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PBS News Hour - Segments

Displaced Gazans return to face shattered homeland and uncertain future

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

President Trump said he is in “no rush to do anything” in Gaza. Earlier this week, he talked about the need for Palestinians to leave Gaza and for the United States to take over the area and develop it. Also this week, Hamas accused Israel of delaying the entry of hundreds of trucks carrying food and other humanitarian supplies agreed to in the ceasefire deal. Stephanie Sy reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

President Trump said today that he's in, quote, no rush to do anything in Gaza.

0:05.7

Earlier this week, he talked about the need for Palestinians to leave Gaza, calling it a demolition zone and for the U.S. to take over the area and develop it.

0:14.2

Meanwhile, Hamas is accusing Israel of delaying aid deliveries that were agreed to in the ceasefire deal, an accusation Israel denies.

0:22.8

Stephanie Sy has this report with the latest.

0:27.6

Half a million families streaming back to their homes in Gaza, on foot, on piggyback, children in tow.

0:42.2

For more than a year, their home, a battleground in the Israel Hamas war.

0:45.4

They survived while many did not.

0:50.9

But their apartments, their businesses, everything that makes a community are in ruins.

0:56.6

Amidst the destruction, rescue workers and families dig, trying to locate the remains of loved ones. Bones are taken to the local morgue in the hopes that they can be identified in the

1:02.6

future. Nearly two million Gazans are still displaced, sheltering in makeshift tents,

1:09.1

while winter's bitter elements beat down upon them and temperatures drop.

1:13.6

Kaka Bhamuda's tent, housing her and her children collapsed in the strong winds.

1:19.6

Something like an earthquake occurred and the wood collapsed on us.

1:25.6

I have two children in the hospital. One of them had two stitches in his head and the wood collapsed on us. I have two children in the hospital.

1:28.9

One of them had two stitches in his head and the other was injured by this metal rod which

1:33.3

fell on him.

1:34.7

She recalls a previous life of comfort and dignity long gone.

1:40.1

We are dying.

1:41.8

We have no food.

1:48.0

Look at the tent. I do not have money to buy them food. I was living decently and comfortably in the north. Who can I turn to now? To whom?

1:56.0

Nearly 91% of Gazans are projected to suffer from acute food and security this year.

2:04.6

And according to UN estimates, over 60,000 children will need treatment for acute malnutrition in 2025.

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