A Group of Democrats Presses for Answers on Secretive U.S. Gaza Command
A group of Senate Democrats is pushing the Trump administration to explain what, exactly, the U.S. is doing at a new coordination center in Israel and why so little about it has been shared with Congress.
Led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Brian Schatz and joined by ten other democrats, the lawmakers sent a long list of questions in a Sunday letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which was first reported by NOTUS. The Democratic senators want to know how the Civil-Military Coordination Center operates, who runs it and how much control it has over the flow of aid into Gaza.
“The Trump administration is volunteering American service members at the CMCC for a mission that is doomed to fail,” Warren told NOTUS in a statement. “They must overhaul their approach and stop the Netanyahu government from calling the shots on who gets fed in Gaza.”
The U.S. established the Civil-Military Coordination Center, or CMCC, in the southern Israel city of Kiryat Gat after President Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement that took effect on Oct. 10. About 200 U.S. troops now work there to oversee the deal and coordinate aid into Gaza.
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By: Hamed Ahmadi
Source: NOTUS
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