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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Julian Borger in Washington

One of the oddest UN resolutions in history seeks to solidify shaky Gaza ceasefire into an enduring peace

Birds fly over the Gaza Strip on November 18, 2025 as seen from Southern Israel.
Birds fly over the Gaza Strip on November 18, 2025 as seen from Southern Israel. Photograph: Amir Levy/Getty Images

The resolution passed by the UN security council on Tuesday evening, aimed at turning the precarious Gaza ceasefire into a real peace plan, is one of the oddest in United Nations history.

It puts Donald Trump in supreme control of Gaza, perhaps with Tony Blair as his immediate subordinate in a “board of peace”, which will oversee multinational peacekeeping troops, a committee of Palestinian technocrats and a local police force, for a period of two years.

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