Palestine Deep Dive
How Palestine Mainstreamed Alternative Media | Richard Sanders & Jehan Alfarra
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Eman Alhaj Ali is a Palestinian freelance journalist, writer, translator, and storyteller from Gaza. She is currently based in Ireland, completing her postgraduate studies. Follow her on X: @EmanAlhajAli1 and Instagram: @eman.alhajali
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.
00:00 – Introduction
03:45 – Why Eman decided to speak up
06:15 – Eman shares her mother’s miscarriage due to Israeli bombardment
11:50 – Eman’s testimony of living through the genocide in Gaza
18:40 – Her experience of displacement
38:00 – Traumatic memories and witnessing dead bodies
39:10 – What gives Eman courage to continue writing
42:30 – Eman’s message to Western journalists silent on Gaza
46:40 – Leaving Gaza and arriving in Ireland
56:40 – “Not even therapists can help with our PTSD”
58:30 – “This is a second Nakba for me”
1:00:50 – Israeli airstrikes killed Eman’s cousins
1:04:45 – Speaking of hope in the midst of horror
1:06:00 – Eman’s message to the world
The working paper is titled, “A Palestinian Armistice Plan, Charting a Rights-Based Transition for Palestinian-Israeli Peace.”
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Read the paper which was published in June 2025: cambridgepeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Palestinian-Armistice-Plan.pdf
The paper lays out “a pragmatic, rights-based plan for both a permanent ceasefire in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Israel and for the temporary transition period until a just, durable, and comprehensive settlement is reached to end the occupation and resolve all outstanding issues between Palestinians and Israelis.”
The paper recommends terms and mechanisms for Palestinian national reconciliation and political renewal to enable effective Palestinian governance, as well as a principled approach for facilitating humanitarian relief, early recovery, and reconstruction in Gaza.
Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Dr. Jamal Nusseibeh is a former Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and co-author of the Palestinian Armistice.
Dr. Wesam Amer is a visiting professor and CARA (Council for At-Risk Academics) fellow at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, as well as dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University in Palestine.
Mark Seddon is a former UN Speechwriter for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Former UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera. He now directs the Centre for UN Studies at the University of Buckingham.
0:00 Introduction
5:50 What is the Palestine Armistice Plan?
9:25 Objectives of Palestine Armistice Plan
15:30 Is this a plan for post-trump era?
18:30 What makes this plan different?
28:30 Reforming the PLO and elections in Palestine
35:30 Evaluating Trump’s plan for Gaza
42:30 More international pressure needed to stop Israel
46:30 Trump’s plan for Gaza will fail
51:00 New Palestinian leadership is emerging
He also exposes how he has been largely excluded from interviews on the mainstream media throughout the duration of the genocide.
Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is published by The Irish Pages Press. The book can be ordered directly at the publisher’s website: irishpages.org/product/genocide-in-gaza/?v=7885444af42e
(Online orders on this website are preferable and highly advantageous to the publisher, which receives only 15% of the cover price from Amazon).
In the discussion about the media in Britain, Avi stated that he has not been interviewed by the BBC. He was referring to the BBC in mainland Britain, but would like to clarify that BBC Northern Ireland interviewed him in 2025 for the Radio Ulster TalkBack programme with William Crawley.
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Avi Shlaim is an historian and author, and is a Emeritus Fellow of St Antonys College and a Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.
00:00 Intro
02:00 — Avi’s reaction to witnessing the genocide in Gaza.
05:00 — Life as an Arab Jew in Iraq.
07:50 — Jews thrived under the Ottoman Empire.
11:10 — Antisemitism is a European malady.
15:40 — Persecution of Arab Jews in Iraq.
17:10 — What is “cruel Zionism”?
18:40 — Other examples of Israel attacking its own people to encourage migration to Israel.
20:40 — Did Israel change Arab Jews for the better?
25:10 — Inferiority complex in Israel.
29:40 — When disenchantment with Israel began.
34:40 — Journey to becoming anti-Zionist.
36:40 — Israel is a racist state.
39:40 — What is the modus operandi of Zionism?
