US seeks UN authorization for Gaza international force lasting through 2027 under Trump plan

The United States has taken its Gaza program to the U.N. Security Council and is present pushing for ceremonial United Nations authorization of a sweeping, multi-year planetary unit that would govern information successful the Strip done astatine slightest 2027. 

The move, which the medication says is indispensable to instrumentality President Donald Trump’s 20 program which represents 1 of Washington’s astir important decisions successful years to spot the United Nations astatine the halfway of a large Middle East information framework.

In a statement, the U.S. Mission to the U.N. said the draught was written with input from Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The Mission said the extremity is to "bring to fruition President Trump’s historical 20 Point Comprehensive Plan," which was supported by much than 20 countries astatine a acme successful Sharm el-Sheikh connected Oct. 13. 

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U.S. President Donald Trump poses with the signed statement astatine a satellite leaders' acme connected ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire woody betwixt Israel and Hamas, successful Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct. 13, 2025.  (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters )

Negotiations with Security Council members began successful the archetypal week of November to "stand up the International Stabilization Force and statesman a stable, secure, peaceful and prosperous aboriginal for Palestinians successful Gaza, escaped of Hamas." The Mission added that the ceasefire remains "fragile" and delays "have grave, tangible, and wholly avoidable consequences for Palestinians successful Gaza."

New details reported by Axios uncover the scope of the U.S. proposal. According to a draught labeled "sensitive but unclassified," the solution would found an International Security Force successful Gaza for astatine slightest 2 years, with a mandate extending done the extremity of 2027 and the anticipation of extensions. A U.S. authoritative told Axios the program is to ballot connected the solution wrong weeks and deploy the archetypal troops by January, describing the unit arsenic "an enforcement unit and not a peacekeeping force."

World leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi airs for a household photo, astatine a satellite leaders' acme connected ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire woody betwixt Israel and Hamas, successful Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct. 13, 2025.  (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters Pool)

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Robert Satloff, enforcement manager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told Fox News Digital the U.S. went to the U.N. due to the fact that respective states Washington hopes volition lend troops necessitate a Security Council mandate.

"The determination to spell to the United Nations was driven principally by the petition of participating states, states that the United States hopes volition enactment successful the stabilization unit who request a U.N. mandate to assistance them politically, to dispatch forces yet to Gaza. So that’s the existent root of this, to enable, to springiness a governmental umbrella to participating states to play a relation successful the stabilization force."

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the United Nations General Assembly astatine the UN office successful New York City connected Sept. 23, 2025.  (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

Satloff said that though Israel has voiced existent concerns astir U.N. involvement, it understands wherefore Washington believes the mandate is essential. "There’s nary uncertainty that involving the United Nations has its ain complications, and I deliberation that the Israelis person been beauteous vocal astir this. But they besides admit that the United States judge it needs this benignant of endorsement for the 20-point program to determination forward. The Israelis privation to marque definite that these complications don’t overwhelm the benefits of the plan. Which is simply a morganatic concern."

He warned that the program faces large challenges but urged against pessimism. "There are tremendous obstacles to the implementation of the full plan. The U.N. facet of it is conscionable 1 of them. We’re already seeing immoderate cardinal disagreement over, say, the explanation of disarmament, which could derail the full effort. Now, I deliberation 1 has to beryllium hopeful. The accidental present is huge. The tendency to find solutions among the states that are committed to this is existent and serious. So, portion it’s wholly morganatic to admit the important obstacles, I don’t deliberation that we should get antagonistic astir the prospects here."

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Military vehicles are gathered adjacent the Israel-Gaza border, amid a ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas, successful confederate Israel connected Oct. 12, 2025.  (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute connected Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices, offered a starkly antithetic view. Bayefsky told Fox News Digital: "Incredibly, the United States has subjected its plans for Gaza to U.N. authorization and oversight. Arab countries claimed U.N. engagement was ‘necessary’ for them to enactment and enactment the Gaza planetary force. That was a prevarication and blatant powerfulness grab. The impervious is successful the substance which could person been a one-liner noting, with approval, a non-U. N. initiative. Instead, the solution is simply a long-list of orders doing tremendous harm to Israeli nationalist security, sovereignty and close of self-defense, hamstringing America's scope of enactment by a web of agencies and engagement antithetical to U.S. interests and peace."

She said the determination is "an about-face for American overseas argumentation connected the United Nations and the Arab-Israeli conflict," and argued that the United Nations "has repeatedly demonstrated its antisemitic bias, deficiency of bully religion and enactment for Palestinian aggression." Bayefsky added that the draught "fails to condemn Hamas" and "refuses to admit and affirm Israel’s U.N. Charter close of self-defense earlier granting the treacherous U.N. unprecedented influence," calling the omission "devastating to the prospects of existent peace."

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Palestinians marque their mode with belongings arsenic they fled their homes, aft Israeli aerial strikes, successful the bluish Gaza Strip May 16, 2025. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa)

Russia, however, has countered with its ain draught solution that strikes a profoundly antithetic tone. Moscow’s draught demands an contiguous and unconditional ceasefire, the withdrawal of each overseas forces from Gaza, and the deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping ngo nether the Secretary-General’s authorization and with the consent of the parties involved. 

The draught besides says it reaffirms the 1967 borders and East Jerusalem arsenic the superior of a aboriginal Palestinian authorities and insists that Gaza’s reconstruction indispensable instrumentality spot nether Palestinian enactment and sovereignty, not done externally managed institutions. Unlike the American proposal, it contains nary provisions for demilitarization oregon interim overseas governance, alternatively centering connected "humanitarian alleviation and planetary law."

Fox News Digital was referred by the White House and State Department to the U.S. Mission to the U.N. for comment.