That is indeed the billion dollar question right now. I think, given where we are starting, it's important to really look at small steps that first stabilize the ceasefire and then start building the trust in very incremental ways. Like I said, right now, the only mission that exists is one of oversight, supervision and observation of a ceasefire, not a peace plan per se.
The next really important step will be the international stabilization force. That could actually see, depending on how the UN Security Council resolution is drafted, international troops, troops provided by a number of countries, enter Gaza and serve as a security force while the transfer to a proper authority among Palestinians of the monopoly of force and policing can occur.
It means, in the meantime, we have a lot of work to do to professionalize and to increase the number Palestinian security forces that would have the ability to play that role. This is a space where Canada has actually done a lot through the office of security coordinator in Jerusalem. Operation Proteus, one of the Canadian Armed Forces operations, has had the deputy command of this operation, which is a mix of military and civilian. They have done a lot of training among both civilian and not military, but Palestinian security forces.
There's a good basis from which to start there. It would need to be brought up to scale for that ISF, the international stabilization force, to first take hold, to be able to then train Palestinian security forces and then to bring them into Gaza.
Those are the next steps before we can even talk about developing proper governance in Gaza.
