UN News, 2025-11-17, "Security Council to vote on new Gaza force: Here’s what you need to know"

The proposal building on the 20-point US plan is intended to restore security, ensure humanitarian access and begin a sustained process of reconstruction and institutional reform for the enclave following two years of devastating conflict between Israel and Hamas.

A rival draft resolution submitted by Russia is also under formal consideration, but it remains unclear whether the Council will vote on that text this afternoon.

The draft would establish an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) working with Israel and Egypt with an initial two-year mandate.

Its responsibilities would include securing Gaza’s borders, protecting civilians, facilitating humanitarian assistance, supporting the training and deployment of a reconstituted Palestinian police force, and overseeing the permanent de-commissioning of weapons held by Hamas and other armed groups in the enclave.

The text also indicates that Israeli forces would fully withdraw once the force has established security and operational control across the territory.

A transitional governance mechanism named the Board of Peace – chaired by President Donald Trump under the US peace plan which underpinned the 8 October ceasefire – would be formed to coordinate security, humanitarian and reconstruction planning.

This would guide Gaza towards a reformed Palestinian governing authority. The resolution outlines a pathway towards Palestinian self-determination and eventual statehood, linked to accountable governance and reconstruction milestones.

@AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml The "multi-national" occupation of Gaza UNSC resolution was adopted, 13-0-2.

UN News, LIVE.^[This concerns the 10046th meeting of the United Nations Security Council, on adopting resolution S/2025/748 (document not yet publicly available) | WebTV recording]

The Security Council has passed a US-backed resolution which will establish for an international force to restore order in Gaza, protect civilians and open the way for large-scale aid and rebuilding. There were 13 votes for, none against – while Russia and China abstained amid concerns that Russia might veto the text. US ambassador Mike Waltz thanked ambassadors, hailing it as an “historic and constructive resolution” which charts a new course for the Middle East.

Earlier:

The Security Council will vote today on a resolution authorizing a Board of Peace and an International Stabilization Force in Gaza, as outlined in a United States “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict”.

The plan’s first phase established a fragile ceasefire, the release of hostages and detainees, a partial withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and increased humanitarian aid.

The second phase calls for Hamas to disarm, further IDF withdrawal, the deployment of the Israel Security Forces and the creation of an interim technocratic government under the Board of Peace before eventual Palestinian Authority control. The plan envisions a 20,000-troop enforcement mission by 2026.

If I can I'll listen to (presumably) the meeting and update the mega on it. But the meeting starts at 10 PM UTC, so its going to be late for me.

This Friday (1 August) marks the start of World Breastfeeding Week and this year’s theme calls for investing in health systems as well as policies, laws and programmes that prioritize women, babies and breastfeeding

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Question: Can we just confirm, aid supplies—aid trucks have gotten into Gaza, but nothing has been delivered to the warehouses

Spokeperson: That's correct.

Question: And then, what are the numbers of trucks that have been allowed in since the blockade has been removed

Spokeperson: Let's just clarify, it is not as if everything is now open, some goods are being allowed in. In the end about 4 trucks, not 5, were allowed in yesterday. Today we have a few dozen, I'm trying to get more exact number but that is where we are. But the point is, the logistical, the security complications, and just the overall environment make this extremely extremely difficult.

Daily Press Briefing by the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General, 2025-05-20, WebTV recording this was transcribed from.

Today, Israeli military issued another displacement order affecting 26 neighbourhoods in Northern Gaza, specifically Beit Lahia, Jabalia and its camp, the affected area spans about 35 square kilometers and represents 10 per cent of the whole area of the Gaza strip

—Spokesperson of the Secretary-General, 2025-05-20, WebTV recording this was transcribed from.

