Isabel Hardman's Sunday roundup - 22/10/2023
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Some aid has been allowed into Gaza, but the situation is still dire. We hear from immigration minister Robert Jenrick on what the UK is doing to help. Naftali Bennett says Israel are not responsible for Gaza, Hanan Ashrawi gives us the Palestinian point of view, and Labour clarifies their own position. Plus the Tory slide continues as they lose another two seats in the by-elections.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shops The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:17.6 | On Saturday, the Raffer crossing between Egypt and Gaza |
| 0:20.6 | opened for the first time to allow a small convoy of aid trucks to pass through. |
| 0:25.2 | With Gaza on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, much more is needed. |
| 0:30.2 | Victoria Derbyshire asked former Israeli Prime Minister Natphale Bennett if more aid would be allowed in. |
| 0:37.4 | Bennett said that the Israeli government would allow aid, but it was up to the rest of the world to help. |
| 0:42.8 | He also claimed Israel was not responsible for the humanitarian situation of Garzan's |
| 0:47.6 | despite controlling the borders and crucial supplies for the region. |
| 0:52.1 | Will more age be allowed in? |
| 0:56.0 | Look, the world can come and help the Gazans. |
| 1:00.0 | That's none of our business. Our business and the Israeli government is allowing that sort of aid in. |
| 1:06.0 | But my approach is humanitarian for humanitarian. It has to be a reciprocal. |
| 1:12.0 | And we right now have hundreds of Israeli citizens |
| 1:16.1 | It including five-month-old babies held hostage. So if we're focused on humanitarian it has to be reciprocal and I would tie the two |
| 1:25.3 | I mean it's I understand that but it is your business isn't it because you have to |
| 1:31.5 | clearly demonstrate that your fight is with Hamas and not with the Palestinian people. |
| 1:38.6 | So what is your question? You said it wasn't your business, the humanitarian situation of Gazans. |
| 1:44.4 | No, we are not responsible for Gaza, just like you're not responsible for France. |
| 1:50.0 | If others want to take care of the Gazans, that's theirs to do. They got a full-blown Palestinian-Gazan state in 2005. |
| 2:01.6 | But we handed over the entire... Hold on. We handed over the entire, hold on, we handed over the entire area, we pulled out our |
| 2:07.9 | soldiers, we expelled the Jews living in Gaza and gave it to actually to Mahmoud Abbas and there was no |
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