MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Israel’s army says it has expanded its floor offensive in Gaza and is now concentrating on Hamas strongholds all throughout the Gaza Strip.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Israeli forces are telling folks to flee some areas to keep away from these strikes, and that’s the arduous half. Many civilians have already moved from northern Gaza to the south and will now face calls for to go away the identical areas to which they fled.
MARTIN: Becoming a member of us now with extra is NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley in Tel Aviv. Eleanor, hiya.
ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Howdy.
MARTIN: So the combating resumed on Friday after the cease-fire broke down. Would you simply begin by telling us extra about Israel’s stepped-up operations?
BEARDSLEY: Sure. Properly, Israel says it is hit lots of of Hamas targets in a single day as its forces pushed deeper into Gaza. And there have been a number of strikes in and across the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis, the place the highest Hamas management is believed to be positioned, together with Yahya Sinwar, who orchestrated the October 7 assault. Israeli media is reporting that any combating in Khan Younis can be sophisticated, not solely by the lots of of 1000’s of people that have fled from the north, but in addition by the truth that a few of the Israeli hostages are believed to be held someplace across the metropolis. Here is Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.
DANIEL HAGARI: (Non-English language spoken).
BEARDSLEY: The forces are combating Hamas terrorists nose to nose wherever they’re and killing them. The army says it has discovered 800 Hamas tunnels for the reason that starting of the battle, and it claims to have destroyed 500.
MARTIN: So, Eleanor, as we already talked about, Israel is telling many individuals within the areas that it’s concentrating on to go away. However how and the place are they alleged to go? We’re already listening to that this newest evacuation warning is inflicting lots of confusion and anger.
BEARDSLEY: Yeah, that is proper. I imply, the Israeli military is claiming they’ve revealed a really detailed digital map on-line to assist folks get to safer locations. They usually’ve additionally dropped leaflets. , they’re urging folks to go east or west towards the ocean, however you possibly can’t go any farther south, so it is troublesome. NPR’s producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, spoke with Gazans yesterday. Here is Basel Bassyouni. He is an engineer and a father placing up a tent for his household. He says there aren’t any phrases to explain the horrible circumstances and what’s taking place. Let’s pay attention.
BASEL BASSYOUNI: (Non-English language spoken).
BEARDSLEY: He says there are greater than 100 households right here, and the final two nights have been probably the most horrible in my life, he instructed NPR. Bassyouni says he and his 5 kids watched because the sky was lit up with bombing.
MARTIN: Properly, what about Israelis? What are you listening to Israelis saying about this renewed combating?
BEARDSLEY: Properly, some Israelis will inform you that it is simply time to do away with Hamas as soon as and for all. However right here in Tel Aviv, the prevailing sentiment appears to be that getting the hostages out is extra vital than the battle, and it ought to come first. I used to be at an enormous rally in Tel Aviv over the weekend for the greater than 100 hostages nonetheless in Gaza. Hadas Calderon spoke. Her two kids, ages 12 and 16, have been kidnapped from a kibbutz and simply launched. Right here she is.
HADAS CALDERON: (Non-English language spoken).
BEARDSLEY: “Mother, you are alive is the very first thing my children mentioned to me,” she tells the gang. And her children thought she had been killed after they have been separated within the October 7 Hamas assault. And Calderon instructed the gang we won’t go away the hostages there at midnight and helpless.
MARTIN: And briefly, Eleanor, you have been within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution over the weekend. What are folks saying there?
BEARDSLEY: Properly, folks really feel pissed off. And there is powerlessness over what’s taking place in Gaza. I spoke with 70-year-old Amad Omar, a jeweler in Ramallah. He described how folks really feel.
AMAD OMAR: They really feel so dangerous about Gaza, you realize? This results everyone as a result of they’re Palestinians, you realize, the identical folks. We won’t do nothing about it. They bombarded it a lot. We see little children. It is arduous.
BEARDSLEY: , tensions have risen within the West Financial institution since October 7, and Israeli human rights teams say that 250 Palestinians have been killed since then. One instructed me it was a stress cooker able to explode.
MARTIN: That is NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley in Tel Aviv. Eleanor, thanks.
BEARDSLEY: You are welcome.
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INSKEEP: The Supreme Courtroom meets the opioid disaster immediately.
MARTIN: The justices hear arguments in a problem to the chapter deal that was meant to compensate victims of the addictive painkiller OxyContin.
INSKEEP: NPR authorized affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg is masking the story. Nina, good morning.
NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: What’s this case about?
TOTENBERG: Properly, you realize, immediately, we all know that Purdue Pharma actively pushed extremely addictive medicine with out telling folks what they have been doing. That is documented in court docket and in a documentary known as “Crime Of The Century.”
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: This was a brand new drug cartel. They have been drug sellers carrying fits and lab coats.
TOTENBERG: Purdue Pharma pleaded responsible to a few prison costs, and the corporate agreed that it owed $8 billion in prison and civil fines, most of which have been to be paid to state and native governments dealing with the fallout from the opioid disaster. And most of that cash was conditioned on the corporate reaching a deal in chapter court docket that will reimburse the victims.
INSKEEP: OK, so I would heard about all of that. Is a problem to that association what the Supreme Courtroom is now contemplating?
TOTENBERG: Right. The query on the heart of the case is whether or not the chapter court docket has the authority to launch the Sacklers from legal responsibility even though all three of the unique Sackler brothers who purchased Purdue and in the end developed OxyContin have been medical doctors, and that six Sacklers sat on the board of the corporate, together with the board chair, Richard Sackler, who carefully directed the agency’s aggressive and misleading OxyContin advertising and marketing technique.
