Mediterranean. The offshore patrol ship Furor will depart from Cartagena ready to assist/rescue flotilla boats carrying aid. Spain...rallied 17 countries behind a joint warning that any attack on the flotilla will bring accountability before int'l courts. Italy has also sent a frigate to the area.

Gaza is one of the oldest urban centres on Earth, and in this series we are exploring its long history. It was first referred to by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BC when it was known as Ghazzati....

So in this episode we ask Jo Quinn, Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge: who were the Philistines/Peleset/Palashtu? What was the Bronze Age Collapse and who were the so-called Sea Peoples who may have brought it about?
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This is a part of the world that dominates our front pages & yet about which we learn remarkably little at school: the history of Gaza rarely makes it onto the curriculum, we are not taught its story in movies or documentaries. Yet it is something we badly need to know to understand current events

That is why we have decided to tell its story before it is too late. We want to remind our @empirepoduk.bsky.social listeners of the complex & violent history of the peoples who have passed through & lived in Gaza and whose genes have contributed to the diversity of the modern Palestinian people