Donald Trump shows a signed document during a summit on Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025 [AFP]
Next Monday, the UN Security Council will vote on the so-called “Gaza plan” promoted by Donald Trump. What is presented as a project for “stability” and “reconstruction” is nothing more than an attempt to impose, from the outside and without legitimacy, a vision that completely ignores the will of the Palestinian people and the political, historical, and human realities of Gaza.
This plan comes at a time when Gaza continues to bleed, besieged and devastated by years of blockade, war, and collective punishment. One cannot speak of peace while ignoring the root of the conflict: the Israeli occupation and apartheid. And yet, that is precisely what this draft promoted by Washington intends: to mask the status quo, secure Israel’s interests, and give a diplomatic veneer to the imposition.
History teaches us that every time an attempt is made to design the future of Palestine without Palestine, the result is more suffering, more resistance, and inevitable failure. Just as with the “Deal of the Century,” with the conferences that excluded the Palestinian people, and with every attempt to impose solutions from above, this new plan ignores the basic principle of any legitimate process: self-determination.
The Security Council, far from acting as a guarantor of international law, risks becoming once again a stage where powerful nations attempt to dictate reality to oppressed peoples. But the Palestinian people have demonstrated, generation after generation, that they will not accept being administered, reorganized, or redesigned by foreign interests.
Gaza does not need the plans of occupiers or architects of war disguised as peacemakers. Gaza needs an end to the blockade, an end to the bombing, an end to the occupation, genuine reconstruction based on human rights and justice, and a political path that respects the will of the Palestinian people.
UPAL reaffirms:
No plan for Gaza will be legitimate if it does not place at its center the end of the occupation and the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to decide their own destiny.
Monday’s vote will not be a verdict on Gaza; it will be a judgment on the credibility of the UN.
And the world will be watching.
Palestinian Union of Latin America – UPAL
November 17, 2025
