United Nations – Sputnik. Nebenzia said in a statement to Sputnik: “There are quite a few questions about the draft resolution submitted by Washington to the Security Council regarding the situation in Gaza, and we are still studying it carefully.” The Russian diplomat pointed out that he discussed the text of the draft resolution with the US envoy to the United Nations, Michael Waltz.
Earlier today, US President Donald Trump confirmed that “the situation in the Gaza Strip is improving and so far things are going well.” Trump said, “The international peacekeeping force will be on the ground in Gaza very soon,” adding that “Hamas will have a big problem if it does not act in the manner it has pledged.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that “the countries volunteering to participate in the stabilization force in Gaza need a UN mandate, and progress has been made,” noting that “efforts are currently being made at the United Nations to draft a resolution that creates the international framework for the stabilization force in Gaza.”
American media reported earlier that the United States had sent a draft resolution to the members of the United Nations Security Council regarding Gaza for a period of no less than two years. The American website Axios, which obtained a copy of the draft, stated that “Washington sent to the members of the UN Security Council requesting the establishment of an international security force in the Gaza Strip for a period of no less than two years, with the possibility of extending the mandate later.”
The site added that “the force will be a security arm and not for peacekeeping, granting Washington and the participating countries broad powers to govern Gaza and provide security until the end of 2027, with the possibility of extending the mandate thereafter. Negotiations in the coming days aim to agree on the text and then vote on it in the coming weeks, with the first forces to be deployed in January next year.”
The draft also indicates that “countries including Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Turkey have expressed their readiness to contribute forces, and a Palestinian technical committee supervised by a transitional administration headed by the Peace Council will manage daily civil services in Gaza until the Palestinian Authority completes the agreed reform program.”
It is noteworthy that US President Donald announced on October 9 that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement to implement the first phase of the peace plan, which aims to end the ongoing armed conflict for two years in the Gaza Strip. Under the agreement, “Hamas” released 20 hostages it had been holding since October 7, 2023, while Israel released 1,718 prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were returned to their homes, in addition to 250 Palestinian prisoners with life or long sentences who were transferred to other Palestinian territories or deported.
