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  • Affairs
  • Episode 616
  • 11 Oct 2025
  • 38 min

Two years on from 7 October: did it have to be like this?

A man attempts to remove parts of the barbed-wire fence at the so-called "Netzarim corridor" near Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip

Image: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images

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  • The Foreign Desk
  • Affairs
  • Episode 616
  • 38 min

After two years of conflict, Israel and Hamas have finally agreed terms of a ceasefire. But was this the only possible path? What were the other options open to Israel since 7 October?

Host
  • Andrew Mueller
Contributor
  • Lily Austin

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