What's next for Israel-Hamas ceasefire?

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

While a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza resulted in celebrations on both sides, the hard work required to maintain it is now getting underway. Hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin was involved in backchannel discussions over the deal. He explains more.

And, 20 Israeli hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners were released as part of the ceasefire deal. Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri joins us to unpack what’s next for the region.

Then, silica dust is causing coal miners in their 30s and 40s to come down with black lung disease. Black lung clinic leader Lisa Emery joins us to discuss how coal miners are protesting a federal delay in enforcing silica dust rules.

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0:17.3	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:20.9	We can call him a transactional president, and he certainly is,
0:24.3	but he is the only person in the world who could have ended this war, and he did that.
0:28.7	As big a deal as it is to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas,
0:33.1	the real hard work of peace is keeping it.
0:37.3	It's Tuesday, October 14th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR, Boston.
0:42.8	I'm Chris Bentley.
0:47.4	Today on the show, what's next in the peace plan between Israel and Hamas?
0:57.5	Also, as miners are forced to dig deeper to find coal, black lung is showing up in younger people.
1:05.1	The youngest coal miner at this clinic, a few years ago, that was diagnosed with the worst form of pneumoconiosis.
1:13.7	He was 32 years old with only 10 years underground.
1:17.3	You don't have to have a lot of tenure in the minds these days to be diagnosed with the worst
1:25.0	form of black lung disease.
1:27.6	Some coal miners say the Trump administration is ignoring the problem by refusing to defend
1:32.6	environmental regulations in court.
1:35.1	That story coming up at about 15 minutes.
1:37.9	Before we get to that, though, tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are returning
1:42.9	to what's left of Gaza City after the
1:45.5	partial withdrawal of Israeli troops during phase one of the ceasefire. The two sides are making
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