Trump says US to 'takeover' and 'own' Gaza
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 5th of February, these are our main stories. Donald Trump's declaration that the US will take over Gaza sparks widespread condemnation. We'll have reaction from around the world. Lawmakers in the Philippines vote to impeach the Vice President, Sarah Duterte, following complaints about alleged corruption and an assassination threat.
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We look back on the life of the billionaire spiritual leader, the Aga Khan, who has died at the age of 88. There's been widespread condemnation of Donald Trump's plan for the US to take over Gaza and move out the Palestinians living there so that he can, in his words, turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East. Mr Trump made the announcement at a joint news conference with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. saying he thought Jordan and Egypt would take in the more than two million Palestinians who currently live in Gaza. This despite their previous statements refuting the idea when he first floated it last month. At the White House news conference, Mr Trump put forward his vision for how Gaza, much of which lies in ruins, should be rebuilt.
The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative option. It's right now a demolition site. They can live out their lives in peace and harmony instead of having to go back and do it again. The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings.
Mr Trump's plan to occupy Gaza seems to amount to an abandonment of decades of US policy to find a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr Netanyahu praised it as an idea worth paying attention to, calling Mr Trump the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House. But these Palestinians in Gaza said they would resist any attempt to remove them.
We reject the decision to displace the Palestinians from Gaza and Palestine. We'll not leave our land. As for me, I'll not leave Gaza. None of us will leave our country and we'll not kneel to anyone. We were surprised by Trump's decision to displace the entire Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, and we categorically reject this decision. We refused to leave Gaza during the war, and we are staying here. We will not leave at all.
I got more on the Palestinian and Israeli reaction from our Middle East correspondent, Yolanda Nell.
Well, we had a senior Israeli official being quoted in the news this morning saying that this visit surpassed all of our expectations and dreams. Trump raised ingenious solutions to problems that have been with Israel ever since it was established. The conventional wisdom prior to Mr. Netanyahu going to Washington for this trip was that President Trump might well try to push this idea of paving the way for an independent Palestinian state because the U.S. has been working very much on trying to get a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. On the far right in Israel, you have the key political figure, Itamar Ben-Gavir, really welcoming this proposal to remove Palestinians from Gaza and rebuild it, saying that if the prime minister was going to act on that plan, then the chances were good that he would rejoin his coalition government.
This statement from Donald Trump comes as negotiations are beginning for the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire. Are people not worried about the impact that his words could have on their hopes of securing the release of the hostages?
Certainly, the families of the hostages who remain in Gaza worry that this could undermine negotiations. The existing ceasefire, which is bringing some of their loved ones home, and these discussions now taking place on the next stage.
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Janet Jalil 7 min
Nick Miles 3 min
Lise Doucette 2 min
Yolande Nell 2 min
Doreen Walton 2 min
Sebastian Usher 2 min
Miranda 1 min
Dr. Lindsay Browning 1 min
Aga Khan 1 min
Mickey Bristow 1 min
Naomi Ruckam 1 min
Narrator 1 min
Rebecca Morrell 1 min
Palestinian Resident 1 min
Ali Al-Baroudi 1 min
Will Ross 1 min
Stephen Parsons 1 min
Samira Hussain 1 min
Donald Trump
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