Israeli cabinet voting on landmark Gaza deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Government ministers in Israel meet to approve President Trump's peace plan. There's an outburst of joy and celebration in Israel and Gaza after the deal was signed. But will it hold? We also look at an attack on a hospital in the besieged city of El-Fasher in Sudan, and hear about the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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| 0:37.1 | Israel's cabinet is meeting to approve a Gaza deal, which would see the release of the hostages |
| 0:42.1 | and the partial withdrawal of Israeli troops. |
| 0:45.1 | The agreement with Hamas was announced by Donald Trump after intense negotiations in Egypt. |
| 0:51.0 | We'll hear from inside Gaza, where the developments have been met with joyous scenes. |
| 0:56.5 | We have witnessed a kind of relative calm since the early morning hours. Things feel different now. |
| 1:04.6 | Also in this podcast, in other news, eyewitnesses in the besieged Sudanese city of Elfasha report that a strike on a hospital, blamed on the paramilitary RSF, has killed at least 13 people. |
| 1:21.4 | Israel's cabinet is meeting to ratify the first phase of a landmark agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 1:28.0 | The US-backed deal, signed earlier in Egypt, |
| 1:31.4 | will see all remaining hostages and 2,000 Palestinian prisoners freed. |
| 1:37.0 | The BBC has followed the story of Amal al-Badla, |
| 1:40.8 | a mother in Gaza, whose youngest son was born on October the 7th, 2023, when her |
| 1:46.5 | mass launched its attacks on Israel. She sent us her reaction from a camp in southern Gaza. |
| 1:53.5 | I can't believe I'm finally saying this. The war is over. After two years of hunger destruction and endless loss of |
| 2:06.2 | dreaming of this moment to tell my boys that |
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