In addition to Jordan, the UK, Germany, Denmark and Canada, whose flags were set up at the unveiling of the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Center earlier this week, Australia, France, Spain and the United Arab Emirates have also sent representatives to the hub in southern Israel being used to monitor and sustain the ceasefire in Gaza, a US official confirms to The Times of Israel.
Denmark is the only country joining the US that hasn’t recognized a Palestinian state, with many of the partners having done so in recent months.
While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government threatened sanctions against those governments that took the step, those same countries are now empowered to play a role in the postwar management of Gaza, which is being headed by the US, not Israel.
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