Israel Increases Airstrikes On Gaza, Pro-Palestinian Protests, House Speaker Race
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Israel stepping up its air strikes on gaza in retaliation ation for saturday is surprise attack.

Homos threatened to kill hostages if israel continues its bombardment. How much is this war targeting civilian?

I am michell, and that Steven si. And this is up first from npr news. All this has ignited the palestinian marches in a number of U. S. cities.

The much to justify her mos .

violent attack, also the crisis in the middle.

ast increased the pressure on house republicans to choose a new speaker.

I look at the world and all the threads out there, and what kind of message are we sending to our advise when we can't govern?

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The war in the middle east has put civilians in the line of fire.

That's been true of just about every conflict there. And it's certainly been true since this latest to tax stage by homos at that killed hundreds of israeli. Israel has responded with air strikes on gaza, the heavily populated area where homes is based and from where the attacks were launched. On pr, israeli cabinet minister ron demo insisted that the world should accept israeli Operations that kill civilians.

Even in the most targeted strike that you can possibly have, you are going to have civilian s and what happened after time is people will always sun be with israel unequipped at the beginning when we're just victims, but when we fight and we fight to win, all of a sudden we cannot .

turn now and has made a threat saying IT will execute hostages if israel el strike civilians without warning npr.

Daniel estrin is covering all of this from television fellow again, Daniel Steve, what is the israeli military doing well?

Is continuing to attack gaza with air strikes and the israeli army spokesman says israel has nearly regained control of the border with gaza nearly IT thinks there still might be a few gaza militants inside israel. There were a couple firefights in two israeli communities along the gaza order.

They say that israel killed many hundreds of militants, maybe even past one thousand inside israel, but that there are no more infiltrations across the border. And israel has nearly completed the evacuation of civilians, israelis along the border so far, officials say over nine hundred israelis have been killed and more than six hundred and eighty palestinians have been killed. Of course, a enormous concerns about .

hostages inside gaza. Yeah, well, how do the hostages complicate the israeli effort to respond or retaliate to these to take .

IT clearly complicated IT, right? If you have israeli bombardments on gaza, what happens to the israeli civilians who are their captive? I put that very question to the army.

They didn't want to respond. Um they are saying that that there are over probably one hundred to one hundred and fifty a civilians, israelis and soldiers held captive in gaza. We don't have the exact numbers but the israeli army spokesman said IT was a atrocious.

He said the messages they're getting from the hamas military spokesman threatening to kill, execute israeli hostages if israel bomb bar ds and killed civilians without warning. Um of course, homos wants a prisoner exchange with palestinians and israeli jails. The israeli prime minister, Benjamin antony hours has done a prisoner exchange with humus in the past.

But I think right now israelis are simply astonished there are astonished at the hostages, are astonished at the entire aftermath. There is a feeling that the government is absent. I've heard that a lot of failure to protect, to rescue communities. Even today, a lot of volunteers are pitching in to help rescue people from the areas of fighting. I spoke to one person who was rescued in israeli journalist a mert bomb.

The government, where are they? We understand what's going on. I mean, this is a huge failure of the government.

We have to fight. We have to win. But this will not be forgotten.

I hear that a lot safe.

Daniel israel said, or an israeli defense minister said that that israel would cut off food, water and electricity to gaza, which had almost completely surrounds. What are you hearing, if you anything from inside gaza.

you know, the gaza border sealed off. So I, as a journalist, cannot get in. And now gaza border with egypt seals so palestinians cannot escape.

But we do know over one hundred and eighty thousand palestinians have fled their homes, according to the U. N. Seeking shelter inside gaza. Our producer, ana zada, met one woman who is in a hospital and SHE was saying SHE doesn't feel that there's anywhere that safe in gaza.

Steve. He says that they .

are just scores of families they are seeking shelter at the SHE says there's nowhere .

safe and gaza, something powerful about that word. Thank you very much. You welcome. That's the annual.

People around the world showed support for israel in recent days. LandMarks from the eiffel tower in paris to the White house in washington were lit in blue and White, the colors of the israeli flag.

But some americans also marched in support of palestinians or issued statements, ts, blaming israel. These activists higher lighted israel's ongoing treatment of palestinians in the generations of conflict over land.

And p, brian man has been tracking this. Brian.

good morning morning. E.

who's marching for the palestinians?

These are progressive and far left groups and islamic political organizations that have long advocated for palestinian .

independence. Here is the sound of a protest in new york city.

And it's worth pointing out, Steve, that song, that chant by some interpretations, calls for establishment of a palestinian state with borders that could effectively a race, israel. From the map there were prop. Alex inie protest marches with hundreds of people in atlantic, chicago, denver, santiago and washington, dc. Some of these ralli's israeli protesters also gathered, and in some places, scuffles broke out between activists.

Weren't there also a student groups at harvard university that issued a statement on this?

Yeah, that's roughly harvard student groups, many LED by arab muslim activists or students, were tied to predominant muslim countries. They cosign this letter, which reads and am quoting her, Steve, we hold the israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence. Uh, these groups described israel as a colonial apartheid country OK.

