Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the ongoing work on the peace plan in Gaza

A few hiccups in the journey towards peace in the Middle East.  

Hamas has released the 20 living Israeli hostages and almost 2000 Palestinians have been returned by Israel. 

Leaders including Donald Trump have signed the US-brokered peace deal at a summit in Egypt. 

However, US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking, despite Trump claiming the war is over, he had no input on how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff over rebuilding Gaza. 

He says the peace proposal lacks detail in key areas and its implementation remains tenuous.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Riginal.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Good morning to you, didn't we he Mike, go back
in Washington.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Where do we go now? Ah?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, we're coming off a day, aren't we. Engulfing emotions
as twenty of the hostages held by Hamas more than
two years were returned to their families as we saw, Yeah,
more than seventeen hundred Palestinian detainees and in two hundred
and fifty prisoners also released as part of this Phase

(00:25):
one deal. President Trump has applied the pressure for this
ceasefire and was hailed in the israelikan Essa before moving
on to Egypt for that regional summit, which Israel's Ninthtannie
who did not attend, Nettanno, who repeatedly praised Trump as
the greatest friend Israel has ever had, quote unquote. But
the Nettao who speech said nothing about the Palestinians. So
the next steps for Israel and Gaza are uncertain. Already

(00:48):
there are some hiccups. The bodies of just four of
the Hamas hostages who died in captivity have been returned,
including an Israeli who died of untreated injuries and a
Nepalese man who was murdered. The families of the twentye
for others who died calling for an immediate suspension of
the Sea's farm is Ruby chin On, an American whose
son was killed.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Itai was the youngest US citizen taken on until the
seventh President. Tomp and his team have talked so much
about putting Americans first, and I don't understand how when
this category of the seas coming out, that the United
States was not able to put its foot down and
say to the mediators to Katal, we want our citizens back,
we want those US citizens And for some reason, I

(01:29):
don't know why that's not happening.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well. On his way back to this country, Trump claimed
again that the war is over and the golden age
lines ahead for Gaza stop and he had no input
as to how to resolve the Israeli Palestinian the standard.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Talking about rebuilding Gaza, I'm not talking about single state
or double state or two state. We're talking about the
rebuilding of Gaza. A lot of people like the one
state solution, some people like the two state solutions. We'll
have to say, I haven't commented on that.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It is the central issue. There is the twenty point
piece proposal, but it lacks detailing key areas, and the
implementation remains tenuous. Israeli forces have pulled back to a
line that leaves them still involved in about two thirds
of Gaza. Hamas has not agreed to give up their weapons.
The formation of a new government by technocrats who can
shift power from har Maas has yet to happen. There

(02:19):
is fighting between Hamas and other gangs in Gaza. The
key Ruffer border crossing still is closed. It's a long
list here. There has been bipartisan prays for Trump, including
from former Presidents Biden and Clinton, but the task of
the US in bringing real shape to the troubled region
that assignment persists. This is true. We go back to
April Shapiro's house. It was torched.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
This guy's nowtly guilty.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Shapiro, of course, one of the top Democratic contenders for
the twenty eight presidential elections. Here, Pennsylvania's governor has just
spoken about the guilty plea by this individual who tried
to kill him, Shapiro saying it is difficult for him
even to say the words that he was a potential
murder target. This time is back to the time you
mentioned when that maniac thirty eight year old Code Bama
broke into the governor's mansion and set the place on fire,

(03:02):
causing the extensive damage. That individual now has guilty to
attempt a murder and to twenty two counts of arson,
faces up to fifty years in jail. Prosecutors have released
new video of the attack and we see how he
used multiple molotov cocktails to set fired for a dining
room near where the governor and his family were sleeping.
It shows also that he tried to kick open a

(03:24):
door which would have opened into the area where the
governor is none his family and friends were, but that
door was locked and he was unable to get through.
The governor says it has been difficult to recover from
all this and to answer his kids' questions about how
someone could have made it so far into the residence
that day. He says he doesn't know that he's been
able to ease all of his children's worries.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I need you know this is an on going thing
that we are dealing with and we are working through,
and I think we're confident it'll get better, but we
also know it's going to always be with us.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, you hear the emotions don't you At a time
when politics and political violence so present here, including the
shooting of the Minnesota state poly hortman and her husband
and the murder of activist Charlie Kirk, and of course,
the two attempts on the life of Donald Trump. Good stuff.
Richard Arnold back on Friday for more from the mic
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