Foreign Correspondent - Matthew Doran - ABC Middle East
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Foreign Correspondent - Matthew Doran - ABC Middle East

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202617 min
  • Politics

Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife are joined by Matthew Doran, ABC's Middle East Correspondent, to unpack the latest developing stories from the region.

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Let's talk to Matthew Doran, our foreign correspondent in the Middle East. Three years ago on the 7th of October, 2023, Hamas led attackers crossed into southern Israel and killed around 1200 people and took

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251 people hostage. The events were horrific. The attacks changed Israel and the wider region forever. Three years of war followed.

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Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed. Much of Gaza has just been bombed to pieces. It's devastated. Questions over the fate of the hostages

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