Today is Wednesday, May 12th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented

by Bechitz Media.

I'm Sammy Sage.

Let's start with an update on the complexion in Israel, which has tragically escalated

even further.

Yesterday, saw continuing air strikes on Gaza while Hamas fired hundreds of rockets towards

Tel Aviv and surrounding towns.

A rocket hit a neighborhood in Tel Aviv killing three people, as well as an empty bus and a

school in Ashgolone that fortunately had been evacuated.

There have been 28 casualties he's in Gaza so far, according to the Palestine News and Info

Agency.

And the situation continues to intensify as clashes broke out in the West Bank and mixed

Jewish Arab towns.

It doesn't seem like there's any sign of the conflict coming down at this point, as yesterday

morning, the Israeli military called up eight reserve border police battalions and received

government approval to call up another 5,000 reservists.

Dr. Anthony Fauci had a fight with everyone's favorite Kentucky senator, yes, a difficult

distinction that goes unironically to Rand Paul.

The two exchange words during a Senate coronavirus hearing yesterday, this time over accusations

that Fauci funded a Wuhan lab to develop COVID-19.

Specifically, that the research to mutate animal viruses to infect humans at the Wuhan

Institute of Virology has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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