This is an extra edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Bernard Echio and at 9 GMT on Thursday the 9th of October we're bringing you the latest on the Gaza peace deal after Israel and Hamas agree to the first phase of the plan.
In this extra episode we'll bring you the details of what we know so far along with reaction from within Israel and Gaza and around the world.
After intense negotiations in Egypt,
Israel and Hamas have reached agreement on the first phase of a peace plan for Gaza.
The deal, first announced by President Trump,
involves a ceasefire followed by the release of all Israeli hostages in return for Palestinian prisoners and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from parts of Gaza.
Israel's cabinet is due to meet later on Thursday to approve the agreement,
which the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a victory.
Hamas welcomed the deal and urged the U.S. and other mediators to ensure Israel sticks to its terms.
In Gaza,
there's finally hope that Israeli military attacks might soon end and desperately needed aid might soon be able to reach hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who've been forced from their homes often repeatedly.
Gaza journalist Imad Kudair is currently in Al Mawasi, west of Hanyunis.
Everyone in the street was dancing, was chanting in the streets.
Finally, we're going to sleep with no bombs, with no drones.
So this is the moment that we did wait for the last two years.
In what's become known as Hostage Square in Tel Aviv,
fireworks were set off as the news spread that all the remaining hostages,
20 of whom are believed to be alive and held in appalling conditions ever since,
are finally going to be coming home.