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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22036/gaza-peacekeepers-monitors
Why Gaza Does Not Need "Peacekeepers" and "Monitors"
(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - On Nov. 4, Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, told Qatar's Al-Jazeera that there is a "Palestinian consensus that the security force in Gaza should be Palestinian, under the leadership of the committee managing the Strip." Is Hamas planning to thwart U.S. efforts to deploy an international force in Gaza? According to a U.S. official, the proposed International Security Force (ISF) will be an "enforcement force and not a peacekeeping force." According to the draft resolution sent by the U.S. to members of the UN Security Council, the ISF would "stabilize the security environment in Gaza by ensuring the process of demilitarization and prevention of rebuilding of military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, as well as the permanent decommissioning of weapons from non-state armed groups." Hamas is opposed to an international force, viewing it as a direct threat to its rule over Gaza. It is unrealistic to think that soldiers of any outside force - especially Arab and Muslim troops - would risk being shot at by trying to stop any military reconstruction in Gaza by Hamas or other terrorist groups. This bad bet was made unmistakably clear by the presence of UNIFIL in Lebanon, where it took about a minute for the UNIFIL forces to support the terrorists, not confront them. The writer, a veteran Israeli journalist, is a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.