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I can announce a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas.

Celebrations erupted in Gaza and Israel after the announcement that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a six-week ceasefire and hostage deal.

But now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed a cabinet vote to approve the ceasefire.

We'll start in Gaza.

We are here happy with this victory because the Palestinian people simply want their freedom.

Freedom for the Palestinian people.

We don't want anything but freedom and to live with dignity without occupation.

We'll also speak to the Gaza-born Palestinian analyst Mohamed Chahada, former Israeli negotiator, Daniel

Levy, and journalist Jeremy Scahill. Plus, we look at the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi,

Trump's pick to be Attorney General. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

A long-awaited ceasefire deal in Gaza is being delayed after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

blamed Hamas for a last-minute crisis that's led to the postponement of his cabinet signing

off on the deal. Hamas refuted Netanyahu's claims the group had backtrack on any aspects of

the draft agreement. The deal mediated by Qatar, Egypt, Egypt, and the United States was announced Wednesday,

setting off celebrations throughout Gaza as Palestinians expressed joy, relief, and deep sorrow

over the past 15 months of attacks.

This is 14-year-old Ahmed al-Athamna, who was displaced from his home in northern Gaza.

Enough with what happened to us.

Enough with martyrs who are gone.

Enough.

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