9 , 2022: 26 Total; 2008 up to September 2023 - 162,000 PA Civilian Casualties . Wounded includes: amputees from the deliberate targeting of knees by snipers, white phosphorous third degree body burns, etc In the Tantura (2022) documentary there is a iTf man who says that they took a pregnant woman, made bets whether the baby is a boy or a girl, disemboweled and cut her stomach open to check who won, another one talking about school children who were raising their the hands, the same way kids do in a classroom, after he rounded them up. He then kept firing. Both laughing merrily and casually at the recollection. In another documentary '1948: Creation & Catastrophe', a survivor speaks about women getting violated infront of their family members by iTf. She was a child at the time and still wept as an elderly woman. For more recent atrocities, "Breaking the Silence" record statements by the iTf themselves, they recount the events witht he same casualty their forebears do. The "Costs of War" study by brown in 2021 has these figures for the past 20 years of engagement of US policy: indirect deaths 4.5-4.7 million, direct 905-940,000 , in other words 6 million deaths and 38 million displaced. This is relevant because of the Oded Yinon Plan. More on the Oded Yinon plan - According to the founding father of zionism, theodore hertzel, the area of the jewish state stretches from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates; the promised land extends from the river of Egypt up to the Euphrates and includes parts of Syria and Lebanon; when viewed in the current context including the siege on Gaza the zionist plan for the middle east bears an intimate relationship to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the 2006 war in Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya and Syria and the continued crisis in Iraq and Yemen, not to mention the political crisis in the kingdom of saudi Arabia. In the 1980s an article written by a former senior official with the israeli foreign ministry in which israel shahak wrote a forward to which says "in my opinion the accurate and detailed plan of the present zionist regime of ariel sharon for the middle east which is based on the division of the whole area into small states and the dissolution of all the existing Arab states." The argument of the Oded Yinon plan was that the world was witnessing a new epoch in history without precedent which required both the development of a fresh perspective and an operational strategy to implement it. The nationalist and humanist foundations of western civilization were in a state of collapse and in the 1980s the west was disintegrating before the combined onslaught of the cold war into the soviet union in the third world, a phenomenon he believed was accompanied by an upsurge in anti-semitism, all of which meant that israel would become the last safe haven for jews to seek refuge and so he had a couple of blueprints for the middle east which included Egypt, Jordan, the west bank, Lebanon, syria and Iraq. Its publication was actually celebrated by william haddad, an american political operative and lobbyist, in which he caused the publication to become an uproar, a celebration of sorts that the united states neoconservative party would grow in tantamount with the israeli zionists for the control of the Middle East. In a article written in 2011 the 'Yinon plan was a continuation of britain's colonial design in the middle east "the unarmed plan is an israeli strategic plan to ensure israeli regional superiority and it insists and stipulates that israel must reconfigure its geopolitical environment so the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states", and of course viewed in this context the war on Syria and Iraq which ended is part of the process of israeli territorial expansion.

The Palestinians have gone through living day hell I'm appalled in this day and age we have seen this a nightmare for any human

Everyone who wants to stay on the sideline because they think this has nothing to do with them needs to listen testimony from Palestinians like Youmna El Sayed, if it doesn't affect you in anyway, you have to question where your humanity is

I must say your people give a good impression to the world of courage, patience, prayfulness and sheer foreberance. When they broke the fast during Ramadhan they were thankful despite having little to eat. Your college Waleed Daoud is a superb guy. They targeted his car with a drone. They killed his colleague. They injured his right hand. The nerves are shattered. His hand is paralysed temporarily. Yet he was not cursing and swearing at the Israelis. Instead his heart was full of forgiveness. In true Islamic way he accepted his fate. This type.of person is rare. Compare with Jewish. Some.prople attacked their.kibbutz. took some of their people hostage. What happened? They bombed EVERYONE into the stone age. The contrast is very obvious to see.

May Allah ease the sufferings of the people of palestine and grant them victory over the oppressors

This video is being censored beyond belief, 9 k views for smth like this is impossible

I feel bad for her and her family, but the leader ship in Gaza has to be removed they caused all this suffering and pain.

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Why havent management here cropped clips from this video? Republish 43:00-50:00 as a seperate clip immediately no one has time for 3h

I hope there can be forgiveness for the western countries who are enabling this to happen. I don’t know how I think I would never be able to forget and find very hard to forgive. But I at least I am with you in spirit and heart. Because every human being deserves to be safe. I am sorry 😔

The youthful hearts of the world that believe in essential goodness now carry Palestinian cause in their backpacks!

