Introducing Click Here: "Israel, Gaza and all the light you cannot see"

This episode is brought to you by the Click Here podcast from Recorded Future News.

Host Dina Temple-Raston tells the story of two ordinary people who decided to tackle two extraordinary problems: identifying the thousands who went missing in Israel in the days after the Oct. 7 attacks, and one man’s leap of faith to get internet and cellphone service into Gaza.

Ben:

Hey, threadheads. It’s Ben. Our Endless Thread team is away on holiday this week and we have some great stories in the works for 2024. 

In the meantime, we wanted to take a moment to share an episode from another tech podcast we listen to called Click Here from Recorded Future News…

It’s hosted by Dina Temple-Raston, who’s name might ring a bell…

She was a longtime terrorism and investigations correspondent on NPR.

Dina and the Click Here team put together an episode recently that looked at the communications problems in both Israel and Gaza shortly after Hamas launched deadly attacks on southern Israel and the war in Gaza began.

Some 1,200 people died in the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7. Some 120 more are still being held hostage by Hamas. According to the Gaza Healthy Ministry, Israeli airstrikes have killed some 20,000 Palestinians.

 The fog of war has made it impossible to verify those numbers. What everyone seems to agree on is that the ability to communicate – emotionally, politically and even technologically, is hobbling both sides.

Today, our friends on the Click Here podcast bring us two stories from Israel and Gaza about bridging the information gap in the conflict.