Airstrikes pummel Gaza after rockets fired into Israel

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel’s response to the attacks carried out by Hamas is just beginning. The United State is surging military aid to Israel after the attack left at least 900 dead in Israel, while more than 680 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military according to Gaza’s health ministry. President Biden said at least 11 Americans have been killed in the Hamas attacks and others are likely being held as hostages. 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	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we start with our world lead and a foul from
0:09.6	Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his country's response to the horrific
0:14.8	terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas over the weekend is just beginning.
0:28.2	This is just a glimpse of what that response from the Israeli military has looked like over
0:34.0	the last few hours explosion after explosion lighting up the night sky in Gaza with very
0:40.2	real consequences on the ground in Gaza. As Israel launched what it is calling wide-scale
0:46.8	strikes on Hamas targets. The Israeli Army also released video showing some of the strikes
0:52.1	it carried out earlier today. You can see the buildings absolutely flattened. Hamas retaliated
0:58.0	by firing more than a hundred rockets at Israeli cities along the coast. This was the scene in
1:03.0	Ascalone north of Gaza even after the Israeli air defense system intercepted most. If not all
1:08.5	of the rockets, cars on fire, debris, littering the streets at least 900 people have been killed
1:15.0	so far in Israel by Hamas terrorists. According to the Israeli Army of the 900 the vast majority
1:21.8	period have been civilians. The Biden administration says at least nine were U.S. citizens.
1:27.8	The barbaric nature of Hamas has been on full display over the last few days with Hamas terrorists
1:34.5	kidnapping children killing the elderly and there are reports of young women raped. The terrorist
1:42.1	group announced in the last few hours that they will begin to execute the civilian hostages that
1:47.9	they took and broadcast videos of those executions, those murders. If Israel continues to attack Gaza
1:55.3	civilians in their homes without warning, that's the words of Hamas. Throughout the next few hours
2:00.8	we will be speaking to family members who are desperately waiting for news about their loved ones
2:05.7	who were kidnapped by Hamas. Among the nine U.S. citizens killed in the Hamas terrorist attacks
2:11.5	Debra Matias, a mother who died shielding her son from bullets. Matias's father told CNN today
2:20.7	he was on the phone with her when she was killed. Debra's husband Shlomi who was an Israeli citizen
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