A camp for displaced Palestinians in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, Gaza Strip, November 5, 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP

The United States would like the resolution on an international stabilization force in the Gaza Strip to be adopted as soon as possible, by the end of November, so that, if possible, its presence on the ground can be supervised from January 2026. Less than a month after the fragile ceasefire brokered by Donald Trump between Israel and Hamas on October 10, formal negotiations began on Thursday, November 6, at the United Nations Security Council in New York, based on a text submitted the day before by Washington.

The draft marked a turning point, as the US had repeatedly used its veto throughout the war in the Palestinian enclave to block Security Council resolutions condemning violations of international law perpetrated by Israel.

This time, the US administration agreed to take the lead in drafting this text, which is intended to provide a UN framework for the deployment of the stabilization force envisaged in Trump's peace plan, as desired by Arab and Muslim countries that, like Indonesia, are likely to send troops to Palestinian territory.

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