Making of Gaza mission: Uganda commits 1,200 but October deployment in doubt

Ugandan army. Currently, only Uganda has agreed to deploy a significant 1,200-strong contingent to the US-led International Stabilization Force.


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The US-led International Stabilization Force (ISF) is scrambling to secure alternative troop contributors as uncertainty grows over Indonesia’s participation, with planners now looking to Georgia and Vietnam less than a month before the planned October deployment.

The search for new troop-contributing countries underscores the uncertainty surrounding the mission as planners race to assemble a 20,000-strong force to support the fragile ceasefire in Gaza.