On Friday afternoon, after greater than a yr of steady warfare between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli safety cupboard ratified a ceasefire deal to cease the warfare in Gaza.
The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernan, talks about what it can imply, and the way it took place. She discusses, too, the function of Donald Trump – who will as soon as once more change into US president on Monday – in pushing Israel to the negotiating desk over the previous weeks.
There are nonetheless, after all, many questions unanswered – over what life will appear to be in Gaza, for instance, or the destiny of the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October 2023.
Michael Safi hears from Sharone Lifschitz, as she awaits information of her captive father, and from Amjed Tantesh, Garam al-Jamila and Nedal Hamdouni – all in Gaza – as they react to the information that, lastly, there is perhaps a pause within the warfare.
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