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🗓️ 19 March 2025
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0:00.0 | We start today's other headlines in the Middle East, where Israel says it launched a limited ground operation in Gaza after abruptly ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. |
0:10.0 | The Israeli military claims to have recaptured part of a key corridor that bisects Gaza after withdrawing as part of the truce. |
0:18.1 | By air, a wave of Israeli attacks hit sites in Gaza for a second day in a row. |
0:23.3 | Several UN employees were rushed to a hospital after a strike on a UN compound killed one |
0:28.8 | worker and severely injured at least five others. Israel denied responsibility. A UN official said |
0:35.0 | it's under investigation. In my opinion, this was not an accident. |
0:39.5 | It cannot be categorized as an accident. |
0:42.2 | It is at least an incident. |
0:44.6 | UN personal and its premises must be protected by all sides. |
0:50.0 | Meantime, in Israel, ultra-nationalist Itamar Ben-Gavir regained his position as national security |
0:56.2 | minister. He had left the government coalition in January to protest the ceasefire with Hamas. |
1:02.0 | A federal judge is moving the case of Columbia University graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, to New Jersey. |
1:06.8 | That's because the 30-year-old was being held there when his lawyers first challenged the legality of his detention. |
1:13.6 | Khalil is currently at a facility in Louisiana as U.S. officials seek to deport him. |
1:18.6 | ICE agents arrested Khalil earlier this month for his role in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. |
1:24.6 | He is a legal U.S. resident with no criminal record, and his lawyers say the |
1:29.2 | grounds for his arrest violate his First Amendment rights. The White House says it's suspending |
1:34.8 | $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania. It follows an investigation |
1:41.2 | into Penn's swimming program that focused on Leah Thomas, an openly |
1:45.6 | transgender athlete who last competed for the school in 2022. A Penn spokesperson says they have not |
1:52.4 | received details of the action, but in a statement added, quote, we have been in the past and |
1:58.1 | remain today in full compliance with the regulations that apply to not only Penn, but all of our NCAA and Ivy League peer institutions. |
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