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Brief: Day 2 of US and Israeli strikes o...

About this episode

This week: 151 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 618 Palestinians in Gaza. Israel and the United States are attacking Iran and have killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader.

Israel has killed more than 72,082 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th, 2023.

In this episode:

Tohid Asadi, Al Jazeera Correspondent
Victoria Gatenby, Al Jazeera Producer
Manuel Rapalo, Al Jazeera Correspondent
Nida Ibrahim, Al Jazeera Correspondent

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Andrew Greiner and Munera AlDosari is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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