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UN official notes ISF deployment, urges reunification and two-state process
Summary
A United Nations agency official noted rising strikes and the July 26 step enabling ISF deployment to Gaza, called for guiding efforts toward reunifying the West Bank and Gaza under a single sovereign Palestinian government and urged that Israel's legitimate security concerns be addressed.
An agency official at the United Nations said the increase in Israeli strikes and the expansion of military control "continues to increase pressure on the population in Gaza," and flagged related violence in the West Bank that has caused civilian casualties, displacement and property damage. The official said these dynamics were intensifying insecurity across affected communities.
The speaker "took note of the steps taken by the Israeli authorities on July 26 to enable the deployment of ISF to Gaza," a factual observation in the record; the transcript uses the acronym ISF but does not define it. The official said "these efforts must be guided by the political goal of reunifying, the West Bank and Gaza under a single legitimate sovereign Palestinian government ending unlawful occupation and restoring a political process towards a viable 2 state solution," and added that "Israel's legitimate security concerns must be addressed." The transcript does not record any further details on the legal basis, mandate, chain of command for the ISF deployment or whether the ISF reference denotes an international or national force.
