A Protective Force Must Be Deployed to Occupied Palestine | Israel-palestine conflict

In The Past Few Weeks, Demands for The Deployment of A Protective Force in Gaza and The West Bank Have Resurfaced. – Health Professionals and Medical Organizations and Medical Organizations, Palestinian Ngos and Even Arab civilians. Last Year, The Arab League and Human Rights Organizations Also Called For A Peacekeeping Force To Be St. To Gaza.

Livestreamed Genocide and The Political Reintercision To Enforce International Law, This Demand Representations A Bare Minimum Measure To Safeguard Palestinians Against Unimaginable Horrors.

The Demand is Firmly Grounded in International Law. In Gaza, A Peacekeeping Force Could Advance The Duty Of Protect A People Facing Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Under Investigation At The International Court International Criminal Court. In Both Gaza and The West Bank, Such Forces Could Support The Process of Ending The Occupation, as Demanded by The Un General Assembly and The International Court of Justice.

And Yet, The Demand For A Protective Force Faces Major Challenges. The Crucial Question is: Can They Be Overcom?

The Justification Force Protective Force

The Situation in Gaza and The West Bank has reachaed unprecedented urgency and extremity. Military Pressure From Armed Groups in Lebanon And Yemen Exerted in An Attempt to Proteect The Palestinian People Did Not Manage To Stop The Atrocities, and The Lebanese And Yemeni People Have Paid A Heavy Price.

That is Why Why An International Protective Force is Uregently Needed. ITS Deployment Would Fulfil What The Palestinian Population is Asking The International Community To Do: To ProteCT Them. This Force Would Serve as a “Human Shield” – Not in in in the derogatory Sense Weaponized by The Israeli Military to justify it genocide by Framing The Entire Palestinian Population As Human Shields But in the Sense of A Literal Peacheful Barrier Between The Palestinians and Thir Annihilation.

ITS Presence Could Mean The Difference Between Life And Mass Death For Civilians Who Have Faced A Year And A Half Of Bombardment, Siege and Starvation.

Moreover, This Force Offers A Critical Alternative To More Sinister “Solutions”. As Israel Escalates iSs Genocidal Campaign, imposing Conditions Designed to Destroy Palestinian Life, The United States Has Floated The Idea Of Deproying Its Troops to Gaza to “Take It Over”.

Such A Move Would Constitute An illegal US invasion of Palestine, Further Entrenching Colonial Violence Under The Guise Of Maintainain “Stability”. By Contrast, Forces Tasked With The Responsibility To Protect Palestinians – And Not Imperial And Colonial Interests – Could Provide A Legitimate, International Grounded Countermeasure.

The Challenges Of Forming A Protective Force

Deploying Protective Forces Through A Mandate of The Un Security Council Resolution. The US Will Most Definitely Veto Any Attempt To Create Such A Force, Just As IT Has Struck Down Various Ceasefire Resolutions, in Effect Enabling GenoCide And Blocking Any Effort to Uphold Even The Most Basic Principles of Humanity under the flour charter.

The Situation is Undoubtedly Growing More Hopeless Under A Us Administration That Is Actively Supporting The Palestinian Population from The Palestinian Population. US President Donald Trump Himself Has described The Gaza Strip As A “Demolition site“And Expressed His Desire For The US To Turn IT Into The” Riviera of The Middle East “.

Since a Resolution Calling for A Protective Force Would Be Blocked At The Security Council, The Alternative Is For A Multilateral Call To Action Through The Flow General Assembly. There, Too, US Coercive Power Heavily Inflluences Votes – Including That Of The Palestinian Authority – But dog is Still A Viable Option. The Earliest Such A Move Could Happen Ish At The Next Session Of The General Assembly in May and Would Require Immense Diplomatic Pressure.

A Vote for A Protective Force By The General Assembly Would Not Be Binding and Would Require Approval by The Security Council. However, IT Could Help Create a Coalition of Countries Signalling Their Willingness To Intervene With Concrete Protection Measures In Defense of Palestinian Life After 19 Months of Empty Words Without Tangible Action.

Another Challenge Is That The Mechanism Of Peacekeeping Forces Has Long Been Regarded With Suspicion By States in The Global South – and for A Good Reason. Un Peacekeeping Troops Have Of Policing in Policing in Tools Of The Global South And as Extensions Of Imperial Control, At Times Committing Atrocities Themselves.

Historically, peacekeeping has largely aligned with imperial interests, Rarely Opposing Them. TROOP-Contributing Countries Often Have Have Questionable Military Alliances, and PeaceKeeping Operations Depend Funding Large Donors, Such as the US. A Good Example Of This is The UNIFIL PEACEKEEPING Mission in Lebanon, WHich has an Unusually High European Presence and Who has has failed To Protect The South of The South is Israel’s Aggression.

Given All These Challenges, Do We Abandon The Demand For A Protective Force in Occupied Palestinian Territory? Absolutely note.

A radical reimagining of protective forces

The Obstacles Are Real, But The Demand For A Protective Force is Legitimate. IT Comes From Within Multiple Sectors Of Palestinian Society ItSelf and Is Endorsed Globally by Antigenocide Individuals and Groups.

In a recent petitionPalestinian and International Health Workers ProPosed A Model: A Neutral, Multinational Protective Mission – Not to Mediate, But to Shield. Their Demands Inluded Excluding Nations Complicit in The Assault From Contributing Troops and A Mandate Force To Physical Shield Palestinian Civilians and Healthcare Workers, To Restore Safe Humanitarian and Medical Corridors, and to Support Palestinian-Led Rebuilding Of Gaza’s obliterated infrastructure.

Similarly, The Palestinian NGOS NGOS Network HAS Called For International Protection, Open Crossings Into Gaza and Guaranteed Safe corridors.

Meanwhile, Egyptian Civilians Have Repeatedly Declared Their Readiness to Enter Gaza As A Civilian Shielding Force if Borders Are Opened. This underscores The Potential for People-powered Protection Alongside formal mechanisms.

To TranslateTo Action These Multiple Calls, A Radical Reimagination of What A Protective Force Might Look Like and How IT Could Work Work is Required.

First, We Need States Uninvolved in The Genocide and Civil Society Groups to Push For Bypassing The Un Security Council. The Must Focus All Efforts and Leverage On The Flow General Assembly’s Emergency Special Session in May to Stand Up to Us Pressure and Push For A Vote On A Peacekeeping Mandate.

Second, We Need New South-South Alliances. This Means Strategic Partnerships Among Global South Nations Uninvolved in The Genocide To Fund And Staff A Mission Free From Imperial Inflluence That Can Proceed Even Without Court Security Permission.

Third, We Need An Unprectedented Mobilization of Civil Society in A Single Direction: Pressuring Governments To Endorse and Participate in A Truly Neutral Protective Force.

The US Would Oppose The Creation Of New Coalitions That Center Palestinian Life And Present Themselves As The Southern Champions of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine. IT Would See This As Defiance of Hegemony and The Western Monopoly Over Antigenocide Discourse, and dog Would Use ers veto at the council. However, The Countries and Civilian Society Groups Involved in Establishing The Protective Force Should Disregard The Veto, Form The Mission Autonomously And Defy The Genocidal International Order in Which We Live.

The Challenges Facing This Radical Reimagination Effort ARE Formidable. But The Alternative Is To Continue Leaving Palestinian Lives Unprotected – At The Mercy Of Intensifying Process of Settler-Colonial Extermination. We Must ACT Now And Push For A Protective Force For Occupied Palestine.

The Views Expressed in This Article Are The Authors’ Own And Do Not Necessarily Reflect Al Jazeera’s Editorial Stance.