Democracy Now! 2023-10-18 Wednesday
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for October 18, 2023; After Al-Ahli Hospital Blast Kills 500, Gaza Doctor Fears for His Life & Safety of His Patients; Rashid Khalidi on Biden’s “Israel-First Approach” & Growing Outrage over Gaza Across the Middle East; U.N. Rapporteur for Palestine: Gaza War Risks “Largest Instance of Ethnic Cleansing” in Mideast History; “Stop the War”: Israeli Peace Activist Whose Parents Were Killed in Hamas Attack Calls for Ceasefire
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
| 0:20.7 | What happened tonight is a huge tragedy and war massacre that cannot be tolerated or |
| 0:25.6 | allowed to pass without accountability. Tonight, an Israeli air strike hit |
| 0:29.9 | Al Ali Hospital in Gaza City. |
| 0:33.0 | Palestinian officials are accusing Israel of killing over 500 people and an |
| 0:37.9 | air strike on a hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians had sought refuge. |
| 0:42.9 | Israel's denied responsibility as the overall death toll in Gaza |
| 0:47.7 | taps 3,300. President Biden's in Tel Aviv for an unprecedented wartime visit to show |
| 0:54.1 | U.S. support for Israel. |
| 1:10.4 | We'll speak to Columbia Professor Rashid Khaledin as well as Francesca Abanesi, the United |
| 1:16.8 | Nations Special Roper Tour on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Plus, we go to Israel to speak |
| 1:22.4 | with a peace activist whose parents were killed and last week's surprise attacked by |
| 1:27.5 | Hamas that killed over 1,300 Israelis. The sun is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 1:34.8 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:45.5 | Welcome to democracy now, democracy now, dot org, the warring peace report. I'm Amy |
| 1:50.2 | Goodman. President Biden's in Israel hours after Palestinian officials accused Israel of |
| 1:55.5 | killing at least 500 people at Gaza's al-Ali Baptist Hospital and an air strike. |
| 2:01.9 | In addition to treating sick and wounded patients, the hospital was acting as a refuge for |
| 2:06.5 | displaced Gaza's fleeing Israel's unrelenting attacks. This is Muhammad Al-Naka, a doctor |
| 2:12.9 | at al-Ali Hospital. |
| 2:18.0 | There was no warning before the hospital was targeted. There were about 3,000 people |
| 2:22.4 | who were taken shelter here. While we were working at the hospital and without any warning, |
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