Khaberni - A Hebrew channel revealed on Wednesday evening that frictions were recorded between the Israeli Army and officers at the American command headquarters in Kiryat Gat (south) near the Gaza Strip.
On October 21st, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the opening of the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Israel, aimed at monitoring the implementation of the Sharm el-Sheikh ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which is part of a comprehensive plan proposed by US President Donald Trump to end the war in the sector.
CENTCOM stated at the time that the center was designed to support stabilization efforts and that US military forces would not be deployed inside the Gaza Strip, but would help facilitate the flow of humanitarian, logistical, and security aid from international partners into the sector.
Channel 13 Hebrew (private) reported: Recently, frictions were recorded between the Israeli Army and officers from the American command, after Israel refused their request to hold a series of security discussions on operational and sensitive issues.
The channel quoted unnamed senior Israeli officials: These are sensitive issues that have been discussed since the beginning of the war. Israel does not need the United States to start discussing them.
The officials said that the American command headquarters sometimes interferes excessively in security matters that Israel handles independently and well, and its policy is clear on them, without more details.
However, in early December, The Guardian reported that Israeli intelligence agencies had conducted surveillance and eavesdropping operations on American forces and forces from allied countries inside the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat.
According to the newspaper, the extent of the public and secret eavesdropping during discussions at the center prompted the American base commander Patrick Franck, to summon a senior Israeli official and demand an immediate cessation of the recordings.
In October, CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper said the Civil-Military Coordination Center would monitor the implementation of the ceasefire agreement, through an operations room that allows the staff to assess developments in Gaza moment by moment, according to the same statement.
An American-supported stabilization force, based at the aforementioned center, is supposed to ensure security in the Gaza Strip, as part of US President Donald Trump's plan.
It is worth mentioning that on September 29th, Trump announced a 20-point peace plan and ceasefire in Gaza that includes: the release of Israeli prisoners, the cessation of hostilities, the disarmament of Hamas, the withdrawal of Israel from the sector and the formation of a technocrat government, and the deployment of an international stabilization force.
On October 8th, 2023, Israel began a genocide in Gaza that lasted two years, with a casualty toll that exceeded 71,000 martyrs and 171,000 wounded Palestinians, in addition to immense destruction that affected 90% of the civilian infrastructure, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about 70 billion dollars.
