aida touma sliman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, thank you, stephen. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. let me ask you a simple first question how much has changed for you and for your community in israel since october the 7th? oh, you can think about it in this way. there was a life, that is not so easy before october 7th, but now it is unbearable after october 7th. we were thinking that our main struggle would be for peace, and the occupation of our own people in the west bank and gaza, and struggling for our rights to be equal citizens, and to have equality and to be able to develop our community in an equal way like thejewish community in israel. after october 7th, although before that we felt racism, after 7th october, we feel really threatened. we feel terrorised also on the establishment level from ministers and policies led by the government, and from the general public. we became suddenly as if terrorists in potential. i want to talk at length a
in the middle east, where israel s defence minister has been outlining his plans for gaza, once its war with hamas is over. it comes almost three months after hamas s deadly october the 7th attacks on southern israel, which triggered the conflict. under yoav galla nt s four corner proposals, hamas would no longer control gaza and israel would retain overall security control. a multi nationalforce would take charge of rebuilding gaza, after its widespread destruction in israeli bombing. neighbouring egypt would also have an unspecified role under the plan. but gaza would be run by palestinian bodies, as long as they were not hostile towards israel. fighting in gaza has continued alongside the plan s publication. the hamas run health ministry says that dozens of people have been killed in the past 2a hours. here s the view of mara rudman, a former senior us national security official, on the israeli plan for gaza. so, the united states has talked about the need for revitalise
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This is bbc news. israel s defence minister outlines proposals for the future of gaza, once the war against hamas is over. more than ten years after killing his girlfriend, the disgraced paralympian oscar pistorius is due to be released on parole. this is the prison near pretoria from which he ll be released after serving around half his sentence. flooding in parts of england and wales continues to cause disruption, forcing hundreds to leave their homes. and return of the king. how a digital version of elvis presley is making a rock and roll comeback. hello, i m tadhg enright. we begin this hour