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Jeremy Loffredo

Jeremy Loffredo

Journalist

Oct 20, 2026

35:18
Before we get to the emails, which I am very curious about, I actually want to kind of rewind a little bit and ask you to elaborate a little more for our audience on what your experience was and what happened to you just in case they're unfamiliar with your story.
35:34
Sure, let's go back a little bit when I started working in Israel, Palestine, it was only maybe a week or two after October 7th.
35:42
I went to Israel and I started documenting and reporting on the mass ethnic cleansing that followed October 7th in the West Bank.
35:51
I got there maybe two weeks after October 7th and 40 plus villages in the Jordan Valley had already been ethnically cleansed.
35:57
This was almost immediate, so I was covering that for a good while and The fanatical Israelis who were blocking humanitarian aid at the Kareem Shalom and it's on a border crossings in the south of Israel.
36:12
They were collaborating with the military to block the aid.
36:14
And then another time I was at embedded with some of these Israeli settlers as they marched into Gaza to scout out places that they wanted to build settlements.

7 MINS LATER

43:37
acknowledge that you're kidnapped by the IDF and their whole take throughout these emails was, what's our talking? We're not gonna do anything about it, but what's our talking point when we're asked about it? And what were they deliberating in regard to what the talking point should be?
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
11:29
I see.
11:30
So it really dissuaded me from turning it on because I would be in a wet solitary confinement cell for who knows how long.
11:38
There's cigarette butts everywhere.
11:39
There's spray paint everywhere.
11:40
There's dirt everywhere.
11:41
It was just a disgusting place.
11:44
And the fluorescent light just makes everything worse.

12 MINS LATER

speaker_7UNKNOWN
23:27
She
Robin SimeonCORRESPONDENT
18:05
Jeremy describes him, Andre, as someone who doesn't mind yelling at a soldier.
18:10
Andre says, I'm not going to give you my phone.
18:12
You cannot take my phone.
18:14
And the guy says, no, give me your phone right now.
18:18
Get out of the car.
18:20
The soldier puts his hand in the door, opens the door, grabs Andre, grabs Andre out of the car by like his head and neck, puts him on the ground, points his gun, his M16 or AR-15, I don't know what it was, a long gun, like a rifle, in Andre's face.
18:38
Keeps it there for like maybe five seconds.

28 MINS LATER

Robin SimeonCORRESPONDENT
46:26
What Jeremy is seeing, he feels like it confirms the idea that something is being covered up, that there's something big here that the Israeli government does not want anyone to see.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
9:36
I see.
9:37
So it really dissuaded me from turning it on because I would be in a wet solitary confinement cell for who knows how long.
9:45
There's cigarette butts everywhere.
9:46
There's spray paint everywhere.
9:47
There's dirt everywhere.
9:48
It was just a disgusting place.
9:51
And the fluorescent light just makes everything worse.

12 MINS LATER

speaker_6UNKNOWN
21:34
She
Robin SimeonCORRESPONDENT
16:48
Jeremy describes him, Andre, as someone who doesn't mind yelling at a soldier.
16:53
Andre says, I'm not going to give you my phone.
16:55
You cannot take my phone.
16:57
And the guy says, no, give me your phone right now.
17:01
Get out of the car.
17:03
The soldier puts his hand in the door, opens the door, grabs Andre, grabs Andre out of the car by like his head and neck, puts him on the ground, points his gun, his M16 or AR-15, I don't know what it was, a long gun, like a rifle, in Andre's face.
17:21
Keeps it there for like maybe five seconds.

29 MINS LATER

Robin SimeonCORRESPONDENT
46:09
What Jeremy is seeing, he feels like it confirms the idea that something is being covered up, that there's something big here that the Israeli government does not want anyone to see.

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