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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/07/us-centcom-gaza-israel-trump-peace/
U.S. Steps Up Gaza Aid Role
(Washington Post) Karen DeYoung - The U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) charged with implementing President Trump's Gaza peace plan is to become the overseer of humanitarian aid to the enclave, formerly the responsibility of the Israel Ministry of Defense's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT). A COGAT statement said, "The Americans will be integrated into the formulation and implementation of coordination, supervision, and control mechanisms in the context of humanitarian aid, in full cooperation with the Israeli security services." Israeli officials said that while "the Americans will take the lead in engaging with the international community on humanitarian matters...it should be emphasized that this does not constitute a transfer of authority or responsibility from COGAT to the Americans." There was "no change in policy" governing aid inspection or dual-use items, and aid entry "will be carried out solely by [Israeli-] approved international organizations." The CMCC is headquartered in a three-story building in Kiryat Gat, 20 miles northeast of Gaza. The Americans occupy one floor, with Israeli military, intelligence and civilian personnel on another. Representatives of dozens of partner nations (including France, Germany and Britain), nongovernmental organizations, international institutions and the private sector are on a separate floor. "The whole activity of the Americans operating in Gaza is something new," said Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, who served as director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs.