President Donald Trump announced that nine countries pledged $7 billion toward Gaza relief and five nations agreed to deploy troops for an international stabilization force. This ambitious initiative offers a glimmer of hope for lasting peace but raises serious concerns about undermining established international institutions and the fragile ceasefire.
The plan for an International Stabilization Force in Gaza is faltering as key Muslim-majority and Arab states, despite supporting the framework, hesitate to commit troops to its most coercive mandate of demilitarizing non-state armed groups. This exposes the profound illegitimacy of a Western-designed 'peace' that seeks to force the Global South to clean up the imperialist messes created by decades of Western intervention and Israeli aggression, asking their soldiers to risk lives for a process that fails to address the root cause of the conflict: the denial of Palestinian sovereignty.
