What ever happened to Trump’s peace plan for Gaza?
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The Times
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday the UN General Assembly met to discuss a plan for Palestinian statehood, two months after President Trump announced his twenty-point peace plan for Israel and Gaza. But has the fighting actually stopped? Is the region any closer to peace? And could Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing criminal trial derail the whole process?
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 0:11.7 | There was just utter jubilation, celebrations, champagne being sprayed. |
| 0:18.5 | That was less than two months ago, in October. |
| 0:22.3 | Scenes of joy and relief spread across the streets of Israel after the American |
| 0:27.5 | peace plan was signed. |
| 0:29.5 | A ceasefire came into effect and Hamas released the remaining hostages. |
| 0:35.1 | The deal signed and almost overnight the hostages are returning and they're |
| 0:38.7 | alive and all 20 of them came back standing on their feet. I was at hostage square for almost all |
| 0:45.3 | of those releases that were broadcast live on this very large screen to thousands of people. |
| 0:50.9 | It was a very special moment and I'll remember it forever. |
| 0:57.0 | It seemed that finally peace might be at hand, but the hope didn't last long. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh many feared this would happen. The peace-fire deal between Israel and Hamas short-lived. It has been only nine days. |
| 1:10.9 | The Israeli military is carrying out |
| 1:13.0 | a series of airstrikes inside Gaza |
| 1:15.6 | after Hamas attacked Israeli soldiers |
| 1:17.8 | near the city of Rafa. |
| 1:23.1 | The tenuous ceasefire has been broken repeatedly, |
| 1:30.3 | and now a political scandal in Israel could change the course of peace talks. |
| 1:37.3 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the President to pardon him from corruption charges. He denies the allegations, which he describes as a witch hunt. |
| 1:48.5 | So where does this leave the peace plan? |
| 1:51.7 | Is Israel actually prepared to accept a two-state solution? |
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