Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Emotional scenes as Israelis and Palestinians are reunited with their families. Also: 13 peacekeeping troops are killed in eastern DR Congo. And a drone strike on a hospital in Sudan reportedly kills nearly 70 people.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Sunday, the 26th of January. |
| 0:11.2 | Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners are released in the second exchange of the Gaza ceasefire deal. |
| 0:18.4 | 13 foreign peacekeepers are killed in eastern Congo. |
| 0:22.4 | And a drone strike on a hospital in the Sudanese city of El Fasha |
| 0:25.4 | is reported to have left nearly 70 people dead. |
| 0:30.6 | Also in the podcast, |
| 0:32.4 | These thieves went straight for the most beautiful peace, a golden helmet. |
| 0:37.3 | That's the worst case scenario because you can melt down coal. went straight for the most beautiful piece, a golden helmet. |
| 0:42.4 | That's the worst case scenario because you can melt down cold or silver. |
| 0:46.5 | We think their goal is to melt these treasures down. |
| 0:47.9 | This helmet is priceless. The robbers who blasted their way into a museum |
| 0:51.1 | and stole one of the world's most valuable artifacts. |
| 1:03.9 | Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have carried out a second hostage and prisoner exchange as part of their Gaza deal. Four female Israeli hostages were handed over in return for |
| 1:09.6 | 200 Palestinian detainees, a ratio of 50 to 1. |
| 1:14.4 | The releases in Gaza were a lot more orderly than the chaos seen in the first swap on Sunday. |
| 1:20.4 | Israeli captives Karina Ariyev, Daniela Gilboa and Nama Levyvi, all age 20, and Liri Albag 19, |
| 1:30.2 | waved as they were paraded on a stage in the Palestinian Territory. Lucy Williamson has this report from Tel Aviv. |
| 1:36.5 | It was a moment of theatre, in a theatre of war. Four women led by Hamas fighters to a podium in |
| 1:43.8 | Gaza city, Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas fighters to a podium in Gaza City. |
| 1:45.2 | Israeli soldiers, captured by Hamas gunmen 15 months ago, |
| 1:49.6 | freed live on camera with a signature from the Red Cross. |
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