The UN supported President Trump's plan for Gaza

Question

For a long time now Israel and Hamas have raged in conflict. On Monday the United Nations Security Council met to vote on President Trump, of the United States’, plan for peace in Gaza. This is a major win for the council, seeing as though there was a basically unanimous decision and the only countries that would have been against it abstained from voting. In the article by the New York Times, entitled In Major Breakthrough, U.N. Security Adopts U.S. Peace Plan for Gaza, the writer explains, “Security Council resolutions are considered legally binding international law, and although the Council does not have a mechanism for enforcing such resolutions, it can take measures to punish violators with penalties such as sanctions”. 

This is great news because there has been very little peace in this area for a long time now. This is then negated by the BBC article that explains that, “Hamas, reacting to the move, rejected the resolution and said it failed to meet Palestinians' rights and demands”. Now in a way it is hard to decide what it is that we should believe here. On one hand the United Nations Security Council unanimously decided on this key issue, but on the other Hamas has rejected the decision and seems to be unwilling to compromise. So which is true and which one should we believe. 

Answer 1

The post references both a New York Times article and a BBC article. These are international news outlets with professional standards but they do present information through journalistic framing. The New York Times article reports on the United Nations Security Council resolution supporting a U.S. Gaza plan. This article is not the original source itself, it summarizes the information from UN meetings and official documents. The most important source here is the original document from the United Nations Security Council, which adopted Resolution 2803 (2025).

Looking at another news source, from Straight Arrow News the U.S.-backed Gaza plan but that both Israel and Hamas expressed doubts or opposition afterward. While also looking at the UN Security Council Resolution 2803 was by a vote 13 in favor, 0 against, and 2 abstentions. The resolution endorsed a U.S.-backed plan and authorized a stabilization force and “Board of Peace” for Gaza.

The post frames the situation as one side or the other must be true or false but that is misleading. The security council did adopt the plan and Hamas did reject the resolution afterward. They are not competing facts, they are just different perspectives on the same event.

https://san.com/cc/un-approves-gaza-resolution-both-hamas-and-israel-have-their-doubts/

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/security-council-meeting-coverage-17nov25/