Israel Orders Complete Siege on Gaza

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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An extra episode this week: Aaron David Miller joins Ravi Agrawal to share his insights as Israel orders a complete siege of Gaza and declares war on Hamas. The declaration comes after a deadly Hamas attack last weekend that killed hundreds of Israelis. Miller has advised six Republican and Democratic secretaries of state on Middle East policy. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Suggested reading: FP Contributors: Israel-Hamas War Steven A. Cook: The Hamas Attack Has Changed Everything Daniel Byman: Will Hezbollah Join the War Against Israel? Michael Hirsh: Netanyahu’s Road to War Elisabeth Braw: How the Israel-Hamas War Could Spike Oil Prices Yousef Munayyer: Laying Siege to Gaza Is No Solution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	America is changing. And so is the world.
0:04.5	But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval.
0:08.7	It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
0:12.5	I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.
0:14.7	I'm Tristan Redman in London, and this is the global story.
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0:24.4	Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.8	Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief.
0:34.7	This is FP Live.
0:39.9	Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show.
0:41.7	It is being called the darkest day in Israel's history, and it's not over.
0:47.4	Last Saturday morning, the Islamist militant group Hamas launched a shocking attack on Israeli
0:52.6	towns.
0:53.7	They infiltrated by land, sea, and air. Simultaneously,
0:58.0	a barrage of rockets rained down, some of them breaching Israel's Iron Dome.
1:03.2	As of this recording on Tuesday, October 10, more than 900 Israelis have been killed and more than
1:10.1	2,000 wounded.
1:12.3	In response, Israel has ordered a siege of Gaza, the territory controlled by Hamas.
1:18.1	Several hundred Palestinians have been killed.
1:21.1	Worse is sure to follow.
1:23.4	Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he expects a long and difficult fight.
1:28.5	And while the country is uniting behind him for now, he has spent much of the year in crisis.
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