Bloomberg newspaper revealed on Friday that the United States and its European allies are seeking to develop a plan to deploy an international peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip after the war, according to people familiar with the matter, which increases pressure on Israel to end its military operation as civilian casualties increase.

U.S. and European officials acknowledge there are big questions about whether such an operation would be workable in Gaza, and they recognize that Israel remains highly skeptical of such a plan, said the people, who requested anonymity while discussing private deliberations. But they said that even discussing the idea might help push Israel to think more about ending the campaign and thinking about what might happen next.

Discussions centered around the UN Security Council remain preliminary. These efforts come partly in response to growing international calls for a ceasefire in the Israeli attack on Hamas, which the United States and the European Union classify as a terrorist group.

In a sign of growing impatience with the Israeli offensive, which has killed more than 12,000 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the Security Council on Wednesday approved a resolution calling for a humanitarian truce in the fighting. The United States did not use its veto to block the measure, in a rare breach of its steadfast support for Israel.

One option being considered by US and European officials is to expand the role of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, which was first established in 1949 to help implement armistice agreements between Palestinian Arabs and Israel following the war that broke out in 1948 after the establishment of the occupying state. The Jewish state.

Similar UN structures could be used around the world as a model, the people said, pointing to the deployment of UN-backed forces in Haiti led by Kenyan soldiers and another force authorized by the UN Security Council in Somalia to fight the Islamist militant group.

The newspaper says, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and he and his aides insist that any plan for Gaza must include destroying Hamas, demilitarizing the Strip, and rooting out extremism in its schools and social system. They also said they expect their forces to enjoy Freedom of movement there for the foreseeable future."

In turn, the US State Department did not immediately respond to the newspaper’s request for comment. Testifying before the Senate last month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States wants a future for Gaza that does not include Hamas or Israel running the Strip.

In turn, Israeli President Isaac Herzog told the Financial Times on Thursday that Israel will have to maintain a “strong force” in Gaza in the near future to prevent Hamas from re-emerging in the Strip after the war, but US President Joe Biden warned. That occupying the Strip would be a "big mistake."

He added to the newspaper that the Israeli government is discussing many ideas regarding ways to manage the Gaza Strip once the war ends, noting that it is assumed that the United States and “our neighbors in the region” will have some participation in the system that will be put in place after the period of conflict.

For his part, Biden said on Wednesday that he made clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the two-state solution is the only way to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that occupying the Gaza Strip would be a “big mistake.”