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Migrant Surge at Spain's Frontier & Gaza Gamble, Hamas Says Yes to Disarmament · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Thank you all for being here as we take action
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  Speaker 1: to get illegal alien truck drivers off the American roadways.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing a very strong movement and we have had
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  Speaker 1: such support for this and replace them with proud American veterans.
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  Speaker 1: And it's about.
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  Speaker 2: Time you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 2: Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. It's nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got two
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  Speaker 3: big stories for you. First up, President Trump promised he
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  Speaker 3: was going to secure the southern border. He's done it.
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  Speaker 3: The question then is where do all the illegal immigrants go. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now we're watching Europe be completely overrun. Spain has such
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  Speaker 3: a crisis right now. No one even knows how to
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  Speaker 3: stop what's happening. And we have the details. Plus, Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump announced a Gaza breakthrough now saying that Hummas, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the terrorist organization has agreed to a this armament deal
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  Speaker 3: so that then there can be peace in Gaza and Israel.
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  Speaker 3: It's a trust for Verify moment, but it is a
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  Speaker 3: big step in the right direction, and I have the details.
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  Speaker 3: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one for years.
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  Speaker 3: Europe has been debating immigration as though it were a
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  Speaker 3: theoretical political discussion, and much of it actually revolved around
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  Speaker 3: America's open border policies under the prior democratic administrations that
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  Speaker 3: led in tens of millions of illegal immigrants into the US.
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  Speaker 3: We now know that President Trump has secured the border
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  Speaker 3: in a historical way. So what is happening around the world. Well,
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  Speaker 3: many of those millions that were coming to America are
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  Speaker 3: now looking for new places to go, and they're finding
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  Speaker 3: those new places. Especially this week, it became impossible for
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  Speaker 3: the world to ignore dramatic scenes from Spain's North Africa
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  Speaker 3: Enclave show thousands of migrants attempting to reach Spanish territory
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  Speaker 3: from Morocco, many by simply swimming around the border barriers.
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  Speaker 3: The images they are extraordinary, crowds pouring out of beaches,
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  Speaker 3: emergency responders racing into the water, police trying to regain control,
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  Speaker 3: and local officials warning that their city is literally overwhelmed
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  Speaker 3: with what would be called normally illegal immigrants. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: you think about what these images actually represent, this isn't
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  Speaker 3: someone arriving at a legal port of entry, This isn't
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  Speaker 3: someone presenting documents, This isn't someone waiting for an immigration hearing.
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  Speaker 3: These are mass crossings occurring in real time, very much
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  Speaker 3: like what we witness in America at the Rio Grand
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  Speaker 3: In fact, it's the issue that brought Donald Trump back
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  Speaker 3: to the White House securing our southern border. Well now
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  Speaker 3: again these illegal immigrants from around the world have decided
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  Speaker 3: to move on to other countries, and that means mass
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  Speaker 3: crossings occurring in real time on European borders where local
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  Speaker 3: authorities say they simply cannot keep pace with the number
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  Speaker 3: of arrivals. Sounds familiar, right, It's exactly what we witness
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  Speaker 3: under the Obama administration and certainly what we witness under
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  Speaker 3: the Biden administration. Now, Spanish territory that's located on the
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  Speaker 3: northern coast of Africa is making it one of the
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  Speaker 3: European Union's only land borders with Africa. Because of that geography,
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  Speaker 3: it has long been a pressure point for legal immigration.
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  Speaker 3: Officials say this latest surge is like something they've never
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  Speaker 3: seen before. It's the most significant, they say, in decades,
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  Speaker 3: with thousands and thousands arriving in days, overwhelming reception centers
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  Speaker 3: and forcing Spain now to deploy quote additional police and
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  Speaker 3: military personnel to restore order. The videos they're striking, they're
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  Speaker 3: actually shocked because of who is in the videos. You're
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  Speaker 3: not seeing a lot of women and children. What you
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  Speaker 3: are seeing as groups of young men, military age men.
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  Speaker 3: You can see them entering the water from Morocco and
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  Speaker 3: swimming around the breakwaters that separate Moroccan territory from Spain.
