Hundreds of thousands head home in northern Gaza
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and at 14 Hours GMT on Monday 27th January, these are our main stories. Thousands of Gazans are heading back home in the north of the Strip. Rwandan-backed rebels take over parts of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And what really happened to a snapped undersea fibre optic cable running between Sweden and Latvia? Also in this podcast.
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The world remembers 80 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz. We start in Gaza, where the coastal road has been packed with people. As many as 100,000 Palestinians displaced during the conflict are returning to their homes as the ceasefire agreement holds. Young parents with babies in their arms, the elderly being helped along. Many people are weighed down with huge bags containing all they've managed to salvage after more than a year of escaping from place to place. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to follow them in the coming days. Among those making the journey is the family of our Gaza correspondent, Rushdi Aboualouf. He spoke to us from Cairo.
Very emotional day for me and my family. Very relieved that my father and my rest of the family will be starting their journey back to Gaza City. Most of their homes were destroyed, but it's a big day for all Palestinians we are talking about. More than a million people are in the move. Not sure if all of them will manage to cross today because, you know, it is going to take a very long time to walk this road. It's a dusty road, semi-destroyed road. They made some progress in bathing out some of the rebels. Yesterday, the Qataris and the Egyptians and the Americans who are in the ground to facilitate the return back for the people, they started walking on a coastal road early in the morning. But in the last hour, they started to allow cars to cross into northern Gaza. The process is that they allow 20 cars each time. to a certain area and they are checked by scanner first and by hands.
Make sure that no military equipment inside the car. But people are walking freely without any obstacles, without any Israeli troops in the place because the army has withdrawn its forces from the coastal road early in the morning, allowing people to return back.
Well, as we heard there, for those making the long walk back home, there is huge uncertainty over what they might find when they arrive. The UN estimates 60% of buildings in Gaza are badly damaged or totally destroyed. Our correspondent John Donison in Jerusalem gave me the latest.
I think the figure could end up being well over half a million people who end up heading back to their homes in the north. Now, before the ceasefire came into effect, there were around 50 trucks of aid getting in. Now it's thought to be 600. That's the aim every day. But the aid agencies say the real priority is shelter because many, many people will not have a home. They're going to be setting up in the rubble and they're going to be living in tents for some considerable time.
John, there was huge controversy over the weekend when Donald Trump suggested that Gazans should be going to live in neighbouring countries and there's continuing reaction to that, isn't there?
Yes, I mean, that has gone down like a lead balloon with Palestinians. I heard one man today in Gaza saying, you know, we will rebuild Gaza, we will never leave. Now, what Donald Trump actually said, he suggested, he floated the idea, as he often does, that Gaza should be cleaned out, as he put it. Now, for... Palestinians, other people watching around the world, that will raise, if that were to happen, further accusations of ethnic cleansing. And I think for Palestinians, for the neighbouring countries Donald Trump said people should go to, so Egypt, Jordan, they've all said it's a non-starter.
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Nick Miles 7 min
Paul Moss 4 min
Amy Jefter 2 min
Chris Ewokor 2 min
Jessica Parker 2 min
John Morgan 1 min
Jean McKenzie 1 min
Auschwitz Survivor 1 min
Rushdi Aboualouf 1 min
Vincent Dowd 1 min
Luis Fajardo 1 min
Josh Hartnett 1 min
Will Ross 1 min
Katya Adler
Eva Umlauf
Laura Koonsberg
Landon Harris
Alexander Kalchev
Eric Samvar
Andrzej Duda
Nadia Umlauf
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