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Protection or cover for genocide</h1>
<p class="gmail-single_date">Thursday 6-November-2025</p>
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<p>GAZA, (PIC)</p>
<p>As the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza
Strip approaches, the term \u201cinternational force\u201d has returned
to the forefront, and the nature of that force, the countries
participating in it, its authorities and legitimacy have
become the main topic of discussion in the global political
arena and even among Palestinians in Gaza.</p>
<p>A few days ago, the US president Donald Trump announced that
a \u201cstability enforcement force in Gaza\u201d will be deployed soon
and quickly, saying that leaders of this force are currently
being selected; his foreign minister Marco Rubio revealed that
arrangements are underway to mandate a multinational force,
but he conditioned this on the force being acceptable to the
Israeli side.</p>
<p>The American news site Axios reported a US draft at the UN
Security Council to issue a resolution to form an
international force with broad powers in Gaza under Trump\u2019s
post-war plan for the Strip. According to the site, a draft US
resolution to create an international force in Gaza has been
circulated to several Security Council members, and the draft
grants the United States and participating countries wide
authorization to govern Gaza and provide security there. The
draft calls for the \u201cPeace Council\u201d in the Strip to remain in
place until at least the end of 2027.</p>
<p>The document states that the international force will be
tasked with securing Gaza\u2019s borders with Israel and Egypt,
protecting civilians and humanitarian corridors. Its duties
would include destroying and preventing the reconstruction of
military infrastructure, in addition to disarmament, and
training a Palestinian police force that would partner with
the international force in its mission.</p>
<p>According to a US official, the international force would be
an enforcement force rather than a peacekeeping force, and
would include troops from several countries; it will be
created in consultation with the \u201cPeace Council\u201d in Gaza.</p>
<p>Hamas, through the head of its negotiating delegation Khalil
al-Hayya, confirmed that the Palestinian factions accept UN
forces as forces to separate and monitor the borders and
oversee the ceasefire, stressing that a UN decision will
determine the type of these forces, their duration and their
working mechanisms.</p>
<p>This factional and Hamas position conflicts with the American
and Israeli vision, which wants the international force to
disarm Hamas and impose security in the Strip.</p>
<p>In this report, guests of the Palestinian Information Center
(PIC) present their readings of the nature of this force, its
tasks, their view of how it would operate, and how suitable it
is for realities in the Gaza Strip and whether its work would
be compatible with the Palestinian factions present there.</p>
<p
class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-486e36ae3e4e99a3e544193916e7df9f">Completion
of the Israeli army\u2019s mission</p>
<p>Military expert Major General Yusuf Al-Sharqawi said that the
proposed \u201cexecutive force\u201d is not a supervisory force like
UNIFIL in southern Lebanon, whose role is limited to recording
violations; rather, it is a \u201cmulti-purpose\u201d force intended to
be operational in nature, meaning it would carry out field
missions that affect Gaza\u2019s internal situation.</p>
<p>Al-Sharqawi explained in a special interview with the PIC
that the nature of this force as presented by Washington
suggests that it aims to complete the missions of the Israeli
army after its withdrawal or redeployment, which makes it an
extension of the occupation with new tools, especially given
the Israeli refusal that this force be placed under Chapter
VII of the UN Charter.</p>
<p>He emphasized that not placing the force under Chapter VII
means it will not be a force for separation or peacekeeping,
but an executive tool with an international cover, which
carries dangerous signs regarding the real objectives of its
formation.</p>
<p>He believes the formula of the \u201cexecutive force\u201d currently
being proposed contains a direct targeting of Palestinians
under the pretexts of security control or overseeing
reconstruction, but in practice it opens the door to a new
security presence that controls the Strip and restricts
Palestinian national decision-making.</p>
<p>Major General Al-Sharqawi believes the Palestinian and
Arab\u2013Islamic alternative is a joint understanding that hands
administration of the Strip to an Arab\u2013Islamic force that
works to separate and monitor the disengagement within a
political framework that guarantees not repeating the
occupation\u2019s experience or internationalizing the Strip.</p>
<p>Al-Sharqawi stressed that the most dangerous thing in the US
proposal is the possibility of using this force as an
international cover to carry out the Israeli tasks indirectly,
which would constitute a violation of Palestinian sovereignty
and a threat to the future of any just settlement.</p>
<p>He sees that confronting this scenario requires a unified
