{"id":544321,"date":"2026-07-16T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544321\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:28:08","slug":"morocco-signs-up-to-gaza-security-plan-palestinians-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544321\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco signs up to Gaza security plan Palestinians rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov has been leading efforts to build up the International Stabilisation Force for Gaza. [Getty]<\/p>\n

Morocco <\/a>has signed an agreement to join the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in Gaza<\/a>, becoming the latest state to back a controversial US-led security blueprint that still lacks Palestinian consent and the conditions for deployment on the ground.<\/p>\n

Morocco signed the pact on Wednesday <\/a>at a meeting in Rabat attended by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, the Board of Peace’s special envoy for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, and a visiting ISF delegation, including the force\u2019s commander, according to the\u00a0state news agency MAP.<\/p>\n

The defence administration said the agreement “reflects the shared determination to contribute, through concrete humanitarian and security actions, to the establishment of a climate of peace and security in the region,” framing Morocco’s participation as an extension of its broader diplomatic role in Middle Eastern crises.<\/p>\n

Under the accord, Morocco will provide a legal framework for the technical and operational aspects of any eventual deployment, including senior military officers, gendarmerie and police personnel, and a planned military field hospital for Gaza.<\/p>\n

Mladenov and ISF officials welcomed the move, praising King Mohammed VI’s “visionary leadership” and describing Rabat’s decision<\/a> as translating “its longstanding commitment to the Palestinian people into concrete actions.”<\/p>\n

Morocco, a longtime US ally, restored diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020 under the so\u2011called Abraham Accords brokered by President Donald Trump<\/a>, while continuing to support a two\u2011state solution and publicly backing Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n

Morocco’s announcement comes against the backdrop of Phase 2 of Trump\u2019s 20\u2011point Gaza plan, where Israeli forces were supposed to begin withdrawing from Gaza at the start of 2026, with ISF troops moving in to fill the security vacuum and a Palestinian technocratic body taking over civilian governance.<\/p>\n

In reality, however, almost none of this has materialised. Negotiations remain deadlocked over Hamas disarmament, with Israel refusing to step back without “visible progress” on that condition and Hamas rejecting disarmament as a precondition for any transition.<\/p>\n

Israel <\/a>has instead expanded the areas under its direct military control, pushing a demarcation known as “the Yellow Line” further west so that by May it held around 60% of the enclave and has since ordered the army to move towards 70%, declaring everything east of the line a free\u2011fire zone.<\/p>\n

Washington has approached around 70 countries to contribute troops, aiming for a 10,000\u2011strong force by the end of 2026, and secured pledges worth roughly $17 billion at a February Board of Peace meeting in Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet only a handful of states\u2014Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania\u2014have committed personnel, and several of those commitments have frayed as the political and security costs of participation have become clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov has been leading efforts to build up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,23696,60,85,46,29334,43,133317],"class_list":["post-544321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-genocide","tag-gaza-war","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-trumps-board-of-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}