What is life in Gaza like after the ceasefire?
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The total number of people killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since the ceasefire took place in October has reached 400, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Flooding, low temperatures and makeshift shelters have also presented issues for those in the region. We speak with a Gazan resident about what life is like now for her and her peers.
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(Photo: Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on Friday, according to medics, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Credit: Dabou Abu Alkas, Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.6 | Coming to you live from London, I'm Kruppapati. |
| 0:16.0 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:17.7 | This is not a truce, it is a bloodbath. The words of one Gazan resident who witnessed |
| 0:22.3 | an attack by Israel on a school sheltering displaced people on Friday. The attack in Tufa |
| 0:28.3 | neighbourhood east of Gaza City took the lives of six people, including children. It brings a number of |
| 0:34.2 | people killed in Gaza since the ceasefire began three months ago to at least 400. |
| 0:39.5 | Despite the fragile ceasefire with daily violations on both sides, there is hope that a second stage of the ceasefire can be reached. |
| 0:47.8 | Now, under the second phase of President Trump's plan, Israel would withdraw its troops further from Gaza as a transitional authority |
| 0:55.6 | is set up and an international security force would be deployed. Hamas would disarm and |
| 1:01.2 | reconstruction would begin. But Hamas has previously refused to give up its weapons without the |
| 1:06.2 | creation of an independent Palestinian state. For those inside Gaza, daily life continues to be a struggle with flooding, low temperatures |
| 1:14.8 | and makeshift shelters, together with hunger, making reality on the ground all the more difficult. |
| 1:22.1 | Abir is a teacher in Gaza City. During the conflict, we spoke to her several times. |
| 1:27.2 | Her house was destroyed and she is currently staying with relatives. During the conflict, we spoke to her several times. Her house was destroyed and she is |
| 1:29.1 | currently staying with relatives. I asked her how life has been since the ceasefire began. |
| 1:35.4 | Well, you can say that we are just surviving. That's it. We are like frozen or being thrown |
| 1:42.9 | out of the bus and waiting for someone to salvage us from there. |
| 1:47.5 | People in Gaza are just holding up and waiting for the reconstruction to start |
| 1:52.5 | because this early recovery period feels like forever. |
| 1:57.2 | Let's unpick some of that. |
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