Democracy Now! 2024-10-17 Thursday
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for October 17, 2024; “The Gaza Playbook”: Israel Brings Displacement, Death and Destruction to Lebanon; Ex-State Dept. Official: Israel Is Starving Gaza Now. We Can’t Wait Another 30 Days to Take Action; “Itching for a War”: Biden Deploys U.S. Troops to Israel as Netanyahu Threatens Escalation with Iran
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| 0:00.0 | The From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | It seems the situation is only getting worse. |
| 0:22.0 | Definitely, it's obvious. It seems the situation is only getting worse. |
| 0:22.6 | Definitely, it's obvious. |
| 0:24.6 | You see displacement, people not finding places to stay. |
| 0:28.0 | People got displaced from the south, from Daya, from Becca Valley, and even from areas of our fellow Christians. Day |
| 0:35.0 | as well got displaced. |
| 0:36.0 | Lebanon is in a state of crisis as Israel intensifies its war. |
| 0:40.0 | Video has emerged of Israel blowing up an entire village. |
| 0:44.0 | Meanwhile, the death toll from an Israeli attack on a municipal building has risen to at least 16, including the town's mayor. |
| 0:51.0 | We'll go to Beirut for the latest. |
| 0:53.6 | Then as aid groups warn Israel is wiping northern Gaza off the map, |
| 0:57.8 | the Biden administration is threatening to cut military assistance to Israel, |
| 1:01.6 | but not for at least 30 days. |
| 1:04.0 | Given you are already saying humanitarian assistance is very low and putting in front of Israel a bunch of concrete measures on how to improve it. |
| 1:15.0 | Why are you waiting for another 30 days to implement the law? |
| 1:19.0 | Because we believe it's appropriate to give them a chance to cure the problem. |
| 1:23.0 | We'll speak to former State Department official Josh Paul, who resigned in protest last year. |
| 1:28.0 | He's just launched in lobbying organization called a new policy. |
| 1:32.0 | Then we'll look at Israel's threat to launch... organization called a new policy. |
| 1:32.6 | Then we'll look at Israel's threat to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran |
| 1:37.3 | as fears grow of a broader regional war. |
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