On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump's plan for Gaza, including a transitional government headed by Trump himself and an International Stabilization Force (ISF) that is expected, among other tasks, to disarm Hamas, a task that Israel has failed to do through two years of genocide and mass destruction.

The ISF will be tasked with securing the borders in a way that confines Palestinians, stabilizing Gaza's security environment by suppressing resistance, demilitarizing Gaza while leaving the Israeli regime untouched, and training the Palestinian police to control the population. Yes, the force is also mandated to "protect civilians" and assist humanitarian aid. But under U.S. supervision, can anyone honestly expect it to restrain Israel when Israel simply refuses to comply – as we see with the current so-called "ceasefire"?

Hamas and other factions in Gaza have issued a joint statement that unequivocally rejects Trump's plan and the Security Council resolution, saying it "will turn into a type of imposed guardianship or administration – reproducing a reality that restricts the Palestinian people's right to self-determination and to managing their own affairs."

As for the foreign military force, the Hamas statement says, "Assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation."

The joint statement reserves its strongest condemnation for the Arab rulers who support Trump's plan, calling their support "a form of deep international partnership in the war of extermination waged by the occupation against our people."

Trump has claimed that all sides agreed to his peace plan, but Hamas only agreed to the first stage of it, which involved returning the remaining Israeli prisoners in Gaza to Israel under a permanent ceasefire and resumption of humanitarian aid that Israel has still not complied with.

Hamas always said clearly that it has no authority to negotiate over other parts of Trump's plan, since they involve the future government of all of Palestine and require the input of many different groups in Gaza and the other occupied territories. Hamas said it would only disarm once a Palestinian state is fully established, at which time it will hand over its weapons to the new armed forces of the state of Palestine.