Israel imposes ‘complete siege’ on Gaza
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Israel imposed a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, the Bank of Israel said it planned to sell up to $30bn of dollar reserves to support the shekel, and EU regulators will order US biotech Illumina to sell cancer test developer Grail.
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Israel imposes ‘complete siege’ on Gaza as Hamas threatens hostages
Israel’s central bank to sell $30bn of foreign reserves to support shekel
EU regulators to order Illumina to sell $8bn cancer treatment group
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:04.8 | Today is Tuesday, October 10th, and this is your FT News briefing. |
| 0:09.4 | Israel is retaliating for a violent attack over the weekend. |
| 0:12.9 | They've destroyed residential homes, several high-rise buildings. |
| 0:16.7 | It's been a very heavy toll so far, and this war is just starting. |
| 0:20.9 | And Israel's currency has fallen as a result of the conflict. |
| 0:24.5 | Plus, European Union regulators plan to take action against |
| 0:27.7 | the U.S. biotech company Illumina. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:46.8 | It's been several days since Hamas launched a brutal surprise attack against Israel. |
| 0:51.6 | Yesterday, the Israeli government responded with what it's calling a complete siege of Gaza. |
| 0:57.0 | The military is pummeling the territory with airstrikes and calling up a record 300,000 reservists. |
| 1:04.2 | More than 1,500 people have died since Saturday, and Hamas has threatened to kill the hostages they took from Israel. |
| 1:10.8 | The FT's John Reed is in Jerusalem. He joins me now. |
| 1:14.0 | Hi, John. |
| 1:14.9 | Hi, Mark. |
| 1:16.3 | So we're talking to you on Monday afternoon your time. |
| 1:19.0 | What's the scale of the fighting as we speak? |
| 1:22.2 | It's showing signs of being a very, very large-scale war. |
| 1:26.0 | We've had, as in the past, the militant factions in Gaza firing rockets into Israel, |
| 1:32.0 | most but not all of which are intercepted by Israel's iron dome missile defense system. |
| 1:38.1 | I think the IDF said that more than 4,500 rockets had been fired into Israel since Saturday. |
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