On Friday afternoon, after more than a year of continuous war between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli security cabinet ratified a ceasefire deal to stop the war in Gaza.
The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernan, talks about what it will mean, and how it came about. She discusses, too, the role of Donald Trump – who will once again become US president on Monday – in pushing Israel to the negotiating table over the past weeks.
There are still, of course, many questions unanswered – over what life will look like in Gaza, for example, or the fate of the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October 2023.
Michael Safi hears from Sharone Lifschitz, as she awaits news of her captive father, and from Amjed Tantesh, Garam al-Jamila and Nedal Hamdouni – all in Gaza – as they react to the news that, finally, there might be a pause in the war.
