https://arab.news/nwjez
Leaders of a number of key regional countries who met with US President Donald Trump before his announcement of the 20-point ceasefire plan have expressed reservations about the temporary international security force needed to ensure compliance with agreement.
Jordan, the country with the longest border with Israel and Palestine, appears reluctant to send any security force to Gaza at all, and has publicly called for a clear mandate on the plan from the UN Security Council.
For Palestinians, the UN is a much more welcoming venue. Palestinians have been asking that Israel end its occupation since 1967. Palestinian leaders, including Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, have often called for a UN or international force. Abbas has even said that the force can also include NATO member states. But the discussion then was to replace the Israeli occupiers in both the West Bank and Gaza.
When Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, met Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s permanent observer to the UN, the encounter represented a reversal from the Israeli and American position negating the legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people.
