The United Nations Security Council votes to support President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, while Hamas rejects it.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday voted to support President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, while the terrorists of Hamas rejected the plan completely, in part because it called for an international peacekeeping force.
UNSC approved the Trump plan on a vote of 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining. Russia introduced its own alternative resolution on Friday — a ten-point plan that demanded Palestinian statehood and did not include any provision for a multinational “stabilization force” in Gaza. The Russians were unable to peel any support away from the Trump plan with their proposal and evidently chose not to exercise their Security Council veto.
Trump congratulated UNSC on its “incredible” vote on Monday evening.
“This will go down as one of the biggest approvals in the History of the United Nations, will lead to further Peace all over the World, and is a moment of true Historic proportion!” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Trump made a point of individually thanking every UNSC member for their vote, including Russia and China, even though they abstained. He also thanked supportive countries that “weren’t on the committee but strongly backed the effort,” including Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey, and Jordan.
