News Wrap: Israel says Hamas spokesperson killed as it expands Gaza offensive
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🗓️ 31 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | And in today's other headlines, Israeli forces pounded the area around Gaza City overnight, destroying homes and sending more people fleeing. |
| 0:09.0 | The area's largest hospital said 29 bodies were brought to its morgue, including 10 people who were seeking aid. |
| 0:16.0 | The Israeli military stopped pausing fighting to allow food deliveries as they ramp up their offensive against |
| 0:21.6 | Hamas. Israel also said that a targeted operation had killed a longtime spokesman for Hamas's military wing. |
| 0:29.5 | In Ukraine, 60,000 people are without electricity after Russia struck power facilities across the country. |
| 0:35.2 | In recent weeks, both sides have increasingly targeted |
| 0:38.6 | energy and fuel infrastructure as they intensify their airstrikes. Ukrainian President Volodomar |
| 0:44.7 | Zelensky vowed to retaliate with strikes deep inside Russia. And European leaders are working on |
| 0:50.7 | plans to send thousands of troops to Ukraine as part of post-conflict security |
| 0:55.4 | guarantees. European Commission President Ursula Vanderlain told the Financial Times it would |
| 1:00.6 | be a multinational force. She said President Trump has agreed to provide technological and intelligence |
| 1:06.5 | support. EU and U.S. security guarantees are one of the conditions Zelensky is set for any peace |
| 1:12.8 | agreement. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering in a New Hampshire hospital from serious |
| 1:19.3 | injuries he suffered in a car crash late Saturday evening. A spokesman said Giuliani fractured a vertebrae |
| 1:25.2 | and had multiple cuts and bruises. |
| 1:32.0 | The spokesman said Giuliani's rental car was hit from behind at high speed. |
| 1:36.7 | Today was the first Sunday Mass at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis since an attack killed two children and wounded 20 others. |
| 1:40.4 | Outside, well-wishers left flowers and messages. |
| 1:43.5 | The Reverend Dennis Zaron was at the church during the Wednesday attack. |
| 1:47.0 | It's been a tremendous outpouring of love. |
| 1:52.0 | It's kind of the funny mystery that when the darkness is most intense, |
| 1:57.0 | that's when the light of God shines all the more brightly. And we've been seen that in so many ways. I have never seen such an outpouring of love. |
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