Gaza – As the UN Security Council prepares to vote on the proposal submitted by Washington regarding the administration of the Gaza Strip in the coming phase, based on President Donald Trump’s plan, Palestinian concerns are rising over the draft’s perceived bias toward the Israeli position and its vague treatment of Palestinian demands.
The international arrangements attach great importance to disarming the resistance by establishing a transitional international administration with broad powers. They also link the withdrawal of the Israeli army from inside Gaza to the stabilisation of security conditions. This means the occupation army would remain a key security actor in the Palestinian arena, raising serious questions about how the resistance will deal with the implications of the decision in the coming stage.
Risks of the Decision
Although it has been said that the US draft resolution calls for solidifying the ceasefire agreement, easing restrictions on humanitarian aid to Gaza, referencing the path to a Palestinian state, and reducing certain restrictions, writer and political analyst Wissam Afifa believes it carries significant dangers, most notably:
Turning Gaza into an internationalised zone for years under the guardianship of the anticipated Peace Council.
Stripping the Palestinians of their sources of power through disarming the resistance.
Reinstating the Palestinian Authority in Gaza under external conditions.
Postponing the path to establishing a Palestinian state with no timeline or sovereign guarantees.
While the draft received public political support from eight Arab and Islamic countries, which stated that it lays the groundwork for Palestinian self-determination and statehood, Afifa told Al Jazeera Net that this Arab support imposes a moral and political obligation to ensure that the process does not come at the expense of Palestinian rights. Any international role must be tied to the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, not to long-term security arrangements.
Factions Sound the Alarm
In this context, Palestinian factions and political forces warned of the dangers of the draft, considering it an attempt to impose international guardianship over the Strip and pass a vision aligned with the occupation.
The factions affirmed in a political memorandum that the draft’s language paves the way for external dominance over Palestinian national decision-making by transferring Gaza’s administration and reconstruction to an international body with wide-ranging powers, thereby stripping Palestinians of their right to manage their affairs.
They also stressed that any discussion concerning weapons must remain an internal national matter linked to a political path that guarantees ending the occupation, establishing the state, and achieving self-determination.
Within this framework, Afifa expects the Palestinian resistance factions to adopt a multi-layered strategy based on:
Stripping the decision of its national and political legitimacy by treating it as an externally imposed resolution that lacks a unified Palestinian national consensus and cannot be considered binding for Palestinian vision or destiny.
Dealing realistically with the decision as an imposed international outcome that cannot be entirely ignored, by regulating field behaviour in relation to the international force and directing popular pressure to restrict its role to facilitating humanitarian, service-related, and reconstruction efforts, as these should be prioritised over any security or political agenda.
Building a unified national path to confront the obligations of the post-decision phase, through rebuilding Palestinian legitimacy on the basis of resistance and historical rights.
Consolidating Positions
For his part, Palestinian political analyst Iyad al-Qarra believes that the resistance factions’ position rejecting any clause related to disarmament – which they consider contingent on ending the occupation – reflects a consistent and steadfast stance.
Al-Qarra told Al Jazeera Net that the factions are working to mobilise Arab opposition to Israeli intentions regarding the continued presence of international forces and their role in disarmament, as this contravenes the outcomes of Arab and Islamic summits that emphasised the need to establish a national Palestinian committee to manage the Gaza Strip and assume full administrative responsibility.
He pointed out that the final wording of the Security Council resolution will determine how the resistance factions approach it, especially if it focuses on disarming the resistance and cementing the occupation’s presence inside Gaza, or if it is intended to engineer Gaza’s reconstruction while misleading the world into believing that a ceasefire and an agreement exist, when reconstruction is restricted to an area of the Strip controlled by Israel or groups loyal to it.
Al-Qarra expects that if the resolution reveals hostile intentions toward Palestinians, many countries will refuse to participate in the international force, as they will avoid confrontation with Palestinian factions and reject involvement in coercive disarmament operations.
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