COMMENT | Perhaps many of us are fully aware that the UN Security Council (UNSC) has recently passed Resolution 2803 (2025) aimed at turning the precarious Gaza ceasefire into a real peace plan.

Needless to say, the resolution is essentially a US-sponsored draft UNSC resolution.

After all, the draft merely endorses President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza Plan, which began with a ceasefire and hostage deal, and would ostensibly end in a heavily conditioned “pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood".

Anyway, the involvement of the UNSC in the Gaza tragedy is arguably a positive development.

Legally speaking, however, many international law scholars - including Jewish legal scholars such as Eliav Lieblich - argue the resolution is inherently problematic in several key aspects.

First of all, did the resolution...