Brief: Gaza ceasefire begins after brief delay
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: A ceasefire began in Gaza Sunday morning after a brief delay. Palestinians in Gaza responded by celebrating, and in many cases, attempting to return to their homes. It is day 471 of the war in Gaza, where at least 46,899 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hind Al Khoudary, (@Hind_Gaza), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Stefanie Dekker, (@StefanieDekker) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Moath Al Kahlout, (@kahlaout_moath) Al Jazeera Correspondent
This episode was produced and mixed by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is The Take. |
| 0:04.0 | We're coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups, as Israel's war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues. |
| 0:12.0 | A ceasefire began in Gaza Sunday morning after a brief delay. |
| 0:17.0 | Palestinians in Gaza responded by celebrating and in many cases attempting to return to their homes. |
| 0:23.6 | Today is Sunday, January 19. |
| 0:27.6 | It is day 471 of the war in Gaza, where more than 46,89 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:36.6 | The announcement of the beginning of the ceasefire at 1115,000 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:43.3 | The announcement of the beginning of the ceasefire at 1115 in the morning, local time, sent Palestinians in Gaza into the streets to celebrate. |
| 0:46.3 | This is Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from the town of Dada Bala. |
| 0:51.3 | As of this moment, things seem to be going very okay so far without any violations of the |
| 1:00.0 | past an hour and a half or an hour and so of the ceasefire since it took effect. |
| 1:05.0 | But as of this moment, what we are hearing is other than, mean no no no more bombs no fighter jets no |
| 1:13.0 | more drones the only sound of fire that we hear is a sound of fire coming from |
| 1:18.4 | celebration in the streets the gunshots they've been going on frequently as |
| 1:24.2 | well as well as the fireworks what we we're seeing here, families are excited, picking up, |
| 1:31.3 | to spend the chance picking up their belongings, |
| 1:34.3 | whatever they have managed to collect in the past few months |
| 1:37.3 | as they were staying inside the hospital |
| 1:40.3 | with so much excitement on their faces |
| 1:42.3 | and leaving the gate of the hospital. |
| 1:45.0 | And when we asked them where they are going, they said we're going home. |
| 1:49.0 | And that's by itself a very, very heartwarming word and also bringing many people the tears |
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