News Wrap: Israel cuts off Rafah as it expands military activity in Gaza
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🗓️ 12 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Also in the Middle East, Israeli forces said they have now completely encircled Rafa in southern |
| 0:06.6 | Gaza. |
| 0:07.8 | For days, the military has warned hundreds of thousands of people in the area to evacuate. |
| 0:13.0 | The IDF is expanding activities in Gaza, where military operations resumed nearly a month ago. |
| 0:19.3 | Israel says it won't stop fighting there until the remaining 59 |
| 0:22.2 | hostages are freed, but Hamas has said it can't guarantee their safety while operations are ongoing. |
| 0:29.0 | The Trump administration is excluding smartphones, laptops, and other electronics from tariffs. |
| 0:35.3 | The move caps a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products from China as part of the widening trade war. Chinese tariffs. The move caps a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products from China |
| 0:38.6 | as part of the widening trade war. Chinese tariffs now total 145%. The exemptions were in guidance |
| 0:45.8 | that Customs and Border Patrol issued last night. It didn't give a reason for the change. |
| 0:50.6 | Among the items retroactively excluded, memory chips, flat panel displays, and hard drives. |
| 0:56.9 | It spares U.S. tech companies like Apple and Dell from import duties that threaten to upend |
| 1:01.8 | their businesses and raise prices for consumers. President Trump says he's in good shape and |
| 1:07.6 | feeling well after getting his annual physical at Walter Reed Medical Center. |
| 1:11.8 | At 78, Mr. Trump was the oldest in U.S. history to be sworn in as president. |
| 1:16.7 | He spent five hours at the medical center on Friday. |
| 1:19.2 | Later, he gave reporters aboard Air Force One his self-assessment and took a swipe at his predecessor. |
| 1:25.4 | Overall, I think I'm in very, I felt I was in very good shape, good heart, a good soul, |
| 1:32.3 | very good soul. |
| 1:35.3 | I took, I wanted to be a little different than Biden. |
| 1:38.3 | I took a cognitive test that I don't know one to tell you other than I got every answer right. |
| 1:46.8 | Despite multiple promises during the campaign to release medical records, |
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