Palestinian and Arab position that rejects any formula that
affects national will, and affirms that security in Gaza is
not imposed from outside but built through internal consensus
and Arab\u2013Islamic support.</p>
<p
class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-8d1a361a38d32157203ace49a2c1aeaf">It
must be acceptable to Palestinians</p>
<p>For his part, military expert Major General Mohammed Al-Masri
said that any force being discussed for formation or
deployment in the Gaza Strip must be a peacekeeping force, not
one that imposes peace, stressing that its primary mission
should focus on the Gaza borders, with a supporting role for
internal police forces, within clear and defined authorities.</p>
<p>Al-Masri explained in a special interview with the PIC that
it is necessary for this force to be accepted by the
Palestinian people, and to be composed of neutral Arab and
Islamic countries that have good relations with the
Palestinians, not of forces arriving to the Strip with the aim
of imposing security according to the Israeli vision or
disarming the factions, which he described as an internal
issue to be discussed within the framework of national
negotiations in a way that preserves the national symbolism of
the resistance.</p>
<p>He added that recent developments indicate that a project is
currently being circulated at the Security Council regarding
the formation of this force.</p>
<p>He noted that opinions are divided about the force\u2019s tasks:
Israel wants it as a tool to control the field, manage public
order and disarm, while the Arab group and the Group of Eight
in Istanbul believe its role should be to protect the
Palestinian people, separate the parties and assist them
humanitarianly.</p>
<p>Al-Masri believes that the project in its current
American\u2013Israeli wording raises real fears that the situation
could turn into a trusteeship system over the Strip, while
confirming that Palestinians welcome the presence of any Arab
or Islamic force if it is coordinated with the Gaza police
apparatus and operates within respect for Palestinian
sovereignty and protecting the people rather than the reverse.</p>
<p
class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-84d100db7f9cc23124375a65710db9d8">A
force sized to Israeli needs to complete the genocide</p>
<p>Palestinian writer and political analyst Mohammed Al-Qeeq
believes that the United States wants the international force
to be sized according to Israeli\u2013American criteria, to be an
alternative to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, and also
an alternative to the Israeli military presence in Gaza.</p>
<p>Al-Qeeq told the PIC that he believes America wants this
force to wash away the Israeli occupation\u2019s crime of genocide
committed in Gaza, so that the next confrontation will be
between Palestinians and this force, and when that happens,
the narrative becomes that Hamas and the resistance factions
are the problem, not the occupation that committed the
genocide.</p>
<p>Al-Qeeq explained that this is the vision the United States
wants to take to the Security Council without details, seeking
approval first and then manipulating the details as it
pleases.</p>
<p>He expected that there would be no consensual path between
this international force and the Palestinians, reasoning that
its presence is grounded in an Israeli\u2013American framework to
disarm the resistance, delay reconstruction, and impose new
conditions on Palestinians, not only regarding arms and
resistance but also further concessions on curricula, handling
of Palestinian identity, and more.</p>
<p>Al-Qeeq expressed his fear of the US seeking to obtain a
Security Council resolution to form the force, saying that the
concern lies in an attempt to legitimize what this force would
do under the guise of being an international force, especially
since it is tied to law enforcement and not to peacekeeping.</p>
<p>He affirmed that the American administration is going to the
Security Council \u201cto obtain a license for genocide through the
international community and powers, to absolve the Israeli
occupation of the crime it committed.\u201d</p>
<p>The PIC guest believes the Palestinian split is the
foundation for American and Israeli control of the scene,
stressing that Palestinian consensus would be the graveyard of
this force and of the American\u2013Israeli plan.</p>
<p>It has become clear that the US did not stop the war out of
concern for the people of Gaza or out of a suddenly awakened
humanitarian impulse, but to absorb global anger and to
continue the genocidal war in another form, with wide
international support through the same institutions that
remained incapable over two full years of genocide of doing
anything to lift the suffering from the oppressed in the Gaza
Strip.</p>
<p>However, the complex scene Gaza is experiencing today, and
what is being planned and intended for it and its people,
could become a positive turning point if the Palestinians
break the Israeli\u2013American veto on Palestinian reconciliation,
and confront all these plans with a comprehensive national
vision away from all the small and peripheral disputes that
pale in comparison to what is being plotted for the entire
Palestinian cause.</p>
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