Summary
The Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the UK, whose 9 October 2023 BBC interview opens Mohammed El-Kurd’s Chapter 10 of From the River to the Sea (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 680-684).
Details
- Hours before the interview, six of his family members were killed in the Israeli operation on Gaza — “My cousin Ayah, her two children, her husband, her mother-in-law, and two other relatives were killed instantly, and two of their youngest children, a twin, two years old, are now in intensive care,” he told Wark (line 682).
- Host Kirsty Wark responded: “Sorry for your own personal loss. I mean, can I just be clear, though, you cannot condone the killing of civilians in Israel, can you?” — El-Kurd’s central example of the media’s dehumanisation of Palestinians (line 682).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Mohammed El-Kurd, Palestinian Authority