On the night of Oct. 21, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance toured the U.S.-Israel Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) that has been set up in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel to monitor and aid implementation of the Sharm el Sheikh agreement. “We are one week into President Trump’s historic peace plan in the Middle East, and things are going, frankly, better than I expected,” Vance insisted at the top of a press conference inside the coordination center, where he was accompanied by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command.
“Here at the civilian-military cooperation center, which we are announcing the opening of, you have Israelis and Americans working hand-in-hand to try to begin the plan to rebuild Gaza, to implement a long-term peace, and to actually ensure that you have security forces on the ground in Gaza, not composed of Americans, who can keep the peace over the long term,” said Vance, reported the Times of Israel.
Along with Israeli and U.S. soldiers and civilian contractors, the coordination center was hosting British, Canadian, German, Danish, and Jordanian soldiers, with their respective countries’ flags hanging on low poles inside the cavernous building, located in the heart of Kiryat Gat’s industrial zone.
