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Democracy Now! 2024-12-18 Wednesday

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Democracy Now!

Daily News, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for December 18, 2024; “Obey the Law”: Palestinians Sue State Dept., Saying Arms Sales to Israel Violate U.S. Human Rights Law; Justice for Ayşenur Eygi: Family of U.S. Citizen Killed by Israel Meets with Blinken Demanding Probe; Trump Escalates War on Press by Suing Des Moines Register Days After ABC Agreed to $15M Settlement

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:17.0

Filing a lawsuit against the State Department to force it to finally enforce the Leahy

0:23.6

law and end military aid to abusive units of the Israeli defense forces.

0:28.6

Five Palestinian families are suing the U.S. State Department for violating the

0:34.6

Leahy Law, which bars the U.S. government from funding foreign military

0:38.9

units credibly implicated in gross human rights abuses. We'll speak with one of the plaintiffs

0:45.2

and a former State Department official. Then to the sister and husband of Ayashnur Esgi

0:52.3

Aege, the American human rights activist who just graduated from University

0:57.1

of Washington, killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this year.

1:03.2

There in Washington, D.C. to demand action.

1:06.2

I have been painfully ripped away from spending time in her memory and forced to sideline my grief in order to scrape and beg daily for the past three months to plead with the Biden administration to seek justice for my wife.

1:22.0

And then as Donald Trump sues the Des Moines Register for publishing a poll before the election that

1:29.3

showed him trailing, Kamala Harris, will look at Trump's renewed war on the press.

1:34.3

I think you have to do it because they're very dishonest and you need a fair press.

1:40.3

And the press says, no, I see others.

1:42.3

I have a few others that I'm doing.

1:44.6

As Trump calls the media the enemy of the people, we'll look at his suit against the Des Moines

1:50.2

Register and his multi-million dollar settlement with ABC News. All that and more coming up.

2:06.1

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warrant Peace Report.

2:07.1

I'm Amy Goodman.

2:16.8

Health officials in Gaza say Israeli attacks have killed at least 38 Palestinians and wounded more than 200 over the past 24 hours.

2:20.9

Among the latest deaths were 10 Palestinians killed in an Israeli missile attack on the Shati refugee camp and two women killed when Israel shelled a home east of

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