The Palestinian foreign minister has described the UN Security Council resolution endorsing Donald Trump\u2019s plan to end the war in Gaza as a necessary first step on a long road towards peace, even as Hamas rejected it as a form of international guardianship with which it will not cooperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arab state leaders who have reluctantly adopted the plan said the US urgently needed to set out the composition of the proposed Palestinian technocratic committee that is to deliver services inside Gaza<\/a>, as well as the leadership of the international stabilisation force (ISF), which is supposed to oversee security. Membership of the board of peace, the body that is to oversee the ISF and a Palestinian civilian police force also remains unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamas, still dominant in Gaza, also rejected the requirement to decommission its weapons, saying that had not been part of the original agreement. \u201cAssigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favour of the occupation,\u201d the militant group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAny international force, if established, should only be present at the border to separate the forces and monitor the ceasefire, and it should be under full UN supervision and act solely in coordination with the Palestinian institutions, without the occupation having any role in this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A British diplomat said weapon decommissioning would be the most difficult part of the process and was only likely to take place in the context of a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Many Palestinians are unhappy that the UN resolution only set out the most conditional path to a Palestinian state that brings together Gaza and the West Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, the Palestinian foreign minister, said: \u201cThe UN resolution is the first step in a long road towards peace. That step was needed because we could not embark on anything else before we had a ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said that although the US president\u2019s plan alluded to possible Palestinian statehood taking place only after the Palestinian Authority carried out reforms, that issue could be taken up later. \u201cAs long as these elements are in there, we\u2019re happy with this first step,\u201d Shahin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, this month agreed to work with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, on the drafting of a new constitution for the authority, the precondition for holding long-delayed elections and cleansing the organisation of endemic corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Varsen](\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ba33fb98ff55d4689bcc00cdbbeff285ee90b5b3\/0_0_5541_3694\/master\/5541.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none\")
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