(Monday is setting up to be a big showdown for the future of Gaza and Palestine. Fuck Turkey for supporting Trump's Great Trust/Gaza 2035 bullshit)
from Daily Sabah
The U.N. Security Council will vote Monday on a resolution backing U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, diplomats said, while Russia submitted a rival draft resolution, setting up a confrontation among the council’s veto powers.
Last week the Americans officially launched negotiations within the 15-member Security Council on a text that would follow up on a cease-fire in Israel’s two-year war on the Gaza Strip and endorse Trump's plan.
A draft of the resolution seen Thursday by AFP "welcomes the establishment of the Board of Peace," a transitional governing body for Gaza, that Trump would theoretically chair, with a mandate running until the end of 2027.
It would authorize member states to form a "temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF)" that would work with Israel and Egypt and newly trained Palestinian police to help secure border areas and demilitarize the Gaza Strip.
Unlike previous drafts, the latest mentions a possible future Palestinian state.
The United States and several Arab and Muslim-majority nations including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye called Friday for the U.N. Security Council to quickly adopt the resolution.
"The United States, Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan, and Türkiye express our joint support for the Security Council Resolution currently under consideration," the countries said in a joint statement, adding they were seeking the measure's "swift adoption."
Friday's joint statement comes as Russia circulated a competing draft resolution to Council members that does not authorize the creation of a board of peace or the immediate deployment of an international force in Gaza, according to the text seen Friday by AFP.
The Russian version welcomes "the initiative that led to the cease-fire" but does not name Trump.
It also only calls on the U.N. secretary-general to submit a report that addresses the possibilities of deploying an international stabilization force in war-ravaged Gaza...
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