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Trump peace plan 'ignores interests of Palestinian people', Hamas official says · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Now, as the countdown continues for Hamas to make a
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  Speaker 1: decision on President Trump's Gaza peace plan, as senior figure
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  Speaker 1: for the militant group has told the BBC they're likely
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  Speaker 1: to reject the proposals. The official said the twenty point
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  Speaker 1: plan only served Israel's interests and ignored those of the
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian people. Donald Trump has warned Hamas that will pay
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  Speaker 1: in hell if it doesn't agree to his plan. Some
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  Speaker 1: of the key points include Israel immediately stopping all military
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  Speaker 1: operations in Gaza and all Israeli hostages being freed within
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  Speaker 1: seventy two hours of a deal being agreed. Full aid
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  Speaker 1: would then begin to flow into Gaza immediately. No Palestinians
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  Speaker 1: would be forced to leave under the plan, and Gaza
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  Speaker 1: would be redeveloped for Gazans. A new transition government would
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  Speaker 1: be formed, overseen by what's called a Board of Peace,
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  Speaker 1: chaired by Donald Trump and including other present and former
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  Speaker 1: heads of state, among them former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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  Speaker 1: Israel would not annex Gaza and there'd be no role
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  Speaker 1: for Hamas in its government. Well, let's speak to a
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  Speaker 1: Gaza correspondent, Rushdi Abu aloof Rushti, can you tell us
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  Speaker 1: more about why Hamas is likely to reject this plan?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because they believe that there is three or four
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  Speaker 2: points in this plan that doesn't go with what Hamas
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  Speaker 2: all the time was demanding and what they say that
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  Speaker 2: old Ballastinas are demanding. I'm not sure about this, but
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  Speaker 2: this Hamas leader said that the this doesn't guarantee that
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  Speaker 2: Israel will withdraw fully from Gaza and will there is
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  Speaker 2: no sign that there will be a permanent, long term ceasefire.
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  Speaker 2: And also the rejic the idea of you know, laying
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  Speaker 2: down their women. They said, we can only do this
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  Speaker 2: if there is a Palaestinian state created or promised at
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  Speaker 2: least by the you know, the this plan Trump plan.
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  Speaker 2: This seems to be Hamas is leaning towards rejecting this
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  Speaker 2: or at least saying yes. But the the usual answer
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  Speaker 2: by Hamas. I mean, the longer Hamas takes to answer
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  Speaker 2: or to respond, the more pressure are you know, built
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  Speaker 2: on Hamas. Yesterday there was separate meetings with the Turkish official,
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  Speaker 2: Egyptian Officialscatario officials. Indeed, by a joint meeting of the
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  Speaker 2: three officials with Hamas that took two and a half
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  Speaker 2: hours last night. Also, some of the Palestinian factions have
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  Speaker 2: met Hamas last night. All of them are trying to
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  Speaker 2: convince Hamas to accept this deal with many Palestinians in
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  Speaker 2: Gaza also are building pressure on Hamas. Some of them
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  Speaker 2: say that this is not the best deal, but any
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  Speaker 2: deal that can stop the war, we are in favor
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  Speaker 2: of it. I mean people who are like very few
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  Speaker 2: people who have access to the internet, the people who
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  Speaker 2: managed to speak to yesterday, all day and last night.
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  Speaker 2: They all want Hamas to agree to this document. And
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  Speaker 2: it seems that because you know, the documents has been
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  Speaker 2: there even before the official announcement, so Hamas is well
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  Speaker 2: aware of all the twenty points. So the longer it takes,
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  Speaker 2: the more you know, worried the people in Gaza are
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  Speaker 2: that Hamas might also reject this time a proposer that
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  Speaker 2: could end the war and rushdie.
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  Speaker 1: Presumably those Palestinians that you've been talking to, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they need food, they need age, don't they, And that
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  Speaker 1: is the promise if Hamas agrees, yes.
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  Speaker 2: They need the war to stop as well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's been almost two years of people living in hell.
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  Speaker 2: As the older described it, I mean more than sixty
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  Speaker 2: mean sixty six thousand people have been killed and over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand people are missing or injured or left
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  Speaker 2: the country. People are continued to displaced from Gaza City,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest city, where we believe three hundred to four
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand people are still squeezed in some of the
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  Speaker 2: small area that the army is not captured. The tanks
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  Speaker 2: are surrounding Gaza City from all directions four five directions
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  Speaker 2: and in some places there are about four or five
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  Speaker 2: hundred meters away from a Gaza city center. So while
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  Speaker 2: the talks I mean the people are waiting for her
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  Speaker 2: master response, the Israeli army are expanding the operation in
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  Speaker 2: the ground, and more misery and more suffering the people
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  Speaker 2: are are there. Still the prices of the food are
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  Speaker 2: very high. Maybe the femine is not as before, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, still the prices of food are very high.
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  Speaker 2: There is no clean water, and now Hennunis, the place
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  Speaker 2: that half of it is occupied by Israel, is now
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  Speaker 2: receiving hundreds of thousands of displaced people from Gaza. So
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  Speaker 2: there is people living in top of each other in
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  Speaker 2: some places like al Mawasei, where there is no clean
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  Speaker 2: water and no access to food or medicine.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you Rushdi for updating this on what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Gaza and of course response from Hamas Rushdi
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  Speaker 1: Abu Alugaza Correspondent