Israel shatters the ceasefire with Hamas
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
More than 400 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in Tuesday’s attacks, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, making it one of the deadliest days of the 17-month war.
Host Colby Itkowitz talks with Miriam Berger, who has been covering the conflict for The Post, about what it’s like in Gaza right now and what this means for the possibility of a ceasefire in the future.
Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy with help from Bishop Sand. It was edited by Lucy Perkins with help from Reena Flores, and mixed by Sam Bair.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Diana. I currently live in Gaza City when the massive bombings have started last night at 2 a.m. |
| 0:09.7 | I was asleep and woke up in a scene of horror and fear. |
| 0:16.0 | Diana Shams is 26 and lives with her two young children. |
| 0:20.5 | What she was hearing was Israel's military, launching large-scale airspace. is 26 and lives with her two young children. |
| 0:26.6 | What she was hearing was Israel's military, launching large-scale air strikes on the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:33.0 | Rushed up to look over my kids and took them to sleep in the same room that we are staying in. I rushed up to take the phone to check on the news, on the social media, to look where was the bombing and if it's near us or in our neighborhood, because the sound was really terrifying. |
| 0:47.4 | I went and backed up my clothes, my kids' clothes, and any important stuff for us to be ready to evacuate in any moment. |
| 0:57.5 | We had a sleepless night, a terrified and a fall of horror and fear. |
| 1:03.0 | So we are praying right now that the ceasefire will come into effect again and this struggles will not repeat again and we will not |
| 1:15.0 | live horror and fear as we left for 15 months. |
| 1:38.3 | The attack broke Israel's fragile ceasefire with Hamas and killed, as of late Tuesday morning, more than 400 people. |
| 1:47.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post reports. I'm Colby Ickowitz. |
| 1:49.0 | It's Tuesday, March 18th. |
| 1:52.0 | Today, I talk with Miriam Berger, who has been reporting on the ground since the start of the war. |
| 1:58.0 | I ask her about the devastation in Gaza and whether a new ceasefire |
| 2:02.1 | can be reached. |
| 2:16.3 | Miriam, hi, thanks for joining us today. |
| 2:17.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 2:19.3 | Miriam, you're in Israel right now and you've been speaking with people in Gaza. |
| 2:25.6 | What are they telling you? |
| 2:26.4 | What is it like there right now? |
| 2:28.9 | Right now people are terrified and they're so, so tired. |
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