44:10 — Revisionist Zionism and Jabotinsky’s strategy.
50:40 — Do Palestinians “miss every opportunity for peace”?
53:40 — Should progressive movements be anti-Zionist?
55:40 — Do Palestinians have the right to resist occupation?
01:00:40 — Why hasn’t the BBC in London interviewed Avi Shlaim?
01:03:10 — Ehud Barak’s “generous offer” to the Palestinians.
01:07:10 — Israel’s policy of “mowing the lawn,” explained.
01:13:00 — The broader political goals behind Gaza’s de-development.
01:16:10 — Israel’s policy of “scholasticide” in Gaza since 1948.
01:21:40 — The role of historians in times of genocide.
01:27:40 — Finding hope in the darkest hours.
He calls on Gary Lineker and Sally Rooney to join the next aid flotilla heading for Gaza.
Kieran Andrieu is a Palestinian political commentator and contributor to Novara Media,
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.
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the extent of Israel’s foreign influence in Britain and across the world today.
He also discusses media bias and why Piers Morgan called for his arrest, the limits of recognising Palestine as a state, the challenges facing Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party in the UK and more.
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0:00 Intro
1:20 “I was not inciting violence against Piers Morgan”
2:00 Piers Morgan’s reporting on Palestine has been terrible
5:30 Is “Do you condemn Hamas” a legitimate question?
6:10 Israel Project exposed
10:08 How do we fight back against bias media?
12:38 Recognition of Palestine is a meaningless gesture
21:40 Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party: lessons must be learned
29:25 How penetrated is the British establishment by Israel?
32:30 Why has Donald Trump refused to publish the Epstein Files?
39:00 How Israeli tech companies have exploited neoliberalism
41:50 Oslo, the Palestinian Authority and the ascent of Israel’s Unit 8200
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Go Deeper:
* Rupert Murdoch-linked pirate website targeted rivals, online file shows (Guardian, 2012) theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/01/bskyb-itv-ondigital-hacking-nds
* Israeli High-Tech Firm Linked to Hack Scandal (Forward, 2012) forward.com/news/153908/israeli-high-tech-firm-linked-to-hack-scandal
* More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza (Guardian, July 2025) theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/02/more-than-400-media-figures-urge-bbc-board-to-remove-robbie-gibb-over-gaza
* Robbie Gibb: BBC faces questions over board member's links to Jewish Chronicle (Middle East Eye, September 2024) middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-faces-questions-over-board-members-links-jewish-chronicle
* Case against Netanyahu includes billionaire witnesses (Associated Press, December 2019) apnews.com/general-news-20fcaa1933154ef881a343850a59553a?utm_
* Oracle Billionaire Larry Ellison Got Hollywood's Arnon Milchan to Give Netanyahu His Lawyer (November 2020, Haaretz) haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-11-13/ty-article/.highlight/70-billion-man-testifying-for-the-prosecution-also-helped-netayahus-defense/0000017f-defc-df9c-a17f-fefc1d260000?utm_
* Larry Ellison: Oracle co-founder who overtook Musk as world’s richest person (Guardian, September 2025) theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/who-is-larry-ellison-richest-person-oracle?utm_
* The Larry Ellison Foundation (Propublic, December 2019) projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943269827/202013219349100626/full
* Larry Ellison has abruptly shut down the foundation he spent years setting up (Vox, September 2020) vox.com/recode/2020/9/2/21409530/larry-ellison-foundation-disband-london-philanthropy-coronavirus
* Blair patron of charity that shows Gaza and West Bank as part of Israel (Middle East Eye, November 2024) middleeasteye.net/news/tony-blair-patron-jewish-nation-fund-erases-west-bank
* Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ young women from Mar-a-Lago spa, including Virginia Giuffre (Associated Press, July 2025) apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-congress-ghislaine-maxwell-justice-department-3ca45e130deb5f2eee8deff36d99734f
* Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed (Wall Street Journal, 2025) wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34
* White House denies Trump's alleged birthday message to Epstein is authentic (BBC, September 2025) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgqnn4ngvdo
* Ehud Barak met with Jeffrey Epstein dozens of times, flew on private plane — report (Times of Israel, May 2023) timesofisrael.com/ehud-barak-met-with-jeffrey-epstein-dozens-of-times-flew-on-private-plane-report/?utm_
* Jeffrey Epstein Had 'Dirt' on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Brother Says (Newsweek, July 2025) newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-dirt-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-brother-mark-2105478?utm_
Host Paul Biggar is joined by Eric Sype, national organiser at 7amleh 7amleh.org The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media. Together, they unpack how Israel routinely disrupts Palestinian ICT infrastructure with a “kill switch,” how Big Tech enables censorship and mass surveillance and how digital repression plays out on platforms like Meta, Google and PayPal.
