The War Next Door
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Two more hostages held captive by Hamas were released on Monday, though Israel says more than 200 others are still being held by the militant group. Meanwhile, officials in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes have now killed over 5,000 people in the territory.
Clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border are also stoking fears that the war could spill over. George Bisharat, a Middle East policy expert and professor emeritus at the University of California College of the Law San Francisco, joins us to explain how neighboring countries are watching the conflict unfold.
And in headlines: Argentina’s presidential election is heading to a runoff vote next month, the United Auto Workers Union expanded its strike against Detroit’s Big Three automakers, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is not happy about how he looks in wax.
Show Notes:
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, October 24th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day. On today's show the autowaker strike has expanded again, |
| 0:15.0 | plus the rock is not happy about how he looks and wax. |
| 0:19.0 | But first an update on the war between Israel and Hamas. |
| 0:23.4 | Two more hostages were released on Monday by Hamas. |
| 0:26.7 | They are Nureid Cooper and Yohavit Lipschitz, two Israeli women in their 80s that the |
| 0:32.4 | military wing of Hamas said it had |
| 0:34.2 | released for quote compelling humanitarian reasons. It was facilitated by the |
| 0:39.2 | International Committee of the Red Cross. Israel has also revised the number of hostages |
| 0:44.6 | they believe Hamas captured a couple weeks ago |
| 0:47.0 | to 222 people, meaning well over 200 people |
| 0:51.4 | are still being held. |
| 0:53.0 | Hamas has said it does not have custody of all the hostages |
| 0:56.6 | and that some were taken captive by the Palestinian Islamic jihad, |
| 1:00.6 | which is another militant group based in Gaza. |
| 1:03.7 | We also know that a third convoy of humanitarian aid has crossed into Gaza for the millions |
| 1:09.2 | there in need of resources. |
| 1:11.3 | This comes as Israel has, according to local reports, stepped up its |
| 1:15.4 | airstrikes. The Israel Defense Forces struck some 320 targets belonging to |
| 1:21.2 | Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad over the past day alone, |
| 1:26.0 | bringing the killings in Gaza to 5,087 as of yesterday morning, |
| 1:30.0 | that's according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. |
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