What does the Gaza ceasefire mean?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Hamas and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire set to start on Sunday. The deal includes humanitarian aid to Gaza, Israel’s gradual withdrawal, the release of Israeli captives, and a Palestinian prisoner release. As Palestinians in Gaza hope to leave 15 months of devastation behind, can this agreement hold or is it another fragile promise?
In this episode:
- Diana Buttu (@dianabuttu), Human Rights Lawyer and Analyst
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, Chloe K. Li, Sarí el-Khalili, and Khaled Soltan with Philip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Hanah Shokeir, Melanie Marich and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, more than 466 days on, a ceasefire agreement. |
| 0:17.0 | After 15 months of Israel's war on Gaza, |
| 0:24.7 | negotiators have now reached a ceasefire agreement, according to media reports. Celebrations are taking place right across |
| 0:28.3 | Gaza. Can this agreement hold, or is it another |
| 0:32.6 | fragile promise? |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:51.1 | This was the scene in Gaza after the ceasefire was announced. |
| 0:57.5 | Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif stood in the middle of it. |
| 1:19.2 | In his live report from Gaza City, he says, I can finally take off my heavy helmet and vest that have exhausted me throughout the war. |
| 1:35.1 | He spoke from many Palestinians as they reacted to this long-awaited news. It's good. Thank God. The ceasefire reassured us and brought us joy. Thank God. It's nice and filled with happiness. May it last forever, God willing. |
| 1:57.0 | We are here happy with this victory because the Palestinian people simply want their freedom. |
| 2:04.3 | Freedom for the Palestinian people. |
| 2:06.6 | We don't want anything but freedom and to live with dignity without occupation. |
| 2:24.7 | The reason that so many people are happy is because despite their efforts to try to crush Palestinians, they didn't in the end. |
| 2:27.7 | They didn't. |
| 2:28.7 | All that they did was inflict a ton of damage and carry out a genocide. |
| 2:34.7 | But they didn't crush the Palestinian will to want to live freely. |
| 2:41.6 | My guest today, a familiar voice on the take over the past 15 months, |
| 2:46.3 | has also been waiting and watching closely for this moment. |
| 2:50.3 | She's joining me from Doha, where negotiations |
| 2:53.0 | have been taking place. My name is Deanna Butu. I'm a lawyer based in Haifa, but currently in Doha. |
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