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UN Security Council backs Trump's Gaza peace plan
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urges Middle Eastern nations to back Israel against Hamas after the U.N. adopts President Donald Trump’s peace plan.
The chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace told OSV News he was heartened by a United Nations move to approve President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip by installing international transitional governance and military forces there.
But it remains only a vague nod. It states that if the Palestinian Authority “faithfully” carries out reforms and if Gaza redevelopment advances, “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”