Aerial view of the destruction in Gaza City, Nov. 17, 2025. (Credit: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)
BEIRUT — Hamas criticized the U.N. Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, calling it an “international trusteeship” over Gaza and denouncing what it described as a “brutal war of extermination.”
The U.N. adopted the resolution, which is based on Donald Trump's peace plan and includes the deployment of an international force in the Palestinian enclave under U.S. pressure, on Monday night.
The resolution, which underwent several changes during sensitive negotiations, "endorses" the American president's plan that has enabled, since Oct. 10, a fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
“The resolution establishes an international trusteeship mechanism over the Gaza Strip, which our people, their forces, and factions refuse,” Hamas said in its statement.
The American text “also imposes a mechanism intended to achieve objectives that the occupation failed to achieve through the brutal war of extermination. Moreover, this resolution separates the Gaza Strip from the rest of the Palestinian geography,” added Hamas, which considers that the Trump plan “deprives” Palestinians of their right to self-determination and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
“Assigning an international force with missions inside the Gaza Strip, including the disarmament of the resistance, removes any neutrality and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation. Any international force, if implemented, must be stationed only at the borders in order to separate forces and supervise the cease-fire, and must be placed entirely under United Nations authority,” Hamas continued.
Hamas further states that the resolution “does not meet the demands and political and humanitarian rights of our Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, which has suffered for two full years a brutal war of extermination and crimes without precedent committed by the terrorist occupier in full view of the entire world.”
As for its disarmament, Hamas asserts that this issue “must remain a national internal matter, tied to a political process guaranteeing the end of the occupation and the establishment of a state.” Hamas also recalled that “humanitarian aid, assistance to victims, and the opening of crossing points are a fundamental right for our people in the Gaza Strip.”
“Aid and relief operations cannot remain subject to blackmail, politicization or complex procedures, in a context of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe caused by the occupation. This situation requires the rapid reopening of crossings and the mobilization of all resources to confront it, via the United Nations and its institutions, first and foremost UNRWA,” it said.
“We call on the international community and the Security Council to restore the primacy of international law and human values, and to adopt decisions that will provide justice for Gaza and the Palestinian cause by effectively ending the brutal war of extermination against the territory, starting reconstruction, ending occupation, and enabling our people to exercise their right to self-determination and to establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital,” Hamas concluded.
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