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Occupied Tech is a podcast by Tech for Palestine in collaboration with Palestine Deep Dive. Each episode explores how the global tech industry fuels Israel’s apartheid, occupation, and genocide, while also highlighting the brave individuals and organisations working to dismantle this system of oppression.
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0:00 – Intro: Israel’s digital kill switch
1:20 – Welcome back to Occupied Tech
1:50 – Eric Sype introduces 7amleh
4:58 – What are digital rights?
8:30 – What is digital occupation?
12:10 – West Bank: Palestinians vs Israeli settlers
15:00 – Rebuilding under digital siege
17:20 – Israel’s total control over ICT infrastructure
20:00 – ICT blackouts and war crime cover-ups
22:00 – AI Genocide: Lavender and “Where’s Daddy”
24:50 – Big Tech’s complicity in human rights violations
28:00 – Meta’s censorship double standards
30:30 – “Terrorism” lists and content suppression
33:00 – Silencing students and pro-Palestine voices
36:00 – Resistance and international law
42:40 – Meta employees fired for supporting Palestine
46:50 – Are all tech companies complicit?
48:00 – Anti-Zionist Jewish tech workers under pressure
52:20 – Conflating Zionism and Judaism at Big Tech
57:00 – Zuckerberg’s hypocrisy on hate speech
1:00:17 – Google’s role in erasing Palestine
1:07:00 – PayPal discriminates against Palestinians
1:07:50 – Cisco, Intel, and Palantir’s roles in oppression
1:10:55 – Supporting 7amleh’s vital work
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“Israel Killed My Best Friend, My Husband” | Shrouq Al Aila
In the second episode of Falasteeniya, a new podcast series spotlighting the voices, expertise, and lived experiences of Palestinian women and exploring the gendered dynamic of Israel's oppression, host Hala Hanina welcomes Journalist and Emmy award-winner Shrouq Al Aila speaking directly from inside the Gaza Strip.
A witness, survivor, and documenter of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Shrouq Al Aila is a Palestinian journalist, producer, and researcher who has been reporting from inside Gaza throughout the ongoing genocide. She is the director of Ain Media, an independent production company co-founded by her husband, Rushdi Sarraj, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on October 22, 2023.
Hala Hanina is a social and political activist from Gaza. She is currently completing a PhD in politics and sociology, focusing on Palestinian women at the intersection of colonial and patriarchal violence.
He outlines how the General Assembly can bypass the U.S. veto at the Security Council by using Uniting for Peace to form a “coalition of the willing,” capable of delivering humanitarian aid, enforcing a no-fly zone, and protecting civilians.
Mark Seddon brings deep insider experience: he served as a speechwriter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, media advisor to former UNGA President María Fernanda Espinosa, and was Al Jazeera’s first UN Correspondent.
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Speaking to investigative journalist Matt Kennard, retired Major General Charlie Herbert who served in the British Army for more than three decades, expresses his disgust and dismay at Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Gaza.
He says “I suspect I would have resigned" over this had he still been serving in the British Army given Britain’s high level of complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide, and questions why we haven’t seen more resignations.
They discuss British complicity and participation through spy flights from RAF Akrotiri, the role of the Zionist Lobby in Britain, the recent proscription of Palestine Action and the shattering of Western credibility in the international arena.
0:00 intro
0:32 Early life
2:30 Finding a voice over Afghanistan
5:50 What was the reaction of your former employer to you speaking out?
