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now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. the surge in israeli palestinian violence in gaza this month was relatively short lived. the grim status quo remains intact, but maybe change is afoot. hamas‘s internal grip on gaza is threatened by rising economic discontent. the trump administration will soon unveil a peace plan built on economic incentives for the palestinian people. my guest today is hamas spokesman ghazi hamad. the movement s rhetoric is unbending, but do the palestinian people long for new ideas? ghazi hamad in gaza city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. let me ask you a simple question. when the people of gaza ask you how you and the hamas movement are going to make their lives better, what do you say? i think we are struggling, we are working day and night in order to ease the life of people in gaza here. but i think people there understand very well that the reason of this crisis is occupation, is the policy of the si
now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hide tour, i m stephen sackur. the surgeon israeli palestinian violence in gaza this month was relatively short lived. the grim status quo remains intact but maybe change is afoot. hamas s internal grip on gaza is threatened by rising economic discontent. the trump administration will soon unveil a peace plan built on economic incentives for the palestinian people. i guess today s hamas spokesman ghazi hamad. the movement ‘s rhetoric is unbending but do the palestinian people long for new ideas? ghazi hamad in gaza city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. let me ask you a simple question. when the people of gaza ask you how you and the hamas movement are going to make their lives better, what do you say? i think we are struggling, we are working in order to ease the life of people in gaza here but i think people there understand very well the reason of this crisis is occupation, the policy of the siege, the policy of the blockad
latest now from mike hanna who is live in washington and mike as stephanie was explaining we have a situation here where elite israeli forces entered gaza the southern city of khan yunis she was saying that six palestinians have been killed but among them a senior hamas commander donald trump also in paris like the israeli prime minister but might we get some sort of reaction from the u.s. illness in the coming hours. well there s likely to be something from state department in the coming hours no formal statement from them as yet there is a senior u.s. official in israel at the moment brian who keeps a special representative for iran who travel to the region for talks on common pursuit against to the iranian government is also on his way the it is believed the special representative for the region jason greenblatt now he was in london earlier this week and he was reportedly said that president trump s peace plan will be released in the coming days now back in september presi
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