ABC News reported, citing two US officials, that 200 troops have arrived in Israel to “set up a coordination center to oversee the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza” and will work in a variety of areas including transportation, planning, logistics, security and engineering.
US forces will not enter the Gaza Strip. They will operate in Israel with various units and detachments from regional countries under the direction of Adm. Bradley Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the report said.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a 20-point plan developed on September 29 to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, release all Israeli prisoners held there in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, and gradually withdraw Israeli forces from the entire Gaza Strip.
The second phase of the plan calls for the establishment of a new governing structure in Gaza without the participation of Hamas, the creation of a security force made up of Palestinian and Arab-Islamic troops, and the disarmament of Hamas.
Since October 2023, Israeli military attacks have killed nearly 67,200 Palestinians in the enclave, most of them women and children, and rendered it uninhabitable.
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