Trump Gaza peace plan: Israel welcomes U.N. vote, Hamas rejects resolution

President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan may have passed the U.N. Security Council. But there are still major questions of how it will work.

To hear President Donald Trump tell it, this was "one of the biggest approvals in the history of the United Nations," a "moment of true historic proportion" that would " lead to further peace all over the world." But the gravity of the U.N. Security Council's endorsement of the U.S. Gaza plan raised renewed questions Tuesday over how it will actually work.

Most pressingly, it is not clear whether those at the heart of this conflict — the Palestinians and the Israelis themselves — actually support its end goals.

Hamas, which still controls around half of the strip, outright rejected the resolution and said it robs Palestinians of their own agency, effectively allowing Trump free reign over the Gaza Strip for the next two years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed its passage, but previously said he rejects its talk of "Palestinian self-determination and statehood" — which his far-right allies disavow.

On a practical level, the proposal says it will require the creation of several as-yet-non-existent bodies, including the “Board of Peace” headed by Trump, and the International Stabilization Force, or ISF, whose troops could be drawn from Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and as far away as Indonesia.

Displaced Palestinians try to protect their belongings from damage after heavy rain in the Austrian Quarter of Khan Younis, Gaza on Sunday.Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu via Getty ImagesThat said, this was a rare moment of geopolitical unity.