The Contours of a Ceasefire in Gaza, Preventing Future Wildfires In LA
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What led to the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas?
After 15 months of war, Israel and Hamas have agreed for it to stop, at least temporarily.
Because at long last, I can announce a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached.
What is in the deal? I'm Leila Fadl with Michelle Martin, and this is Up First from NPR News. People in Gaza and in Israel say they're cautiously hopeful that this deal could end the war and return hostages home. But what comes next in a Palestinian territory where so much is now rubble? Who governs? Who rebuilds?
And Los Angeles has some of the toughest rules in the country to deal with the threat of wildfires. Why weren't they enough to prevent the ongoing catastrophe? Stay with us. We've got news you need to start your day.
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There are questions this morning about whether a ceasefire deal just clinched between Israel and Hamas will actually begin on Sunday as hoped. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed a cabinet meeting to vote on the agreement. He is blaming Hamas, but the group that runs the Gaza Strip says it is committed to the accord. The two sides have been at war for more than a year. The past 15 months of conflict have killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, according to health officials in Gaza, and left the enclave in ruins. And Israelis have remained distraught and in limbo over the fate of family and friends held hostage in Gaza in the October attack by Hamas that started the war. Here's President Biden announcing the agreement yesterday.
I'm deeply satisfied This day has finally come for the sake of the people of Israel and the families waiting in agony, and for the sake of the innocent people in Gaza who suffered unimaginable devastation because of the war. The Palestinian people have gone through hell.
The deal follows months of torturous negotiations, which threaten to collapse many times.
For more on the current shape of this agreement and how people in Gaza and Israel are reacting, I'm joined by two NPR correspondents in the region, Ayyab Atrawi in Dubai and Hadil Al-Shanshi in Tel Aviv. Welcome to you both.
Thank you. Good morning.
What are the immediate implications of the ceasefire for Gaza?
I'm going to start with you. This is described as a ceasefire, but tell us what it would actually do. And does it include a path to end the war, not just pause it?
Well, the key thing is, if this agreement is implemented, as it's been announced, it will start with a pause in airstrikes that will last six weeks, and that would begin on Sunday. And in those six weeks, we're going to see a complex prisoner exchange that would include 33 hostages taken from Israel, including two Americans released over those 42 days, hundreds of Palestinians held in Israel, many of them women and children without charge, would be freed. And crucially, a flood of needed food, fuel, and medical supplies would enter Gaza. We would also see Israeli troops withdraw from populated areas to the perimeters of Gaza, and that would allow displaced people to return to their rubble and homes and whatever's left of them in Gaza City and the north. And all of this is going to be happening while mediators, Qatar and Egypt and the U.S., are working on the next phases to implement this so that it really truly does lead to
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