A Critical Reading of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 Concerning the Cessation of the War in Gaza. ‎By Dr. Wael Al-Rimawi‎

‎A Critical Reading of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 Concerning the Cessation of the War in Gaza.

‎By Dr. Wael Al-Rimawi‎

Translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Ebeid.24 November 2025.

‎First, in commenting on the positions of the various Palestinian parties, we say, “The fact that the different Palestinian parties define a position on the international resolution is an issue, and reacting to the resolution and the developments that entail it is a second issue, because the first does not mean that you will not react to the developments that are imposed on you.”‎

‎One of the most important flaws of the resolution, according to Al-Jarbawi, is that it reduced international legitimacy ‎‎to a peace council and an international stabilization force, rather than a peacekeeping force. Therefore, we ask: “Where are the UN resolutions? Where is the international legitimacy? The United Nations has delegated the matter to a peace council that sends a report every six months to the United Nations, which is the de facto and executive governor of Gaza.”‎

‎We believe that this is a reduction of legitimacy, and the term “stabilization force” differs from the concept of peacekeeping forces.‎

‎Also, we warn against the return of conditions and talk about fundamental reforms, and we consider which discusses flaws in the decision. “The decision was related to the Gaza Strip and not to the Palestinian issue, and as a result, the West Bank left an open wound in front of the settlement monster and the violence of the settlers, and thus it started to separate the West Bank from the Strip, and it did not give the Palestinian Authority the right to be in the Gaza Strip instantaneously, but rather linked it to the reforms that no one knows exactly how, when, and what they are, despite their remoteness and the appearance of some of their positive results.”‎

‎On the subject of reforms, we add: “We have entered into this issue before; they used to present the PA with a list, and you are trying to complete it, and later new items are added to this list. So we don’t know when the reforms will end. This is an open topic.”‎

‎The critical question, he stresses, is: Who judges the reforms? It is the Peace Council and perhaps Israel!?, Does it ultimately mean we’re stuck in the open-ended issue? an‎

‎++However, we believe that the decision addressed a necessary issue, the first of which is to stop the war. “This is important for us as Palestinians, in the face of the continuous suffering we are experiencing, and the decision has taken the Gaza Strip and its future out of Israeli exclusivity and unilateral control.”‎

‎We conclude:‎

‎”The agreement ended a critical issue, which is the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as well, and ended a fundamental issue in the right-wing Zionist mentality based on expulsion, we are towards the end of expulsion and displacement, and although voluntary displacement remains open (which is indeed forced), this is a positive and good thing, and a central point for the Palestinians. We are facing a decision to rescue those who are left in Gaza, a promise of rehabilitation and reconstruction, and a promise of an independent Palestinian state in the future.‎