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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
Yeah, the 1948 war was really the critical moment. Israel had just declared statehood and was immediately at war with several Arab countries as well as the Palestinians who didn't have a state then or now. Hundreds of thousands of civilians fled or were driven from their homes, and many are Palestinians who went to Gaza.
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So now you have this large refugee population, and the very young, new United Nations sets up a refugee agency just for the Palestinians, which helps the Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, and neighboring countries.
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This same arrangement has remained in place to this day, and the descendants of those original refugees are still classified as refugees, even if they were born in Gaza and have lived there all their lives.
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Certainly the dream for many has been to return to their former homes, which are now inside Israel's internationally recognized borders. In Gaza and other areas, Palestinians will often show you around their homes and they'll proudly display these large, oversized, rusting keys and yellowing land deed documents to those former family homes.
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But Israel's always rejected a large-scale return of Palestinian refugees, saying it would be swamped demographically. And during periodic peace talks over the years, the focus has been on making Gaza part of a Palestinian state that would also include the West Bank and a capital in East Jerusalem.
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Palestinians in general and the refugees in particular harbor this deep fear of being displaced ever since the trauma of 1948, which they call the Nakba or the catastrophe in And Trump's comments really struck that chord. It's just hard to see how you'd ever get past such a core emotional issue.
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Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
We just seen more than 15 months of a devastating war in Gaza and very few Palestinians left during that time. A couple reasons for this. First, they really couldn't. Israel blocked its borders. Egypt, which is sympathetic to the Palestinians, kept its border with Gaza closed except for aid deliveries.
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A very small number of Palestinians did bribe their way out of Gaza to Egypt at the cost of thousands of dollars, but very few, very little sign that they would want to leave.
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Yeah, I mean, how do you get 2 million people to move when they don't want to? The U.S. would have to consider sending a large number of troops. They'd immediately become targets for Palestinian militants. This would be a massive, complicated, open-ended operation. And on the political side, the U.S.
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simply has no legal authority to take over Gaza, and forcibly removing civilians from their territory violates international law. hard to imagine the U.S. building international support. It would certainly harm relations throughout the Middle East and probably far beyond.
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Sure thing, Mary Louise.
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NPR News: 03-25-2025 5PM EDT
CIA Director John Ratcliffe and the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told the Senate Intelligence Committee that they have not shared classified material outside of proper channels. They did not speak on behalf of other officials who were also part of the group on the Signal messaging app.
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Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said national security officials in the Trump administration have already taken a number of actions he described as, quote, sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior. The hearing came just a day after journalist Jeffrey Goldberg wrote that he was inadvertently included in the group chat with other national security officials. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Washington.
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Hamas presented this highly orchestrated handover. The four Israeli women, dressed in olive military uniforms and oddly wearing lanyards, were paraded onto an outdoor stage in the center of Gaza City. Now, they were surrounded at all times by Hamas fighters dressed head to toe in black, including balaclavas. They also wore their green headbands and carried automatic rifles.
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The women waved to the Palestinian crowd, and then they were presented to the Red Cross, which drove them a short distance to the Israeli military.
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Hamas released the three Israeli women in a chaotic scene in Gaza City. Masked Hamas gunmen drove a van carrying the women to a crowded square packed with Palestinians. The women were handed over to the Red Cross, which in turn delivered them to the Israeli military. They were then whisked back to Israel.
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Video footage showed the women, ages 24 to 31, were all able to walk on their own, but there was no word on their overall condition. All three were seized by Hamas in the attack that ignited the war on October 7, 2023. These exchanges of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners are set to carry on for weeks. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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Earlier in the day, Hamas released the four female Israeli soldiers held in Gaza for more than 15 months. With the ceasefire intact, Israelis and Palestinians are scheduled to carry out similar swaps over the next several weeks. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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All of the homes around me were burned, and Altadena is at an angle, and so we're very concerned about the debris flow. and the runoff from the rains.
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Palestinians in Gaza gave a rousing welcome to prisoners who arrived in the territory shortly after being freed by Israel. Most of the 200 Palestinians released were sent to their home areas in the West Bank or Gaza. But Israel insisted that 70 be sent into exile elsewhere in the region. Many were serving life sentences after being convicted of killings.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet met into the early hours of Saturday before finally giving approval to the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Hamas has already said it supports the deal. It's now set to take effect Sunday when Hamas is expected to release three Israeli hostages and Israel plans to free 95 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
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The first phase of the agreement is set to last six weeks. The two sides will then have to hold additional negotiations to work out the release of the remaining Israeli hostages and to free more Palestinian prisoners. The 15 months of fighting has been the deadliest ever between Israel and Hamas. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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Carmelo Anthony was part of the Syracuse Orangemen Championship in 2003. He then played 19 years in the NBA and was part of the 2008 Olympic gold medal team. That's also being recognized by the Hall of Fame. Anthony says being elected is his greatest honor.
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Two legendary players from the UConn Huskies in the women's Final Four are also part of the class, Sue Bird and Maya Moore. Enshrinement takes place in Springfield, Massachusetts this September. For NPR News, I'm Greg Eklund.
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The online influencers were held for two years in Romania, where they were investigated and charged with human trafficking. Andrew and Tristan Tate are outspoken supporters of President Trump. The Financial Times newspaper has reported U.S. officials asked Romania to lift their travel restrictions. The two men flew in a private jet to Fort Lauderdale.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says he only learned of their release and plans to come to Florida through the media.
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DeSantis says the state's attorney general is looking at what jurisdiction Florida may have over any of the charges. Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami.
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The 19 employees at CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said they've worked in the intelligence community for many years and were assigned to diversity issues as part of regular job rotations. They're among some 50 intelligence community employees being fired for work on DEI programs. President Trump wants to eliminate all such programs in the federal government.
