Egypt warns over Israel's support for Trump's Gaza 'takeover' plan
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Egypt warns Israeli support for Donald Trump's proposal to displace Palestinians from Gaza threatens the ceasefire. Also: the earthquake crisis in Santorini, and the "Kerrygold rush" that’s created millionaire farmers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Friday the 7th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.5 | Egypt has warned that Israeli support for Donald Trump's proposal to displace Palestinians from Gaza |
| 0:16.9 | undermines negotiations on a ceasefire and hostage release agreement. |
| 0:21.9 | South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has said his country will not be bullied |
| 0:25.7 | after the Trump administration threatened to cut off funding in a row over land reforms. |
| 0:31.7 | Islamist hardliners have forced the cancellation of a girls' football match in Bangladesh |
| 0:35.4 | as the women's game comes under attack from those who think it's un-Islamic. |
| 0:41.4 | Also in this podcast, I think Kerry Gold farmers have a great bond with the land. We are caretakers through the generations. |
| 0:49.2 | Now many of these Irish dairy farmers are on the verge of an incredible windfall, |
| 0:58.8 | thanks to a groundbreaking agreement that's been dubbed the Kerry Goldrush. |
| 1:06.5 | Egypt has warned that Israeli support for Donald Trump's plan to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip threatens to provoke a return to fighting. |
| 1:11.9 | The foreign ministry in Cairo said Israel's position undermine negotiations to extend the current |
| 1:17.3 | ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Meanwhile, the Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, |
| 1:22.8 | has ordered the army to make a plan for what he calls the voluntary departure of people from Gaza. |
| 1:28.8 | It was echoed by another member of the Israeli cabinet, the foreign minister, Gideon Tsar. |
| 1:33.6 | Everyone that is ready to immigrate, wants to immigrate from his free will. |
| 1:40.9 | It is moral to give him that option and not to put him in prison. |
| 1:46.8 | So everything must be based on the free will of individual. |
| 1:51.6 | And on the other hand, of a will of a state that is ready to absorb. |
| 1:57.4 | The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, had this response to the Trump plan. |
| 2:05.5 | Immoral and irresponsible. It's completely irresponsible because it will make the regional crisis even worse. |
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