The approval is real and worth reporting as an approval. An Israeli official said on July 26 that the security cabinet cleared 'key legal measures' allowing an International Stabilization Force to enter Gaza [1].
What follows is the shape of the thing approved, and each condition is on the record.
The initial force is 200 personnel. Uganda and Morocco are named as contributors. Israel retains authority to approve which countries may contribute troops - which means the composition of an international force is set by one of the parties. The force operates 'in full coordination with' the Israeli military. It deploys only in areas outside Israeli military control [1].
That last condition needs a number beside it. Israel currently occupies roughly 70 percent of Gaza [1]. The force is therefore authorised for the remainder.
Nickolay Mladenov, director-general of the Gaza Board of Peace, called the approval 'a critical part of the agreed framework for stabilising Gaza.' No deployment date was given [1].
None of this makes the decision meaningless. Two hundred people with an international mandate is not nothing, and the legal measures had to exist before anyone could arrive.
What it does is set the expectation correctly. This is not a force interposed between the parties. It is a small contingent, vetted by one party, coordinating with that party's army, operating where that party's army is not.
