The UN Security Council supported a US resolution strengthening Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan that includes the placement of foreign troops and a roadmap to a future Palestinian State.
Thirteen members voted in favor of the resolution. The United States (US) called the vote “historic and constructive.” However, Russia and China abstained, and no country used its veto.
The ISF will protect civilians, secure humanitarian aid routes, support border security, and help demilitarize the Gaza Strip. Its full effectiveness depends on the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces.
Trump hailed the development, saying it would lead to “further Peace all over the World.”
The vote was “acknowledging and endorsing the BOARD OF PEACE, which will be chaired by me,” he wrote on social media. “This will go down as one of the biggest approvals in the History of the United Nations [and] will lead to further Peace all over the World.”
Commenting on the resolution, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said Islamabad voted in favor “with the primary objective, in the immediate term, to stop the bloodshed, to save the lives of innocent Palestinians including women and children, to maintain the ceasefire, to ensure much-needed large-scale humanitarian relief, and to secure the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.”
