Rushdie Abu-Aloof
Appearances
Global News Podcast
US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
Why the hope is bigger is simply because they said... Back in July the 2nd, when the talks collapsed, by then Israel didn't believe that they achieved most of the goals of the war, including destroying Hamas.
Global News Podcast
US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
Well, they didn't destroy Hamas completely, but they made a great damage to their military capability, and they killed the two most senior people, the masterminds of the 7th of October attack, Mohamed Deif and Yahya As-Sinwa, and the overall leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
Five months ago, when the Turks collapsed, Hamas was insisting in having the agreement saying that Israel will completely withdraw its forces from Gaza. The new proposal doesn't include this. Israel will not withdraw all of its forces from Gaza. They will have security control over the Philadelphia corridor between Gaza and Egypt, and forces will remain in Salah al-Din Road, the main road in Gaza.
Global News Podcast
US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
They will partially open the coastal road to allow hundreds of thousands of displaced people to go back to the north, but under Israeli monitoring. These two things, I think, is very significant, very important. Hamas didn't agree on them back in July. They are willing to agree this time, as I heard from a Hamas official yesterday, that they are ready to accept this in the first stage.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
He took very little trouble to inform himself about the man he was planning to kill. He'd said he'd read a couple of pages, he didn't say of what, and that he'd watched a couple of YouTube videos and decided that I was disingenuous.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
Until the ceasefire goes into effect, which is supposed to be 12 o'clock Sunday morning Gaza time, will Israel still have the ability to target whatever they want? We have seen more than 12 or 13 Israeli airstrikes after the announcement of the ceasefire. According to the civil defense department run by Hamas in Gaza, They said 72 people were killed in about 12 or 13 airstrikes since midnight.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
The reports from Doha this morning that there is a slight problem in the deal overshadowed the celebration that we have seen last night in Gaza.
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
people were relieved and celebrating but everything like went silent this morning following the news come from doha and all palestinian eyes were focused all day on the doha to see whether this deal will go ahead or not every person that i spoke to in gaza was expressing this mixed feeling but they are worried about the future most of them i think they will be shocked when they go back to the north
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
and see the scale of destruction. We are talking about, for example, for the last 100 days, the Israeli army was operating in northern Gaza, destroying the biggest refugee camp in Gaza, Jabalia refugee camp. About 250,000 people used to live in this camp. Now 90% of the buildings in the camp have been destroyed.
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Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
Most of the people in this camp were displaced into the south and some of them into Gaza City. When they go back, They won't find a place to stay, a school to teach their sons, a hospital to treat their people. Sewage system is destroyed, communication is not there, no water, no electricity. Will the journey of moving back from...
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
The south into the north is going to be very challenged because Israel want to check every person and every car going back to make sure that no Hamas militants or other militants are able to go back to the north. And also they want to stop Hamas from trying to rearm. I have been moving from this journey from north to south in the beginning of the war.
Global News Podcast
Israel delays vote to approve Gaza ceasefire deal
When the road was completely open, not destroyed, it took days for people to travel south. So imagine now with the Israeli army in place, with the checkpoints and CC cameras,
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
A state of confusion, because they don't know exactly what that means for them. I mean, they were, despite the destruction everywhere in Gaza City, some of them, they go back to, they went back to Gaza City, and they live in a half-destroyed building. They are setting up tents behind their destroyed houses. So they insisted that we want to return, we want to stay in our land.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
This widespread rejection, people are strongly rejecting the idea that In the official level, the president, Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas, all of the Palestinian factions, all of the key players are rejecting this idea. On the ground, people are rejecting the idea.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
I've been talking to many people in Gaza City who returned back after a year of displacement in the south, and they said, we are not going to leave our house under any circumstances. There is no electricity, there is no water, there is no sewage system, no internet, no communication. So all elements of life in Gaza City is not there.
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UN Secretary-General warns US against 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza
People are queuing for hours just to get one or two liters of water in Gaza. And despite this, they insisted that they want to remain in their land. And for the first time, the Palestinians who have been divided for a very long time, they are now united to say one word, that we are rejecting the idea of leaving Gaza.
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Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
Also in this podcast... I actually thought he'd punched me very hard. I didn't realise there was a knife in his hand.
Global News Podcast
Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
I actually thought he'd punched me. very hard. I didn't realize there was a knife in his hand. And then I saw the blood and I realized there was a weapon. And then he just started, I think he was just slashing wildly at everything. So there was a very big slash here across my neck.