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They can surrender and they would not have to go through this. Gaza started it they can stop it. SURRENDER AND LIVE! Its that simple.

Resistance is vital and necessary yet analysis of ones enemy and the reality of environment and situation is of fundamental importance. October 7th attack was orchestrated by netanyahu and his ilk.

don't never dismiss questions because when we start questioning ourselves than the truth will never be valid. I am an american that have questions myself because before octv7th I never knew anything about palestine or hamas and especially the occupation. This is really unsettling because we know about everythng around palestine except for palestine. How is that possible in our education system. One thing I am blessed to have is that before oct7th I had no interest or no ideas about israel and let alone palestine that we never heard about. So because of that unfortunate sistuation also gave many of us a free mind to judge failrkly learning from after oct 7th. Most of us have no reason to have any sides to pick unless you are a jew or even palestani or a muslim. With all that being said, I think it's very faitr to say that censorship is very very real in this country and it has never changed but it made mostr of americans open their eyes with validity. When you really take a close look at most of the protest that is happening which btw is war protest not against jews as it's now being narrated as but you see in that crowd not onky arabs and paklesrtanis but all races. Whites, brown, black yellow, and everything iun between. As I have been saying the thing that really hgurts myt heart is that one thing we can't control is how politicians are acting as if they are speaking for safety oif americans and as if we are all with them, but as you can clearly see, the protests are not only arabs or palestanis. sometimes those are lead mainly by jews. One question I have been really confuysed and mangled with is that as we all know now oct 7th was not the starting point just out if nowhere, so that should be a talking point to validate to even go further to say just how a supposedly democratic soveirn country who has the top tech in military could justr our of blue moon on that morning all protections were lalmost as if it was a movie and almost done in a plan or was scripted. We don't hear that today alot at leaast here in the states, but I think that is something we should really be asking because I dont think the whole truth is out on exactly what happened on oct 7th. so please keep on asking and asking!

Appreciate this no-frills, heart-breaking interview. But - Why did Hamas do this to its own people? Hamas knew the retaliation would be big! Hamas also knew that a lot of civilians would pay the price...especially as they had put them there as human shields.

She has been through a lot … but it’s a very long interview … no need to repeat the same sentence over and over again.

This is so terrible 😞 💔 😢 😔 😪 😫 😞 💔 😢 😔 😪 what you all have to goes through and still going on do hope it stop very soon 😉 🙄 😀 👍 😜 😳 😉 🙄 😀 👍 😜 stay safe may allah blessed you 😉 🙄 😀 😜 👍 😳 😉 🙄 😀 😜 👍.

Comfortable at home in Gaza? At no time ofcourse you had meant safety..

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Bob Dylan's song Neighborhood Bully is not a Zionist anthem. It is the type of sarcastic critique we have previously seen in Positively 4th St., Fourth time around, and Subterranean Homesick Blues.

What a very powerful interview, hearing her experience as a survivor of this genocide happening in Gaza is trulwy exceptional and powerful. Such death destruction and chaos and by the miracle of God her and her family have made it out but so many are left there to be slaughtered and im sure thats hard for them to think about!

There should be a Palestinian Historical Museum to document the truth

Why don't you talk about why you didn't surrender right away so that you people would live.

This is unacceptable man how do they have no hearts is this what’s life has to offer for us and yet the Arab countries will answer for this and netenyahu looks like feraoun

ItS clear that Israel had plans for this event. Taking out all means of communications. I’m not normally a rabbit Hooke person but I think they were awaiting for this moment to do exactly what they are doing.

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Are we all (watching this genocide without acting) still humans? Satanists Demons took al away witho no return? Can we answer on propper way?

God where is God?

A residency to live in your own damn country

astaghfirullah, fowl scorn upon the US military complex and its allies.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤MAY GOD INVITE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO ISLAM

Can you interview her again about how she feels that Sinwar has rejected the ceasefire? I want to hear her explain how it is still the fault of Israel despite Sinwar being a psychopath and that Hamas is a death cult.

She saw the devil. Zios religion isn't the good up there kind 🤫

God bless Israel 🇮🇱 🙏 ❤️

Maybe it is time for Palestinians to choose peace.

Propaganda 101

Why wouldn’t Gaza be a disaster? But where are the Muslim voices criticising radical Islam? Nowhere, they wouldn’t dare, and that is the problem that until it is addressed, nothing will change.

Love and Salaam from Singapore 🇸🇬. Free Palestine 🇵🇸❤️♥️❤

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God bless Israel 🇮🇱 🙏 ❤️