Oct 8, 2026 · 59 min · 14 segments
Today on the show: The genocide upsurge continues in Occupied Palestine: we’ll feature as we do every aThursday, the Electronic Intifada frontline newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman: Also today…
Nora Barrows-Friedman
Dennis BernsteinHost
Anita BarrowsGuestRoqaya Shamseddin
I'm Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at The Electronic Intifada.
Just after midnight on Wednesday, October 7th, an Israeli airstrike killed 22-year-old civil defense worker Mohammed Tamuz, also known as Abu Luay.
The civil defense stated that Tamuz sustained critical injuries while voluntarily rushing to aid the wounded near Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the north.
Tamuz had joined the civil defense as a 19-year-old volunteer, pulling countless Palestinians from under the rubble and helping evacuate people under Israeli bombardment.
The Samir Project, a mutual aid organization in Gaza, said that their team worked with Mohammed to fix vehicles for the civil defense and collaborated with him on providing meals to the frontliners when food was highly scarce.
He was passionate and caring and provided support to people beyond his work in civil defense, the Samir Project added.
On Tuesday, the day before he was killed, he visited a new elementary school in the Beit Lahia area.
Tamuz says in a video that he recorded there that the school serves students from first to sixth grade with an enrollment of over 500 boys and girls.
He takes viewers on a tour inside to show some of the classrooms, saying, quote, "The classrooms here are actually tents, and the students are great." He greets some of the students, asking them how they like their new school, if they're comfortable, happy, and if they are afraid because the army is next to them.
Mohammed says that the Yellow Line is nearby, and that the school, quote, "was initially established through the personal grassroots efforts of people in the area.
Later, the Al-Bir Charitable Organization stepped in, adopted the school, and expanded it." He also explains that there is a medical clinic that provides free treatment to anyone in the area, saying, quote, "This is our school, this is our crisis, this is our strength, and this is our reality.
These people live near the Yellow Line despite the close-range gunfire directed at the area every day.
Yet the people here have great resolve, and they prioritize education and everything that bolsters their steadfastness and supports the community in this area.
I'm Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at The Electronic Intifada.
Just after midnight on Wednesday, October 7th, an Israeli airstrike killed 22-year-old civil defense worker Mohammed Tamuz, also known as Abu Luay.
The civil defense stated that Tamuz sustained critical injuries while voluntarily rushing to aid the wounded near Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the north.
Tamuz had joined the civil defense as a 19-year-old volunteer, pulling countless Palestinians from under the rubble and helping evacuate people under Israeli bombardment.
The Samir Project, a mutual aid organization in Gaza, said that their team worked with Mohammed to fix vehicles for the civil defense and collaborated with him on providing meals to the frontliners when food was highly scarce.
He was passionate and caring and provided support to people beyond his work in civil defense, the Samir Project added.
On Tuesday, the day before he was killed, he visited a new elementary school in the Beit Lahia area.
Tamuz says in a video that he recorded there that the school serves students from first to sixth grade with an enrollment of over 500 boys and girls.
He takes viewers on a tour inside to show some of the classrooms, saying, quote, "The classrooms here are actually tents, and the students are great." He greets some of the students, asking them how they like their new school, if they're comfortable, happy, and if they are afraid because the army is next to them.
Mohammed says that the Yellow Line is nearby, and that the school, quote, "was initially established through the personal grassroots efforts of people in the area.
Later, the Al-Bir Charitable Organization stepped in, adopted the school, and expanded it." He also explains that there is a medical clinic that provides free treatment to anyone in the area, saying, quote, "This is our school, this is our crisis, this is our strength, and this is our reality.
These people live near the Yellow Line despite the close-range gunfire directed at the area every day.
Yet the people here have great resolve, and they prioritize education and everything that bolsters their steadfastness and supports the community in this area.
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