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Ladies and gentlemen, it's Thursday, October 19th.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed.

Today, we begin by examining the controversy surrounding the Gaza hospital bombing.

Now, initial US and international media reporting,

based on accusations from the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza,

accused Israel of an aerial strike on the hospital,

causing up to 500 Palestinian fatalities.

However, serious evidence, including overhead imagery and communications intercepts,

now challenges those claims, highlighting the perils of uncritical reporting

in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Then, a little later in the program,

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