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The United Nations Security Council on Monday authorized the U.S. plan for Gaza that authorizes an worldwide transitional process drive to oversee security in the beleaguered area and proposes a potential path toward an unbiased Palestinian state.

The decision was backed by 13 international locations; no international locations voted against it, though China and Russia abstained. Hamas rejected the proposal in a post on Telegram, however, saying that “assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation.”

The proposal also endorsed President Donald Trump‘s 20-point ceasefire plan, which calls for a Board of Peace authority that Trump himself would head. Trump earlier this 12 months said that he needed to flip the location of Palestinian genocide into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” which he adopted by posting an AI-generated video that depicted the Gaza Strip as a tropical, Dubai-style paradise with a topless Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump ingesting cocktails on solar loungers.

Monday’s vote was a essential next step for the delicate ceasefire and efforts to define Gaza’s future following two years of battle between Israel and Hamas, according to The Associated Press. Arab and other Muslim international locations that expressed curiosity in offering troops for an worldwide drive had signaled that Security Council authorization was important for their participation.

It also licensed the stabilization drive and gave it a broad mandate, including overseeing the borders, offering security and demilitarizing the territory. Authorization for the board and drive expire at the end of 2027.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz called the decision “historic and constructive,” saying it begins a new course in the Middle East. Waltz inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a Signal group chat in March discussing the U.S. strikes in Yemen focusing on Houthi militia, for which he was dismissed as Trump’s national security advisor.

“Today’s resolution represents another significant step towards a stable Gaza that will be able to prosper and an environment that will allow Israel to live in security,” he said. He confused that the decision “is just the beginning.”

During almost two weeks of negotiations on the U.S. decision, Arab nations and the Palestinians had pressed the United States to strengthen language about Palestinian self-determination.

But the proposal still provides no timeline or guarantee for an unbiased state, only saying it’s potential after advances in the reconstruction of Gaza and reforms of the Palestinian Authority, which now governs elements of the West Bank.

The U.S. revised the decision to say that after those steps, “the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”

“The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence,” it provides.

That language angered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had vowed to oppose any attempt to set up a Palestinian state. He has long asserted that creating a Palestinian state would reward Hamas and finally lead to an even bigger Hamas-run state on Israel’s borders.

A key to the decision’s adoption was help from Arab and Muslim nations pushing for a ceasefire and probably contributing to the worldwide drive. The U.S. mission to the United Nations distributed a joint assertion Friday with Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan and Turkey calling for “swift adoption” of the U.S. proposal.

The U.S. decision calls for the stabilization drive to guarantee “the process of demilitarizing the Gaza Strip” and “the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups.” A big query is how to disarm Hamas, which has not absolutely accepted that step.

It authorizes the drive “to use all necessary measures to carry out its mandate” in compliance with worldwide law, which is U.N. language for the use of navy drive.

The decision says the stabilization troops will help secure border areas, along with a Palestinian police drive that they’ve skilled and vetted, and they’ll coordinate with other international locations to secure the circulation of humanitarian help. It says the drive ought to carefully seek the advice of and cooperate with neighboring Egypt and Israel.

As the worldwide drive establishes control and brings stability, the decision says Israeli troops will withdraw from Gaza “based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization.” These must be agreed to by the stabilization drive, Israeli forces, the U.S. and the guarantors of the ceasefire, it says.