Hello and welcome to NewsAff from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London.

I'm James Menendez.

And coming up later in the program,

a deepening diplomatic rift between the US and South Africa

over a new land expropriation law there.

President Trump's close advisor, Elon Musk, has called it racist because

most farmers are white. We'll hear about his upbringing in apartheid era, South Africa.

Musk left South Africa on the dawn of the release of Mandela. And for a moment, it seems, you know,

he may have embodied that optimistic view

of South Africa. There's been a turn in Musk's politics, which is very difficult to understand.

That's coming up in half an hour. We're also be hearing about Sam Neuma, who led Namibia

to independence from South Africa. He's died at the age of 95. That's coming up in 25 minutes.

But we are going to begin in Gaza because Israeli forces have today withdrawn from what's known as the

Nezarin Corridor, a military zone that effectively cut the Gaza strip into two sections,

north and south, for the duration of the war. It's allowed hundreds of

Palestinians travelling in cars and carts to return to what, if anything, is left of their homes

in northern Gaza. Nearly three quarters of a million people had to flee south when the war began,

following Hamas's assault on Israel on October the 7th last year. Well, in a moment, we'll hear from

the Israeli government. But first, let's talk to our correspondent in Jerusalem. We're

a Davis who joins us on the line. How does this fit into the overall ceasefire agreement?

Well, just go to show that phase one of the ceasefire is going pretty well, despite, you know, the

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