The Response To The Israel-Hamas Deal

Amanpour

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Following the announcement of the ceasefire late last night, many are closely watching how Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan will be implemented in the coming days. While the details of the plan outline a framework for lasting peace, questions remain about how Hamas and Israel will move forward in negotiations and the extent to which international actors will support the process. Nic Robertson joins the program live from Cairo share insights into the global political response to this historic development. Also on today's show: Israeli artist Sharone Lifschitz, whose parents were taken hostage by Hamas; MSF Communications Officer Nour Alsaqqa; Bushra Khalidi, West Bank Policy Lead, Oxfam; Yossi Beilin, Former Israeli Justice Minister; Oliver McTernan, Co-founder and Director, Forward Thinking; former Palestinian negotiator Hussein Agha; former French Ambassador to UK Sylvie Bermann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	Hope in the Middle East as Israel and Hamas agreed to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal,
0:15.0	a report from Egypt where talks were brokered. And what this moment feels like for hostage families, Sharon Lifsich,
0:22.6	whose parents were held captive by Hamas joins me. Plus, jubilation in Gaza, how Palestinians are
0:29.9	reacting after two years of brutal war. Then, the art of diplomacy, we look at what's involved
0:36.8	in securing and preserving this fragile
0:39.3	piece.
0:40.3	With key experts and veteran negotiators from the region, also ahead, Europe welcomes the deal
0:47.3	and calls to implement the two-state solution.
0:50.3	Former French ambassador to the UK, Sylvie Berman, on those challenges ahead.
0:55.0	The President Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.
1:18.4	The sun rose this morning over a different Middle East, one brimming with joy and relief
1:23.8	that Israel's brutal war on Gaza may finally be over, and all the Hamas held Israeli hostages,
1:29.7	dead and alive, may finally come home.
1:32.6	Listen to this man in Khan Yunus.
1:37.7	Thank God for the ceasefire, the end of the bloodshed and the killing.
1:41.3	I am not the only one happy.
1:42.8	All of the Gaza Strip is happy. All Arab people are happy.
1:46.0	All of the world is happy with the ceasefire and the end of the bloodshed. Thank you and all the love to those who stood with us.
1:53.0	And these are the parents of Hirsch Poland, Goldberg, who was abducted by Hamas for 11 months and then executed.
2:01.6	Today has complications because so many in this region have paid the heaviest price.
2:09.6	But for today, we celebrate. We embrace all those families who will be reunited with their loved ones
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