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Broadly positive response from Hamas to peace proposal

01/06/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Broadly positive response from Hamas to peace proposal

The new three-part proposition would lead to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza

The new three-part proposition would lead to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

The plan was announced on Friday by President Joe Biden, and would begin with a six-week ceasefire in which the Israel Defense Forces would withdraw from populated areas of Gaza.

Also today: we ponder South Africa's future after the governing African National Congress looks to have lost its parliamentary majority; and tomorrow the T20 Cricket World Cup kicks off in the US.

Today’s guests are Nelufar Hedayat, a British-Afghan journalist, documentary maker and podcaster, and Laurie Bristow, president of Hughes Hall, a college at Cambridge University and former UK ambassador to Afghanistan and Russia.

(Picture: Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza's north. Credit: REUTERS)

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