5 PM ET: Gaza crossing closure, migrant separations settlement, Ford chair’s speech & more

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

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Egypt is blaming Israel for a lack of progress to reopen a border crossing with Gaza as critical aid piles up. A 6-year-old boy has been laid to rest after authorities say his landlord allegedly fatally stabbed him for being Muslim. The federal government has reached a settlement deal with the American Civil Liberties Union over migrant family separations under former President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Trump has been hit with a gag order in his federal election subversion case. And, the executive chair of Ford Motor Company is calling for an end to the UAW strike. 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 a Foma DK with the five things you need to know for Monday October 16th.
0:07.0	Egypt is facing mounting pressure to reopen the Rafa border crossing with Gaza.
0:12.0	Israel closed its two border crossings with Gaza
0:15.0	in the wake of deadly attacks by Hamas
0:17.0	and imposed a quote complete siege on the territory
0:20.0	blocking supplies of fuel, electricity, and water that left the Rafa crossing between Gaza and Egypt as the only viable outlet to get people out and aid in.
0:28.8	But the crossing has been closed for much of the last week, leaving aid piling up on the Egyptian side of the border.
0:35.2	The enclave has been pummeled by Israeli strikes after a brutal assault by Hamas terrorists
0:40.2	killed 1400 Israelis on October 7th.
0:43.0	The Palestinian Prime Minister says more than 2,800 people in Gaza have been killed since then,
0:48.0	and more than half a million are displaced.
0:50.0	The Palestinian Authority warns the territory is, quote, on the brink of a real famine.
0:55.0	Here is a man in Gaza describing the living conditions in a UN shelter.
0:59.0	We try to collect water leftovers from the municipality pipelines which are not even drinkable.
1:05.4	We try to get one piece of bread to everyone here.
1:08.4	Secretary of State Anthony Blaken who met with Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv today
1:12.4	promised that the Rafra crossing
1:14.0	would be opened after talks with the Egyptian president on Sunday.
1:17.7	But Egypt's foreign minister says there's been no progress on efforts to open the crossing,
1:21.8	claiming the continued closure on Israel.
1:24.7	A funeral was held in Illinois for the six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was stabbed
1:29.7	to death in the Chicago area on Saturday, allegedly for being Muslim. Here was his
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