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CNN 5 Things

3 PM ET: Israel hostages, Hern not running, health care strike over & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The armed wing of Hamas claims to have taken dozens Israeli hostages as the death toll mounts from its surprise assault on the country. We examine how we got to this point and how Israel could respond. Plus, President Joe Biden reaffirms US support to Israel in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Meanwhile, Republican Rep. Kevin Hern says he won’t be running for House Speaker next week. And the largest health care strike in American history is over – for now. 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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Israel has been infiltrated.

0:34.0

Hey there, from CNN, I'm David Rhine with the five things you need to know for Saturday, October 7th.

0:40.0

That's how it sounded across Israel this morning as Hamas launched a surprise

0:48.1

assault on the country, firing thousands of rockets and entering Israel by land and sea and by air using paragliders.

0:56.0

I know we talk about flare-ups of violence in this region all the time, but experts say this is very different.

1:06.2

In fact, a former Israeli Defence Force spokesperson called it a Pearl Harbor type of moment for the country.

1:12.6

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht is a current IDF spokesperson.

1:16.2

These terrorists that came in this morning, they didn't go only for military targets.

1:20.6

They went into communities,

1:23.4

abducted grandmas, the abducted families, they killed children.

1:28.0

A very, very severe morning and we're going to respond.

1:31.0

The casualty numbers are shifting quickly, but as we post this,

1:34.8

Israeli authorities say at least 200 people in Israel have been killed with hundreds

1:39.9

seriously wounded. Meanwhile in Gaza the Palestinian Health Ministry

1:43.9

says more than 200 have been killed with over a thousand wounded as

1:47.8

Israel responds with airstrikes. I want to go to CNN Sam Kiley who has covered this conflict for years to

1:54.9

figure out how we got to this point. Sam, why was Israel caught so off guard here?

2:00.3

Yeah David, it's extraordinary really that the Israelis would have failed to have seen something like this coming

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