- The UN Security Council passed a resolution supporting Trump’s Gaza peace plan.
- The resolution includes the possibility of a future Palestinian state.
- The vote also supported the sending of international stabilization forces to Gaza.
- Israel criticized the resolution and rejected the creation of a Palestinian state.
- Hamas does not agree with the resolution and considers it unbalanced.
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday in New York approved a resolution supporting US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip. The text also mentions the possibility of the future existence of a Palestinian state, TASR informs, according to AP and AFP reports.
Russia, which prepared a competing draft of the resolution, abstained along with China. The resolution submitted by the United States was approved by a vote of 13 to 0. The US and other countries hoped that Moscow would not use its veto power to block its adoption.
The UNSC also agreed by voting with the deployment of the International Stabilization Force in the devastated area. According to the AP agency, the result of the vote is a key step for the fragile ceasefire and efforts to define the future of the Gaza Strip. after two years of war between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas. Arab and other Muslim countries that have expressed interest in contributing troops to the international force have indicated that Council approval is necessary for their participation.
The text also removes the establishment of a peace council, a transitional governing body for Gaza, which would theoretically be chaired by Trumpwith a mandate until the end of 2027. In its vote on Monday, the UN Security Council essentially approved the transition to the second phase of Trump’s 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip, AP writes.
In the first phase, which lasts from October 10 Palestinian militant groups released 20 living Israeli hostages and handed over the bodies of almost all 28 dead captives. In exchange, Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and withdrew from parts of the Gaza Strip.
Israel criticized the draft resolution. Its leadership unanimously rejected any possibility of a Palestinian state that appeared in the adopted resolution. “Our rejection of the establishment of a Palestinian state on any territory has not changed,” announced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
In the past period, Netanyahu has become the target of criticism from his radical coalition partners, who have accused him of not responding to the recent wave of recognition of Palestinian statehood by several Western states. Shortly before Monday’s vote, Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir called on Netanyahu to have Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrested and take action against other high-ranking representatives of the Palestinian Authority if the UN Security Council approves the aforementioned resolution.
Hamas said after the vote that the adopted resolution did not correspond to the rights and demands of the Palestinians. “Entrusting international forces with tasks and functions in the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, deprives them of their neutrality and turns them into a side of the conflict that supports the occupation,” the militant group noted in a statement.
