Gaza prepares for the first phase of Trump peace plan
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump says Hamas is gathering the Israeli hostages "now", adding that he's confident the Gaza deal he helped broker will "hold".
As thousands of Palestinians have begun returning to Gaza's north and Hamas has until midday on Monday to release the hostages, we hear from the Gaza Strip and assess what Hamas and Israel are likely to do now.
Also in the programme: Donald Trump has said he could impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China from next month after Beijing's move to tighten its rare earths export rules; and MTV, the world's first 24-hour music broadcaster, is to stop showing rolling pop videos in just about every country except the United States.
(Photo shows Crowds of Palestinians making their way up a narrow coastal road to Gaza's north. Credit: Haitham Imad/EPA)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.1 | Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kamara Sami. |
| 0:15.3 | And we begin in the Middle East, where the ceasefire in Gaza seems to be holding, |
| 0:19.8 | and the clock is definitely ticking. We are now |
| 0:22.8 | 27 hours into the 72-hour deadline that Hamas has been given to release all the remaining |
| 0:29.5 | hostages, the living and the dead being held in Gaza. In exchange, Israel's agreed to release |
| 0:34.8 | around 1,700 people who were detained in Gaza and as well as 250 |
| 0:39.3 | Palestinian prisoners. Returns of a different sort are currently taking place inside the Gaza Strip, |
| 0:45.9 | thousands of displaced people driving or trekking back to their homes to find what is left of them. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, let's speak to Barbara Plet-shar, correspondent, who's in Jerusalem. |
| 0:55.3 | And Barbara, on the ceasefire, it seems to be holding. |
| 0:58.5 | What are you hearing? |
| 1:00.6 | Yes, that's what we are hearing. |
| 1:02.4 | It was a pretty messy start because it wasn't entirely clear |
| 1:05.5 | when it was going to go into effect. |
| 1:07.9 | And there was some gunfire and artillery fire as the Israeli soldiers |
| 1:11.8 | were withdrawing or redeploying to their new line of defense or their new line of where they |
| 1:20.0 | pulled back. But now that has been confirmed and the Palestinians who have been displaced are returning to their homes. |
| 1:29.7 | You've probably been hearing about those long lines of people walking up the coastal road |
| 1:36.0 | to Gaza City. At least 200,000 probably more by now have returned. Finding apocalyptic |
| 1:41.6 | destruction when they do get back, it seems like the, |
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