Rubio urges quick deployment of international 'stabilization' force in Gaza

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with US military personnel as he visits the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel © Fadel SENNA / POOL/AFP Turkey, a NATO member and one of the region's strongest militaries, was the first Muslim-majority country to recognise Israel.
61% : US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media after visiting the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel, on October 24, 2025.
54% : Obviously as you put together this force, it will have to be people that Israel is comfortable with," he said.
53% : Rubio is the latest high-profile member of US President Donald Trump's cabinet to visit Israel in a bid to shore up the fragile ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.
50% : The United Arab Emirates, which normalised ties with Israel in 2020, has already been involved in ceasefire monitoring.
50% : It called for greater pressure on Israel to allow in humanitarian aid.
49% : The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday there had been little improvement in the amount of aid going into Gaza - and no observable reduction in hunger.
48% : Israel is still waiting for Hamas to return the remains of 13 of 28 dead hostages it promised to hand over.
47% : Rubio said the United States may seek a UN mandate for the force as some countries need the world body's imprimatur to deploy troops.
42% : Rubio visited Israel on the heels of Vice President JD Vance as part of an all-out effort by the United States to protect the truce - including by preventing major new action by Israel.
41% : Gaza- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced hope Friday of soon putting together an international force to police the ceasefire in Gaza and said Israel could veto participants.
39% : © Fadel Senna, AP US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said it was critical for the ceasefire deal in Gaza that an international stabilisation force be deployed "as soon as it possibly can", with Israel potentially able to veto participants.
39% : Rubio expressed optimism for a durable end to the two-year war in Gaza as he met Israeli, US and other Western forces monitoring the ceasefire from inside a vast converted warehouse in southern Israel.
28% : The deal spearheaded by US President Donald Trump calls for an international force to enter Gaza and oversee security after Israel's ceasefire with Hamas, whose unprecedented attack on October 7, 2023 sparked a war that has left most of Gaza in rubble.
23% : He confirmed that Israel would enjoy vetoes on the force composition, amid reports that Israel has objected to participation by Turkey.
21% : Trump, responding to concerns by Arab states, has urged Israel not to annex the occupied West Bank.
15% : But, under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has welcomed Hamas leaders and been a critic of Israel, which Erdogan accuses of committing genocide in Gaza, an allegation Israel denies.
5% : The Trump administration has pulled back from much of the United Nations, and Rubio again rejected any future role for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which Israel has long sought to sideline.

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