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  Speaker 3: Others reached the shoreline and immediately run inland. The scale
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  Speaker 3: of the crossings has well reignited the political debate across
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  Speaker 3: Spain and now throughout Europe over is it maybe time
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  Speaker 3: for border security. It's also bring up questions, just like
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  Speaker 3: we had in this country, about asylum procedures and how
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  Speaker 3: government should respond to large, massive migration surges. Now, there's
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  Speaker 3: one thing that's very clear. Europe knew this was coming,
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  Speaker 3: and Europe wasn't prepared for it, possibly on purpose. Now,
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  Speaker 3: one of the details that frequently is not highlighting the
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  Speaker 3: news coverage is that many of those visible in this
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  Speaker 3: footage are men. I'll say it again. We're not talking
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  Speaker 3: about a lot of women or children, or you can
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  Speaker 3: even say families. Now that distinction is incredibly important because
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  Speaker 3: public discussion often always focuses on the pull on your heartstring,
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  Speaker 3: stories about just children and mothers and grandparents and families
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  Speaker 3: who are just looking for a better life. You look
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  Speaker 3: at the video and what do you see. You don't
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  Speaker 3: see hardly any of that storytelling. You see military age
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  Speaker 3: men without children, without wives, without families, who are surging
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  Speaker 3: across these borders. Local officials are now saying that well,
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  Speaker 3: they're describing the situation as quote an emergency, and they're
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  Speaker 3: warning that local infrastructure and policing cannot absorb these large
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  Speaker 3: numbers of arrivals in such a short period of time.
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  Speaker 3: They also say it as a threat to the local
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  Speaker 3: community and reception facilities. They're filling up now quote so
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  Speaker 3: rapidly that emergency services are stretched thin. Let me be clear,
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  Speaker 3: that's no emergency services for the illegal immigrants, that's emergency
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  Speaker 3: services for the community. The citizens in Spain, and the
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  Speaker 3: city has now appealed to Madrid, begging for additional aid
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  Speaker 3: and begging for additional security, and begging for additional assistance. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Spain's national government has responded today by deploying what they
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  Speaker 3: describe as quote additional civil guard officers and military personnel.
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  Speaker 3: They say to reinforce security. The prime minister there has
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  Speaker 3: defended the government's response, saying authorities are coordinating with Morocco
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  Speaker 3: while working to restore order. Clearly, Morocco is not working
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  Speaker 3: hard to stop the illegal immigrants from gathering and surging
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  Speaker 3: across the border or around the security booies in the water. Migration,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, across the Mediterranean has challenged Europe for years.
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  Speaker 3: The routes, they constantly change. When one pathway becomes more difficult,
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  Speaker 3: the illegal immigrants and the smuggling networks, they'll just shift
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  Speaker 3: to another. And they're seeing an increased number of individuals
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  Speaker 3: that are making money, just like we saw with the
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  Speaker 3: cartels in Mexico, who've realized that not only can you
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  Speaker 3: make serious cash smuggling human beings into another country, but
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  Speaker 3: if you move around quickly, you can do it efficiently.
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  Speaker 3: We're also witnessing new types of technology, including seedws and
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  Speaker 3: watercraft that are being used to beach people jump off
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  Speaker 3: and immediately the person, the pilot, the driver, whatever you
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  Speaker 3: want to call them, turns around, goes and grabs another
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  Speaker 3: load and brings them back to shore before anyone can
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  Speaker 3: stop them. How much are they making Some reports are
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  Speaker 3: saying thousands per individual now imagine you drop off twenty
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  Speaker 3: people in a day. You can do the math. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the politics of this is what really everyone is focusing
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  Speaker 3: on at the moment, because across Europe, leaders, well, they've
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  Speaker 3: been arguing that you must be a welcoming country, you
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  Speaker 3: must be a loving country, we must be a loving
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  Speaker 3: European Union. Now Spain's immigration policies are encouraging what they
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  Speaker 3: describe as additional illegal immigrants because of the geopolitical tensions
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  Speaker 3: between Spain and Morocco, and many analysts are now suggesting
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  Speaker 3: the timing may also reflect the diplomatic strains between the
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  Speaker 3: two countries. Is Spain is in a situation now where
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  Speaker 3: something has to change or their country will be gone forever.
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  Speaker 3: That is what's happening right now, and it's worth paying
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  Speaker 3: attention to because the takeaway is this, why is the
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  Speaker 3: surge getting so big now in Europe? It is because
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  Speaker 3: America's borders are closed, and when these immigrants look at
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  Speaker 3: where they can go, oh, America is no longer on
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  Speaker 3: the destination list. It is virtually impossible to break into
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  Speaker 3: America right now because of Donald Trump being in charge.
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  Speaker 3: Because how quickly when we catch you we send you
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  Speaker 3: back to your host country, and that is why Europe
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  Speaker 3: has become target number one for legal immigrants all over
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  Speaker 3: the world who don't respect borders or the laws of
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  Speaker 3: the countries they invade.
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  Speaker 2: Next story number two.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to start this story by saying, I am
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  Speaker 3: pessimistically optimistic about what I'm about to tell you, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the White House is probably in agreement with me.
