'Any kind of solution has to be rooted in Palestinian self-determination and Israeli security'

29/10/2025 20:49 France 24

FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Yael Berda, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Co-Chair of "A Land For All", about the war in Gaza. She says that even amid the fragile ceasefire 'we have to have an endgame, we have to see that there will be a Palestinian State and efforts led on the ground have to include Palestinian governance'.

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