Brief: Iran and Israel reach a ceasefire, seven Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 6 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: Iran and Israel reach a ceasefire. Seven Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza. An investigation reveals Israeli soldiers ordered to shoot at aid seekers. It is day 632 of the war in Gaza, where at least 56,412 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Phil Lavelle, (@phillavelle), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hamdah Salhut, (@hamdahsalhut), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Osama Bin Javid, (@osamabinjavaid), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Marthe van der Wolf. Our sound designer is Alex Rodan. Alexandra Locke is the Take's Executive Producer. And Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's Head of Audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Marta Vanderwolf and this is the take. |
| 0:05.0 | As Israel's war on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria continues were coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:13.0 | This week, Iran and Israel reached a ceasefire agreement. |
| 0:19.0 | Seven Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza? |
| 0:23.0 | An investigation reveals |
| 0:24.7 | Israeli soldiers were ordered to shoot at aid seekers. |
| 0:29.6 | Today is Sunday, June 29. |
| 0:32.5 | It is day 632 of the war in Gaza, |
| 0:35.8 | where at least 56,412 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:43.3 | Israel and Iran reached a ceasefire agreement on Tuesday after 12 days of conflict, |
| 0:49.3 | which killed over 600 Iranians and 28 Israelis. The ceasefire followed Iran's retaliatory strike on the largest American airbase in the Middle East, |
| 1:02.0 | located in Qatar on Monday evening. |
| 1:05.0 | Here's Al Jazeera's Phil Avel from Washington, D.C. |
| 1:09.0 | As we understand it from the White House and from Donald Trump, he says that both Israel and Iran |
| 1:14.4 | called him pretty much at the same time, he said, both saying, we want peace. |
| 1:19.3 | And then what happened was he spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu, he brokered what the Israelis would |
| 1:23.6 | do, he spoke to the Emir of Qatar and said, look, I've got the Israelis on side. Can you help me with the Iranians? |
| 1:29.9 | The Emir of Qatar went ahead and did that. At the same time, a team in Washington consisting of J.D. Vance, |
| 1:35.1 | who was the vice president, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the Middle East envoy, Steve Wickhoff. |
| 1:40.1 | They were having direct and indirect discussions with the Iranians to try to bring this about, |
| 1:45.0 | and then that culminated in this ceasefire. |
| 1:48.4 | Israel says its war on Gaza is back to being its main front after the ceasefire with Iran. |
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