It is a good characterization. The ceasefire has had a few false starts already, but overall it is holding. I think it will require constant attention by global leaders in order to keep the pressure on all sides for this to continue to hold. Canada is currently, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, represented in the Civilian-Military Coordination Center, which is U.S. led, and is based in Israel just north of Gaza. It's a large building with several floors. The Israel Defense Forces are there. International partners are there. The American military is there. We are embedded through civilian and military presence in this group, in this cell, which is there to observe and document the daily occurrences of the ceasefire.
The intention is to migrate from this to an international stabilization force. As a matter of fact, just this morning we learned that the United States was going to table at the UN Security Council a resolution to establish an ISF, an international stabilization force. This is a very positive development, because this force could have been developed outside of UN confines. It could have been done as regional groupings, strictly U.S. led. The fact that it is being introduced in the context of the UN Security Council is an indication of doubling down on multinational institutions, but it also has a much higher likelihood of drawing the credibility and the legitimacy that the world is looking for. It will, therefore, also increase the likelihood of military contributions of a peacekeeping nature or at least of an observational nature to be from across the globe.
