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A displaced Palestinian man carries his belongings as he walks past destroyed buildings in the heavily damaged Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City.The conflict between Israel and Palestine “will continue” despite Donald Trump’s peace plan, a BBC expert has said.Jeremy Bowen said the US president had “scored a diplomatic triumph” in securing a ceasefire and the imminent release of the remaining Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.As part of the deal, Israeli troops have withdrawn from Gaza and around 250 Palestinian prisoners, as well as 1,700 other Gazan detainees, will also be freed.Keir Starmer will join world leaders, including Donald Trump, at a peace summit in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt on Monday.But speaking on BBC1′s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Bowen insisted there were numerous hurdles still to be cleared before a long-term peace is in place.He said: “The ceasefire at the moment seems pretty OK, not least because the Americans are pushing the Israelis very strongly not to break it.“However, in terms of governance of Gaza, security in Gaza for the Palestinians and for the Israelis over the border, for the future economy of the territory, and also the idea of having a multi-national force in place, none of these things, the really difficult stuff, has been agreed.“The Trump 20-point plan points to where they want it to go and what the objective is. How you get there hasn’t been worked out and that’s where the real problems, I think, are going to start.“When there are problems in that process, that will impact on the stability ultimately of the ceasefire.”He added: “Today and tomorrow are days for everybody to celebrate and it’s absolutely right to say that Donald Trump has scored a diplomatic triumph in making this happen so quickly.“But underlying everything that’s happening is this conflict between Israelis and Palestinians for control of the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea that started more than a century ago.“It’s complicated, it’s multi-faceted, it’s multi-layered, and it’s generational. And until the fundamentals of that are sorted out and settled in a way that both sides can accept, sadly I’m absolutely certain that the conflict will continue.”Related...Israel Has Officially Approved Donald Trump s Gaza Peace Plan. What Happens Next?Israel And Hamas Have Agreed To The First Stage Of Trump s Gaza Peace Plan. Here s What You Need To KnowBBC Expert Pinpoints The Israeli Military Mistake Which Led To Gaza Peace Breakthrough

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