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U.S. District Judge Anthony Tringa in Alexandria, Virginia, said he might have ruled differently if the issue was, quote, fairness and good judgment. But he said CIA Director John Ratcliffe has broad authority to dismiss agency employees.
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Now, Goldberg initially thought this was some sort of hoax. Someone was trying to entrap him. But over the next few days, the text increasingly looked to be genuine with details about U.S. plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen. Goldberg spoke to All Things Considered yesterday about what then happened on March 15th.
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And so two hours later, the U.S. bombing begins in Yemen, and Goldberg realizes this is no hoax. These U.S. airstrikes are real, and they're still ongoing. And Hegseth yesterday questioned the credibility of Goldberg, but the National Security Council put out a statement saying the material appeared to be authentic.
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Well, Layla, it certainly seems so, and they certainly should have known better. Hegseth often talks about his military experience, as does Waltz, and rest assured they were never told as soldiers to share military operations in advance on their preferred messaging app and to include emojis, as Waltz apparently did, with a clenched fist, a flag, and a fire emoji. And this group
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also included the nation's top two intelligence officials, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Now, those agencies are absolutely fanatical about secure communications, yet based on Goldberg's account, no senior national security official raised concerns about sharing war plans on Signal.
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Well, those officials are supposed to use a SCIF, which stands for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. These secure rooms are built to discuss classified information. You can't take a phone into these rooms. You can't take documents out. And all of these top-ranking national security officials have SCIFs at their offices and at their homes.
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Well, it can be very impractical, but that's how it's supposed to be done. These airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen began on a Saturday afternoon, so officials may not have been near a skiff, but it doesn't mean they should be discussing the launch of a major U.S. military operation in real time, on their phones, on a messaging app.
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Good morning, Leila.
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Well, the editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, said he got a notice on the messaging app Signal on March 11th, inviting him to join a group chat regarding the Houthis in Yemen. Now, the invitation came from the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, and included all the top national security officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Now, Democrats said this was a major security failure, providing details of an imminent military strike on the publicly available messaging app Signal. And as we know, they included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic. Here's Democrat Jason Crow of Colorado, who served as an army ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Well, CIA director John Ratcliffe essentially said there's just nothing to see here.
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And Defense Secretary Hegseth, writing on X, was also adamant that there was no classified information released. And other officials have said the same. Now, President Trump has been saying the same thing. He was a bit more ambiguous when asked Wednesday evening if he still thought that no classified information was disclosed. He said, quote, that's what I've heard. I don't know. I'm not sure.
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You have to ask the various people involved.
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Well, Democrats say they'll keep pressing for details in this particular case, like whether national security officials have been using Signal for other chats, because, you know, it's more convenient, though clearly not as secure as government communication networks. More broadly, the Democrats are questioning Trump's foreign policy.
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Trump has boasted about efforts to arrange ceasefires in Gaza and the Ukraine war, but the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has collapsed. Russia and Ukraine are still attacking each other despite U.S. mediation efforts. So these haven't been quick successes that Trump had hoped for.
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Hey, not yet. Now, the U.S. forces have bombed the Houthis now for nearly two weeks, but we're getting relatively little information. Trump's team says the campaign will be much more robust than it was under the Biden administration and that they'll halt the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which the Houthis describe as solidarity with the Palestinians.
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But the Houthis have proved very tough, and it's just not clear whether a U.S. bombing campaign, even if it's sustained for a while... can end these attacks and return shipping to normal levels.
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Yeah. Shortly before the hearing, The Atlantic magazine published details of the group chat on March 15th among the top security officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the timing for the attacks two hours before they began. And he laid out a timeline for the warplanes and the drones and how they would take off and when.
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More Hostages Go Free, Trump Halts Foreign Aid, RFK Jr.'s Confirmation
As you noted, all were seized at an Israeli military base just outside of Gaza back in October of 2023 in the Hamas attack that ignited the war.
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Yeah, a dramatic contrast. Last Sunday in the first exchange under the ceasefire, Hamas drove three Israeli civilian women into the middle of a very unruly crowd in a central square in Gaza. Lots of pushing and shoving and the three women clamored into a Red Cross van. Hamas clearly wanted a more orderly exchange this time.
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So just a couple hours later after that, the Israelis freed 200 Palestinians. This included many convicted of serious crimes. Media reports say about 120 of those released are Palestinians serving life sentences after being convicted of killings. Also, about 70 of those being freed are not being allowed to return to Palestinian areas.
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Israel says they are being deported to Egypt and then on to other countries in the region.
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Yes, Scott, it's absolutely a good sign that the ceasefire is now wrapping up its first full week and still holding. These releases are incredibly important to both Israeli and Palestinian societies as they welcome their people home. We're seeing additional developments as well.
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Hundreds of truckloads of aid are now flowing daily into Gaza, far exceeding anything we saw during the 15 months of fighting. We should note there are some very hard questions that are still ahead. The first phase of the ceasefire lasts six weeks. The two sides will then have to negotiate some very hard questions like,
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When will all the Israeli troops leave Gaza and will Hamas be allowed to remain in charge of Gaza?
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Hi, Scott. What was that moment like? Yeah, Hamas presented this highly orchestrated handover. The four Israeli women dressed in olive military uniforms and oddly wearing lanyards were paraded onto an outdoor stage in the center of Gaza City. Now, they were surrounded at all times by Hamas fighters dressed head to toe in black, including balaclavas.
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They also wore their green headbands and carried automatic rifles. The women waved to the Palestinian crowd, and then they were presented to the Red Cross, which drove them a short distance to the Israeli military. The four women are now in a hospital outside Tel Aviv.