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Linda Gradstein: CBS Jerusalem Correspondent on Trump's proposed peace deal for Gaza · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Let's get reaction out of Trump's pace plan with the
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  Speaker 1: three to four day deadline for Hamas. It includes an
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  Speaker 1: immediate sea spot followed by the disarmament of Hamas and
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  Speaker 1: in Israeli withdrawal. Linda Gradstein is CBS News correspondent in Jerusalem. Linda,
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  Speaker 1: what's the reaction been or what do we expect the
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  Speaker 1: reaction might be from Hamas well?
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  Speaker 2: It's really hard to tell. The sort of reports are
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  Speaker 2: that Hamas is tending towards accepting the deal. They're under
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  Speaker 2: a lot of pressure from Kuttar, the Palestinians living in Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: I have a friend who lives in Gaza and has
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  Speaker 2: been displaced numerous times and is barely, you know, having
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  Speaker 2: such a and she's been having such a hard time,
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  Speaker 2: and she wrote me and said, I hate all the
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian organizations. I'm sick of all of So I think
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  Speaker 2: there is a sense that the population in Gaza certainly
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  Speaker 2: wants the word to end, wants the bombing to end,
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  Speaker 2: wants to begin to rebuild some semblance of life in Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, it's basically Hamas giving in
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  Speaker 2: by saying that it will have no role in any
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  Speaker 2: future government of Gaza, that the area will be demilitized,
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  Speaker 2: that Hamas will hand over its guns. So all of
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  Speaker 2: those are things that I think are very difficult for
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  Speaker 2: Hamas will accept.
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  Speaker 1: Do the people in Gaza want Hamas gone too?
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  Speaker 2: Well, First of all, you know, it's hard to tell
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  Speaker 2: because people are afraid to speak out against Hamas, And
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  Speaker 2: if you do write anything online on social media against Hamas,
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  Speaker 2: you will have somebody showing up at your home and
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  Speaker 2: threatening you. So people are afraid to speak against Hamas.
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  Speaker 2: But I think there is a feeling that Hamas. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Hamas was originally elected in two thousand and six, and
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  Speaker 2: it was more as a sort of a reaction to
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  Speaker 2: the corruption of the Palestinian authority, and the idea was
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  Speaker 2: that the people of Hamas, because they were observant Muslims,
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  Speaker 2: that they were not corrupt. But I think people really
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  Speaker 2: there are people's lives, you know, there's not people are hungry,
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  Speaker 2: there's enough food, there's no semblance of a normal life
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  Speaker 2: in Gaza. People are living intense people have been displaced
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  Speaker 2: numerous times. Many kids haven't gone to school in two years.
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  Speaker 2: So I think they're against anything that stopped from which.
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  Speaker 1: Cases London Gradstein, who's the CBS News Radio correspondent in Jerusalem.
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