Afrasianet - Ahmed Al-Hela - The crime of genocide in its brutal form against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has stopped, but the war in its political, security and military chapters has not stopped, as the Gaza Strip suffers from the siege and the collapse of all services, due to the destruction caused by the Israeli occupation in infrastructure and housing units, not to mention that since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, the occupation has not stopped violating the agreement, as it reached nearly 500 violations, which led to 342 martyrs and about 875 wounded. According to the government media in Gaza on November 22, 2025.

Thorns of the International Forces

The United States continues its efforts with Israel to pave the way for international trusteeship through the portal of the International Executive Forces, which are tasked with disarming the resistance and transforming the Gaza Strip into a zone of stability that does not threaten Israel's security, as a prerequisite for the success of the Trump plan.

Israel is trying to be the backbone of these forces behind the Yellow Line in terms of security and military, as well as assigning the task of establishing international forces to the unit responsible for special forces in the US Army's Central Command.

In this context, meetings continue at the US Coordination Center, in the presence of more than 20 foreign and Arab countries, in the Kiryat Gat area, south of Tel Aviv, to discuss the tasks and mechanisms of the work of the international forces, their structure, and the mechanisms of command and control, and to discuss how to succeed in their central mission of disarming the Palestinian resistance, destroying its tunnels, and all its infrastructure.

The United States and Israel are working on studying the experience of UNIFIL in southern Lebanon, and other experiments to overcome failure, and to design international forces based on Arab and Islamic countries to confront the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian resistance, and to think about how to motivate them to confront the Palestinians, where Israel and its army have failed in that mission, despite the enormous capabilities and capabilities it possesses supported by Washington and many Western capitals.

Israel fears a repeat of the failure of UNIFIL's experiment, in Gaza as in Lebanon, due to the reluctance of international forces to confront the Palestinian resistance by force, out of fear for the fate of its soldiers and officers, after the world has followed the ferocity of the battles, and the strength of the Palestinian resistance and its tactics, which have rendered Israel and the superior Western system militarily and security-wise. 

Therefore, Israel is trying to be the backbone of these forces behind the Yellow Line in terms of security and military, as well as assigning the task of establishing international forces to the unit responsible for special forces in the US Army's Central Command.

Despite the momentum of the US-Israeli movement to establish international forces, the matter seems difficult, as countries are still reluctant to participate for several reasons, the most important of which are:

First: Israel is trying to dominate and assume the "realistic" management of international forces indirectly, hiding behind the American role, and this constitutes an insult to the participating countries and turns them into an occupying tool, as Security Council Resolution 2803 gave Washington the authority to determine the criteria and mechanisms of work of these forces, and this is what the Russian representative in the Security Council objected to during the discussion of the draft resolution, when he considered the participation of the United Nations and its guarantees on this force unclear.

In this context, Israel's blatant interference in the formation of international forces is evident through its declared objection to the participation of Turkey and Qatar as countries with ties to Hamas and support the Palestinian people.

Second: The fear that the presence of international forces in Gaza will turn into a sustainable military security administration, which will prevent the Palestinian people's right to manage their civil and political affairs in order to enable them to exercise their right to self-determination and establish a Palestinian state.

President Trump's plan to end the war on Gaza does not open a horizon for a political solution, but rather points to the possibility of opening a path for negotiations on the right to self-determination for the Palestinians, when a number of complex conditions are met, which are likely to be set to block the path to a Palestinian state, such as disarming the resistance, turning Gaza into a zone of stability that does not threaten Israel's security, redeveloping the Gaza Strip, and reforming the Palestinian Authority, which is on the verge of collapse due to Israeli security and settlement measures in the West Bank.

Third: The countries are concerned about their involvement in the Gaza Strip and its role in the Israeli occupation in oppressing Palestinians and chasing activists and resisters, which may increase the human and political cost to them in the event of armed clashes with the resistance, compared to the price Israel paid in its brutal war on the Gaza Strip.

