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Global News Podcast

Twenty four hostages released by Hamas now back in Israel

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Israel says the hostages, who were held in Gaza, are all in good health. In exchange for their freedom, thirty-nine Palestinian prisoners have been released. Also: A fishing vessel has been seized by suspected Somali pirates, and the French government urges shoppers to think twice before spending money on Black Friday.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.0

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Saturday the 25th of November, these are our main stories.

0:12.0

24 hostages released by Hamas in Gaza are now back in Israel

0:16.0

and are in the process of being reunited with their families.

0:20.0

The UN says 137 trucks delivered aid to Gaza on Friday by far the greatest daily number since the conflict began.

0:28.0

A fishing vessel has been

0:34.0

virtually stamped out a decade ago.

0:39.0

Also in this podcast,

0:40.4

do you just want to step out for me for a second?

0:43.0

Okay, it'll just be a second.

0:45.0

We'll just go up here so we're out of the way.

0:48.0

How what appeared to be a routine traffic stop turned into a marriage proposal and we hear how English football

0:55.2

referees are turning to aviation to communicate more effectively.

1:01.1

It's the moment that Israelis had been praying and longing for in the past seven weeks.

1:09.0

Hamas's release of the first group of hostages.

1:13.0

Welcome to I-24 News.

1:14.0

I'm Albert Lewiston of the I-24 News Desk in Tel Aviv.

1:17.0

You're looking at live coverage of the release of 13 hostages.

1:21.0

Israeli television showed images of the 24 hostages.

1:25.0

13 Israelis, 10 ties and one Filipino

1:30.0

being transported in a convoy of Red Cross vehicles through the Raffer crossing into Egypt.

1:35.7

They're now back in Israel as part of a deal in which fighting has been paused for four days.

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