"The idea of deploying a protective or peacekeeping force in Palestine is nothing new. After Israel was established through the horrendous massacres and mass ethnic cleansing of 1948, the United Nations set up its Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) to observe the implementation of the 1949 Israel-Arab Armistice Agreements. In 1974, it sent the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) to support the ceasefire between Israel and Syria, and in 1978, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was deployed on Lebanese territory."
"None of these forces was able to stop Israeli aggression. After the Israeli reinvasion of the occupied West Bank and the massacre in Jenin in 2002, former United States President Bill Clinton reawakened the idea of an international force in the occupied Palestinian territory. With the outbreak of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, this proposal started getting diplomatic traction again. In May 2024, the Arab League called for a peacekeeping force for the occupied Palestinian territory."
Deploying a protective or peacekeeping force in Palestine has precedent with UNTSO, UNDOF and UNIFIL, but those missions did not prevent Israeli aggression. Calls for an international protection force re-emerged after the 2002 Jenin massacre and intensified after the October 2023 Gaza genocide. The Arab League, Atlantic Council, Western officials including Germany's Annalena Baerbock, and a France–Saudi conference have supported or proposed such missions. The IPC's famine proclamation in Gaza increased pressure for intervention. Such an operation would be legal under international law and consistent with responsibility to protect. The main obstacle is that Israel and the United States will not accept a neutral force near Gaza, risking practical failure or complicity in ethnic cleansing.
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