With Next Phase Of Ceasefire Unclear, Gazans Brace For Winter

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

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It's been nearly two months since the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas went into effect. The ceasefire is intended to be the first phase of an overarching plan to bring peace to the region after two years of war. But the next steps in the plan seem murky at best. Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that countries that had planned to deploy troops to Gaza to keep the peace as part of an International Stabilizing Force have backpedaled on their commitments. Meanwhile, Gazans are continuing to struggle – reeling from massive flooding and increasingly cold weather. For more on the current conditions in Gaza, we spoke with Mohammed Aklouk, a coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council who lives in Gaza with his family. And in headlines, Luigi Mangione's lawyers attempt to get key pieces of evidence thrown out in his New York state trial, a federal court rules that Alina Habba has been serving unlawfully as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, and Indiana Republicans continue their push to assist President Donald Trump's calls for partisan gerrymandering. This holiday season, gift someone a Friends of the Pod subscription or treat yourself. Learn more at crooked.com/friends. Subscribing is the best way to support independent progressive media.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, December 2nd.
0:03.5	I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today?
0:05.4	The show excited to find out where we go next on the Secretary of Defense Pete Higsef's defense train.
0:10.9	We've left.
0:11.8	We definitely didn't hit that alleged drug boat a second time station.
0:15.9	And now we appear to be arriving at we did hit that alleged drug boat a second time.
0:20.4	And that's awesome town.
0:25.2	On today's show, the second most famous Luigi, but easily the most deadly, allegedly,
0:31.0	appears in a New York courtroom. And who's that charlatan? Her name is Alina Haba. She's Trump's ex-personal lawyer, and she's been
0:39.8	moonlighting as New Jersey's top prosecutor for months without any legal authority to do so.
0:45.2	But let's start with Gaza. It's been nearly two months since a ceasefire agreement between Israel
0:50.2	and Hamas, brokered by the U.S., Turkey, and Qatar went into effect. The ceasefire is intended
0:55.5	to be the first phase of an overarching plan to bring peace to the region after two years of war.
1:01.7	The next steps in the plan seem murky at best. Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported
1:07.2	that countries that had planned to deploy troops to Gaza to keep the peace as part of an
1:11.2	international stabilization force, or ISF, have backpedaled on their commitments.
1:16.7	While President Donald Trump's plan had specified that the troops would go into Gaza in early
1:20.8	2006, countries like the United Arab Emirates are worried about, quote, the ambiguity of this
1:27.1	whole thing. Comforting.
1:29.3	But as the fragile truce in Gaza holds, the war has prompted significant soul-searching among
1:34.1	American politicians and voters alike. According to a New York Times poll from September,
1:39.1	a majority of Americans now oppose sending additional economic or military aid to Israel,
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