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Tucker Carlson: “It was awful.”

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Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons

Published May 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 57:47

And you could smell it from about two or three miles away. You could smell the burning. And It was awful. It was awful. So we got into Rafa, we got through the sort of the Egyptian checkpoints, then the Gazan checkpoints and we had to drive through Rafa to get to the house we were, the safe house we were living in. (57:47–57:49)

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Describes the situation in Gaza as awful, indicating severe conditions or events.

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“On October 9th, so three days after the Hamas attacks, the Defense minister of Israel, their own Pete Hegseth, described his plans for Gaza…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 08:43-09:06
“Even now there are more journalists operating in Kilgali, Rwanda, without restriction in 1994 than there are in Gaza today.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 20:41-20:50
“Hundreds of journalists have been murdered by the Israeli government in Gaza.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 21:03-21:09
“The New York Times recently ran a piece saying that Palestinian prisoners had been raped with dogs in Israeli prisons.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 46:01-46:11
“The Clinton administration famously knew [the Rwandan genocide] was happening, but for domestic political reasons didn't act to stop it.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 02:50-02:57
“The United States, [Samantha Power] wrote, has a moral obligation to intervene with force if it determines that a genocide is underway.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 03:51-04:02
“Another genocide, this one took place in Gaza, the territory that Israel has controlled, formerly part of Egypt, since 1967.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 05:17-05:28
“Shortly after the attacks by Hamas into southern Israel In October of 2023, Israel decided to murder as many people as it possibly could in…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 05:29-05:41
“Israeli officials said out loud, this is our plan. And then they tried to do it.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 05:49-05:55
“Israel planned to commit genocide. Traditionally defined genocide targeting a population because of their bloodline and trying to…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 07:10-07:20
“In October of 2023, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said, said out loud in a public speech, the Palestinians are amc amc…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 07:25-07:39
“The deputy mayor of Jerusalem thought he didn't go far enough. And he said this. They're not human animals. They're not human beings. They…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 09:26-09:50
“The aim was genocidal from the very first day the Israelis announced it. Israel's supporters in the United States seconded it, amplified it…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 10:25-10:47
“There are no innocent Palestinian civilians. We starved the Germans. We're proud of it. We dropped an atomic bomb on Japanese civilians…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 12:08-12:21
“This is an explicit violation of the IHRA definition of anti Semitism, but it's also true.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 13:08-13:14
“Israel could do none of this by itself. Of course. It couldn't exist without U.S. tax dollars.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 15:31-15:31
“Joe Biden did nothing to stop the genocide in Gaza. Of course he continued to allow the US government to pay for it.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 18:13-18:21
“Government during the longest genocide in this world since 1945.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 23:57-24:05
“How hard was it for cancer patients to leave Gaza for treatment?”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 31:35-31:40
“Targeting hospitals is a war crime, correct?”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 40:58-41:01
“The response in the American media, to the extent there was response, was to accuse the writer of blood libel against all Jews.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 46:10-46:18
“This is like accusing rabbis of poisoning wells. It was basically Nazi propaganda.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 46:17-46:23
“If you told me that it happened in a North Korean prison camp, I would have trouble believing. You're saying the Israeli government did…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 47:37-47:44
“Power became famous for writing a book on genocide. How we can never allow it again. And then she allowed it again.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 50:12-50:19
“Well, some of the accounts are so shocking that the military just rolls into a hospital, abducts senior physicians, and then rapes them in…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 54:45-54:55
“Given how familiar you are with Gaza and the crossings from Gaza into Israel, were you surprised that Hamas or militants could cross the…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 55:45-55:57
“What did you find when you got there?”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 57:08-57:10
“And you're a surgeon so it's not like you're fainting at the sight of blood.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:01:14-1:01:18
“And when civilians are killed, by definition it's murder because they're not part of it.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:05:51-1:05:57
“The starvation in Gaza is real and entirely manufactured by the Israeli government with the backstop of the American government.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:07:57-1:08:17
“I'm confused because we had a guy, an American called Johnny Moore, who's some sort of self described Christian minister, who ran the Gaza…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:07:57-1:08:18
“What was the Gaza Humanitarian foundation doing then? Well, they were going on television bragging about how Johnny Moore was telling…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:10:44-1:10:54
“And these were all children who'd been shot, Palestinians who'd been shot at Gaza Humanitarian foundation food distribution sites.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:15:24-1:15:32
“How could The Gaza Humanitarian foundation, day after day, allow starving people to be shot at their distribution sites.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:15:54-1:16:04
“The quadcopters are controlled by remote by someone who can see what they're shooting at.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:20:40-1:20:46
“Almost your entire media is conspiring to hide the truth of what's happening in Gaza and attacking anyone who calls attention to it.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:25:13-1:25:23
“There are many people in our media who basically just attack anyone who points out what's happening and slander them as haters and Nazis.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:27:12-1:27:25
“I think all of your politicians, all of our [politicians are funded by various lobbies with money from Israel].”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:29:02-1:29:05
“Basically the entire British political establishment is on the same page. Don't talk about Gaza. Israel's our closest ally.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:30:39-1:30:46
“There was, you know, the largest ethnic cleansing attempt since the Second World War since the Nazis, right on the edge of Europe, right…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:32:24-1:32:43
“The IHRA definition of antisemitism, which now has the force of law in a lot of the world, it is a crime to say certain things, thanks to…”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:36:17-1:36:28
“It's interesting though, you say it's the right wing media in the UK that's supportive of Netanyahu's ethnic cleansing in Gaza.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:42:28-1:42:37
“In the United States it's kind of the opposite. It's, it's a lot of former Trump voters who are maddest about what's happening in Gaza.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:42:36-1:42:47
“There's no reason any nationalist should support what's happening in Gaza.”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:42:47-1:42:54
“Why do you think conservative media and politicians in the UK have been roped into supporting something that's terrible for the UK?”
Tucker on the Holocaust in Gaza, Israel's Torture Program and Experimental Weapons | Uploaded May 27, 2026 | 1:42:55-1:43:05