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Monitor Daily Podcast

September 03, 2024
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Amelia Newcomb
Senior editor

It can be extremely difficult, and an act of bravery, to write about personal loss amid a war that is affecting millions of people. In our lead story, two Monitor correspondents – Dina Kraft in Israel and Ghada Abdulfattah in Gaza – share how the news of the past few days, of hostages killed and homes leveled, transformed their lives forever. I hope you’ll read their heartfelt accounts, and embrace these two journalists as we at the Monitor are – and, in doing so, honor the humanity of all those caught up in the conflict raging around them.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

Ghada Abdulfattah
The correspondent’s father inspects the rubble that was once their family home, destroyed during an Israeli military offensive, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sept. 2, 2024.

Today’s news briefs

A deeper look

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A mother walks with her child in Xingtian Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, July 14, 2014.

In Pictures

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SEASIDE SIGNAL: The Whitefish Point Light Station, built in 1849, is the oldest operating lighthouse in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

The Monitor's View

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks in Gdansk, Poland, Sept. 1.

A Christian Science Perspective

About this feature

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A group of fans shush the crowd as the “Shh Cam” scans the audience during the men’s United States versus France goalball match at the Paralympic Games in Paris Aug. 31, 2024. The object of the game, in which the players on each three-person team are legally blind, is to throw the ball across the court, past the opponents, and into their net. The Paralympic sports of blind football and goalball require spectators to be silent during game action so that players can receive audible cues from the ball and the environment. The U.S. beat France but fell to Japan in the quarterfinals.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte and Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thanks for joining us today. Tomorrow, in addition to coverage from Ukraine, we’ll have a story from staff writer Troy Aidan Sambajon that looks at the growing number of U.S. states mandating some form of instruction in Asian American history in grades K-12. 

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