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  Speaker 3: This is a trust but verify moment, but it can
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  Speaker 3: also be exciting and good news. President Donald Trump announcing
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  Speaker 3: an agreement for the quote complete disarmament of the terrorist
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  Speaker 3: group Hamas, calling it a critical step towards a new
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  Speaker 3: Palestinian government. In Gaza, senior Hamas officials told AFP that
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  Speaker 3: the agreement reached with Israel includes provisions addressing the group's
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  Speaker 3: weapons and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the
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  Speaker 3: Gaza Strip. Quote An agreement has been reached regarding the
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  Speaker 3: issue of weapons. Furthermore, an agreement has been reached on
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  Speaker 3: a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the strip. A
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  Speaker 3: senior Hamas official stated, now, there's no immediate statement from
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  Speaker 3: Israel yet, and we are expecting one now. President Trump's
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  Speaker 3: announcement came after sources familiar with the ongoing talks with
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  Speaker 3: the mediators in Cairo told AFP that the palising in
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  Speaker 3: Islamic movement was progressing towards a deal involving the decommissioning
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  Speaker 3: of its weapons. Quote today, the Board of Peace reached
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  Speaker 3: a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of AMAS and
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  Speaker 3: all other armed groups in Gaza. This is a monumental
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  Speaker 3: step towards lasting peace and security. That is what President
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  Speaker 3: Trump wrote on True Social saying disarmament would take place
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  Speaker 3: in carefully structured phases. As disarmaments completed, Israeli forces will
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  Speaker 3: withdraw and the International Stabilization Force will work with a
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  Speaker 3: new palace Inian Police force to take responsibility for Gaza
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  Speaker 3: being safe for its residents and its neighbors. He added,
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  Speaker 3: also thinking the mediators from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the thorny issue of amasa's disarmament has been one of
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  Speaker 3: the key sticking points in the advancement of the ceasefire
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  Speaker 3: deal that has been in place between Israel and the
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  Speaker 3: groups in Gaza since quote October. Now, despite the ceasefire,
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  Speaker 3: we've had violence as continued in Gaza, Israeli strikes killing
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  Speaker 3: at least four people, including two children, on Thursday because
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  Speaker 3: they were terrorists. Cairo has set to host a meeting
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  Speaker 3: soon of the Gaza truce mediators, which include the United States, Qatar, Turkey,
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  Speaker 3: and state linked cah News reported that on early Friday.
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  Speaker 3: The news outlet also did not specify when the meetings
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  Speaker 3: will take place, but said it would discuss implementing the
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  Speaker 3: second phase of the Gaza Ceasefire Plan, a roadmap for
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  Speaker 3: which AMAS and Palasinian factions have agreed now. Under President
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  Speaker 3: Trump's twenty point piece plan for Gaza, the second phase
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  Speaker 3: of the ceasefire was to involve hamasa's disarmament and then
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  Speaker 3: the graduate with draw of Israeli forces from the territory.
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  Speaker 3: The plan also provides for a group of Palestinian technocrats,
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  Speaker 3: the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, to assume
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  Speaker 3: day to day governance during Gaza's transitional phase out of war.
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  Speaker 3: Now earlier, a diplomatic source also said to the news
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  Speaker 3: outlet AFP, we continue to advance the implementation roadmap that
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  Speaker 3: offers a balance and pragmatic path forward with all weapons
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  Speaker 3: decommissioned and a phased transition of responsibilities taking place to
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  Speaker 3: hand over full authority to the new government. Now, look,
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  Speaker 3: there are a lot of questions here if this will
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  Speaker 3: actually happen, can you actually trust terrorists and are terrists
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  Speaker 3: ever really going to disarm themselves. Well, the roadmap that's
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  Speaker 3: been laid out, one source said, would create a process
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  Speaker 3: for the elimination of all tunnels, deposits of weapons, and
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  Speaker 3: any weapons production facilities. That is obviously a step in
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  Speaker 3: the right direction. Now, all weapons heavy in light, they say,
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  Speaker 3: will be under full control of the NCAG, and that
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  Speaker 3: will be in coordination with the support of THESF. The
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  Speaker 3: sources also said that the International Stabilization Force and Fledging
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  Speaker 3: Body will come together. Now, obviously there are a lot
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  Speaker 3: of moving parts here. The President is excited about this
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  Speaker 3: movement because it does seem like they have bombed Moss
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  Speaker 3: into submission and Israel has done what they needed to
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  Speaker 3: do to protect themselves. But there is an outlet for peace,
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  Speaker 3: maybe an exit ramp, and we should all be hoping
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  Speaker 3: for that. Even Israel is looking like they are going
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  Speaker 3: towards this route with some sort of enthusiasm. They are
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  Speaker 3: ready for peace as well, and the President says that
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  Speaker 3: his plan is exactly how we're gonna get there.
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