Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is applauding the passage of the U.N. resolution which authorizes an international stabilization force to provide security in Gaza and approves a transitional authority called the Board of Peace to be overseen by President Donald Trump, reports Associated Press.
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign affairs posted on X, “We believe that President Trump’s plan will lead to peace and prosperity because it insists upon full demilitarization, disarmament, and the deradicalization of Gaza.”
The plan opens the door for Palestine to become an independent state. However, the Hamas terrorist group rejected the plan, citing that “meet the level of our Palestinian people’s political and humanitarian demands and rights."
The resolution provides a mandate for an international force will last until the end of 2027. Part of its duties includes demilitarizing Gaze, which Hamas says strips the force of its neutrality. Hamas demands that the international force is supervised by the U.N. and only works with Palestinian institutions. Even so, the force is tasked with "the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups” and is authorized to use military force if necessary.
Bob Maginnis is a national defense strategist and author of more than a dozen books on national defense.
"It's good that the U.N. endorses it, but really we'll have to look at the details and see whether or not this can be executed. There's not an exclusive promise evidently that there will be a Palestinian state. It's something that they're going to look at but not a definite,” states Maginnis.
He says that this is important because that would reward Hamas for what it did and that is not something that the Israelis would support.
“The fact that Netanyahu agrees and you've got at least the Security Council to go along with it — that's a good move in the right direction," says Maginnis.
