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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas must be treated like ISIS as CNN visits Gaza border towns where Hamas left behind devastation. We'll tell you what the Biden administration says its focusing on when it comes to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Social security payments will be going up by less next year. Steve Scalise may have won his first battle, but he's got a long way to go before he can be elected as House Speaker. Plus, why Target is closing stores in big cities. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello from CNN. I'm Chris de Beau with the five things you need to know for
0:04.9	Thursday October 12th. Israel is ramping up attacks on Hamas targets in
0:10.4	Gaza in response to the terror group's brutality as a humanitarian crisis
0:14.6	unfolds in the densely populated enclave. Israeli officials believe Hamas is
0:18.9	holding up to 150 people hostage in Gaza and the Israeli energy minister has threatened to
0:24.0	withhold water, fuel, and power until Hamas lets them go. The UN has described
0:28.8	that as an unlawful blockade and says people in Gaza are now at quote
0:32.8	inescapable risk of starvation.
0:35.2	I want to warn you what you're about to hear is disturbing.
0:38.0	Today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office released what it said were
0:42.2	horrifying photos of babies, brutally
0:45.0	murdered and their bodies burned beyond recognition by Hamas.
0:48.9	Netanyahu compared the Islamist militant group to ISIS at a press conference today.
0:53.4	And just as ISIS was crushed, so too will Hamas be crushed.
0:58.7	CNN is on the ground in Gaza border towns like Bea Erri, where Hamas militants left behind devastation of
1:04.3	unimaginable scale. Many people were rescued from the kibbutz but more than 120 people
1:09.8	were killed in the small community including an eight-year-old girl named Emily.
1:14.1	Her father told CNN when he found out she was dead,
1:16.8	he was actually relieved.
1:18.2	She was either dead or in Gaza. And if you know anything about what they do for people in Gaza,
1:26.0	that is worse than death.
1:28.0	So death was a blessing.
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