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It's Tuesday, the 5th of August.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

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

All right, let's get briefed.

We'll start things off in the Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has reportedly decided on an extremely controversial plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip in a bid to free the remaining hostages and deal a final death blow to Hamas.

Now, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that much of the international community will not be thrilled with this plan. We'll have the details. Later in the show, their Russia scandal intensifies, which

frankly is what all good scandals do. On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal

prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation into an alleged criminal

conspiracy by members of the former Obama administration to undermine Donald Trump during the

2016 presidential election. But first, today's afternoon spotlight, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

has reportedly decided on a plan to fully occupy the

Gaza Strip and expand military operations into areas where hostages are likely still being held.

But the plan to essentially annex large swaths of the battered enclave has left a security

cabinet and leaders of the Israel Defense Forces, the IDF, divided,

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