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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday the 28th of October

Is this the start of Israel's ground invasion of Gaza?

These railies step up airstrikes and begin their biggest to ground offensive since the Hamas attacks

Mobile phone and internet has been cut off at the UN the general assembly votes overwhelmingly to call

For an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza, but the Israeli ambassador is outraged

Also in the podcast officials in the US state of Maine lift a stay at home order following Wednesday's mass shooting and later

We are a better country because a reality that everyone knew about for many years

But nobody talked about has been made known an investigation in Spain reveals the scale of historic child sex abuse in the Catholic Church

Nearly three weeks after Hamas fighters poured out of Gaza and went on a murderous rampage

Israel has launched its heaviest attacks yet on the Palestinian territory

Flashes and explosions lit up the night sky as missiles rained down

Mobile phone networks and the internet were cut off

Perhaps more significantly after two nights of probing raids into Gaza the Israeli military said it was stepping up its ground attacks

Daniel Hagari is the Israeli army spokesman

In the last few hours we've intensified the attacks in Gaza

The Air Force has been conducting extensive strikes on tunnels and other terrorist infrastructure

And in addition to the attacks carried out in the last few days

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