One month of violence and war in Israel and Gaza | First Thing
As Israel marks one month since the Hamas attack that killed 1,400, the Israeli PM rules out a general ceasefire and looks toward the future of Gaza. Plus: online disinformation and climate reparations
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One month after the Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,400 people, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said Israel will have overall security responsibility" in Gaza for an indefinite period" after the fighting ends.
One month ago, the plan drawn up by a handful of Hamas leaders was unknown to the men who would carry it out. Instructions for Operation al-Aqsa Flood, the most ambitious operation launched by Hamas since it took control of Gaza in 2007, were passed verbally to thousands of Hamas militants in an effort to deceive one of the most potent surveillance systems in the world.
UN-run shelters in Gaza are so crowded that it is impossible to count the people needing food, water, medicine and other basics as more fighting and bombardments continue to arrive.
As tensions spill out from Israel and Gaza to around the world, a Jewish man in California died after an altercation amid pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian street protests. His death is being investigated as a homicide.
With sometimes heated, sometimes meandering testimony, Trump's time on the witness stand was akin to what might turn out to be his most expensive rally ever.
Meanwhile, the latest swing polls noted that if a presidential election were held today, Joe Biden would lose to Trump by a lot.
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