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Hamas spokesman - Ghazi Hamad
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The movement’s rhetoric is unbending, but do the Palestinian people long for new ideas? Stephen Sackur interviews Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for Hamas. The surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence in Gaza earlier this month was relatively short-lived, and the status-quo remains intact. But Hamas’s internal grip on Gaza is threatened by rising economic discontent and the Trump Administration will soon unveil a peace plan built on economic incentives for the Palestinian people. Could change be afoot?
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Wed 22 May 201919:06GMT
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- Wed 22 May 201902:06GMTBBC World Service Online, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa only
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