Al Jazeera reports that Palestinian resistance factions are urging Algeria – a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council – to reject a proposal to deploy stabilisation forces in Gaza.
The Security Council is expected to vote tomorrow on a draft that would authorise roughly 20,000 foreign troops, empowered to use force, to secure Gaza’s borders, train Palestinian police and demilitarise armed groups.
In their statement, the factions described the effort as “a new attempt to impose another form of occupation on our land and people, and to legitimise foreign trusteeship”.
“We direct a sincere and fraternal appeal to the Algerian Republic, government and people, to continue adhering to its principled positions supporting Palestine, and its steadfast rejection of any projects targeting Gaza’s identity and our people’s right to self-determination,” the statement added.
Al-Jazeera also cites the PFLP’s Maher al-Tahir as warning that the plan’s danger “lies in turning the Gaza Strip into an area outside Palestinian governance” through a transitional phase that “may last for years, which poses a significant danger and keeps the Gaza Strip under a new occupation.