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American Prestige

News - Israel Breaks Ceasefire, US Bombs Yemen, DRC Fighting Continues

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s news: Israelis break the Gaza ceasefire (0:33); Trump resumes America’s war on Yemen’s Ansar Allah/Houthis (6:09); clashes break out on the border of Syria and Lebanon (10:15); a presidential candidate is arrested in Turkey (12:27); the South Sudan peace process continues to break down (16:02); calls for a ceasefire go unheeded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (18:16); the US expels the ambassador from South Africa (21:08); in Russia-Ukraine news, Trump and Putin talk by phone (23:24) while the Kursk operation is effectively over (26:32); Canada welcomes its new prime minister, Mark Carney (28:45); and Donald Trump ignores a court ruling in order to deport hundreds of Venezuelans (31:14).  Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.8

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0:35.4

Head to vanta.com slash Spotify to learn more. Hello, Prestige Hedge and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson.

1:07.1

And we're excited to bring you the news. We're bringing you the news a day early this week,

1:11.3

because I've got to do some travel.

1:12.9

But Derek, let's get right into it,

1:14.8

and let's talk about Israel breaking the Gaza ceasefire.

1:18.2

The Israeli military overnight, Monday into Tuesday,

1:24.6

resumed its full-scale bombardment of Gaza, killed over 400 people.

1:33.3

Figures I've seen range from around 404 to 436, although that latter figure, I think,

1:39.3

includes some people who were killed over the day on Tuesday, wounding more than 500 more, local officials.

1:47.5

This has been reported by Dropsite and elsewhere,

1:50.4

Al Jazeer, I think, as well, have tallied up the number of

1:55.6

dead.

1:56.9

Around two-thirds, it seems, were women and children, which contradicts, I guess, the Israeli claim.

2:03.8

Not that we need to contradict these things anymore, but the Israeli claim that they were targeting

2:08.3

specifically Hamas leadership. They did kill a couple of senior Hamas officials in Gaza, the head of the

2:16.0

Ghazan government, the interior Minister of the Ghazan government,

2:19.3

but let's just say their target percentage was not terribly high,

2:23.3

given the overall number of casualties.

2:26.3

There's been continued airstrikes at a lower level

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