US to send about 200 troops to ‘oversee’ Gaza ceasefire deal

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to “oversee” the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, US media reported.

The task force will “oversee, observe, make sure there are no violations” of the deal, a senior US official told reporters.

According to the official, members of Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish armed forces would be embedded in the US team.

The troops



will stay in Israel, where they will support logistics, transportation, engineering and planning, the officials said.

“They will not be in Gaza. No US boots on the ground in Gaza,” one of the officials said.

Israel and Hamas agreed to pause hostilities in Gaza on Thursday, a deal Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social network, saying it was the first step to “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace”.