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We just finished harvesting our daily allotment of three dozen oysters, and now the tide is coming in quick.

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Our listeners go to some really cool places.

Every day this week, we've had amazing timestamps from amazing places. That we aren't at. You know, we're here in Washington, D.C., people are out there, eating oysters or shucking oysters. What is the word? Shucking oysters. Harvesting. Harvesting. Harvesting. Harvesting. Okay. You suck them after you harvest, yeah. All right. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. I'm Greg Mirey. I cover national security. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. And today on the podcast, Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first stage of a ceasefire that could end the war in Gaza. So, Greg, you're talking to us from Tel Aviv, and there are a lot of moving parts about this deal. Can you just explain them for us?

Yeah, the Israeli government is discussing this. Now, they're supposed to approve it. There's a majority. There's some against it in the cabinet. But when it gets to prove, then they're supposed to be a formal announcement, which means the ceasefire will take effect.

And then the clock starts ticking for both the Israelis and for Hamas in Gaza.

Israel will have 24 hours, so perhaps from Thursday night to Friday night, to pull back its troops somewhat in Gaza.

Not all the way. In fact, they'll still have about half of Gaza,

sort of following the contours of Gaza's borders, and will, over time, move further back if things go well.

Now, the clock will also be ticking for Habas, which has supposedly three days to release all the Israeli hostages. 20 of them are believed to be

living. Twenty-eight are believed to be dead at this point. So we're expecting them to at least start

getting released over the weekend. Perhaps Sunday we're hearing. President Trump spoke recently.

He talked about Monday or Tuesday, but sometime in this time

period, we should see the Israeli hostages come out. When that starts, Israel will begin releasing

up to 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. And there's more. Hundreds of aid trucks

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