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The UN Security Council adopted this Monday evening an American resolution supporting President Donald Trump’s plan including the deployment of an international force in Gaza, a text rejected by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas considering that it “imposes a mechanism aimed at achieving the objectives that the occupation has not succeeded in achieving through the war of extermination”.
Thirteen members of the Council including Algeria spoke in favor of the text, which the American ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz described as “historic and constructive” while Russia and China abstained.
Hamas criticized this vote, deploring the adoption of a resolution which “does not meet the demands and the political and human rights” of the Palestinian people.
“The resolution imposes a mechanism of international supervision over the Gaza Strip, which our people, its forces and its components reject, and it imposes a mechanism aimed at achieving the objectives” of Israel, writes the Palestinian Islamist movement in a press release, deploring in particular the establishment of an international force whose “mission (…) includes the disarmament” of Palestinian groups in Gaza.
For Hamas, this resolution “isolates the Gaza Strip from the rest of the entire Palestinian territory and attempts to impose a new reality which goes against the fundamental principles of the Palestinian people and their legitimate national rights, thus depriving them of their right to determine their destiny and to establish their Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital”.
Regarding the weapons of the resistance, Hamas reaffirmed that they were “linked to the existence of the occupation”, stressing that “any discussion on the question of weapons must remain an internal national affair, linked to a political process guaranteeing the end of the occupation, the creation of a state and self-determination”.
The resolution “authorizes” the establishment of an “international stabilization force” (ISF) responsible in particular for supporting the security of borders in cooperation with Israel and Egypt, the demilitarization of Gaza, the disarmament of “non-state armed groups”, the protection of civilians and the training of a Palestinian police force. The composition of this force is not mentioned.
The resolution, supported by the Palestinian Authority, also mandates until December 31, 2027 a “Peace Committee”, a body of “transitional governance” in Gaza until the reform of the Palestinian Authority. According to the 20-point plan attached to it, this committee must be chaired by Donald Trump.