What Next - Hamas Agreed to a Ceasefire. Now What?
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In a last minute twist, Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire with Israel. But targeted airstrikes are already underway in Rafah. With its infrastructure in shambles, Gaza is facing famine – and worse. What’s next for Gaza’s people?
Guest: Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent for the Economist.
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| 0:00.0 | Greg, can you describe your last 24, 48 hours? |
| 0:07.0 | Well, it's been a bit of a roller coaster. |
| 0:15.0 | Greg Carlstrom is the Middle East correspondent over at the Economist, |
| 0:19.0 | and for the last few days he has been monitoring what Israeli and American officials have called the last real chance for a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 0:29.0 | On Saturday, there was a lot of optimism about a deal. By Sunday that optimism had curled. |
| 0:37.1 | Both sides walked away. |
| 0:40.7 | And then rather unexpectedly on Monday night came a statement from Hamas saying that in fact they had agreed to a ceasefire deal with Israel, and then Israel said it was reviewing what Hamas had agreed to. |
| 0:55.8 | So it has been a bit bewildering. |
| 1:00.0 | How surprising was it to you that Hamas said they had accepted the terms of the negotiation? |
| 1:09.0 | It was very surprising. I mean, first, I don't think anyone was expecting the Hamas leadership in |
| 1:16.0 | Gaza, the real decision-makers in the movement, to accept the agreement because they have |
| 1:21.1 | rejected just about everything that has been on the table. |
| 1:24.4 | It seems like we still don't know whether Israel agrees that |
| 1:30.5 | this agreement is real. I know you described this process as a roller coaster. |
| 1:38.0 | How will we know the roller coaster has stopped? |
| 1:43.0 | I think it's going to be several days before we know both the details of what's in it and then how Israel is going to respond to it. |
| 1:50.0 | Many in Raffa didn't wait to be. with. |
| 1:53.0 | Many in Ratha didn't wait to celebrate. |
| 1:56.0 | They took to the streets, they honed car horns. |
| 1:59.0 | Even though just hours before this tentative agreement was floated, |
| 2:04.4 | Israel reined down leaflets on one neighborhood, |
| 2:08.1 | warning residents to get out if they wanted to live. |
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