The United States is planning to establish a large, $500 million military base in Israel near the Gaza border, intended to house an international force tasked with monitoring the fragile ceasefire, according to a report published jointly last week by Ynet and the Shomrim website.

However, this plan is emerging amid a total deadlock in negotiations over the next phase of the truce, known as stage 2, as the U.S. seeks to put together a tangible International Stabilization Force (ISF) for the stated mission of disarming Hamas in the parts of Gaza that the terrorist organization still controls.

This impasse has, according to a Channel 13 report on Saturday, led the U.S. to suggest moving directly to reconstruction stages in the parts of Gaza that Israel controls (53%), a proposal Israe

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