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Gaza after the ceasefire
A year after the guns largely fell silent, the peace plan has stalled on one question: Hamas’s weapons. Reconstruction has not yet begun.
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Key facts
- The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect in October 2025 under the US-backed peace plan. All hostages have since been returned. [1][7]
- In November 2025 the UN Security Council welcomed the Board of Peace and authorised a temporary International Stabilization Force for Gaza. [3][4]
- The Board of Peace roadmap of 30 July 2026 makes each next phase conditional on verified compliance with the previous one. [3]
- On 23 September the Board presented a six-month, $2.45 billion recovery plan of 66 programmes. Of $18 billion pledged, only $280 million had been paid; full reconstruction is estimated at about $71 billion over a decade. [1][2]
- Hamas’s disarmament is the main sticking point. Israel insists on full disarmament before withdrawing from the roughly 60% of Gaza it currently holds. [1]
- The UN reports that 91% of assessed households face moderate to high water insecurity. On the Egypt route, 317 of 800 manifested aid trucks were offloaded in the last reporting week. [5][6]
GOD News reporting in this dossier
- Analysis
Gaza a year after the ceasefire: a $2.45 billion plan, but no start date
The Board of Peace has presented a recovery plan for Gaza, yet reconstruction has not begun. Hamas’s weapons remain the sticking point, and the humanitarian situation is still severe.
- Opinion / Column
No other refugee group has its own UN agency
Henk Folkers on UNRWA: a dedicated UN agency for Palestinian refugees, hereditary refugee status, persistent concerns about Hamas — and why taxpayers' money still flows to it.
- Opinion / Column
One side solved a refugee crisis, the other still uses it as a weapon
An ice cream at the GOLDA parlour in Jaffa brings Henk Folkers to Golda Meir — and to the moral asymmetry in how Israel and the Arab world treated their refugees.
- Opinion / Column
Numbers don't lie — opinions often do
Henk Folkers sets the wild figures circulating about Gaza against the Palestinian Health Ministry's own annual mortality report: 24,650 registered deaths in 2025, 74,228 dead in total — and a gap between rhetoric and verified numbers.
- Opinion / Column
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Questions readers ask
Is the war over?
The heavy fighting stopped with the October 2025 ceasefire, but violence has continued. The BBC reports near-daily Israeli strikes; Israel says it acts against threats and violations. The ceasefire still formally holds. [1]
Sources
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- Trump’s Board of Peace unveils $2.45bn Gaza recovery plan
- Trump’s Board of Peace proposes $2.45 billion blueprint to begin Gaza reconstruction
- Gaza Roadmap (30 July 2026)
- Under the Gaza Peace Plan, who is responsible for the treatment of protected persons?
- oPt: Humanitarian Situation Report, 11 September 2026
- Palestine Logistics Cluster — Gaza meeting minutes, 29 September 2026
- Israel says it has retrieved remains of final Gaza hostage Ran Gvili
- Gaza death toll since October 2023, as reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health (not independently verifiable)
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