What's happened to the Gaza peace plan?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The world’s attention is currently fixed on the US-Israel war with Iran and the effect it’s having on the Gulf region and global energy prices. But it was only six months ago that a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed and President Trump launched his 20-point peace plan. Since then we’ve heard little about progress beyond the return of Israeli hostages - the first phase of the plan. David Aaronovitch and his guests discuss what's happening to the citizens of Gaza and what has to happen next if the peace plan is to be followed through.
Guests:
Rushdi Abu Alouf, BBC Gaza Correspondent Anshel Pfeffer, Israel Correspondent, The Economist Tahani Mustafa, Lecturer in International Relations, Deptartment of War Studies, King's College, London Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Presenter: David Aaronovitch Producers: Caroline Bayley, Nathan Gower, Kirsteen Knight Production co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Engineers: James Beard and Gareth Jones Editor: Richard Vadon
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Attention spans can be short. |
| 0:12.4 | Before Iran, there was Venezuela, but before Venezuela, there was Gaza. |
| 0:17.5 | Last October, a ceasefire ended the most violent stage of a conflict that had begun two years earlier |
| 0:22.5 | and in which tens of thousands of people had died. |
| 0:26.2 | Big plans were supposed to emerge for Gaza's reconstruction and future government |
| 0:30.4 | and involving Donald Trump's new Board of Peace. |
| 0:34.4 | So, turning our attention back to Gaza, what's happened with that? Step into the briefing |
| 0:40.1 | room and together we'll find out. First, to get an update on what the situation is right now |
| 0:49.3 | for Gazans, I'm joined by the BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdie Abu aloof, who's now based in Istanbul. |
| 0:56.0 | Rasti, looking at the situation in Gaza right now, where are the people actually living? |
| 1:02.7 | Well, they still live in the same place as when the ceasefire was announced |
| 1:06.8 | because there was no further Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and all of the people in |
| 1:13.0 | Gaza about two million people they live in the area controlled by Hamas in the |
| 1:18.3 | western side of Gaza because about 53% of what is called behind the yellow line |
| 1:25.2 | are controlled by Israel and very few people, they still live in that area. |
| 1:31.0 | They belong to a militia packed by Israel, but the majority of the population, they live in the |
| 1:37.6 | western side of Gaza, mainly half of them, they live in tents and make shift houses. |
| 1:44.8 | Now, last time we spoke to you back in October, you said there was at that point no running water. |
| 1:50.7 | Is that still the case? |
| 1:52.3 | Well, it is still the case, and the majority of the population, the 95% of the population, they have to buy drinking water every day. |
| 2:00.5 | And also they don't have water at all, so they have to buy drinking water every day and also they don't have water |
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