VERY INTERESTING Indeed !
The security force going by the name of International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in Gaza, will have the mission of providing security and stable environment for the war ravaged Palestinians in Gaza….
Better said than done folks….
Trump wants an American General in command of troops form several unknown countries….
Why unknown?
Because of Hamas and Israel….
Hamas fighters would have weapons and combat training that any other country would have to contend with if Hamas does NOT lay down its weapons….
Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Egypt says they could send troops….
Trump seems to NOT wanting American troops there…
But with an American general in-charge?
And US military infrastructure , even if limited IS gonna be needed…
If you read carefully the Axios linked piece below?
You’ll fins something interesting ….
Donald Trump finger prints AREW all over this….
Now I’m gonna ‘suppose’ some thing…
Back a while ago a Real Estate /US President was talking about making Gaza a ‘Vacation Resort Place’….
If one Donald Trump was to clean up Gaza….
Disarm it?
Get the rich Saudi’s to bankroll rebuilding it?
And need some American help?
Wouldn’t the Trump ‘Group’ be a place to make BILLIONS?
Trump wants a US general running the Gaza rebuilding Secuerity Op….
The Trump administration is planning to appoint an American two-star general to command the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in Gaza, according to two U.S. officials and two Israeli officials.
Why it matters: The appointment will further increase the U.S. responsibility for securing and rebuilding Gaza, which is turning into the biggest U.S. political-civilian-military project in the Middle East in more than two decades.
Breaking it down: The U.S. established a civil-military headquarters in Israel to monitor the ceasefire and coordinate humanitarian aid.
- The U.S. is leading the planning for the reconstruction of Gaza.
- Trump is expected to head the Gaza Board of Peace, and his top advisers will be members of an international executive board.
- Now, the U.S. will be in command of the enclave’s security force.
Nevertheless, White House officials stress there will be no U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza.
Driving the news: The ceasefire in Gaza is Trump’s biggest second-term foreign policy achievement so far, but the truce is fragile and his administration wants to proceed to the second phase soon to avoid sliding back into war.
- The second phase of the deal involves the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pulling farther back, the ISF deploying to Gaza, and a new governing structure coming into force, including the Trump-led Board of Peace.
- The UN Security Council recently authorized both the ISF and the board.
- Trump told reporters Wednesday that he’s planning to announce the Gaza Board of Peace in early 2026.
Behind the scenes: Two Israeli officials said UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, who visited Israel this week, told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials that the Trump administration is going to lead the ISF and appoint a two-star general as its commander.
- “Waltz even said he knows the general personally and stressed he is a very serious guy,” one Israeli official said.
- The Israeli officials said Waltz stressed that having an American general in charge of the ISF should give Israel confidence it will operate according to appropriate standards.
- Two U.S. officials confirmed that the plan is to appoint a U.S. general to lead the ISF….
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Rain and flooding come’s to Gaza….
Rains drenched Gaza’s tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as winter storm Byron descended on the war-battered territory, showing how two months of a ceasefire have failed to sufficiently address the spiraling humanitarian crisis there.
Families found their possessions and food supplies soaked inside their tents. Children’s sandaled feet disappeared under opaque brown water that flooded the camps, running knee deep in some places. Dirt roads turned to mud. Piles of garbage and sewagecascaded like waterfalls.
“We have been drowned. I don’t have clothes to wear and we have no mattresses left,” said Um Salman Abu Qenas, a displaced mother in a Khan Younis tent camp. She said that her family couldn’t sleep the night before, because of the water in the tent…
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Rains wreak havoc
Sabreen Qudeeh, also in the Khan Younis camp, in a squalid area known as Muwasi, said that her family woke up to rain leaking from their tent’s ceiling and water from the street soaking their mattresses.
“My little daughters were screaming,” she said.
Ahmad Abu Taha, also living in the camp, said there wasn’t a tent that escaped the flooding. “Conditions are very bad, we have old people, displaced, and sick people inside this camp,” he said….
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Not enough aid
Aid groups say that Israel isn’t allowing enough aid into Gaza to begin rebuilding the territory after years of war.
Under the agreement, Israel agreed to comply with aid stipulations from an earlier January truce, which specified that it allow 600 trucks of aid each day into Gaza, It maintains it’s doing so, but The Associated Press found that some of its own figures call that into question.
The January truce also specified that Israel let in a number of caravans and tents. No caravans have yet entered Gaza during the ceasefire, said Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, an Israeli group advocating for Palestinians’ right to freedom of movement….
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Amnesty accuses Hamas of crimes against humanity
Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday that Hamas and other militant groups committed crimes against humanity in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.
In the 173-page report, Amnesty pointed to what it found to be widespread and systematic killing of civilians in the attack, as well as torture, hostage-taking and sexual abuse.
In the attack, Hamas fighters and other militants rampaged through southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking around 250 others hostage. Israel’s campaign in Gaza has since killed more than 70,300 Palestinians, roughly half of them women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between militants and civilians in its count. Last year, Amnesty accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, a charge Israel denied….
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Hamas condemned the report, saying it “echoed false claims” by Israel.
Israeli Foreign Minister spokesperson Oren Marmorstein derided the report in a posting on X, saying it took more than two years for Amnesty to address the attack “and even now its report falls far short of reflecting the full scope of Hamas’s horrific atrocities.”…
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