After the vote, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz thanked the Security Council for "joining us in charting a new path for Israelis, Palestinians and everyone else in the region."
President Donald Trump congratulates “the world” after the vote, which he writes on Truth Social “will lead to further peace throughout the world and is a moment of truly historic proportions.”
Tenuous truce
The peace plan, which has provided a shaky ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas since October 10, provides a formal mandate for the establishment of a "stabilization force", a kind of international peacekeeping force that will control the border demarcations in and around the Gaza Strip in cooperation with Israel, Egypt and newly formed Palestinian police forces.
According to a draft seen by AFP before the vote, the force's mission will be to protect civilians, maintain safe passage for humanitarian aid and work towards the permanent disarmament of "non-state armed groups" such as Hamas.
Hamas itself opposes the result of the vote: "This resolution does not meet the political and humanitarian needs and rights of our Palestinian people," the terrorist group wrote in a statement.
Israeli criticism
There have also been critical voices from Israel, as the resolution, after negotiations, has included a formulation about a future Palestine. If the Palestinian Authority undergoes the necessary reforms and the bombed-out Gaza Strip begins to be rebuilt, "the conditions may finally be in place for a credible path to be laid out towards Palestinian self-determination and a state of its own," it says in a rough translation.
Following the announcement of that addition, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday his position that a Palestinian state would be like a reward for Hamas.
One of the 15 countries that voted in favor of the new resolution is Denmark. The country's Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen hopes that it "is a step on the path towards lasting peace and a two-state solution," he writes in a comment to the Ritzau news agency.
The proposal that US President Donald Trump has presented for peace in Gaza consists of 20 points.
They were developed in consultation with several leading countries from the Arab and Muslim world. Trump then met with the Israeli Prime Minister, who accepted the proposal, with some minor changes.
The proposal stipulates, in particular, an immediate end to the war, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, the independent distribution of emergency aid to the Gaza population, a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli military and the disarmament of Hamas.
After that, a technocratic transitional government will take over, with international forces in place and a governing council chaired by Donald Trump. Gaza “will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors” and rebuilt “for the benefit of the people of Gaza.”
