The UN Security Council has voted for a resolution that authorises the formation of the International Stabilization Force to “govern” the people of Gaza
On Monday (Nov 17, 2025), the UN Security Council voted on a US-drafted resolution to establish an international stabilisation force in Gaza. This will effectively authorise the total U.S. control over Gaza, including its governance and political future.
The proposal creates a so-called “Board of Peace,” stemming from Donald Trump’s 20-point plan, that would have the United States, and by extension Israel, take control of Gaza until at least 2027, overseeing and ordering an International Stabilization Force (ISF) that would be deployed to “govern” the people of Gaza.
It was earlier reported that the U.S. has secured support for the draft resolution from Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan and Turkey. Veto power in the Security Council was held by Russia and China, who expressed opposition to some of the draft resolution’s contents.
However, after Russia made a counter-proposal that removed the mention of the “Board of Peace” and added explicit reference to Palestinian statehood, the U.S. official Mike Waltz went so far as to threaten a “real human cost” if countries deviate from their proposed plan, effectively presenting world powers with an ultimatum between further US entrenchment in Palestine or the continuation of the genocide.
Eventually, 13 countries voted in favour of the UN Security Council resolution:
- Algeria
- Denmark
- France
- Greece
- Guyana
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Republic of Korea
- Sierra Leone
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- United Kingdom
- United States
China and Russia abstained.
Trump’s Gaza Plan and the International Stabilization Force
The resolution passed by the UN Security Council has been termed as “one of the oddest in United Nations history” by The Guardian.
The resolution effectively puts Donald Trump in supreme control of Gaza, perhaps with Tony Blair as his immediate subordinate in a “board of peace”, which will oversee multinational peacekeeping troops, a committee of Palestinian technocrats and a local police force, for a period of two years.
No one knows who else will be on the “board of peace” – only that it will, as Trump declared on social media, “be chaired by me, and include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World”.
- The board will report to the Security Council but will not be subordinate to the UN or subject to past UN resolutions
- It will supervise an International Stabilisation Force (ISF), whose membership is also undetermined, but which the US wants to deploy by January.
- This governing body would also have sole decision-making power on the IOF’s timetable for withdrawal from Gaza, thereby conditioning any lasting “peace” on Gaza’s total surrender of its territorial sovereignty.
- The countries that the US has approached – including Egypt, Indonesia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates – are tentative.
The resolution says the ISF will “ensure the process of demilitarising” Gaza – suggesting it will have to take weapons away from Hamas, which insisted immediately after the UN vote it will not disarm.
The UNSC resolution sets an extremely dangerous precedent.
- The US’s decision to ram the proposal through the Security Council is a thinly veiled attempt to liquidate the Palestinian struggle. Following a “ceasefire” agreement that Israel has already violated hundreds of times, it is a quiet manoeuvre that the US and imperialist powers were hoping would go unnoticed.
- Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 266 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 635, while 548 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health.
- A “Board of Peace” run by the likes of Donald Trump and Tony Blair would pose an existential threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Gaza, which its people have fought and sacrificed so immensely to preserve.
- The US resolution in the UN Security Council hopes to cement international legitimacy for US (and therefore Zionists’) control of Gaza, following two years of US-Zionist genocide and increased isolation of Israel on the world stage.
The American and imperialist attempt, through this UNSC resolution, to rehabilitate and further entrench the Zionist project in Palestine and across the Arab World, is condemnable.
The Palestinians have sacrificed everything to safeguard their right to remain on their land and determine their own destiny and future. The world must not be lulled into a false sense of normalcy. We must continue the struggle (the least of which is through pushing for arms embargo, boycotts, divestments, and sanctions) to ensure the full right of return and self-determination of the Palestinians, from the river to the sea.
Israel vows to block any path to a Palestinian statehood
On paper, the resolution claims to outline a “pathway toward Palestinian self-determination and eventual statehood.” But on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet unequivocally that there will never be a Palestinian state. This makes it clear that the resolution’s language serves only one purpose: to give the eight Muslim countries supporting it a moral-sounding justification for deploying their forces to Gaza. In reality, there is no credible possibility that this resolution will lead to Palestinian statehood.
We will discuss this aspect, and the role of the Muslim nations in Trump’s Peace Plan, in detail, in a future post.