PALESTINIAN group Hamas has rejected the UN security council resolution providing for foreign occupation of Gaza.

The resolution, agreed on Monday, authorises an international “stabilisation force” to provide security in war-devastated Gaza, approves a transitional authority called the Board of Peace to be overseen by US President Donald Trump.

The resolution passed with 13 votes in favour, with Russia and China abstaining.

The resolution provides a wide mandate for the international force, including overseeing the borders, providing security and demilitarising Gaza.

But Hamas warned: “Assigning tasks and functions to an international force inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality and makes it a party to the conflict in the name of the occupation.”

“Any international force, if established, should be present only at the border to separate the forces and monitor the ceasefire.”

It said that any international force should be under the exclusive supervision of the UN and in co-ordination with official Palestinian institutions, without Israeli participation.

The group said the resolution did not “meet the level of our Palestinian people’s political and humanitarian demands and rights.”

Hamas said that the consequences of the genocide still persist and there was still “a humanitarian crisis affecting millions of civilians.”

Hamas also slammed “an international guardianship mechanism over the Gaza Strip, which our people, its forces and factions, reject.

“It also imposes a mechanism to achieve the objectives of the occupation, which it has failed to achieve through its brutal war of extermination.”

But the Palestinian Authority welcomed the resolution, saying it was ready to immediately implement it on the ground and would co-operate with the US, the UN and other Arab and European states.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office posted to X that: “We believe that President Trump’s plan will lead to peace and prosperity because it insists upon full demilitarisation, disarmament and the deradicalisation of Gaza.”

After heavy lobbying by the Israelis, the proposal still gives no timeline or guarantee for an independent Palestinian state, only saying it’s possible after advances in the reconstruction of Gaza and reforms of the Palestinian Authority.

It reads: “The conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.

“The US will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence.”

Israel insists it will not accept a Palestinian state.