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Nov 2023
17m 29s

Israel-Hamas War: Your Questions Answere...

The Wall Street Journal
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Special Edition for Nov. 11. We’ve been asking our listeners what they want to know about the war in Gaza. In this special edition of What’s News, we’ll answer some of those questions, covering the situation on the ground and the wider ramifications of the war with Shayndi Raice, our deputy bureau chief for the Middle East and North Africa; Yaroslav Trofimov, our chief foreign-affairs correspondent; and Spencer Jakab, our global editor of Heard on the Street. Annmarie Fertoli and Luke Vargas host.

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