Day 329 - Has Israel regained enough deterrence for a ceasefire?
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
Vice President Kamala Harris was again heckled by an anti-Israel protester, this time during a rally in Savannah, Georgia, on Thursday. The Democratic presidential nominee responded by stressing her support for a ceasefire and hostage release deal. Berman describes this incident and points out a gaping omission in her stated support for Israel.
The WHO and UN children’s fund UNICEF are hoping to provide oral vaccines against type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2) to more than 640,000 children in the Strip after a baby contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years in the Palestinian territory. Berman updates on the partial pauses in fighting in the Strip.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday reportedly presented the security cabinet with a document he drew up in recent days urging a hostage-ceasefire deal and detailing the potentially dire consequences for Israel of a failure to finalize such an agreement. We discuss the domino effect that potentially could allow the 68,000 displaced people from the northern district from 43 settlements return home while still maintaining Israel's deterrence.
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Discussed articles include:
Harris says she won’t change US policy on arming Israel, stresses need for hostage deal
Israel agrees to localized ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza for polio vaccination, WHO says
Gallant said to warn ministers multi-front war dangerously close sans hostage deal
Ministers vote to back PM’s stance in favor of IDF staying in Philadelphi Corridor
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:10.3 | Today is Friday, August 30th, day 329 of the war with Hamas. |
| 0:15.9 | Amanda Borschell, Dan here with our diplomatic correspondent, Lazer Berman. |
| 0:19.9 | Hi, Laser. |
| 0:20.4 | Thanks for joining me from the |
| 0:21.6 | East Coast of the U.S. Hi, good morning. Good to see you. Vice President Kamala Harris doubles down on |
| 0:28.0 | Israel in Savannah, Georgia. Defense Minister Yuav Gallant is reportedly calling for an expansion of the |
| 0:34.6 | government's stated war goals and also warns of potentially dire consequences |
| 0:39.3 | for Israel if no hostage release deal is reached. However, Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed |
| 0:46.5 | to a partial pause in fighting for health workers to launch a vaccination drive to ward off a feared |
| 0:52.9 | outbreak of polio in Gaza. And we'll discuss |
| 0:56.8 | what does it mean for Israel to have a de facto new northern border? All this and more when we're |
| 1:04.1 | back. |
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