UN Draft Resolution on Gaza Transitional Authority Denounced as Attempt to ‘Normalize Genocide’
GAZA CITY: A powerful Palestinian civil society body, the National Commission for Palestinian Popular Action, has issued a forceful rejection of US proposals to install an externally imposed transitional administration in Gaza, warning the move amounts to a “new colonialism” that violates the Palestinian right to self-determination.
The Commission’s statement was released Sunday, one day before a US draft resolution endorsing the plan is scheduled to go before the UN Security Council.
The US draft resolution seeks to endorse the Trump Peace Plan, also known as the “Comprehensive Plan,” and authorize the creation of two new governing bodies for the besieged enclave: A civilian transitional administration called the Board of Peace. A militarized security presence named the International Stabilisation Force.
The Board of Peace is intended to hold sweeping powers, including oversight of Gaza’s future governance, reconstruction, economic recovery, and the coordination of humanitarian operations.
The National Commission for Palestinian Popular Action explicitly stated that any attempt to install a governing body “outside the will of the Palestinian people” is an attempt to repackage old forms of domination “under updated labels.”
Critics and legal experts are warning that by seeking to hardwire this transitional administration into an international framework, Washington is attempting to use the UN’s authority to normalise the ongoing genocide and impose yet another foreign regime on Palestinians.
The Palestinian Commission stressed that all decisions regarding Gaza’s future must originate from Palestinians themselves and must uphold the unity of the land, the legitimacy of resistance to the Israeli occupation, and the right to freedom and self-determination guaranteed under international law.
The US plan, which critics argue rests outside any recognized international legal framework, sets out a parallel order built on external authority. If the resolution is passed, the Commission warns the Security Council would be endorsing a system that strips Palestinians of their rights while simultaneously undermining the credibility of international law itself.
While the Commission acknowledged that a narrowly defined international presence could help monitor a ceasefire and protect civilians, it insisted that such a force must be “expressly prohibited from taking on any administrative or political role.” Any shift toward a disguised trusteeship, it concluded, is “categorically rejected.”
The statement closed with a call to all Palestinian political movements and institutions worldwide to reject all forms of external control and peacefully oppose what it described as renewed colonial ambitions.