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Weekend: Biden unveils Israeli proposal to end Gaza war

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Biden unveils Israeli proposal to end Gaza war

01/06/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Biden unveils Israeli proposal to end Gaza war

The US president has called on Hamas to accept the new proposition to end the conflict

The US president has called on Hamas to accept the new proposition to end the conflict.

The US president has urged Hamas to accept a new Israeli proposition to end the conflict, saying that "it's time for this war to end". The three-part proposal would begin with a six-week ceasefire in which the Israel Defense Forces would withdraw from populated areas of Gaza.

Also today: South Africa's governing African National Congress looks to have lost the parliamentary majority it has enjoyed for three decades; and we hear how the Swedish pop group ABBA came together to accept one of their nation's highest honours.

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: US president Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Middle East at the White House. Credit: REUTERS)

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