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US pushes plan at UN for foreign control of Gaza for at least two years

Iran Press TV

Tuesday, 04 November 2025 10:10 AM

The United States has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution mandating the establishment of a "temporary international force" in the Gaza Strip for at least two years amid Palestinians' wariness of foreign interference in the coastal sliver.

According to Axios citing a copy of the draft, the "International Stabilization Force (ISF)" would be formed by the US, Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt, the countries that oversaw negotiations that led to realization of a ceasefire deal between the Israeli regime and Gaza's Hamas resistance movement last month.

The deal seeks to implement the first phase of a 20-point plan by Donald Trump that the US president claims is aimed at ending the Israeli regime's two-year-plus war of genocide on Gaza.

In line with the draft, the countries in question would coordinate their efforts at deploying the force with the so-called "Board of Peace (BoP)."

An American official told Axios that the ISF would be an "enforcement force and not a peacekeeping force."

The draft resolution orders that the ISF's establishment should take place in close coordination with the Israeli regime and Egypt, a country criticized for cooperating with Tel Aviv towards blockading Gaza.

The ISF would be "ensuring the process of demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, including the destruction and prevention of rebuilding" resistance infrastructure, the draft read.

Critics note that despite its insistence on disempowering the resistance, the Trump proposal refuses to address such main issues as Israeli occupation, accountability, and Palestinian rights such as the right to compensation.

Last month, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese denounced the participating states for endorsing the proposal, "despite its silence on ending the occupation, ensuring accountability, and providing transitional justice."

She criticized the plan for "its imposition of a temporary mechanism of imperial foreign governance for Gaza that further undermines, rather than realizes, Palestinian self-determination."

Palestinians and their allies have raised serious objection to foreign interference in the coastal sliver, which has already endured decades of Western-backed Israeli bloodletting, destruction, and siege.

Accordingly, they have ruled out the territory's falling under foreign control, and faulted the Trump proposal's naming former British prime minister Tony Blair as the BoP's "advisor."

A Palestinian technocratic committee, which is expected to rule Gaza in line with Trump's proposal would also have to be vetted and supervised by the BoP.