8:15 When you talk privately to veteran colleagues, are they outraged?
11:00 How can this not be genocide?
12:10 What did you think the Israel-Palestine conflict was, what do you think it is now?
14:00 “I expect I would have resigned over this”
18:00 The impact of the pro-Zionist Lobby
19:00 People collectively can stop this madness
22:00 Is the UK merely complicit, or actively participating in the genocide?
23:30 We need transparency on spy flights
26:10 The role of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus
30:30 If the intelligence is for finding hostages we’ve done not a very good job
34:45 Mainstream media has actively supported Israel’s crimes
39:00 BBC is now irrelevant and totally discredited
38:00 Heroic efforts of RAF in Second World War – IDF students training in London and then going back to Gaza during the genocide
40:00 You don’t just blindly follow orders
45:50 Western credibility is totally blown
48:40 Head of Israeli Air Force coming to UK
51:00 Airdrop footage from ITV – they already knew what was going on
52:00 Congrats on Shadow R1 contractor story
55:00 The political centre has broken down
55:50 What are your plans for the future?
56:50 Please march!
Nasr exposes the company’s major role in Israel’s genocide and apartheid and discusses efforts to organise workers and activists to resist its complicity.
No Azure for Apartheid (Noaa) is a worker-led group of tech workers within Microsoft, co-founded by Nasr. Its members are committed to exposing the complicity of specific technologies, including Microsoft's AI software Azure.
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Occupied Tech
In each episode, Paul Biggar introduces a new guest to break down the mechanics of the tech industry and how it powers Israel’s genocide, apartheid and occupation – looking at the companies, investors and individuals behind it. And most importantly, spotlighting the people resisting this oppression.
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Episode 1. Microsoft: Powering Israel’s Genocide?
Nasr exposes the company’s major role in Israel’s genocide and apartheid and discusses efforts to organise workers and activists to resist its complicity through the organisation he co-founded No Azure for Apartheid (Noaa).
Noaa is a worker-led group of tech workers within Microsoft. Its members are committed to exposing the complicity of specific technologies, including Microsoft's AI software Azure.
More than just a profit-seeking organisation, Nasr identifies Microsoft as a genocidal digital weapons manufacturer – as the most trusted tech provider for the Israeli government and military, Nasr explains how Microsoft aids Israel’s combat and intelligence activities, storing illegally collected data to surveil Palestinians and more.
Episode 1. was recorded back in June 2025, but new revelations reported recently in The Guardian also expose how Microsoft Azure servers in Europe have been storing ‘a million calls an hour’ in an expansive Israeli surveillance operation against Palestinians – data used by Israel to conduct lethal strikes in its ongoing genocide on Gaza.
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Hossam Nasr is an Egyptian software engineer and an alumnus of Harvard’s Computer Science programme. He is a former Microsoft employee and co-founder of No Azure for Apartheid, a movement of Microsoft workers demanding that Microsoft end its direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide.
noazureforapartheid.com
Paul Biggar is the founder of Tech For Palestine, a coalition of thousands of founders, engineers, product marketers, investors and other professionals who are working in support of Palestinian liberation. He is an Irish software engineer who founded the unicorn company CircleCI in 2011, before being fired from its board in 2023 for support of Palestine.
techforpalestine.org
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0:00 Intro
03:24 Is Microsoft evil?
07:41 What is No Azure for Apartheid?
13:47 How does Noaa organise?
15:29 Beginnings of Noaa
19:45 Fired from Microsoft
20:56 Microsoft's complicity
26:10 Pressure campaigns at Microsoft before October 7
35:25 Hossam Nasr’s roots
37:40 Building risk tolerance
38:35 Shifting gears post October 7th
40:02 Microsoft's firing of Hossam
41:26 Capitalist + Zionist suppression at Microsoft
44:26 Investigated for Palestinian solidarity
47:34 Microsoft’s internal doxxing campaign
52:46 Microsoft's direct involvement in genocide
58:41 Cloud and AI are weapons, Microsoft a weapons manufacturer
59:35 Israel’s coopting of tech to subjugate Palestinians
1:07:00 Microsoft's future legacy as genocidal big tech
"Careers Need to be Ruined!" Owen Jones exposes the cowardice of Western media journalists in the face of Israel's ongoing genocide on Gaza.
