Day 376 - US gives 30-day ultimatum on Gaza aid. Can Israel deliver?
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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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.
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's episode.
In a letter to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, obtained by our US bureau chief Jacob Magid on Tuesday, the White House warned Israel it has one month to implement significant improvements to the humanitarian situation in Gaza or jeopardize the continued supply of US weapons, noting that humanitarian assistance entering the Strip has plummeted in recent months.
Rettig Gur weighs in on how serious the US is on its demands and how this jibes with the announcement this week that it is deploying the THAAD missile defense system, along with some 100 US soldiers, to Israeli soil.
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Discussed articles include:
US gives Israel 30 days to address Gaza aid crisis, threatens to curb weapons supply
Israel faces potential shortage of interceptor missiles — report
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IMAGE: Children sift through waste at a landfill in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 15, 2024. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:08.4 | Today is Wednesday, October 16th, Day 376 of the war. |
| 0:13.9 | Amanda Borschal, Dan, here with our senior analyst, Kaviv Rattigur. |
| 0:17.1 | Hi, Kaviv, thanks for joining me this Ere of Sukkot. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey, Amanda, good morning. Hope your Sukkah's built. |
| 0:24.0 | It is. And so the daily briefing will be brief, but it doesn't need to be that brief. |
| 0:28.5 | Is your Sukkah built, Javiv? |
| 0:30.0 | The Sukkah's built, but it needs to be decorated. It's going to be a day of cutting chains out of paper. |
| 0:36.1 | Just a pro tip, Kaviv, you can buy them pre-cut, just saying. |
| 0:39.9 | Whatever. I'm a traditionalist. |
| 0:42.4 | A letter from U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin |
| 0:47.7 | links humanitarian aid to Gaza with U.S. weapons supplies. |
| 0:51.9 | We'll discuss what this means. |
| 0:53.5 | In the context of the announcement of the deployment of the U.S.'s Th. We'll discuss what this means in the context of the announcement of the |
| 0:56.2 | U.S.'s Thad missile defense battery and U.S. soldiers to operate it with a looming retaliation |
| 1:03.1 | against Iran on the horizon. |
| 1:05.5 | All this and much, much more when we're back. |
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