The first trucks of vital baby food are now inside Gaza after 11 weeks of a total blockade and it is urgent that we get that assistance distributed as we need much much more to cross. Our colleagues from [OCHA] tells us that today we are sending in flour, medicine, nutrition supplies, and other basic items, through the Israeli fence into the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, yesterday we managed to get baby formula and other nutrition supplies. To give you a sense of how this complicated operation has to work, Israeli authorities are requiring us to offload supplies on the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom crossing and reload them separately once they secure our teams access from inside the Gaza strip, only then are we able to bring any supplies closer to where people in need are sheltering. Today one of our teams waited several hours for the Isreali green-light to access the Kerem Shalom area and collect the nutrition supplies, unfortunately they were not able to bring those supplies into our warehouse, so just to make it clear, while more supplies have come in to the Gaza strip, we have not been able to secure the arrival of those supplies into our warehouses and delivery points. Our humanitarian colleagues re-iterate that while the arrival of more supplies closer to where they are needed is a positive development, it is only a drop in the ocean of what is actually needed to address the massive scale of the humanitarian operation, and the humanitarian needs, the deprivations we are seeing in Gaza is the result of ongoing bombardments and blockade and the recurrent displacement.

—Spokesperson of the Secretary-General, 2025-05-20, WebTV recording this was transcribed from.

Today, Israeli authorities issued a displacement order covering 40 neighbourhoods in Khan Younis — an area encompassing most of the governorate, or about 23 per cent of the whole of the Gaza Strip. It is affecting thousands of people and hundreds of humanitarian facilities, including wells, including pumping stations, including health facilities and including schools. Overall, almost half a million people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip since mid-March.

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 2025-05-19 | WebTV recording of the Press Briefing

Israel has presented a plan to take over humanitarian aid in gaza.

The Israeli aid distribution blueprint presented to UN humanitarians envisages only 60 aid trucks per day entering Gaza - “one-tenth of what was being delivered during the ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas which held from 19 January to 18 March.

“It's not nearly enough to meet the needs of 1.1 million children, 2.1 million people,” Mr. Elder insisted. “There is a simple alternative: lift the blockade, let humanitarian aid in, save lives.”

Of course, besides not getting enough aid in, it continues Israels use of humanitarian aid as a weapon, pressuring people to go south.

UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder insisted that the Israeli proposal to create a handful of aid hubs exclusively in the south of the Strip would create an “impossible choice between displacement and death”.

The plan “contravenes basic humanitarian principles” and appears designed to “reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic”, he told journalists in Geneva. “It’s dangerous to ask civilians to go into militarized zones to collect rations…humanitarian aid should never be used as a bargaining chip”.

If the Israeli plan were to happen, Gaza’s most vulnerable individuals - the elderly, children with disabilities, the sick and the wounded who cannot travel to designated distribution zones – would face “horrendous challenges” retrieving aid, the UNICEF spokesperson maintained.

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This is about the Geneva Press Briefing held today, a video of it is available on UN Web TV

Delegates of fifty nations met at San Francisco between April 25 and June 26, 1945. Working on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, the Yalta Agreement, and amendments proposed by various Governments, the Conference agreed upon the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the New International Court of Justice. The Charter was passed unanimously and signed by all the representatives. It came into force on October 24, 1945, when China, France, the USSR, the United Kingdom, and the United States and a majority of the other signatories had filed their instruments of ratification.

Members of the Russian delegation reading the news of the end of the war.

©UN Photo/Rosenberg, 1945-05-08

The education of 800 students in occupied East Jerusalem is at risk as Israel moves to close their schools next week, a senior official with the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said on Wednesday.

The development follows two Israeli laws that went into effect in late January which ban UNRWA from operating in its territory and prohibit Israeli authorities from having any contact with the agency.

Our main headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem is in the Sheikh Jarah neighbourhood. We currently cannot operate from it because of continuing security threats: threats to the safety and security of our staff, ongoing attacks against the compound.

We again had an arson attack against these facilities three weeks ago, and continuous destruction of the fence, of cameras, of security infrastructure with high material damage

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