U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday (August 26) that troops and personnel from partner countries were "scheduled to arrive to keep the peace" in Gaza, as efforts continued to implement President Donald Trump’s plan for the territory.
Waltz said Uganda, Morocco and Kazakhstan had offered thousands of troops to the International Stabilization Force, although deployment was not moving as quickly as Washington wanted, "but they are moving."
Board of Peace Director-General Nickolay Mladenov said Hamas and other Palestinian factions had accepted a roadmap under which they would hand over their weapons and transfer governing authority to a U.N.-recognized transitional administration. He called their July 30 acceptance a “historic breakthrough.”
Israel’s deputy U.N. ambassador, Noa Furman, said “disarmament must come first” and Hamas’ military infrastructure must be destroyed before Gaza’s reconstruction begins.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, accused Israel of rejecting reciprocal steps involving phased Hamas disarmament and an Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza.
On the West Bank, Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour said Israeli tenders for the E1 settlement plan represented “full-fledged, full-blown annexation” intended to destroy the "Palestinian state and the triumph of the settler state."
