International Security Force proposal for Gaza sent by US to UN Security Council
Reports of a proposal sent by America to various UN security council members suggests an aim to get boots on the ground by the beginning of 2025
The United States has reportedly sent several member-nations of the UN Security Council a document setting out a plan for an International Coalition which would be responsible for governing Gaza for at least the next two years.
As reported by Axios, the document, a draft resolution, is intended to be the basis for negotiations between different Security Council Members in the days ahead, with the plan to vote on the issue within the next few weeks and ultimately to deploy the first international troops to Gaza by the beginning of 2026.
According to the US news website, the soldiers would be known collectively as the International Security Force (ISF) and their responsibilities would include securing Gaza’s borders with both Israel and Egypt, protecting civilians and humanitarian zones, and training a Palestinian police force for the strip, with the eventual aim of working alongside it. Crucially, the document also mentions that the ISF would be working to “stabilise the security environment in Gaza by ensuring the process of demilitarising the Gaza Strip, including the destruction and prevention of rebuilding of military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, as well as the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups.”
There are five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the US, UK, France, Russia and China – and ten non-permanent members elected for two years terms. The ten non-permanent members currently in situ are Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Somalia.
The draft resolution says that the ISF would operate “under unified command acceptable to the Board of Peace”, which is the international transitional body which would be led by US President Donald Trump.
According to the 20-point peace plan set out by Trump in September, Gaza will be governed “under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza. This committee will be made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by the ‘Board of Peace,’ …this body will set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform programme, as outlined in various proposals, including President Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French proposal, and can securely and effectively take back control of Gaza.”
While a number of different countries have expressed readiness to send troops to Gaza to be part of the ISF, Israel has expressed concerns about the motivations of some states, particularly Turkey, whose President has been a particularly vociferous critic of Israel in recent years.
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