Sitting down with Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq, Jones exposes the BBC’s systematic failures, saying the organisation "will never recover" from its coverage on Gaza. He also critiques his own employer, The Guardian, and Western journalists more generally who remain unwilling to report accurately the situation on the ground.
They also discuss the false allegations that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party was institutionally anti-Semitic under his leadership, and what was done to challenge that narrative in and around the Party at the time.
Jones also offers his perspective on Zionism and how it has developed, and also provides his theory of change for freedom in Palestine through support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
0:00 Intro
02:00 Media cowardice and complicity
16:40 The BBC will not recover from this
40:00 We must build independent media
55:00 Labour, Jeremy Corbyn and false accusations of anti-Semitism
1:10:30 Zionism
1:27:00 Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
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Hala Hanina speaks with two exceptional Palestinian scholars who are trapped starving and under Israeli fire in Gaza awaiting permission to be allowed to enter the UK.
Israa Saleh and Malak AlSweirki are two of more than 80 Palestinians students in Gaza who are unable to travel to the UK because they cannot obtain biometric data required for visas as facilities there remain closed.
Israa Saleh is a medical doctor, Chevening alumna and expert in sexual and reproductive health. She was awarded a fully funded PhD by the UK’s prestigious Medical Research Council.
Malak AlSweirki, one of Gaza’s top students at just 20 years-old, chose to study at Cambridge University despite also receiving full offers from Harvard, Yale among others.
Hala Hanina is a social and political activist from Gaza. She is currently completing a PhD in politics and sociology, focusing on Palestinian women at the intersection of colonial and patriarchal violence.
Investigative journalist Matt Kennard revealed yesterday in an exclusive article published on Palestine Deep Dive that Gaza spy flights from UK base RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus have secretly shifted to a plane leased by a company with billions in US military contracts.
A spy plane leased from a company that works closely with the US military is now flying daily intelligence-gathering flights over Gaza from British territory on Cyprus, Deep Dive can reveal.
Read the full investigation: palestinedeepdive.com/p/revealed-gaza-spy-flights-from-uk
0:00 Intro
0:20 What have you found?
2:30 The company operates COCO contracts (contractor owned, contractor operated)
3:00 They’re still flying from RAF Akrotiri
4:20 Is this the UK trying to appear less involved in the genocide?
6:25 UK and Israel signed a secret agreement in 2020
10:28 The new US spy plane is the exact same model as the RAF’s aircraft
11:40 Look at the footage from Gaza today: This is a holocaust
12:45 Straight Flight Nevada Leasing: who are these people?
14:20 The plane came online on July 10 for a test mission over the US preparing for Gaza
15:20 The RAF Shadow R1 escorted the new plane for its first flights over Gaza
16:20 There are a lot of open questions
16:40 Why would the UK even send a spy flight to Gaza?
17:30 A legacy in Empire: UK wants to be involved in military activities overseas
18:30 Israel’s genocidal intent has been clear from the beginning
20:30 The UK government is guilty of being a participant in genocide
22:20 This is a holocaust
24:20 Israeli leaders are telling us themselves: they want erase Gaza
25:45 This is the death of the West as an idea
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Gaza is starving. Israel’s genocide has entered a new and apocalyptic phase which puts at risk the whole population of Gaza. Barely any aid has been allowed in since March, and now the UN says at least half a million Palestinians will imminently be in IPC Stage 5 malnutrition which means starvation, destitution and death. There is no stage 6. This is an international emergency and nearly all Western countries are complicit.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.
Dirar Kalash is a Palestinian musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. He is mostly known for his politically driven field recording / electro-acoustic project “The Sonic Front”, and his politically charged compositions like “ we can’t breathe” and “by any means necessary”.
Through conversations and reflections with Dirar Kalash, composer and filmmaker Sami El-Enany delves into the politics of listening, sound as survival and what answers music might offer us when our humanity is in question.
Directed by Sami El-Enany.
