NPR News: 05-12-2024 7PM EDT
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🗓️ 12 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is My voice. I can tell you a lot about me and I'm not changing it for anyone. |
| 0:07.0 | In NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths, |
| 0:09.7 | you'll find a collection of NPR episodes centered on black experiences. |
| 0:13.6 | Search NPR Black Truths, I'm Janine Hurst. |
| 0:28.0 | Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing Rafa in southern Gaza, |
| 0:32.0 | as fighting intensifies there between the Israeli military |
| 0:35.4 | and Hamas militants. But Palestinians say there's no safe place to go. The UN |
| 0:40.6 | says there are more than 1 million people sheltering from the war there. |
| 0:44.4 | President Biden says the US will withhold some military aid if Israel launches a full-scale invasion there. |
| 0:50.4 | And Pierce Asmachalit has more. |
| 0:52.1 | The Biden administration did pause an arm shipment of about 3,000 bombs last week out of concern |
| 0:57.8 | that these types of weapons could be used in a densely populated area like Rafa. |
| 1:03.0 | And I think you can sense the growing frustration |
| 1:05.5 | that President Biden has with the Israeli government |
| 1:07.8 | just based on his willingness to publicly |
| 1:10.1 | threaten to cut off some weapons. |
| 1:11.8 | But also, to this point, we have not seen any sort of |
| 1:14.0 | sea change in actual administration policy. |
| 1:17.0 | And Biers Asma Khalid reporting, this is the UN warns two of its food agencies |
| 1:22.2 | will run out of food to distribute tomorrow. |
| 1:25.4 | Israel has closed the Rafa crossing a major route for humanitarian aid. |
| 1:30.3 | British authorities are investigating after Hamas said a British Israeli hostage has died in their captivity. |
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