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Global demonstrations after Israel detains Gaza flotilla activists · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Protesters in Europe, Australia and South America have taken to
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  Speaker 1: the streets to condemn Israel's interception of an AID flotilla
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  Speaker 1: challenging the blockade of Gaza. The Israelis detained more than
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  Speaker 1: four hundred foreign activists to board forty vessels and plan
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  Speaker 1: to deport them. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO said
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli Navy had repelled a campaign of delegitimization against Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Inside Gaza, officials say Israeli strikes killed at least fifty
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  Speaker 1: two people on Thursday. Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians continue to
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  Speaker 1: flee Gaza City amid an ongoing Israeli ground offensive to
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  Speaker 1: take full control of the area. Meanwhile, the White House
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  Speaker 1: says President Trump will draw a red line on how
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  Speaker 1: long to wait for Hamas to respond to a US
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  Speaker 1: proposal aimed at ending the war in Gaza. On Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: mister Trump said that Hamas had three to four days
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  Speaker 1: to reply to his twenty point framework, which has largely
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  Speaker 1: been accepted by Israel. While our correspondent Barbara Plett usher
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  Speaker 1: I spoke to us from Jerusalem with the latest on
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  Speaker 1: the detained activists.
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  Speaker 2: The last number I saw of those who'd been detained
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  Speaker 2: was four hundred and forty three foreign activists from many
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  Speaker 2: different countries, a lot of them from Europe, some of
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  Speaker 2: them from South America. So you had widespread protests once
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  Speaker 2: they were detained. Protests in Spain, in Belgium, in Switzerland,
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  Speaker 2: in Italy and Italy they're calling a strike today to
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  Speaker 2: show solidarity. Also protests in Buenics Aires in Brazilia. So
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  Speaker 2: very widespread reaction to what happened. A number of harsh
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  Speaker 2: commendations from several governments, from Colombia, from Turkey. But the
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  Speaker 2: Israelis say that they handled this responsibly. They said it
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  Speaker 2: was a major operation because there were some forty two boats.
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  Speaker 2: They picked up the activists in international waters, and they
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  Speaker 2: filmed themselves doing that in posted clips later saying that
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  Speaker 2: all of the activists were safe. They also said that
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  Speaker 2: they had checked the boats looking for this aid that
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  Speaker 2: the flotilla was carrying at their they didn't really find much,
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  Speaker 2: which they say basically bolstered their claim that this was
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  Speaker 2: all a stunt or a provocation, but it was an
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  Speaker 2: actual fact, a very high profile demonstration of opposition to
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  Speaker 2: gazas to to the blockade of Gaza, where famine has
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  Speaker 2: been declared, the intense international opposition to it that has
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  Speaker 2: been growing. There have been a number there were a
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  Speaker 2: number of famous or high profile people on board, the
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  Speaker 2: grandson of Nelson Mandela, several European politicians. So it does
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  Speaker 2: show that global solidarity with the Palestinians has been growing
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  Speaker 2: over the past year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about Gaza because the Israeli military push
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  Speaker 1: that continues, and we are awaiting the response from Hamas
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  Speaker 1: to the peace plan put forward by President Trump. What's
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  Speaker 1: the latest on that? President Trump saying is drawing a
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  Speaker 1: red line he'd given he'd given us sort of loose
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  Speaker 1: time frame, had they so three or four days?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he gave that loose time frame in the week,
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  Speaker 2: so that would be about now really, but he didn't
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  Speaker 2: make it a firm deadline. Still, everybody is waiting to
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  Speaker 2: see what Hamas says to the peace plan. The mediators
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  Speaker 2: cut our Turkey Egypt are pressing very hard for Hamas
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  Speaker 2: to accept this plan, even though they themselves have reservations
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  Speaker 2: about it, but they see it as a way that
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  Speaker 2: could end the war. Now. BBC sources say that they
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  Speaker 2: have made contact or that the mediators have made contact
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  Speaker 2: with the head of the military wing in gaze Zdina
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  Speaker 2: Hadad and they are reporting, and we understand that he
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  Speaker 2: is not inclined to accept the plan, that he basically
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  Speaker 2: believes that this is a plan to finish off Hamas,
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  Speaker 2: whether the group accepts it or not, and so it's
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  Speaker 2: better to fight until the end. There are a number
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  Speaker 2: of problems that the Hamas has with the plant. In particular,
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  Speaker 2: it calls on the group to disarm now. The group
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  Speaker 2: has said it would not disarm until a sovereign Palestinian
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  Speaker 2: state was declared. That's been its position until now. Another
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  Speaker 2: thing that Hamasa's problems with is the demand that all
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  Speaker 2: of the hostages there are forty eight hostages, around twenty
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  Speaker 2: of whom still believed to be alive, be handed over
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning of this process, So in the first
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  Speaker 2: seventy two hours all the hostages would be handed over,
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  Speaker 2: rather than in phases like previous cease fires, and Hamas
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  Speaker 2: sort of sees this as giving away their only card
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  Speaker 2: right at the beginning, which would make them vulnerable. They
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  Speaker 2: don't trust President Trump's guarantee that Israel would not restart
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  Speaker 2: the war, as soon as it gets its hostages back,
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  Speaker 2: especially after Israel attacked the Hamas leadership and Katar. So
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  Speaker 2: these are some of the misgivings that they have. It
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  Speaker 2: should be said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ettaniel,
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  Speaker 2: who accepted the plan officially in Washington, but in Israel,
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  Speaker 2: he has also been pushing back on the terms in
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  Speaker 2: his statements. For example, he says it will allow the
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  Speaker 2: Israelis to retain parts of Gaza, which is not what
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  Speaker 2: the plan says. It says they would move to a
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  Speaker 2: security buffer on the edge of the strip. It also
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  Speaker 2: says that there's an insistence there will not be a
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian state, and in fact the plan and says that
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  Speaker 2: there might be a credible path to a Palestinian state
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  Speaker 2: if everything works out. So he has put his own
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  Speaker 2: take on the terms. But right now what everyone is
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  Speaker 2: waiting for is to see how Hamas officially responds to
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  Speaker 2: what many are hoping could be a way to end
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  Speaker 2: the Gaza war.
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  Speaker 1: Now, as Barbara Presasha reporting there from Jerusalem, and let's
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  Speaker 1: just take another look at those pictures, they're nine vessels
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  Speaker 1: as part of that flotilla of activists making their way
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  Speaker 1: towards Gaza. As we've been reporting this morning, Israelis have
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  Speaker 1: detained more than four hundred foreign activists in those street
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  Speaker 1: protests taking place across Europe, across Australia, and across South America.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of international eyes on that flotilla as it carries
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  Speaker 1: on