The U.N. Security Council on Monday approved a U.S. plan for Gaza that authorizes an international stabilization force to provide security and envisions a possible future path to an independent Palestinian state.

The vote was a crucial next step for the fragile ceasefire and efforts to outline Gaza’s future following two years of war between Israel and Hamas. During nearly two weeks of negotiations on the U.S. resolution, Arab nations and the Palestinians had pressed the United States to strengthen the original weak language about Palestinian self-determination.

The U.S. resolution endorses U.S. President Donald Trump ’s 20-point ceasefire plan, which calls for a yet-to-be-established Board of Peace as a transitional authority that Trump would head. It also authorizes the stabilization f

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