Day 378 - With Sinwar dead, US looks to renew hostage talks
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 23 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.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg on today's podcast.
Magid discusses the different methods used to identify Sinwar's body and what can be seen about Sinwar in the drone footage taken at the scene just prior to the strike that killed him.
He reviews some of the reactions from the Biden administration, including calls made to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and various leaders in Qatar and Egypt in the hopes that Sinwar's death can shift the dynamic in the stalled hostage negotiations.
Magid talks about who could be the new Hamas leader with Sinwar gone and how extreme or hardline some of those successors could be compared to the Hamas leader killed in Gaza by IDF troops on Wednesday.
Magid also discusses the possibility of a more dialed-back response to the Iran attack on Israel on October 1, and looks at Israel letting aid into northern Gaza, with shipments from Jordan and other crossings reopened to allow aid to flow in more easily, after threats from the US administration to withhold arms deliveries.
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Discussed articles include:
World leaders welcome Sinwar’s death, hope it will precipitate hostage deal, end to war
Oct. 17: Footage shows Sinwar hurling stick at IDF drone moments before he was killed
Israel lets 50 aid trucks into northern Gaza after US threat to curb arms deliveries
US gives Israel 30 days to address Gaza aid crisis, threatens to curb weapons supply
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IMAGE: IDF soldiers carry the body of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar from the building where he was killed in Rafah, Gaza on October 17, 2024. (Courtesy)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. It's Friday, October 18th, and I'm |
| 0:09.8 | Jessica Steinberg. I'm speaking today with U.S. Bureau Chief Jacob Jacob. Hi, Jacob. Hey, Jessica. |
| 0:15.7 | Hey there. It is day 378 of the war. In the hours after the discovery that Hamas terrorist leader, Yaya Sinwar, was killed by IDF troops in Gaza, new details keep emerging. |
| 0:28.9 | We'll discuss those headlines as well as what could be next in hostage talks and the matter of aid to Gazans. |
| 0:36.0 | It also came out last night. |
| 0:39.1 | Chazbala said that it was using precision-guided missiles in the war against Israel in the North and Lebanon, just as the IDF |
| 0:45.6 | announced on Thursday that five soldiers from the Golani Brigade were killed and other soldiers |
| 0:50.8 | seriously hurt during separate incidents on Thursday. |
| 0:54.3 | Those soldiers were named late Thursday night. |
| 0:57.6 | We'll talk about all of those latest headlines. |
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