‘Thank God we witnessed this’: Palestinians on the ceasefire deal - Today in Focus Extra
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.4 | This afternoon, the view from Gaza on the day of the ceasefire agreement. |
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| 1:25.7 | In the early hours of this morning, while it was still dark outside, Palestinians in Gaza |
| 1:30.8 | crowded around their phones and television sets as the news broke. |
| 1:39.3 | Hamas and Israel had, finally, agreed to the initial phase of a ceasefire plan for Gaza. |
| 1:47.1 | Donald Trump broke the news on his truth's social platform, |
| 1:50.6 | heralding in what he called the first steps towards a strong, durable and everlasting peace. |
| 1:56.2 | Previous ceasefires have collapsed, but this agreement could be the best hope yet for an end to Israel's |
| 2:02.2 | two-year war on Gaza. It has already killed at least 67,000 people and left 170,000 more injured, |
| 2:11.1 | overwhelmingly civilians. Almost the entire strip has also been reduced to rubble. In the first step that's been agreed, the remaining 20 Israeli hostages |
| 2:21.3 | believed to still be alive will be released, perhaps as early as Monday, |
| 2:25.3 | and the remains of 28 others will be returned to their families. |
| 2:30.3 | As many as 1,700 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are due to be freed in the coming days or weeks. |
| 2:37.0 | And the Israeli military is preparing to partially pull back their troops. |
| 2:42.0 | A lot of the details in Trump's 21-point peace plan are still unclear, |
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