Netanyahu divides Israelis and allies with plan to occupy Gaza
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have joined protests outside a crucial meeting of Israel's security cabinet in Jerusalem. It's been convened by Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to discuss plans for the Israeli army to occupy the entire Gaza Strip. The proposal is reported to focus initially on Gaza City, whose one million residents would be relocated further south. The plan has drawn criticism from the head of the Israeli military, Eyal Zamir, who says it would endanger the lives of soldiers and hostages. Also: Kremlin says Trump and Putin to meet in coming days to discuss Ukraine, and OpenAI launches new chatbot GPT-5.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Friday, the 8th of August, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.8 | Demonstrations have been taking place outside an Israeli security cabinet meeting |
| 0:15.5 | where the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been discussing plans for Israel's army to occupy the whole of Gaza. |
| 0:23.7 | The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, says the conditions for meeting his Ukrainian counterpart are far from being met, |
| 0:31.9 | as the Russian leader prepares for talks with Donald Trump in the next few days. |
| 0:36.8 | Japan's already declining population sees a record |
| 0:40.1 | annual fall of more than 900,000 last year. Also in this podcast, a keenly awaited new version of the |
| 0:51.0 | artificial intelligence chatbot chat GPT has been launched. So what's new? |
| 0:56.6 | I typed in, should I break up with my boyfriend? And instead of saying, yeah, you should do that or no, you shouldn't, |
| 1:03.3 | it gives you a set of bullet points that are there to sort of help you reason through what to do. |
| 1:12.2 | We start in Israel, where despite overwhelming opposition at home and abroad, |
| 1:17.5 | the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to take full control of Gaza, |
| 1:23.2 | a territory reduced to ruins where growing numbers of people are starving to death. |
| 1:28.6 | This has caused anguish, not just for Palestinians, but for the families of the remaining |
| 1:33.7 | hostages in Gaza, who have joined protests outside a key security cabinet meeting that's been |
| 1:43.5 | held for hours with the talks going into |
| 1:46.3 | the night as ministers debate whether to back Mr Netanyahu's plan. He defended it in an |
| 1:52.2 | interview with Fox News shortly before convening the cabinet denying that Israel intended to keep |
| 1:57.7 | or govern Gaza. Will Israel take control of all of Gaza? |
| 2:03.1 | We intend to. |
| 2:04.8 | In order to assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza |
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