The United States has submitted its Gaza plan to the UN Security Council and is now pushing for formal United Nations authorization for a sweeping, multi-year international force that would control security in the Gaza Strip until at least 2027.
The move, which the administration says is necessary to implement President Donald Trump’s 20-year plan, is one of Washington’s most significant decisions in years to put the United Nations at the center of a major security framework in the Middle East.
In a statement, the US mission to the UN said the draft was written with input from Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The mission said its goal is to “implement President Trump’s historic 20-point plan,” which was backed by more than 20 countries at a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Oct. 13.
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US President Donald Trump poses with the signed agreement at a summit of world leaders on ending the Gaza war, amid a US-brokered prisoner-hostage swap deal and ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)
Negotiations with members of the Security Council began in the first week of November to “strengthen the International Stabilization Force and begin a stable, secure, peaceful and prosperous future for the Palestinians in Gaza, free from Hamas.” The mission added that the ceasefire remains “fragile” and that delays will have “serious, tangible and entirely avoidable consequences for the Palestinians in Gaza.”
New details reported by Axios reveal the scope of the US proposal. Under a draft labeled “sensitive but not classified,” the resolution would establish an International Security Force in Gaza for at least two years, with a mandate lasting until the end of 2027 and with the possibility of extension. A US official told Axios the plan is to vote on the resolution within weeks and deploy the first troops by January, describing the force as “an enforcement force and not a peacekeeping force.”
World leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, pose for a family photo at a summit of world leaders on ending the war in Gaza, amid a US-mediated prisoner and hostage exchange and a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuterspool)
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“The decision to go to the United Nations was primarily driven by the request of the participating states, stating that the United States hopes to participate in the stabilization force that needs a UN mandate to help them politically, to eventually send troops to Gaza. So that is the real origin of this, to give the participating states a political umbrella to play a role in the stabilization force.”
US President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2025. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Satloff said that while Israel has expressed real concerns about the UN’s involvement, it understands why Washington believes the mandate is essential. “There is no doubt that involving the United Nations carries its own complications, and I think the Israelis have been quite vocal about this. But they also recognize that the United States believes that it needs this kind of approval to move the 20-point plan forward. The Israelis want to make sure that these complications do not offset the benefits of the plan. That is a legitimate concern.”
He warned that the plan faces major challenges, but urged pessimism. “There are enormous obstacles to implementing the entire plan. The UN aspect of it is just one of them. We are already seeing a fundamental disagreement over, for example, the definition of disarmament, which could derail the entire effort. I think we should be hopeful. The opportunity here is enormous. The desire to find solutions among the states committed to this is real and serious. So while it is perfectly legitimate to recognize the significant obstacles, I don’t think we should become negative about the prospects here.”
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Military vehicles are gathered near the Israel-Gaza border, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in southern Israel on October 12, 2025. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
She said the move “represents a reversal of U.S. foreign policy toward the United Nations and the Arab-Israeli conflict,” and argued that the United Nations “has repeatedly demonstrated its anti-Semitic bias, lack of good faith and support for Palestinian aggression.” Bayefsky added that the draft “fails to condemn Hamas” and “refuses to recognize and affirm Israel’s right to self-defense under the UN Charter before granting the treacherous UN unprecedented influence,” calling the omission “devastating for the prospects for real peace.”
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Palestinians leave with belongings as they flee their homes after Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip on May 16, 2025. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa)
However, Russia has responded with its own draft resolution, which takes a very different tone. The Moscow draft calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Gaza and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission under the authority of the Secretary General and with the consent of the parties involved.
The draft also says it reaffirms the 1967 borders and East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state and emphasizes that Gaza’s reconstruction must take place under Palestinian leadership and sovereignty, and not through externally managed institutions. Unlike the US proposal, it does not include provisions for demilitarization or interim foreign administration, but focuses on “humanitarian assistance and international law.”
