Al-Haq marks this Human Rights Day with its third and final instalment of the Trump Trilogy. Al-Haq condemns in the strongest terms the US imposition of the 'Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict', also known as the '20-point plan'. Presented as a path to peace, the ultimatum – prepared in coordination with Israel, but without Palestinian involvement – enables the permanent fragmentation, de facto annexation and foreign administration of Palestinian territory in breach of the inalienable Palestinian right to self-determination.

Rather than ensuring an immediate and unconditional end to Israel's unlawful occupation – as demanded by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024 – the plan extends, deepens, and internationalises it. The subsequent endorsement of the Trump Plan under UN Security Council resolution 2803 on 17 November 2025 represents a dark day for the international community. With 13 votes in favour and two abstentions, the Security Council chose to legitimise grave breaches of the UN Charter and peremptory norms of international law, violating their own stated commitment to (supposedly) universal values, including binding legal obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Trump's ultimatum places Gaza under a foreign-controlled International Stabilization Force (ISF) jointly led by the US, Israel, and select regional partners. Palestinians are denied any genuine role in determining the political future of their own territory. Governance of Gaza would instead be entrusted to an externally appointed "Board of Peace" chaired by Donald Trump, alongside international actors including former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, while Palestinians are confined to a technocratic administrative committee stripped of political authority. The plan provides no defined criteria, timeline, or limits for this foreign custodianship, rendering it – together with Israel's open-ended security perimeter and its control of vast areas behind the "Yellow Line", totalling over half of Gaza's territory – a blueprint for the indefinite alien occupation and de facto annexation of large parts of Gaza.

In parallel, the plan advances a model of economic exploitation that treats Gaza not as the homeland of the Palestinian people but as a commercial investment zone. Echoing the earlier GREAT Trust proposal and the 2020 'Economic Peace to Prosperity' plan, whose terms will guide the implementation of Resolution 2803, Gaza is envisioned as a "Mediterranean hub" whose reconstruction, resource wealth, and strategic position are opened to foreign capital, preferential tariffs, and special economic zones. Such frameworks instrumentalise the mass destruction inflicted on Palestinians, transforming the rubble of a devastated people into an arena for geopolitical extraction and profiteering, all while Palestine remains under foreign military occupation.

Throughout the ultimatum, there is a deliberate absence of any reference to accountability. Israel's decades-long impunity for international crimes including the ongoing genocide is completely omitted. The plan normalises Israel's unlawful occupation and pursuit of Palestinian erasure, offering political cover to Israeli officials while exempting the US from responsibility for financing and enabling the destruction of the Palestinian people.

Al-Haq warns that agreements imposed under conditions of genocide and duress, with terms that violate the most fundamental provisions of international law, are legally invalid. Consequently, Al-Haq calls on the international community to:

1. Reject UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and President Trump's 20-point plan, along with any other plan which does not incorporate views of the Palestinian people and egregiously violates international law.
2. Not invest in public partnerships and ventures set up by the 20-point plan, and to enact or implement legislation to prevent national companies from the intentional theft of Palestinian lands and national resources.
3. Uphold the recommendations of International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (19 July 2024).
4. Impose a full and immediate arms embargo against Israel and immediately cease all diplomatic and trade relations, including a full termination of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
5. Impose comprehensive sanctions, targeting all Israeli Ministers on the Security Cabinet and military leaders carrying out the genocide, along with settlers and settler organisations, as well as Israeli institutions and entities which aid the maintenance of the settler-colonial apartheid regime, and unlawful occupation.
6. Pursue international justice and accountability for crimes committed against the Palestinian people, including by:
   • Prosecuting suspected perpetrators in their own jurisdictions;
   • Initiating proceedings on the basis of universal jurisdiction;
   • Publicly supporting and cooperating with proceedings by the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine;
   • Calling for a IIIM accountability mechanism for Palestine and participate in and support a diplomatic aid convoy to Gaza.
7. Protect the role of civil society and human rights organisations. The recent US decision to sanction Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, and PCHR is carried out in the broader context of its wholesale attacks against individuals and groups working to promote accountability and ensure international law is abided by, including:
   • States exploring other avenues to effectively protect Palestinian civil society, UN mandate holders, and the ICC, and its officials, and those cooperating with it from the effects of current and potential future sanctions, including by adopting protective measures at the national level;
   • States publicly condemning such acts as a baseless attack against defenders of the rule of law, and refusing to comply with extraterritorial US laws;
   • The EU amending the Blocking Statute to include Executive Order 14203 in the list of laws, regulations and other legislative instruments to which the regulation applies.