In addition to their fear of the reaction of their peoples, who are already angry with the Israeli occupation and the American bias towards it, Gaza will turn into an internal crisis for the governments that will decide to participate in the international forces.

Strengths in the face of international tutelage

The attempt of Trump's plan to put the Palestinians under international tutelage and undermine their political rights is not the first attempt to subjugate the Palestinians according to the standards of the Israeli occupation, as President Trump himself tried and tried to impose his political vision for resolving the conflict, called the "Deal of the Century" during his first presidential term in 2020, and failed to do so, by rejecting the Palestinians and resisting it.

In addition, Trump's plan, with its political implications, while covered by Security Council Resolution 2803, is in essence contrary to international law and contradicts the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice issued in July 2024, which calls for an end to the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jerusalem "as soon as possible," and calls on the international community to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and establish their Palestinian state. 

The plan also contradicts UN General Assembly resolution (ES-10/24) issued following the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, which calls for an end to Israel's illegal occupation, "without delay and within a maximum of 12 months" from the date of adoption of the resolution.

Accordingly, the Palestinian position, if it refuses to implement what leads to international trusteeship and insists on its natural human rights through the entry of aid, and its political rights to withdraw the Israeli occupation army from the Gaza Strip, is in line with international law, other international resolutions, and the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice.

In this context, the Palestinians have many cards of power that can be activated or acted upon to strengthen their negotiating position and protect their human and national rights ahead of the transition to the second phase of the agreement to end the war, including:

•    The unity of the Palestinian position on key issues, such as the affirmation that the international forces should be forces to separate the occupation from the Palestinians, and not executive forces to disarm the resistance and interfere in the internal affairs of the Palestinian people, and that the weapon of resistance is national linked to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Another approach can be sought to neutralize the weapon instead of disarming it, such as resorting to the idea of a long-term truce, for example, in addition to adhering to a Palestinian authority to manage the Gaza Strip and its cooperation with the Peace Council led by President Trump to stabilize the ceasefire and supervise the reconstruction and development of the Gaza Strip. This position calls for Palestinian interaction from all national forces and frameworks to fortify the situation and protect the Gaza Strip as part of the Palestinian state.

•    Activating the Arab and Islamic role to be a backbone of the unified Palestinian position, after previous and important agreements were made between Hamas and the resistance forces with Cairo on the formation of a Palestinian authority to manage the Gaza Strip, with the support of the Arab League, and Cairo's inclination towards the idea of a truce as an alternative to disarmament, according to Mr. Diaa Rashwan, head of the Egyptian Information Service of the Presidency.

The Palestinians need to capitalize on this trend, especially since some Arab and Islamic countries can play an important role by pressuring the US administration and President Trump, who is interested in the success of the agreement as his personal achievement.

•    Restoring the momentum of the mass and popular movement in the Arab and international arenas, after its importance in isolating Israel and exposing its crimes, and exerting great pressure on governments, which produced an international position calling and pressuring to stop the war of genocide, and this is a wide door that can be exploited, as the brutal genocide and the policy of starvation have stopped relatively but the war has not stopped, in light of the continuation of the blockade, the prevention of the discharge of patients for treatment, the prevention of the restoration of the medical and educational sectors, and the weakness of shelter mechanisms in light of the comprehensive destruction that has affected about 90% of the Gaza Strip.

These are important humanitarian addresses that can be worked on with the Arab and Islamic peoples, in Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa and the Americas, as Gaza has become a title for human action and solidarity, and this momentum is supposed not to recede, until the hand of the occupation is tied up from oppressing the Palestinians, and to emphasize the human and political rights of the Palestinian people.

This is a dangerous path that requires the Palestinians, under Arab and Islamic auspices, to reconsider the priorities and tools of the stage to create spaces for maneuver that reduce the negatives of President Trump's plan and UN Security Council Resolution 2803, and not to surrender to their disastrous repercussions on the fate of the Gaza Strip and the future of the Palestinian cause.