INSKEEP: OK, so the query is whether or not the court docket had the ability, however do not courts have lots of energy in these instances?
TOTENBERG: They do. However the query of releasing from legal responsibility an entire class of responsible gamers is one which’s not been determined by the Supreme Courtroom. On this case, the Sacklers at first supplied $4 billion for the settlement, then moved it as much as 6 billion. However the Justice Division trustee who oversees chapter instances in New York, Connecticut and Vermont nonetheless objected to the deal. And defending that place immediately, the Biden administration will argue that the chapter regulation doesn’t authorize chapter courts to approve or launch from legal responsibility for third events just like the Sacklers, who haven’t declared chapter and nonetheless have a minimum of half their wealth and doubtless extra if the deal is accepted.
INSKEEP: OK, so the Biden administration is taking the view that the Sacklers should not get away with no matter they nonetheless are getting away with. What are the fundamental arguments on either side?
TOTENBERG: These opposing the settlement deal say that the Sacklers are successfully getting the rewards of a chapter at half value, however they’re nonetheless capable of preserve greater than half of their cash in belongings. They usually cannot be sued personally, in order that they’ll by no means need to testify about their misdeeds. Georgetown Legislation professor Adam Levitin places it this manner.
ADAM LEVITIN: Chapter is meant to supply reduction for sincere however unlucky debtors. They arrive clear about their belongings, they usually hand over all of their belongings to their collectors. And the Sacklers will not be doing both of these issues.
TOTENBERG: The opposite facet acknowledges that bankruptcies will be messy like this one, however it’s the one method to get all of the gamers and the victims in a single tent and supply some actual compensation. And if the Supreme Courtroom vetoes the chapter, there isn’t any assure that victims will truly be compensated as a result of the Sacklers have hidden their wealth in overseas banks which might be very troublesome to entry. And at finest, attending to that cash would take years and doubtlessly burn thousands and thousands, if not billions, of {dollars} in authorized charges.
INSKEEP: NPR’s Nina Totenberg. Thanks a lot.
TOTENBERG: Thanks, Steve.
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MARTIN: Former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney is sounding a warning about former President Donald Trump.
INSKEEP: Yeah, she instructed our colleague Leila Fadel it might be the tip of democracy on this nation if Trump is elected once more. Cheney was the No. 3 Home Republican, a submit she misplaced when she turned towards Trump for his effort to remain in workplace after he misplaced the presidential election in 2020.
MARTIN: She spoke to Leila forward of the discharge of her new e book, which comes out tomorrow. And Leila is with us now to offer us a preview. Good morning.
LEILA FADEL, HOST:
Good morning, Michel.
MARTIN: Now, you had a reasonably thorough dialog along with her and I do know you learn her e book. What was your largest takeaway?
FADEL: I imply, largest takeaway is that Cheney’s making it her mission to ensure Trump shouldn’t be reelected. Let’s hearken to a few of our dialog.
Are you contemplating a run for the presidency in 2024?
LIZ CHENEY: I have never dominated it out. I take a look at it, although, very a lot by way of the lens of stopping Donald Trump. And so no matter it should take to try this could be very a lot my focus. I believe the hazard is that nice that that must be everyone’s high precedence.
FADEL: So her warning is stark. She says, as Steve mentioned, democracy on this nation is at stake if Trump is elected once more. And her e book, “Oath And Honor,” is an accounting of what occurred inside her celebration within the weeks earlier than and after the January 6 assault on the Capitol by supporters of the previous president. And, Michel, she doesn’t maintain again, calling her former colleagues collaborators and enablers who knowingly went together with a lie that the election was stolen in 2020 and a lie that led to the assault on the Capitol. And he or she writes in her e book that Trump is probably the most harmful man ever to inhabit the Oval Workplace.
MARTIN: Properly, what about her former colleagues? I imply, you mentioned that she does not maintain again. What concerning the Republican Occasion writ giant, the celebration itself?
FADEL: Yeah, I imply, as you realize, Michel, Liz Cheney is a by way of and thru conservative. However she instructed me the Republican Occasion in its present type shouldn’t be her celebration. She calls it an anti-constitutional celebration. And I requested her what she thought when she noticed six out of eight Republican White Home hopefuls in a debate increase their palms when requested in the event that they’d help Trump because the Republican nominee if he have been convicted of a criminal offense, and this is what she mentioned.
CHENEY: If the celebration goes down the trail of nominating Donald Trump, actually the celebration itself could have misplaced any declare to be a celebration that’s, in truth, supportive of the Structure.
MARTIN: , Leila, Cheney was a part of the January 6 committee which investigated the assault on the Capitol. Does she suppose her work with that committee achieved what it wanted to?
FADEL: , I requested her that, and she or he says that work was only the start. It is why she wrote this e book, she says, through which she calls out the Republican Occasion management for being cowards who went together with Trump and risked the nation’s establishments, is what she wrote. And the hazard, she says, shouldn’t be within the rearview mirror.
CHENEY: There was an op-ed within the Wall Road Journal not too long ago the place they recommended that even when Donald Trump have been elected, it would not be that dangerous as a result of, after all, we have now these establishments and we have now these traditions, and we have now the separation of powers and that individuals might someway depend on that to restrain him. And one of many fundamental messages of my e book is, no, you possibly can’t. You can’t depend on these establishments to restrain him.
MARTIN: Properly, trying ahead to listening to extra of what she mentioned. That is NPR’s Leila Fadel. Leila, thanks.
FADEL: Thanks, Michel.
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