How the UN Gaza resolution creates new foreign ‘mandate’ over Palestinians

An international force will use “all necessary measures to carry out its mandate” in Gaza, a newly approved United Nations Security Council resolution stipulates. 

The resolution puts US President Donald Trump in control of the Palestinian enclave, with multinational troops in an "International Stabilisation Force" (ISF) overseeing his 20-point plan for its future. 

The term “mandate” is all too familiar in the context of foreign involvement in the affairs of Palestinians. 

“This is a classic colonial scheme which totally disregards the rights and aspirations of the indigenous people,” Avi Shlaim, the British-Israeli historian, tells Middle East Eye.

“In this sense, it is comparable to the British Mandate for Palestine.” 

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