Reunions and rubble: Gaza’s first moments of peace
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Quiet skies, returned Israeli hostages, Gazans going back home: there is much to celebrate, for the moment. We examine the path to a more robust and lasting peace. Britain’s minimum-wage rise is good news for those who earned less—but those who earned not much more are feeling more squeezed (9:45). And the medical merits of hypnosis are at last becoming recognised (16:50).
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| 0:33.0 | The Economist |
| 0:34.4 | Hello and welcome. The Economist. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:51.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:59.6 | The rise in Britain's minimum wage has been greeted as a victory for equality. |
| 1:05.5 | But what happens when the equivalent annual salary is the same as that of a previously sought-after graduate job? |
| 1:08.8 | And if you think hypnosis is either about a code word making someone do something silly |
| 1:14.1 | or a dubious route to suppressed memories, think again. |
| 1:18.3 | We go through the medical evidence that it genuinely helps with pain, anxiety, and more. |
| 1:32.3 | Thank you. But first... But first... |
| 1:37.3 | For three tense hours yesterday, it seemed that a hard-won ceasefire agreement in Gaza might not go ahead. |
| 1:47.8 | Hamas had not, as promised, given the names of the Israeli hostages, it would release. |
| 1:52.9 | So Israel kept up its airstrikes. |
| 1:56.1 | But then the names came, as did for only the second time in 15 months, something that could be called a truce. |
| 2:03.6 | Three Israeli hostages were released and reunited with their families. |
| 2:08.6 | In the West Bank, 90 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli jails and were met with cheers. |
| 2:21.2 | Long-displaced Gaza residents returned home, mostly to ruins where communities once stood. |
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