U.N. relief agency: Gaza crisis “getting worse by the minute”

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

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A diplomatic spat between Israel and the United Nations has broken out, with Israeli officials calling for the resignation of Secretary General Antonio Guterres. This as the main UN agency working in Gaza said it will be forced to halt its operations later today due to a lack of fuel, exacerbating a grave humanitarian crisis. Plus, Rep. Mike Johnson secured the speaker's gavel without losing any GOP votes Wednesday after weeks of party infighting left the House in chaos. For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN’s podcast ‘Tug of War: Attack on Israel’ here: https://link.chtbl.com/-lB8n-bJ To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper. I'm standing on a rooftop looking out over Tel Aviv.
0:10.0	It is just after 11 p.m. here and we're covering three major stories right now. The war here,
0:16.8	the end to the chaotic speakership saga back in Washington, D.C. and former president
0:23.9	Donald Trump in a stunning appearance on the stand today in his New York civil fraud
0:28.0	trial. We're going to start with breaking news from Israel. It has been 18 days since the
0:32.2	horrific attacks by Hamas caught this country in frankly much of the world by surprise just over
0:37.9	an hour ago from this rooftop. We heard explosions presumably from Israel's iron dome defense system
0:45.4	intercepting several rockets fired on Tel Aviv from Gaza and just minutes ago.
0:50.4	Israeli emergency services confirmed that four people were injured with something possibly
0:56.1	shrapnel hitting this home in the town of Rishon, let's see a reminder that Hamas continues to try
1:03.5	to kill as many Israeli civilians as they can with their rockets. They are just not able to do so
1:11.6	because of the iron dome defense system. Meanwhile this evening, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
1:16.8	Netanyahu addressed this grieving nation still mourning after Hamas's horrific October 7th terrorist
1:23.6	attack where 1400 Israelis were brutally murdered speaking in Hebrew and Netanyahu alluded to the
1:29.1	massive intelligence and military readiness failures of his administration that day saying quote
1:37.2	everyone will have to give answers including myself but that will only happen after the war
1:42.8	on quote meanwhile there are roughly still 600 American citizens stuck in Gaza amidst a full
1:50.8	blown humanitarian crisis there for the 2.3 million Palestinians. The main United Nations
1:56.6	and organization in Gaza says it will be forced to stop its operations today due to a lack of
2:02.2	fuel blocked from entering Gaza as Israel remains certain that Hamas will steal any fuel shipments
2:08.8	into Gaza and use that fuel to launch its rockets into Israel and kill innocent Israeli citizens.
2:17.5	Humanitarian concerns have been echoed by Western allies who have called for a humanitarian pause
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