Produced by Palestine Deep Dive.
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In the second episode of Falasteeniya, a new podcast series spotlighting the voices, expertise, and lived experiences of Palestinian women and exploring the gendered dynamic of Israel's oppression, host Hala Hanina welcomes Journalist and Emmy award-winner Shrouq Al Aila speaking directly from inside the Gaza Strip.
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A witness, survivor, and documenter of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Shrouq Al Aila is a Palestinian journalist, producer, and researcher who has been reporting from inside Gaza throughout the ongoing genocide. She is the director of Ain Media, an independent production company co-founded by her husband, Rushdi Sarraj, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on October 22, 2023.
In this episode, Shrouq speaks about her return to Gaza after the genocide began, the day she lost her husband, the assassination of her colleagues at Ain Media, and the daily toll of famine, grief, and survival. She also reflects on the Western feminist silence around the femicide in Gaza, and the Emmy award she recently received for her work, a recognition dedicated to those who gave everything to tell the truth.
“Rushdi gave me a press vest, thinking it would protect me. But here, that vest marks you as a target.”
Despite repeated displacement, personal loss, and ongoing danger, Shrouq has remained in Gaza to continue reporting the truth from the ground. Her work not only exposes Israel’s war crimes and the Western media’s complicity but also stands as a frontline act of resistance, ensuring that Palestinian stories are told, and that memory is not erased.
Rushdi Sarraj (1992 – 2023) was a 31-year-old Palestinian filmmaker and co-founder of Ain Media – a Gaza-based Independent media production company.
Hala Hanina is a social and political activist from Gaza. She is currently completing a PhD in politics and sociology, focusing on Palestinian women at the intersection of colonial and patriarchal violence.
"Israel imprisoned my brother when he was twelve!"
Palestinian political commentator Kieran Andrieu joins Ahmed Alnaouq to explore what it means to be Palestinian today amidst Israel’s ongoing attempted fragmentation and erasure of the Palestinian people.
From Gaza to Jerusalem to Brighton -- their conversation uncovers the shared experiences of Palestinian dispossession, resistance, and survival at the hands of Israel’s attempts to sever the Palestinian people from one another.
Kieran shares stories from his family's history — including his grandfather’s wounding during the Nakba, the mysterious disappearance of an uncle, and a brother imprisoned at just 12-years-old. Ahmed reflects on his own losses in Gaza, and how growing up under siege shaped his understanding of Palestinian identity as one marked by resilience and struggle.
Together, they speak about the role of memory, the global shift in public opinion, and how Palestine has grown from a national cause into a worldwide movement for justice.
Kieran Andrieu is a British-Palestinian political commentator. He is a regular Novara Media contributor and holds a doctorate in political economy.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.
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00:00 Introduction
03:54 Dual Identity and Fragmentation
04:52 Kieran's Family History
16:37 Ahmed’s Family History
22:45 Zionism is the root cause of our suffering
28:20 Symbolism and Identity Formation
37:30 Visiting Palestine for the first time
40:28 Tel Aviv and Labour Under Oppression
45:10 On Being Introduced to “Palestinianness”
55:00 Optimism vs Pessimism
1:01:00 International Solidarity and the Global Movement
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Former Al Jazeera UN Correspondent Mark Seddon sits down with His Excellency Ambassador Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestine Mission to the United Kingdom for an exclusive interview with Palestine Deep Dive.
5:00 We need an arms embargo and full sanctions against Israel now
5:22 Should the UN General Assembly initiate Uniting for the Peace to force sanctions on Israel?
7:20 How can Palestinians negotiate a ceasefire with such a dishonest broker as Israel?
10:10 The death toll in Gaza might be much higher than being reported – what will reporters find when they eventually enter Gaza?
13:00 Every 16 minutes there is a Palestinian child killed by Israel every single day
14:30 Does Israel want to drive Palestinians permanently from Gaza?
20:30 Why has the world failed to act?
27:00 Why has the Arab world so badly let down the Palestinians?
31:20 What is your message to mainstream media journalists reporting on Gaza?
35:30 Is the weaponisation of antisemitism allegations against Palestine solidarity activists now transparent for all to see?
