US ambassador to Yemen to head US Centrer overseeing Gaza

The U.S. State Department on Friday appointed a career foreign service officer and the current ambassador to Yemen, Steven Fagin, as the civilian lead for a new center working to implement a peace deal in Gaza and get humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave, the department said in a statement.

The announcement came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel, and pledged that more U.S. diplomats would be joining the roughly 200 U.S. military personnel posted there.