🔗 Share this article UN Security Council Backs the US Gaza Peace Plan The global body has approved proposals advanced by Donald Trump for achieving a durable ceasefire in Gaza, including the introduction of an multinational security unit and a eventual route to a sovereign Palestinian state. Broad Backing with Key Absent Votes The resolution was approved by a vote of 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining. The US envoy Mike Waltz told the UN assembly that it charted “a different path in the Middle East for the conflicting parties and all the people of the area alike”. Balanced Phrasing on Independence The inclusion of references to an independent Palestine was the trade-off the United States offered for backing from the Muslim nations, who are expected to provide security forces for the global force. “The transitional arrangements that we start today must be implemented in accordance with legal norms and honoring Palestinian self-determination,” Britain's representative stated. Israeli Objection Remains Nevertheless, on the brink of the resolution approval, leader Benjamin Netanyahu restated his government’s firm resistance to the creation of a sovereign Palestine, raising questions on whether Israel will accept the enactment of the Council-backed plan. Key Provisions of the Measure Swift elimination of existing limitations on relief supplies into the territory Formation of an international stabilisation force Moves towards reconstruction and a potential “avenue to Palestinian independence and sovereignty” Unclear Language and Stipulations The mention to Palestinian statehood was a compromise addition to an first US version which did not mention it. But the phrasing is vague and dependent, declaring only that once the Palestinian leadership has reformed itself and the reconstruction of Gaza is progressing, “the circumstances may ultimately be in readiness for a feasible course to Palestinian sovereignty and statehood.” International Response The phrasing did not meet of the strong guarantee to the building of a independent Palestinian entity alongside Israel requested by Muslim nations, as well as European delegates, but in speeches to the assembly after the approval, envoys from those nations said they were willing to endorse the compromise in the benefit of continuing the ongoing cessation of hostilities and swift steps to assist and secure the over two million Palestinians in Gaza. “We has eventually decided to support of this document, a text that we support its primary aim, namely the preservation of the ceasefire and the formation of conditions enabling the Palestinian people to claim their immeasurable rights to self-determination and nationhood,” Amar Bendjama stated. Execution Hurdles This measure grants comprehensive monitoring control to a “peace board” chaired by Trump, but of unspecified participants. This committee has to update the United Nations but it is not required to follow the preferences of the United Nations or by the Palestinian Authority. It also calls for the creation of a Palestinian technocratic committee that is supposed to run daily administration of the Gaza and the provision of utilities, but it is far from clear who would be involved. Peacekeeping Unit Mission The authority of the ISF authorizes it to neutralize and disband armed groups in the strip, but it is highly uncertain that possible sending countries would agree to attempt to engage such organizations. None of the states has so far agreed to dispatching troops. Moreover the requirements for changes to the PA, the precondition towards steps to Palestinian statehood, have been hazy. EU representatives said they viewed it as pressing that the identities of the expert panel to distribute aid was agreed as promptly.
The global body has approved proposals advanced by Donald Trump for achieving a durable ceasefire in Gaza, including the introduction of an multinational security unit and a eventual route to a sovereign Palestinian state. Broad Backing with Key Absent Votes The resolution was approved by a vote of 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining. The US envoy Mike Waltz told the UN assembly that it charted “a different path in the Middle East for the conflicting parties and all the people of the area alike”. Balanced Phrasing on Independence The inclusion of references to an independent Palestine was the trade-off the United States offered for backing from the Muslim nations, who are expected to provide security forces for the global force. “The transitional arrangements that we start today must be implemented in accordance with legal norms and honoring Palestinian self-determination,” Britain's representative stated. Israeli Objection Remains Nevertheless, on the brink of the resolution approval, leader Benjamin Netanyahu restated his government’s firm resistance to the creation of a sovereign Palestine, raising questions on whether Israel will accept the enactment of the Council-backed plan. Key Provisions of the Measure Swift elimination of existing limitations on relief supplies into the territory Formation of an international stabilisation force Moves towards reconstruction and a potential “avenue to Palestinian independence and sovereignty” Unclear Language and Stipulations The mention to Palestinian statehood was a compromise addition to an first US version which did not mention it. But the phrasing is vague and dependent, declaring only that once the Palestinian leadership has reformed itself and the reconstruction of Gaza is progressing, “the circumstances may ultimately be in readiness for a feasible course to Palestinian sovereignty and statehood.” International Response The phrasing did not meet of the strong guarantee to the building of a independent Palestinian entity alongside Israel requested by Muslim nations, as well as European delegates, but in speeches to the assembly after the approval, envoys from those nations said they were willing to endorse the compromise in the benefit of continuing the ongoing cessation of hostilities and swift steps to assist and secure the over two million Palestinians in Gaza. “We has eventually decided to support of this document, a text that we support its primary aim, namely the preservation of the ceasefire and the formation of conditions enabling the Palestinian people to claim their immeasurable rights to self-determination and nationhood,” Amar Bendjama stated. Execution Hurdles This measure grants comprehensive monitoring control to a “peace board” chaired by Trump, but of unspecified participants. This committee has to update the United Nations but it is not required to follow the preferences of the United Nations or by the Palestinian Authority. It also calls for the creation of a Palestinian technocratic committee that is supposed to run daily administration of the Gaza and the provision of utilities, but it is far from clear who would be involved. Peacekeeping Unit Mission The authority of the ISF authorizes it to neutralize and disband armed groups in the strip, but it is highly uncertain that possible sending countries would agree to attempt to engage such organizations. None of the states has so far agreed to dispatching troops. Moreover the requirements for changes to the PA, the precondition towards steps to Palestinian statehood, have been hazy. EU representatives said they viewed it as pressing that the identities of the expert panel to distribute aid was agreed as promptly.