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UNSC 2803: The US-Israeli scheme to partition Gaza and break Palestinian
will
Ramzy Baroud <https://english.palinfo.com/authors/ramzy-baroud>

Thursday 27-November-2025

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That
failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive
destruction, and the expansion of Israeli violence to the West Bank and
elsewhere in the Middle East.

The resolution, passed on 14 November 2025, was a consolation prize to
Israel after failing to achieve its ultimate objective from the two-year
Gaza genocide: the ethnic cleansing of the population and the complete
takeover of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza shattered a core Israeli doctrine: the absolute certainty of its
military supremacy to subdue the Palestinian people using far superior US
and Western-supplied technology. Though the occupation was never expected
to be easy – as Israel’s history of violence in the Strip attests – the
complete takeover was, in the mind of the Israeli leadership, a certainty.
In August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated with total
confidence that Israel aimed to “take control of all of Gaza.” That proved
to be wishful thinking.

How Israel has failed to subdue an impoverished and besieged population of
2 million people, subjected to a blockade, a famine, and one of the world’s
most horrific genocides, is a question for future historians. The immediate
consequence, however, is political: Israel and its Western backers,
especially the US, understand that an utter Israeli failure in Gaza would
be interpreted by Israel’s victims as a pivotal sign of the times.

In fact, the notion of Israel’s implosion and the end of the Zionist
project has moved from the margins of intellectual conversation into the
center. These ideas are bolstered by the Israelis themselves and are a
recurring topic in Israeli media. Such a headline in Haaretz on 15 November
is hardly shocking: “At a Secret Harvard Site, a Massive Archive of
Israeliana Is Preserved – in Case Israel Ceases to Exist”.

Thus, US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Comprehensive Stabilization
Plan for Gaza,” signed in Sharm el-Sheikh on 30 October 2025, was the
official start of the American scheme to save Israel from its own blunders.
That supposed ‘ceasefire’ was meant to give Israel the chance to maneuver.
Instead of occupying all of Gaza and pushing Palestinians out, Israel would
now use social and political engineering to achieve the same goal.

The first phase of the plan, which placed most of Gaza under Israeli
military control in anticipation of a gradual withdrawal, is already
proving to be a sham. As of the time of writing this article, Israel,
according to the Gaza government media office, has violated the agreement
nearly 400 times, killing over 300 Palestinians. Israel continues to
systematically demolish Palestinian areas and has increasingly begun
operating west of the Yellow Line, which separates Gaza into two regions.

Worse still, according to Gaza authorities, Israel has been expanding its
share of Gaza, estimated at approximately 58 per cent, westward. The
‘ceasefire’ has effectively enforced a new mechanism that allows Israel to
carry out a one-sided war – with further territorial expansion,
destruction, assassination, and occasional massacres – while Palestinians
expect nothing but the mere slowing down of the Israeli death machine. This
is not sustainable, especially since Israel has also violated the most
basic principle of the imaginary ceasefire: allowing vital aid to enter
Gaza.

UNSC 2803 endorses the “Comprehensive Stabilization Plan for Gaza” without
placing any legally binding expectations on Israel. It establishes a
Transitional Administration and Oversight Council (TAOC), which entirely
excludes Palestinians, including the Western-supported Palestinian
Authority.

The executive branch of this TAOC would be the International Stabilization
Force (ISF), whose sole job is to “stabilize the security environment in
Gaza” on behalf of Israel, notably by disarming Palestinian groups. The
ISF, according to the resolution, operates “in close consultation and
cooperation,” meaning the force is tasked with achieving Israel’s military
objectives, thereby allowing Israel to determine the timing and nature of
its supposed gradual withdrawal.

Since Palestinians refuse to disarm – as unconditional disarmament without
meaningful international guarantees would surely lead to the full return of
the Israeli genocide – Israel will certainly refuse to leave Gaza.
Netanyahu made that clear on 16 November, when he stated that “Israel would
not withdraw” without disarming Hamas, “either the easy way or the hard
way”.

The partition of Gaza is a US-led attempt to change the nature of the
challenge for Tel Aviv, but ultimately aims at achieving the same original
objectives. The resolution has served Israel’s interests fully, hence
Netanyahu’s enthusiasm, yet Israel is still refusing to respect it, making
it clear there will be no phase two of Trump’s original plan.

The entire political scheme, however, is doomed to fail. Though Palestinian
suffering will certainly worsen in the coming months, the US-Israeli gambit
is fundamentally flawed: it is built on trickery and coercion, resting on
the false assumption that Palestinians, fearing genocide, will accept any
plan imposed on them. This premise ignores history. Palestinians have
consistently defeated such sophisticated mechanisms designed to break them,
meaning this new arrangement is equally unsustainable.

Ultimately, the failure of UNSC Resolution 2803 confirms one enduring
truth: the Israeli war on Gaza has not stopped. It has simply changed form.
It is crucial that people around the world understand this next phase for
what it is: a diplomatic maneuver designed to facilitate the ongoing
Israeli plan to control the Gaza Strip and ethnically cleanse its
population.

*-Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine
Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His forthcoming book, ‘Before the
Flood,’ will be published by Seven Stories Press. His other books include
‘Our Vision for Liberation’, ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter’ and ‘The
Last Earth’. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center
for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA).*
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