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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service coming to live from London with me |
| 0:08.0 | John Donison and we're going to start the programme in the Middle East. US-led efforts to secure a ceasefire |
| 0:14.4 | and hostage release deal to end the war in Gaza have come to nothing ever since Israel shattered |
| 0:19.6 | the last one back in March when it |
| 0:21.6 | resumed the conflict with full force. Today, though, Hamas has given its response to the latest |
| 0:26.8 | proposal put forward by the United States. The Islamist group says it's prepared to release |
| 0:31.4 | 10 living Israeli hostages and the bodies of a further 18 who are dead. That would be in |
| 0:37.0 | exchange for more Palestinian detainees |
| 0:39.2 | held in Israeli jails. But Hamas also expressed strong reservations about the deal because it |
| 0:45.1 | didn't include guarantees on aid and crucially, permanently ending the war in Gaza, something it has been |
| 0:51.9 | insisting on throughout the process. |
| 1:00.8 | Well, Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, has told the Palestinian group to accept or in his words be annihilated. |
| 1:04.3 | So let's go to Jerusalem and our correspondent Barbara Plet Usher. |
| 1:10.7 | And Barbara, I guess on the face of it, this looked like progress, but it doesn't really sound like anything has really changed. |
| 1:18.6 | No, and it's sounding less and less like progress, actually. So you had the response where Hamas basically said yes on the one hand, but no on the other hand, I think quite predictably, |
| 1:25.0 | to be honest, because the deal that was offered or the proposal |
| 1:28.2 | that was offered by the U.S. really did not meet a lot of their core concerns. And they thought |
| 1:33.2 | they had been addressed earlier in the week when they met with a U.S. representative. But then |
| 1:39.0 | the Americans drew up this proposal, agreed it with the Israelis. So essentially these are terms |
| 1:43.8 | the Israelis could accept and handed it to Ham Israelis. So essentially these are terms the Israelis |
| 1:44.3 | could accept and handed it to Hamas. So their response was, yes, we will hand over the number of |
| 1:49.8 | hostages that you ask for, but really, we really want these guarantees that this temporary |
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