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UN Gaza intl. force resolution

The United Nations Security Council has adopted a US-drafted resolution to establish an international stabilization force in the Gaza Strip. The resolution authorizes establishment of a peacekeeper coalition that would include such Muslim-majority nations as Egypt, Indonesia, and Azerbaijan. The international force will be deployed under a unified command to secure Gaza, oversee its demilitarization, and take in aid through safe corridors. According to the resolution, this process will unfold as Israel phases out its Gaza presence, and a vetted police force assumes new responsibilities. A transitional administration will also be formed, coordinating reconstruction efforts through a trust fund backed by the World Bank. In reaction, the Hamas resistance movement said the resolution does not meet the political and humanitarian demands and rights of the Palestinian people. The movement added that the resolution imposes an international guardianship mechanism on Gaza, which the Palestinian people and resistance factions reject. Hamas stressed that any international force must be deployed only at Gaza’s borders to monitor the ceasefire under UN supervision. It must also operate exclusively in coordination with official Palestinian institutions, with no role for Israel in it.

Israel violating Gaza truce

Israeli forces kill more Palestinian civilians in new airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, in a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. At least 15 civilians, including children, were injured, one critically, in an Israeli drone strike in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. The casualties came after a drone targeted a gathering of displaced people near Gaza City’s Asad As-Saftawi school with bullets and bombs. Two Palestinian civilians were killed when Israeli forces targeted them in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of the city. The death toll from the Israeli genocide since October 2023 is near 69,490, with more than 170,700 others injured. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that hundreds of thousands of displaced people face the third winter in Gaza without basics in worn-out tents. It added that over 13,000 displaced families living in makeshift shelters or tents have been affected by flooding.

Iraq parliamentary elections

Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission has released the final results of the country’s sixth parliamentary elections. The results confirm a landslide victory for the Coordination Framework of Shia groups. The elections were held in two stages, including special and general voting, in early November. The Commission said the Coordination Framework had emerged as the biggest parliamentary bloc by winning more than 185 seats. The coordination framework now holds the majority of seats in Iraq’s parliament, which gives it significant leverage in the legislature while having the highest number of cabinet members as well. Following the commission’s report, the Coordination Framework held a meeting in the capital, Baghdad, announcing itself as the largest faction in the new parliament. After winning the majority of parliamentary seats, the coalition will be in a good position to nominate a candidate as Iraq’s next prime minister.

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