I understand the political argument, the historical argument they're making. And the one thousand nine hundred forties israelis and palestinians, according to the U. N.

We're both supposed to get a state. Israel's got there as the palestinians didn't. In more recent times, gaza has been isolated and surrounded by giant walls put up by israel. But the most recent news here is of homos fighters killing her, kidnapping women and children. How do the activist account for that?

Yeah, the timing of these marches, Steve, as some israeli neigh's ods were still under siege, Spark rage from many politicians. You know, democrats and republicans spoke out, especially here in new york, governor coffee coco called the new york city march abhorrent and morally repugnant.

A senator chuck humor described the rally as cold hearted congresswomen at least to find like a harvard graduate and a republican condemned that student statement as a horrent and hands and carbon harder. Officials did announce the letter. I did reach out to harvard officials for for a comment, and they have not responded. It's worth pointing out, in new york city, meanwhile, ipd has increased security around synagogues and jewish community organizations.

Do you hear propellers inie activists? Responding to the criticism?

I spoke to manoa delsman tos, who heads a group called the people's forum in york city. He defended his organization right to protest peacefully to criticize israel for the treatment of poetry. I asked him if he is comfortable with the mosses attack on civilians, the deliberate killing and kidnapping of Young people and elderly israeli. We spoke by phone.

Here's what he said. I do know it's a war. I wish they weren't israel Young people who had to die. Same way. I read the fact that so many thousands of palestinians are dying.

Delasau told me he wouldn't criticize any part of a mosses attack, I should say. Steve and pr has spoken with other supporters of palestinian independence who have called for nonviolent resistance and years.

Bryan, thanks so much.

Thank you.

Okay, the turmoil in the middle ast to adds new urgency to dispute here in washington, D. C. President biden will address the nation later today.

but the house of representatives remains paralyzed until republicans can elect a new speaker. This comes after a small block of hard right republicans let in effort, which democrats joined to remove Kevin mccarthy from office. At first, mcneice said he would not run again for speaker, but at a news conference monday, which was called a sensibly to call for more U. S. Support for israel, the california republican indicated he would serve again if he could get the votes.

That's a decision by the conference. I'll allow the conference to make whatever decision whether i'm speaker or not. I'm a member of this body.

Okay, let's turn to npr political correspondent dance. Susan David sugar, morning good. What's my carthy thinking?

The attack on israel has scrambled a lot of the calculations here. On capital hill household gn affairs chairman, my call said he thought I was dangerous to remove the speaker. The waive republicans did. And he also made the point on CNN recently that without a speaker, congress, camp, move legislation, they can pass aid israel, they can pass a resolution he's offered condemning homos for the attack. And they can do anything until there's a speaker in place.

I look at the world in all the threats that are out there. And what kind of message are we sending to our adversaries when we can't govern, when we were disfunctional? We don't even have a speaker. The house.

all of this seems to have effective murthy. He made extensive reMarks on israel, called the press conference, even though is not the speaker of the house, but as of now, and still is pretty clear, doesn't have the votes, mat gates, florida republican who is one of his top to tractors, reiterated at this on monday on social media, saying that IT was, quote.

time to move forward. Guess we should remember the math, any house republican who loses a few house republican votes can't win. There are a couple of other republicans who seem to be in the running, Steve coles, whose has been a number two in the house after now, and jim Jordan, very prominent committee chairman.

Republicans are of trying to hash this all out this week. They held a meeting last night, essentially just event some anger from everything they played out last week. They're going have a candidate forum tonight where school and Jordan will address their colleagues behind closed doors.

If all goes to plan, they are going to hold a close door secret ballot election among gs, just republicans on wednesday morning. And if they think of republican can get the votes before the full house, they could move to the full house floor very quickly, even as early as wednesday. There is a lot of hesitation among republicans, especially republicans like Michael, to have this all play out on the floor like I did in january.

They don't want to go fifteen rounds. They don't want to go several days, especially in following the attack on israel because there's a real fear of projecting the sort of image of democracy in the us. And disarray in a very public fashion.

I just briefly, some people will wonder, like, could the democrats get involved? Could democrats give few votes to someone? Is there still seem to be no likelihood of that at all?

There still seems to be no likelihood that at all.

Okay, how else has the the middle is affected? congress?

Well, in the senate, I think it's created new urgency around a lot and ominous that are not filled. There's been a blockage of hundreds of military API ties by alpin a republican senator, Tommy tuber vill. There's also new focus on getting ambassadors confirmed.

Former treasury y secretary jack lew is waiting to be of confirmed as ambassador to israel. Also see if ukrainy changes the tender of that debate around the us rolling democracies. And there's already conversation over whether congress should couple ukraine ae with possible aid.

israel. Just a reminder that when IT comes to money, the united states can do nothing if the house of representatives cannot vote. Is that correct? This is A M, P, R.

Susan Davis. Always a pleasure hearing from you. Thank you.

Thank you.

And that's at first for this tuesday, october tenth. I'm Steven skip .

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