Afrasianet - Hassan Nafaa - Trump's success in getting the Security Council to adopt his comprehensive plan to end the war in Gaza may help turn it into a UN plan, but it will not help stabilize the Middle East. 

On Monday evening, 17/11/2025, the Security Council held a session to vote on a draft resolution submitted by the US administration to end the war in Gaza.

Because Russia and China abstained from voting after taking a decision not to use the veto, in response to the desire of a number of Arab and Islamic countries, the American project was adopted by a majority of 13 votes, which allowed the issuance of Security Council Resolution No. 2803 of 2025, which is a very dangerous decision because it grants President Trump almost absolute powers in dealing with the Palestinian issue, as if he is authorized by the international community to decide the future and fate of the Palestinian people individually, which allows us to say that it is one of a series of resolutions The international community supports the Zionist project and is unjust to the Palestinian people.

Consequently, it is no less dangerous than United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 of 1947, which decided to divide historic Palestine without a referendum of its people. Security Council Resolution No. 242 of 1967, which dealt with the Palestinian question as a humanitarian issue related to the rights of refugees, ignoring its political nature as the issue of a people whose land has been occupied and has the right to resist the occupation by all available means and means, including the use of force, and the aspiration to build its independent state.

That is the conclusion we reached after careful reading of the official text of Resolution 2803, and it does not in our view imply any amount of arbitrariness or exaggeration. It is a resolution that "welcomes and considers Trump's comprehensive plan to end the conflict in Gaza, of September 29, 2025, as an integral part of the resolution itself," and "welcomes Trump's historic declaration for lasting peace and prosperity" of October 13, 2025, and considers it evidence of "a constructive role played by the United States United in facilitating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip." More dangerously, it not only welcomes the establishment of the "Peace Council" stipulated in Trump's plan, but also recognizes the international legal personality that allows it to become the real decision-maker in everything related to the administration of the Gaza Strip during the transitional period. What is striking here is that we are facing a council that has not yet been formed, as all we know about it is that Trump will be the one to head it himself, and that Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, is the candidate to fill the position of its chief executive.

The powers granted to this Council by resolution 2803 provide absolute hegemony over all organs and bodies concerned with the administration of the affairs of the Gaza Strip during the transitional period, including the Palestinian Technocratic Government and the Multinational Stabilization Force, suggesting that the Security Council has decided to abdicate its duties towards the Palestinian cause, despite the fact that it has been one of the most important issues on its agenda for many decades, and to voluntarily abandon its responsibilities towards the Palestinian people, despite the fact that this oppressed people has been subjected to a war of genocide and ethnic cleansing. These duties and responsibilities should be entrusted to a head of state who is inherently biased towards the occupation and an active partner in the crimes committed against the Palestinian people, especially since he is an eccentric person who is difficult to control his behavior or control his actions. This is a paradox that reflects the nature of the current imbalance in the structure and balance of regional and global powers.

To understand the extent  of the powers of the Peace Council under resolution 2803, it is sufficient to note that the Security Council "authorizes it to enter into all arrangements necessary to achieve the objectives of the comprehensive plan, including the establishment of prerogative privileges and immunities for members of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) and, where appropriate, to establish operational entities with international legal personality and powers to carry out their functions, including the formation of a transitional administration of governance responsible for the day-to-day conduct of the civil service and administration, reconstruction and the implementation of programmes economic recovery, coordination and provision of public services and humanitarian assistance, and measures to facilitate the movement of people in and out of Gaza in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan, as well as any additional tasks that may be necessary to support and implement the Comprehensive Plan." It is clear from this text that the Trump-led Peace Council has powers that enable it to dominate every major and small affair related to the administration and security in the Gaza Strip during the transitional period.

If we add to the above that Resolution 2803 does not obligate the Israeli occupation forces to withdraw to the borders they were on before 7/10/2023, and allows them to "maintain a security perimeter until Gaza is adequately secured from any renewed terrorist threat", which means that these forces will remain within the undefined Gaza territories, extending along the northern, southern and eastern borders, and for an open period of time. 

If we add to the above that the Security Council resolution links the time-bound withdrawal movement to the extent of the spread and control of the multinational force, on the one hand, and the extent of the success achieved in the disarmament operations, on the other hand, it clearly shows us the extent of the obstacles in the way of the implementation of this resolution, which reveals many gaps that may provide the most extreme wing of the Israeli government with opportunities to exploit them as a justification to obstruct a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and perhaps to try to regain military control over it. in preparation for resettlement and inclusion in the "Greater Israel" that he still dreams of. 

UNSCR 2803 undoubtedly has some benefits that serve the Palestinian people's definite interests while helping to rein in the most radical wing of the Israeli government.

This decision would create a better climate for the consolidation of the ceasefire agreement and remove some of the obstacles that had previously prevented an increase in the volume of humanitarian assistance provided to the population of the Gaza Strip, thereby reducing the likelihood of success in attempts to forcibly displace and deliberately starve the Palestinian population.

It is true that Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement, and it is also true that the humanitarian aid convoys that Israel allows to pass through after the signing of this agreement represent only a small percentage of the number of convoys stipulated in the agreement, which neutral sources estimate to be less than 25% of the agreed percentage, and yet it can be said that the rate of daily human casualties among Palestinians is much lower than it was during the time of open war.

At the same time, some of the manifestations of the starvation war, which Israel was reluctant to wage against the Palestinian population, and to use it as a means of pushing them towards forced emigration, and also to escalate psychological pressures on the armed resistance factions, have also decreased.

However, these positive manifestations should not obscure the basic fact that the Trump administration will not hesitate to do everything in its power to enable Israel, its most important ally in the region, to obtain by political means what it has not been able to achieve by military means, especially with regard to the aim of disarming all factions of the Palestinian resistance and destroying the network of tunnels that enabled the resistance, despite their limited material resources and the level of armament, to fight the longest military battle in the history of the conflict Israel has suffered losses far exceeding the size of what it has incurred in any of the previous rounds of confrontation, and at all military, economic, social, psychological and media levels.

It remains to be noted that UN Security Council Resolution 2803 contains explicit provisions affirming that the Gaza Strip "will be a de-radicalized and terrorism-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors," and that "the infrastructure of all armed factions must be removed and measures must be taken to prevent their rearmament," but it does not refer to the terrorism practiced by settlers in the West Bank, under the protection and sponsorship of the Israeli army itself, nor to genocide and war crimes The crimes against humanity committed by the occupation "army" every day in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and it does not even refer to the West Bank from near or far, as if it were not an integral part of a Palestinian territory occupied in 1967 and Security Council resolution 242 stipulates that it is not permissible to occupy by force. It is true that the following text was included in this resolution:

"After the Palestinian Authority reform program is faithfully implemented and the redevelopment of Gaza progresses, the conditions may be in place for the crystallization of a credible path towards self-determination and the establishment of a Palestinian state," and another text indicates that the United States "will launch a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence," but these are mere rhetoric but at the same time hollow and do not allow for a roadmap toward the establishment of a genuine Palestinian state, and most likely included in the resolution to provide Some Arab regimes are using the fig leaf they need to cover their nakedness when joining the convoys of the "Abraham Accords," which the Trump administration insists on expanding without committing itself to curbing Israeli ambitions.

Trump's success in getting the Security Council to adopt his comprehensive plan to end the war in Gaza may help turn it into a UN plan, but it will not help stabilize the Middle East. Stability in this region will not be achieved by disarming the resistance factions, but by the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. This is the lesson that everyone should learn from the Al-Aqsa Flood.