Calls on UN Security Council to Impose Global Arms Embargo on Israel
The understanding is if weapons continue to flow to Israel, the IDF won't be able to control itself
The first phase of US president Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan has been implemented and talk has shifted to the deployment of an international peacekeeping force. Yet, with ongoing Israeli breaches to the pause on genocide, a key advocacy group is calling on the United Nations Security Council to take further steps to ensure that the end to the killing holds.
Washington-based group DAWN (Democracy in the Arab World Now) has called on the UN Security Council to incorporate into a resolution currently being negotiated on the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) to be deployed to Gaza, that an immediate arms embargo be placed on Israel, that Gaza’s borders are put under international control and that the ISF operation should involve fact-finding.
Following the Israeli Defence Forces having withdrawn across a demarcation line in Gaza and a hostage exchange having taken place, US secretary of state Mark Rubio was in Israel on Friday, 24 October 2025, discussing countries willing to participate in the ISF, while DAWN insists that if Israel remains in control of the borders, the ISF’s mission will fail, as it needs to control the supply lines.
DAWN has been calling for international peacekeepers to be deployed to Gaza since March 2024, based on the consideration that no amount of negotiations were going to end Israel’s mass commission of atrocities against the Palestinians of Gaza, and the group advocating for peace in the Middle East maintains that an arms embargo is necessitated to stop the IDF’s mass slaughter.
Cold turkey
“If the purpose of the International Stabilisation Force is to protect Palestinians from further violence, it must have the authority to control all borders into Gaza and allow the unhindered delivery of aid to the besieged territory,” insisted DAWN executive director Sarah Leah Whitson in a 23 October 2025 statement.
“Deploying peacekeepers to Gaza without curbing weapons to Israel will do nothing to curb its capacity to resume its atrocities,” the US lawyer underscored.
The National reports that the ISF is expected to be a force of at least 4,000 security officers from Egypt, Azerbaijan, Türkiye and Indonesia. This force won’t be heavily armed but will rely on light weapons and armoured vehicles. These troops are expected to be deployed to the Palestinian territory from which the IDF has withdrawn. So, the heavily armed IDF will be stationed close by.
Based on the livestreamed genocide perpetrated by apartheid Israel over the last 24 months, the clear issue with this arrangement is that at some point the IDF will attack the peacekeepers, likely sooner than later, and this is why the DC advocacy group is calling on the UNSC to implement a global arms embargo on Israel, because the genocidal Netanyahu government cannot be trusted.
Neither can others, mind you. Declassified Australia recently revealed that this country has directly couriered 70-odd shipments of F-35 parts to Israel over the course of the genocide via commercial flights. These jets have been vital for Israel in its mass slaughter. The F-35s burn through parts and Australia’s Rosebank Engineering is the only producer of the device that opens its weapons bay doors.
The latest local revelation comprises the Australian Defence Department having entered into a $19.8 million contract with Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. The deal was cut two weeks before the UN declared that Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza. Australia has entered into $48.8 million worth of contracts with key genocide contributor Elbit Systems since 7 October 2023.
The arms embargo on Israel was recommended by the International Court of Justice, as part of its 2024 advisory opinion on Tel Aviv’s operations in the Palestinian territory, which further ordered Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip “as rapidly as possible”.
DAWN makes clear that “only such an arms embargo will curb Israel’s ability to resume its atrocities in Gaza”. The organisation further pointed to this action having precedent, as the UNSC has imposed numerous arms embargos on states, including of late, the Central African Republic in 2013, the nation of Yemen in 2015, while in 2018, the Security Council stopped arms imports into South Sudan.
Blue sky thinking
US president Donald Trump unveiled his 20-point peace plan at a 29 September 2025 press conference alongside the wanted war criminal Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas agreed to the ceasefire and the return of Israeli hostages and the remains of those who have died on 3 October, in exchange for Palestinian detainees and the remains of the deceased.
The withdrawal of Israeli troops behind the line occurred, as did the hostage exchange. Yet, Hamas couldn’t locate all remains under the rumble, within the 72-hour time frame. There are thousands of murdered Palestinians beneath the region’s flattened infrastructure. The Gaza Health Ministry’s death count is now around 70,000, while a recent study estimates the count being more like 680,000.
Hamas hasn’t agreed to the entire plan, as its later parts involve self-determination and that’s up to the entire Palestinian people. However, what the plan at its later stages envisions is quite bizarre. A committee of apolitical Palestinian technocrats with provide provisional governance, under the oversight of a ‘Board of Peace’, which will be chaired by Trump and other global figures.
The only person other than the mad king from Mar-a-Lago to have been named as one of the potential overlords on this colonial board is former UK PM Tony Blair, whom it’s suggested should rather be tried for war crimes over his part in the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, which was based on lies and saw hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed during the takeover and subsequent occupation.
While Trump, Blair and the other yet-to-be-named international figures making up the Board of Peace will be charged with organising the redevelopment of Gaza and trusted to conduct this in an aboveboard manner, this stage of the peace plan will then be followed by the handing over of power to a returned Palestinian Authority, after it’s undergone a rehabilitation program.
Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty is now calling for the ISF to be deployed as soon as possible, and he’s also suggested that it’s not acceptable for the Board of Peace to be running Gaza, as Palestinians must be in control of their own affairs. The minister added that the plan now stipulates that the board be charged with liaising with Israel and organising the flow of donor funding.
Reflecting basic humanity in the plan
Despite his having smiled along during Trump’s late September White House announcement of the 20-point peace plan, Netanyahu has cast doubt over it. The Israeli PM has asserted that Israel would continue to provide security in the Gaza Strip for the foreseeable future, and he’s suggested that the Palestinian Authority, which provides governance in the West Bank, may not be suitable for Gaza.
Permanent members of the UN Security Council France, Britain and the USA are currently negotiating the resolution to facilitate the ISF, and DAWN is calling for its parameters to be broadened, so that the supply of weapons to Israel is ended, and that the ISF can ensure the strip’s borders remain open, in order to permanently end Tel Aviv’s program of mass starvation of Gaza’s population.
The final extension to the currently negotiated resolution would be that the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (IOC), which was established by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2021, would have access over the interim to investigate ongoing rights violations. The IOC is the UN body that determined genocide is taking place in Gaza.
DAWN’s advocacy director Raed Jarrar has stipulated that the UNSC should ensure the IOC is resourced with “forensic specialists in pathology, anthropology, odontology and explosives analysis”, as well as “DNA laboratories and geospatial analysis capabilities”. The investigators should have free range to document Israeli crimes and establish sites at mass casualty scenes and destroyed facilities.
“Gaza is an active crime scene where the UNSC has an opportunity to ensure that evidence of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity is preserved before it is destroyed forever,” explained Jarrar. “Accountability for Israeli crimes will bolster the credibility of international law as a viable tool for justice.”
The Arab American political advocate further insists that the plans to have participants from the US, Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye and the Red Cross conducting investigations to locate the remains of Israelis at the site of the genocide must be extended to include the remains of the Palestinians of Gaza, especially as there are thousands of them hidden under the debris that now covers the region.
“Palestinians are human beings too, and our families deserve the same dignity, the same urgency and the same international support to recover and identify our loved ones as Israeli families receive,” Jarrar said in concluding.
“There are over 10,000 dead Palestinians under the rubble in Gaza, yet the remains recovery mechanism has focused exclusively on Israeli victims, while Palestinian families continue searching for loved ones without adequate equipment or international support.”
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