Trump administration plans to shut Gaza ceasefire monitoring centre

The Trump administration is preparing to shut the Civil-Military Coordination Centre, the U.S. military-run hub set up near Gaza to monitor the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and help move aid into the strip. If the centre closes, Washington will lose its main operational foothold for watching the truce from just outside Gaza, and Palestinians waiting on relief could face a more fragmented and slower aid pipeline.

The Civil-Military Coordination Centre opened under U.S. Central Command on October 17, 2025, in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel, five days after world leaders signed a U.S.-brokered plan to permanently end the war between Israel and Hamas. U.S. personnel were not sent into Gaza; instead, the centre was meant to coordinate humanitarian, logistical and security assistance with international counterparts. Follow-up reporting described a staff of roughly 600, underscoring how large the American-led effort became even though it operated from outside Gaza itself.

On the ground, the closure would matter because the centre was supposed to provide the practical machinery that turns a ceasefire into something enforceable. It was meant to track compliance, coordinate humanitarian access and reduce the chance that a pause in fighting would unravel. Without that hub, visibility over what enters Gaza, who clears convoys, and which breaches are logged would be spread across Israel, Hamas, aid agencies and regional powers, with no single shared mechanism to keep them aligned. That would narrow American leverage at the very moment the broader Gaza plan is struggling to hold.

The political framework around the mission was already under strain. Hamas agreed only to parts of Donald Trump’s peace plan and left the disarmament question untouched, while repeated Israeli attacks after the October truce weakened confidence in the arrangement. The centre’s possible shutdown would deepen the impression that the administration’s Gaza design is losing its operational core, not just its diplomatic momentum.

The wider architecture also rests on a thinner base than its architects once suggested. In November 2025, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, endorsing Trump’s Gaza plan and authorizing a temporary International Stabilization Force and a Board of Peace. Five countries have committed troops to that force, Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania, but the reported closure of the coordination centre would suggest its responsibilities are being pushed elsewhere before the new security structure is fully in place. The Board of Peace denied that the centre was closing, while one official described it as playing a “critical role” in aid delivery and coordination. That split leaves the basic question unresolved: who, exactly, is running the ceasefire on the ground in Gaza?