Linda Gradstein: CBS Jerusalem Correspondent on Trump's proposed peace deal for Gaza

All eyes are on Hamas as Donald Trump gives it three or four days to respond to his proposed peace plan.  

The deal would end the war, see hostages returned, Israeli troops pulled out of Gaza, and Trump leading an interim Government.  

It's been supported by our Foreign Minister Winston Peters as well as European and Middle Eastern leaders. 

CBS Jerusalem correspondent Linda Gradstein told Ryan Bridge there's been very little indication of what Hamas will do.  

She says initial reports suggest Hamas is leaning towards accepting the deal, and they're under a lot of pressure from Qatar. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get reaction out of Trump's pace plan with the
three to four day deadline for Hamas. It includes an
immediate sea spot followed by the disarmament of Hamas and
in Israeli withdrawal. Linda Gradstein is CBS News correspondent in Jerusalem. Linda,
what's the reaction been or what do we expect the
reaction might be from Hamas well?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's really hard to tell. The sort of reports are
that Hamas is tending towards accepting the deal. They're under
a lot of pressure from Kuttar, the Palestinians living in Gaza.
I have a friend who lives in Gaza and has
been displaced numerous times and is barely, you know, having

(00:41):
such a and she's been having such a hard time,
and she wrote me and said, I hate all the
Palestinian organizations. I'm sick of all of So I think
there is a sense that the population in Gaza certainly
wants the word to end, wants the bombing to end,
wants to begin to rebuild some semblance of life in Gaza.
But at the same time, it's basically Hamas giving in

(01:04):
by saying that it will have no role in any
future government of Gaza, that the area will be demilitized,
that Hamas will hand over its guns. So all of
those are things that I think are very difficult for
Hamas will accept.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Do the people in Gaza want Hamas gone too?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, First of all, you know, it's hard to tell
because people are afraid to speak out against Hamas, And
if you do write anything online on social media against Hamas,
you will have somebody showing up at your home and
threatening you. So people are afraid to speak against Hamas.
But I think there is a feeling that Hamas. You know,

(01:47):
Hamas was originally elected in two thousand and six, and
it was more as a sort of a reaction to
the corruption of the Palestinian authority, and the idea was
that the people of Hamas, because they were observant Muslims,
that they were not corrupt. But I think people really
there are people's lives, you know, there's not people are hungry,

(02:08):
there's enough food, there's no semblance of a normal life
in Gaza. People are living intense people have been displaced
numerous times. Many kids haven't gone to school in two years.
So I think they're against anything that stopped from which.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Cases London Gradstein, who's the CBS News Radio correspondent in Jerusalem.
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