Yolan Nel
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Global News Podcast
Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
It's been a bit of a confusing picture that's emerged over the course of the day. Hamas said from late last night that mediation efforts had gone on in Cairo had resolved this latest impasse over the release of these 600 Palestinian prisoners.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
said that it was going to go ahead with handing over the four remaining Israeli hostage bodies that it's supposed to hand over in this initial six-week stage of the Gaza ceasefire deal. And we're expecting another set of Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange for those bodies as well.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
But the latest statement that has come from Hamas, it now says the date for this exchange will be announced to what it describes as the right time. It said that the swap would take place through what it called a new mechanism guaranteeing Israel's commitment without giving more details on that.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
So he gave this very loving tribute to his wife Shiri and to his two little sons and talked too about what he saw as his failure to protect them.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
Many of the people, tens of thousands according to the Israeli media, that lined the route to watch this funeral procession go past, they were carrying orange balloons. This colour has really come to symbolise these two little boys and indeed the plight of the hostages and their families more widely because of the little boy's bright red hair.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
Kafir Bibas was the youngest of the 251 hostages who were taken the 7th of October. His brother Ariel was just four. We had their bodies returned along with that of their mother last week as part of this ongoing exchange once this week's proceedings have been completed, if all goes to plan.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
33 hostages that have been handed over in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees being released from Israeli jails and detention centres.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Well, overall at least 41 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza in the course of the day, according to the Hamas-run health ministry that's just put out its latest figures. And that includes 19 killed at this UN health clinic turned shelter for displaced people in Jabalia in the north of Gaza.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Now, the Israeli military has put out a statement saying that it was targeting Hamas terrorists with an airstrike here, saying that they were using... This site has a command and control center. We're still waiting for more details. A lot is still sketchy, but there's been condemnation from the internationally backed Palestinian authorities calling this action by Israel a massacre.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
And there's really harrowing footage, which the BBC has not yet verified, which show a baby among those killed, a small child as well. You can see smoke just pouring out of this building.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
He put out this statement this morning, basically saying that large areas of the Gaza Strip would be seized and incorporated into what he called security zones with large-scale evacuations of the population. Already Israel has really widened the buffer zone that previously existed around Gaza, has retaken this strategically important corridor, which divides the strip into two.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
We're hearing from Israeli army radio, but no more confirmation of this yet, that Israeli tanks and ground forces have begun to advance into central and eastern Rafah. In southern Gaza. And there's also these comments from Israel cats basically asking the population of Gaza, telling them they should rise up against Hamas and free the hostages.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
It's believed that there are 24 living hostages that were seized from southern Israel in the 7th October attacks, still alive, being held by Hamas in Gaza. Of course we have seen some protests against Hamas by Gazans increasingly desperate in recent days.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
But on the whole you're talking about unarmed civilians and it's been nearly 18 months now that Israel with its military offensive has been trying to remove Hamas from power in Gaza and crush it militarily as well. So far it hasn't managed to do that.
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Well, there have been ongoing attempts by Egypt and Qatar in the region as mediators, along with the US as well. And so we do expect that when Israel's prime minister meets Mr. Trump, they've said that they're planning to discuss the tariff issue, as you'd expect, but also the efforts to return Israeli hostages. It's thought there are 24 still alive in Gaza, as well as other regional issues.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
You also have France's President Macron, who's in Egypt meeting both Egypt's President Sisi and King Abdullah of Jordan, really talking about ceasefire efforts as well. Where things have got stuck in recent days is that, you know, Hamas said it agreed to an Egyptian plan, which we understand would involve freeing Five hostages in exchange for a temporary ceasefire.
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Israel wants more hostages freed and really has been trying to kind of limit the length of the ceasefire as much as possible. And ultimately, the big sticking point when it comes to kind of moving on to what was supposed to be the second stage of the original ceasefire deal back in January that lasted for two months, Israel really...
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has now resumed its military offensive in Gaza, saying it wants to defeat Hamas completely. It's talking about sending its leaders into exile, continuing fighting until that goal is achieved, and saying it's also putting pressure on Hamas to bring its hostages back.
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But Hamas has been consistently saying that it wants to move to the second stage of this original ceasefire deal where the war would end and Israel would withdraw its forces from Gaza.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
Yes. So what we've seen is these 10 rockets fired from the centre of Gaza at southern Israel. Five of those intercepted, five landed in open areas, the Israeli military says. That really being seen as a sort of message from Hamas that it does still have attacks. some fighting power. But on the ground, you know, Israel is the side which has the overwhelming military strength.
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Of course, it's been saying that it has now retaken 40% of the Gaza Strip. And we've seen more than a dozen people killed in the latest airstrikes in Gaza since midnight last night.