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Weekend: Four-day ceasefire in Gaza as Israel and Hamas reach agreement

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Four-day ceasefire in Gaza as Israel and Hamas reach agreement

25/11/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Four-day ceasefire in Gaza as Israel and Hamas reach agreement

Israel and Hamas reach deal for release of Palestinian detainees and Israeli hostages

The deal for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza has seen the release of 13 Israeli hostages by Hamas followed by 39 Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons. 

Also in the programme: Samira Rafaela, the first Dutch MEP of Afro-Caribbean roots, on the victory of Gert Wilders, hard-right, anti-Islam, anti-immigrant party in the general election in the Netherlands; and two American-Jewish students on why they started an Instagram account - Why I Wear My Star.

Joining presenter Krupa Padhy are Kenyan writer and political analysist from Nairobi, Nanjala Nyabola and Joshua Hammer, an American journalist, author and freelance magazine journalist in Berlin.

(Photo: Ohad Munder, 9-year-old, reacts as he meets with his family members after he returned to Israel to the designated complex at the Schneider Children's Medical Center, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Petah Tikva, Israel, in this handout picture released on 25 November 2023. Schneider Children's Medical Center Spokesperson/Handout via Reuters)

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