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Palestinian journalist Amal Helles has been reporting for The Times and The Sunday Times from Gaza since the Hamas attacks on Israel, and the beginning of the conflict in October. Foreign journalists aren't allowed unaccompanied into the territory, where she lives with her husband and two small children. So we’ve been talking to her via WhatsApp voice notes about life amid food shortages, bombing and evacuation.

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Guest: Amal Helles, journalist, The Times and The Sunday Times.

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As the war against Hamas enters a seventh week, Israel finds itself under intense pressure to justify its actions in Gaza, including the raid of Al-Shifa Hospital, which it says is a center of Hamas activity. Hamas and hospital officials deny the accusation.

Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The Times, was one of the reporters invited by the Israeli military on an escorted trip into the enclave.

Guest: Patrick Kingsley, Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• Traveling into Gaza with an Israeli military convoy, Times journalists saw houses flattened like playing cards and a city utterly disfigured.

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Israel vows to end Hamas, the Democratic Socialists of America hold a much-criticized pro-Palestinian rally, and a Senior Advisor to the former US Ambassador to Israel gives his account from the ground. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.

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