Gaza faces huge problems as Trump takes victory lap

With characteristic restraint, Donald Trump declared the United Nations Security Council’s endorsement of his Gaza peace plan to be “one of the biggest approvals in history”.

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A decision, he said, that would bring about “peace all over the world”. A moment of “true historic proportion”.

On Truth Social, the American president personally thanked all the countries on the Security Council, including the 13 that voted in favour of Resolution 2803, which endorses his 20-point plan for the besieged and ravaged territory.

He also thanked several countries in the region, including Qatar, Egypt, the UAE and Jordan, that backed the effort.

The resolution establishes a so-called “Board of Peace”, or “BoP” as it is now affectionately called, and authorises the creation of a multinational stabilisation force that will “deploy under unified command” to govern Gaza, operating in cooperation with Egypt and Israel.

Trump’s right-hand man, US ambassador Mike Waltz, described it as “charting a new course for the Middle East”. The Palestinian foreign minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, part of the administration opposed to Hamas in the occupied West Bank, said it was the “first step in a long road towards peace”.