Israel's Attacks On Gaza
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What A Day
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🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip, last night, leading to the deaths of at least 20 people. This was in response to rockets launched by Hamas at Israel, and it marked the most destructive moment stemming from the ongoing conflict in Jerusalem. We discuss the circumstances that produced these violent clashes, as well as the international response.
President Biden announced yesterday that he will not put an end to the 300 dollar weekly bonus payments that are currently going to unemployed people, despite Republican calls to do so after a disappointing jobs report last week. Biden did say that workers who turn down jobs comparable to the ones they lost due to the pandemic should be cut off from unemployment benefits.
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Show Notes:
Al Jazeera: "Twenty Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids on Gaza" – https://bit.ly/3f6XS68
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, May 11th. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Erin Ryan in for Achila Hughes. |
| 0:10.5 | And I'm getting in rest now and this is what a day where we are rewriting history to say |
| 0:13.8 | that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez actually never even broke up. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, you say they're getting back together? |
| 0:19.0 | I say they've been in a non-stop whirlwind romance since 2002. |
| 0:24.6 | Happy 19th anniversary you guys, you inspire me. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm inspired. |
| 0:28.5 | On Today's show, President Biden makes a push to get unemployed Americans back to work |
| 0:39.1 | plus some headlines, but first the latest. |
| 0:41.4 | More than 20 people, including nine children, are reported to have been killed in Israeli |
| 0:46.2 | airstrikes on Gaza after dozens of rockets were fired from the territory towards Jerusalem |
| 0:52.0 | and other cities. |
| 0:54.0 | That's the BBC reporting on the clashes in Jerusalem late Monday night, local time. |
| 0:57.9 | It's absolutely horrific and the situation is still developing as we put the show together. |
| 1:02.3 | But Gideon, take us through what we know. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, I mean, the imagery of what Israel is doing has been honestly sickening over the |
| 1:08.2 | last 24 hours or so. |
| 1:09.4 | But here's the timeline of how we got to this point on both Friday as well as Monday morning |
| 1:14.7 | local time, Israeli police effectively raided the El-Uksam Mosque, Islam's third-holious |
| 1:19.6 | site during Ramadan. |
| 1:21.2 | Those officers fired tear gas, sun grenades and rubber bullets into the crowd of Palestinian |
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