Hamas has firmly rejected the newly adopted UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, warning that the decision paves the way for an international trusteeship designed to erode Palestinian sovereignty, fragment the homeland, and repackage the occupation’s long-standing objectives under a new international framework.

In a statement released shortly after the vote, Hamas said the resolution fails to address the fundamental political and humanitarian rights of the Palestinian people—rights that have been systematically violated throughout two years of devastating Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.

According to the movement, the resolution “does not meet the political and humanitarian demands of the Palestinian people,” instead creating mechanisms to implement goals that Israel “failed to achieve through its war of extermination against Gaza.”

Hamas warned that the resolution effectively introduces an international guardianship over the Strip, detaching Gaza from the rest of occupied Palestine and imposing “a dangerous new reality targeting Palestinian national constants, unity, and legitimate rights.”

The group stressed that the Palestinian people will reject any arrangement that deprives them of their inalienable right to self-determination and the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state with Al-Quds—Jerusalem—as its capital.

A central element of the resolution calls for the deployment of a temporary foreign force with a mandate to oversee security, reconstruction, and internal order for an initial two-year period, subject to extension.

Hamas expressed deep alarm over this provision, arguing that such a force risks becoming a de facto authority over the Strip—functioning outside Palestinian legitimacy while advancing strategic aims aligned with the occupation.

US President Donald Trump celebrated the resolution as a “historic” step and confirmed his role as head of a newly created “Board of Peace for the Palestinian territory,” a move that further fueled Palestinian concerns about external control and political engineering under American sponsorship.

Hamas categorically rejected any attempt to include disarmament within the mandate of the foreign force, calling such measures blatant interference in internal Palestinian affairs.

The movement reaffirmed that the weapons of the resistance are “directly tied to the continued presence of the occupation,” emphasizing that any discussion on this matter must occur solely within a Palestinian political framework that guarantees an end to Israeli occupation and secures Palestinian national rights.

Hamas added that expanding the foreign force’s authority to internal operations in Gaza would strip it of neutrality and turn it into an active party in the conflict “serving the interests of the occupation.”

While acknowledging limited international roles in monitoring ceasefires, Hamas insisted that any foreign deployment must be restricted strictly to border areas, remain under full UN supervision, and coordinate exclusively with legitimate Palestinian institutions—without any cooperation or shared authority with Israel.

On the humanitarian front, Hamas criticized attempts to link aid delivery and the reopening of crossings to foreign military mandates. The movement emphasized that access to aid, water, food, medical supplies, and border crossings are not concessions but inherent rights of the Palestinian people—rights that must not be exploited as bargaining chips in political or security arrangements.

The rejection by Hamas sets the stage for significant political friction in the coming weeks, as Palestinians across Gaza and the wider homeland express growing concern that the new resolution threatens to entrench foreign control while ignoring the root cause of the conflict: the ongoing Israeli occupation and the Palestinian people’s decades-long struggle for freedom and sovereignty. (ILKHA)