Gaza 'stabilization force' must be authorized by UN Security Council, not by Trump: Islamic Jihad

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Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, says any peacekeeping or "stabilization force" in Gaza must be authorized by a UN Security Council resolution — not by US President Donald Trump’s wishes.

“We support a Security Council–mandated force with clear, limited tasks — not one imposed unilaterally,” al-Hindi said in an interview on Sunday.

Its role, he insisted, should be “to separate the sides and monitor the ceasefire, like UNIFIL — not to police or occupy Gaza,” he said of the UN force created in March 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

The mandate must define its tasks, duration, and location. “What we see now is an attempt to circumvent this,” he stated.

The Islamic Jihad official warned against outside interference or meddling in internal Palestinian affairs.

“We reject any form of foreign guardianship or trusteeship under any name. Call it a technocratic authority, a peace administration, or a stabilization committee — if it’s foreign control, it’s still guardianship,” he added. 

“We will not accept Tony Blair or anyone like him overseeing Gaza. That would be a new Balfour Declaration,” he said of the 1917 UK-led declaration that led to the illegal creation of the Israeli entity in the heart of Palestinian land...

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