The Briefing Room What's happened to the Gaza peace plan?
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Apr 2, 2026 
Aaron David Miller, veteran Middle East analyst; Tahani Mustafa, international relations lecturer; Anshel Pfeffer, Israel correspondent; Rushdi Abu Alouf, BBC Gaza reporter. They discuss Gaza’s humanitarian collapse and daily survival, the stalled technocratic committee and Board of Peace, what decommissioning Hamas would entail, and how regional wars and shifting politics have pushed the peace plan off course.
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Board Of Peace Lacks Implementation Power
- The Board of Peace is a multi-layered Trump-led forum with global patrons but little on-the-ground authority for Gaza.
- Tony Blair and others are named, yet the board has had one ineffective meeting and no real presence in Gaza.
Technocratic Committee Composition And Funding
- The 16–17 person National Technocratic Committee includes technocrats, former ministers like Ali Shah, businessmen and NGO figures primarily from Gaza.
- Tahani Mustafa notes many are paid by the UAE and operate from Egypt while vetted by Israel.
Structures Need Political Will To Work
- Negotiations rarely work through ad-hoc boards; without an empowered US president to enforce the plan, structures will not deliver.
- Aaron David Miller says converting these bodies into instruments needs real political will, which is absent.