On the 29th of September 2025, a press conference between Donald Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took place to negotiate a peace plan that should mean the end of the war in Gaza. The Gaza Peace Plan, or the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, is a twenty-point plan that had been was agreed upon by Israel and Hamas and was officially put into place on the 10th of October, with the terms of the deal aiming to put an immediate end of the war and start rebuilding Gaza through humanitarian aid. Some of the terms of this ceasefire include the withdrawal of Israeli forces to an agreed upon line where they will wait for hostages to be released by Hamas, suspension of Israeli military operations, the release of 1,700 Gazans detained since the 7th of October 2023, 15 Gazan hostages remains to be released for the release of every Israeli hostage that remains, and for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza to rehabilitate their infrastructure, hospitals and their economy.
Despite the official ceasefire being in place since the 10th of October 2025, there are continued attacks from the Israeli army on Gaza which violated the initial terms of the deal. One of the attacks during the ceasefire was cited by the official Palestinian News Agency WAFA and Israeli drone strike that had opened fire on civilians as they surveyed what remains of Palestinian homes, resulting in the death of 45-year-old Fardid Hassan Qdeih in Abasan and adding to the 93 Palestinians that had been killed since the ceasefire. The devastation is not limited to this increasing number in deaths, it also includes the heartbreaking reality that families returning to their homes in Gaza must face when there is nothing left to salvage from their lives before.
Said, a father of two, returned to Gaza to find something he could save and saw nothing but ash where his home used to be. Alongside these continued attacks, there have been reports of Israeli authorities preventing the water and sanitation that was promised to Palestine from reaching them. These reports outline how the delays have been a result of a rerouting of the humanitarian and commercial trucks that are trying to reach Palestinians and heavy traffic along the new route that was given to them by the Israeli authorities, temporarily reducing the amount of trucks in their convoys until there has been an assessment of the road conditions and they are certain that the aid will reach Gazans.
Dr. Stephane Dujarric, a United Nations spokesperson, describes that these reports are “deeply concerning” and voices her fears that these efforts will continue to be delayed throughout the ceasefire. As a justification for their breach of the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli military claims that Hamas has been prolonging the return of the remains of Israelis that had been killed in Gaza and had already gone against their part of the plan.
In response to these claims, Hamas stated that they have not been able to locate return the remains because of a lack of heavy-duty equipment that is needed to digthrough the rubble where the bodies of both Israelis and Palestinians are believed to be buried under. Even if the attacks were to stop now and the aid were to reach the people in Gaza, there is the risk that they will still be under Israeli blockage and would not be able to return their economy to its pre-war levels for an estimated 350 years and it would take decades for the United Nations to gain the $53 billion required to start rebuilding the Gaza strip. Charity associations such as the Palestinian Red Cross and the International Red Cross are relying on donations from the United Kingdom to help in the long-term recovery for Gaza and ensure that the aid reaches the people of Palestine.