Uganda’s parliament on Thursday voted to approve the deployment of its military to the Gaza Strip, if it was needed as part of a multinational security force proposed under U.S. President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for the enclave.
Before the vote, Ugandan Defence Minister Kiryowa Kiwanuka told lawmakers Trump had, through emissaries, contacted Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni in July seeking Kampala’s contribution to the international force.
Uganda has a history of participating in international peacekeeping and enforcement efforts and currently has contingents deployed in several countries including Somalia, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Much of Gaza remains in ruins from two years of full-scale war triggered by the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. Peace negotiations have so far yielded little results, with Iran now in talks with Oman over shipping across the Strait of Hormuz.
Uganda’s opposition MPs have questioned on which side the country’s military force will fight. Early this month, Chief of Defence Forces, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, unveiled a statue of Yoni Netanyahu, PM Netanyahu’s brother, killed in the 1976 Entebbe raid, at Entebbe airport where Yoni died.
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