38:50 What hope do you have for a one or two state solution?
41:20 We Palestinians have hope — we have summud and steadfastness
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In the first episode of Falasteeniya — a new podcast series spotlighting the voices, expertise, and lived experiences of Palestinian women — host Hala Hanina welcomes Somaia Abunada to the Palestine Deep Dive studio.
A witness and survivor to Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Somaia Abunada remembers the life and legacy of her older sister Heba Abunada — poet, scientist, and beloved daughter of Gaza — who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on October 20, 2023.
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Heba Abunada (1991–2023) was more than a poet. She was Gaza’s radiance — a biochemist, a writer, and a visionary thinker whose words carried generations of Palestinian pain and resistance. Her poems traced the delicate threads between loss and longing, life and liberation. She wrote as if Gaza breathed through her.
But Heba’s life was cut short in the beginning of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. She was killed while on her prayer mat, during one of the most violent days of the genocide. Her final words on Facebook that morning read: “In Gaza, we are with God, either as martyrs or as witnesses to liberation, and all of us are waiting to see which we will be.”
Somaia Abunada is the younger sister of Heba. She is a former Fulbright language teaching assistant, she holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in Translation Studies. Somaia is currently pursuing a second Master’s degree in Applied Intercultural Communication at Trinity College Dublin. She has worked as an English teacher with the Irish Red Cross, social media coordinator with We Are Not Numbers, as a writer, and an activities coordinator and translator.
Hala Hanina is a social and political activist from Gaza. She is currently completing a PhD in politics and sociology which focuses on Palestinian women at the intersection of colonial and patriarchal violence.
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Palestine Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq and Matt Kennard discuss his latest story about the Labour government secretly allowing Israeli Air Force planes to land in the UK.
They discuss where Matt and colleagues found the evidence and why the UK government has tried so hard to keep it secret.
They also talk about the significance of the UK base where the IAF planes have been landing, RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, which was recently targeted by Palestine Action.
Matt explains how IAF refuelling planes have been active over Gaza around the time of war crimes, including attacks on residential apartment blocks.
They finish by talking about the implications of the new findings, with British ministers coming under increasing pressure for transparency about the UK military and intelligence role in the Gaza genocide.
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are criminalising the people who are trying to stop it as as terrorists. It's horrific." Matt Kennard
Palestine Deep Dive's Omar Aziz heads down to London's Trafalgar Square to check out the demonstration standing in solidarity with Palestine Action, who have been targeted with proscription by the British government.
Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary who is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, will soon submit a draft proscription order to parliament.
If the law passes, Palestine Action will become a designated terrorist group, which means that being a member of it, or even voicing support for it, will carry a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
This is the first time the UK government has moved to criminalise an activist group using the Terrorism Act of 2000, having huge implications for protest and free speech in Britain for generations to come.
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Israel and the US’s current war on Iran has been a long time in the making.
Palestine Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq and Matt Kennard discuss the history of regime change efforts and why Tehran has been such a problem for Washington and Tel Aviv.
They discuss the history of Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program which began in the 1950s, and the evolution of the Begin Doctrine after Israel’s strike on the Iraqi reactor at Osirak in 1981.
They also talk about the fact that no evidence exists that Iran has a nuclear weapons program while Israel’s is widely-known documented - and the absurdity of the fact that Iran signed up to the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970, but Israel is one of only four countries which has always refused.
This interview was conducted on Friday 20 June 2025.
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Iran and Israel are at war after Israel launched an unprovoked attack last week. Palestine Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq sits down with legendary journalist and hip hop artist Lowkey to talk about the role Iran has played in the history of resistance to Zionism, about whether regime change in Iran is Israel's end goal, and who might come out on top.
They also talk about the resistance to the Gaza genocide within the UK, particularly the role Palestine Action has played, and the repression the British state has unleashed on activists and journalists to try to dampen the popular movement for Palestine.
Finally, they compare notes on being interviewed by Piers Morgan, and talk about whether his recent change of position on the genocide in Gaza is genuine, and what his real goal is with his popular Youtube show.


