More than two years since the United States (US)-backed Israel genocide and siege that leveled Palestine, the UN Security Council (UNSC) approved a Trump-led resolution to reconstruct Gaza with more US military presence. IBON International denounces the egregious attempt of the US to play arbiter in the genocidal campaign and destruction that it has funded and armed.
We continue to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We stand with them in their rejection of the bogus US-Israel peace plan that was adopted without Palestinians, and feel no rejoice in the UNSC’s formally authorised and endorsed occupation. There is no genuine peace with imperialist powers present. As in nations like Iraq and Afghanistan, after years of destruction by US forces, the same language of ‘stabilisation’ and ‘rebuilding’ is being used to justify greater intervention.
The US-drafted resolution is the first proposal on Gaza to be approved by the UNSC, after six US vetoes blocked previous drafts on a permanent ceasefire and UNSC inaction on the genocide since 2023. These numbers add to countless instances that the US has used its veto power in the UNSC concerning the occupation since the 1948 Nakba. Resolutions calling for Israel’s withdrawal from Palestine, such as the S/11940 draft in 1976, have been blocked.
The adopted resolution authorises the establishment of the so-called ‘Board of Peace’ (BoP), which sits the right-wing, anti-Muslim US President as chief. The BoP will serve as a “transitional administration” for the reconstruction efforts; it will oversee the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), a coalition of US and allied military forces, to ensure that the plan happens by all means. The World Bank, a US-dominated financial institution, will fund the reconstruction efforts through the establishment of a new trust fund.
The US-Israel peace plan is but a candid admission to US imperialist interests in Palestine. We condemn the constant framing of the Palestine resistance movements as an illegitimate response to the decades of violent occupation by US-Israel. The proposal talks of demilitarising Gaza, as emphasized on the draft’s 13th condition, but only centers on disarming and dismantling the resistance movement. It fails to mention the existing Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) and increasing US military presence that monitor the ceasefire and facilitate the so-called ‘civil-military coordination center’ for humanitarian aid. Demilitarisation in this peace plan neutralises all forces but the US military and its allies. Demilitarisation for the US only means annihilation of all threats to the Israeli occupation and US interests.
Beyond the pretext of eradicating the resistance movement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who has an arrest warrant for genocide and crimes against humanity—outright refuses any allusion to a Palestine statehood and authority in the resolution. For Netanhanyu, a Palestine state will be an “existential threat to Israel.”
The rhetoric and mechanisms of the peace plan belie its claims of being a “pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.” The right to self-determination is first and foremost never conditional, and especially impossible under conditions imposed by the US and Israel.
On October 9, 2025, Israel and Palestine resistance movement Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement after accepting US President Donald Trump’s ‘20-point peace plan’ proposal. This is not the first ceasefire deal since October 7, 2023, and is also not the first time Israel has violated the conditions. Barely a week since the agreement took effect on October 10, constant and ‘near-daily’ attacks have been recorded; Israel has now killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured about 600.
We enjoin the international community to support the Right to Resist: International People’s Tribunal on Palestine, which will convene on the 22nd to 23rd of November 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. The people’s court, as a quasi-judicial forum, will investigate the most documented genocide in history, and will present evidence from public testimonies and experts. Through this space, peoples and mass movements will try the US-Israel occupation and its allies on charges of crimes against humanity, particularly of ecocide and starvation. We must not let the US-Israel occupation speak of peace and rehabilitation without being held to account for their deliberate destruction of the Palestinian land and soil as well as for the genocide. #
