Episodes

• Episode 1 - 
  Scholasticide in Gaza

  We present the first episode of a new podcast series entitled “Palestinian Jalsa” about Scholasticide in Gaza. In this important episode with Dr. Abaher Asakka, researcher and professor at Birzeit University, and hosted by Dr. Abdalhadi Ijla, a Palestinian sociologist and political scientist, we shed light on the impact of the Israeli war on the education sector in Gaza, and the huge challenges facing universities, schools, and researchers. The repeated aggression has destroyed 6 universities, affected more than 100,000 students, and damaged more than 130 schools. With the ongoing blockade, researchers’ access to academic resources has become almost impossible, threatening the future of an entire generation of academics.

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• Episode 2 - 
  Killing Children: The Politics of Erasing the Future

  In Episode 2, we turn to infanticide; the collapse of the health sector and the conditions that have made survival, pregnancy, and birth in Gaza a matter of life and death. Infanticide is not an accident of war. It is the documented, foreseeable consequence of dismantling a healthcare system: cutting off medicines, destroying fertility clinics, displacing pregnant women, and eliminating the infrastructure of life itself. This episode brings together two essential voices. Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, whose decades of leadership in pediatrics at Nasser Medical Complex made him a direct witness to the collapse of neonatal and reproductive health systems under siege, speaks from lived clinical practice about infant mortality, preventable deaths, and the structural targeting of life at its earliest stages. Abdallah Sharshara complements this with a legal and civil society lens, linking these outcomes to questions of accountability, human rights, and the erosion of protective frameworks for children and families in Gaza. Together, they bridge the hospital and the policy, making visible how demographic destruction operates simultaneously as a medical emergency and a juridical failure.

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• Episode 3 - 
  Urbicide in Gaza- Beyond Destruction

  Cities are more than infrastructure, they are lived spaces shaped by routine, memory, and human connection. In Gaza, where over 83% of structures have been destroyed since October 2023, the question is no longer about damage, but about erasure.

  In the first part of episode 3 of Jalsa Falastiniya, we speak with Dr. Yahya Al-Sarraj, Mayor of the City of Gaza, about what it means to witness the destruction of a city from within not as data, but as lived reality. We explore the concept of urbicide, and ask what remains when the physical and social fabric of a city collapses.

  From the meaning of reconstruction to the limits of global discourse, this conversation confronts the deeper implications of urban destruction, and whether a city, once erased, can truly be rebuilt.

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  43:23
• Episode 4 - 
  Urbicide in Gaza - Beyond Destruction part 2

  In the second part of episode three of Palestinian Jalsa, we host Dr. Nihad El Mughani, an architect from Gaza, to reflect on loss beyond numbers. Destruction here is not only measured in demolished buildings, but in the erasure of urban memory and identity. Buildings are not silent structures, they carry stories and lives shaped over time. While physical reconstruction may be possible, the deeper challenge remains: how can the spirit of a city be rebuilt once it has been erased?

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