United States President Donald Trump declared that an international force will be sent “very soon” to the Gaza Strip.
“Very soon. It’s going to happen very soon. And it’s going well in Gaza,” Donald Trump responded, on Thursday, November 6, to a reporter’s question about the announced sending of a mission to the Palestinian territory.
On Wednesday, The United States has said it has the support of the UN Security Council for a project that will send an international stabilization force to the Gaza Strip for at least two years.
“We have several countries that have offered to intervene if there is a problem with the [movimento islamita palestiniano] Hamas, for example, or any other problem,” Trump added during a press conference on the sidelines of a White House diplomatic meeting with Central Asian leaders.
The President of the United States assured that “Hamas represents a very small part of the conflict, very, very small.”
Still, Trump warned the movement that, “if you don’t do what you said you were going to do, if you don’t behave, then you’re going to have a big problem, a really big problem, like you’ve never had before.”
The US Mission to the United Nations confirmed the presentation of the proposal to the United Nations Security Council, which marks the next step in Donald Trump’s plan to end two years of war.
The announcement came after the US representative to the UN, Mike Waltz, met with counterparts from the ten countries currently elected to the Security Council: Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Somalia.
The Security Council is also made up of five permanent members, with veto rights: the USA, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and China.
In a statement, the US Mission to the United Nations assured that Washington “will once again present results” at the organization, instead of engaging in “endless negotiations”.
The US also declared that “key regional partners support the Security Council resolution” on the Palestinian enclave, after a meeting with representatives from Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
On the social network X, Waltz described the meeting as historic and highlighted the strong support from the countries.
According to two North American officials, cited by the Associated Press news agency, the draft resolution calls on the force to ensure “the demilitarization process of the Gaza Strip” and “the permanent disarmament of weapons from non-state armed groups.”
A big issue in Trump’s 20-step plan for a ceasefire and reconstruction of the territory is how to disarm Hamas, which has not yet fully accepted this measure.