Hamas says it’s ready for a ceasefire in Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon appears to be holding, despite reports of minor violations. The US envoy who brokered the deal says it leaves Hamas ever more isolated. Newshour put this to Naim Bassem, a senior Hamas official, who denied that it was losing the support of its allies.
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Photo: A man shows the victory sign as his vehicle drives past rubble in Al Haush, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect in southern Lebanon. Credit: REUTERS/Aziz Taher
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.8 | Studios in London. I'm Tim Franks. And we're beginning with, well, we're beginning with the same old |
| 0:13.7 | question we're always asking on the news. The question, what next? What's going to follow the ceasefire |
| 0:20.1 | in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel? |
| 0:23.2 | Firstly, of course, the question as to whether the ceasefire will hold how Lebanon is going to |
| 0:27.7 | begin to rebuild, how damage the whole Hezbollah militia and political movement has been. |
| 0:33.1 | But there's a second part of the question, and that's what impact this truce may have on the war in Gaza. |
| 0:40.1 | To put it bluntly, does an end to the fighting in Lebanon and the missile fire into Israel from over the northern border, even if it's just a temporary end? |
| 0:47.6 | Does that make a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas any closer? |
| 0:52.2 | Or actually, as some argue, make it even more distant. |
| 0:56.1 | We'll begin with someone firmly in the first camp, and that's Amos Hoxstein, the USNboy, |
| 1:01.5 | who helped broker the deal between Hezbollah and Israel. He's been speaking to news, |
| 1:05.6 | I think that where we are, interestingly, is that today, Hamas leadership wakes up this morning |
| 1:13.0 | at 4 a.m. their time and says, the Israeli military, for the last 13 and a half months fighting |
| 1:18.1 | us, been distracted into a two-front war, and they now have only one front. That's a real, a new |
| 1:23.1 | reality that started today. Second reality is, for the last 13 and a half months, we had a major, |
| 1:27.8 | the largest terrorist organization on the planet was vowing never to stop unless we are taking |
| 1:33.5 | care of. And all of a sudden, they cut a deal for themselves and they cut Hamas out. So now Hamas is |
| 1:38.7 | alone. And you know who supported this deal? Iran, the supporter of Hamas. So Iran betrayed |
| 1:43.7 | Hamas here as well. They walked away and |
| 1:45.7 | understood. So Hamas now, you guys are on your own. You're not in Doha anymore in fancy villas. |
| 1:51.1 | So now you're on your own. And what President Biden said yesterday from the Rose Guard, |
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