Thursday, October 19, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Thursday briefing: Gaza hospital strike; Jim Jordan’s speaker bid; Joran van der Sloot; Leonard Cure; Pepper X; and more
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| 0:00.0 | There's a new hottest chili pepper in the world. The Las Vegas Aces are back-to-back |
| 0:08.4 | W MBA champions and the government is taking action on lead pollution from small planes. |
| 0:14.0 | Those are some of the stories that we'll get to today on the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Jeff Pierre. |
| 0:20.0 | It's Thursday, October 19th. |
| 0:22.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. It's |
| 0:25.0 | 3rd. |
| 0:30.0 | Thursday, |
| 0:28.0 | our first story today. |
| 0:30.0 | The US said that Israel wasn't to blame for a deadly hospital strike in Gaza. |
| 0:35.4 | During a visit to Israel yesterday, President Biden said that Tuesday's blast |
| 0:39.8 | appeared to come from what he called an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza, |
| 0:45.0 | a U.S. intelligence official also said Israel wasn't responsible. |
| 0:49.0 | Palestinian officials said the strike killed 471 people and blamed it on Israel. It sparked widespread |
| 0:56.0 | protests and fueled fears of a wider escalation of the war. |
| 1:00.3 | Biden also said yesterday that Egypt had agreed to allow 20 trucks of aid into Gaza, |
| 1:05.2 | which is facing a humanitarian crisis. Israel has cut off deliveries of food, water, |
| 1:10.7 | electricity, and medicine to the territory for more than a week. |
| 1:14.0 | Biden spoke about the aid for Gaza and Tel Aviv yesterday. |
| 1:17.0 | Today I asked the Israeli cabinet I met with for some time this morning |
| 1:21.0 | to agree to the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance |
| 1:24.8 | to civilians in Gaza based on the understanding that there will be inspections and |
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