An American official at the Pentagon has told Al Jazeera that 200 US military troops are en route to Israel.
They will be there to enforce this ceasefire. They are establishing a joint task force.
They emphasised that these US troops will not be setting foot in Gaza, but rather, they will have forces from other countries – including Qatar, Egypt, the UAE and Turkiye – embedded among the US forces, and it is those forces from other countries that may be going into Gaza itself.
This joint security control centre is to ensure that the implementation of the ceasefire is respected. This is apparently something that the US military has been planning as a ‘just in case’ for months.
A senior US administration official briefed reporters, saying that they are very happy to finally be implementing this, but that there could be modifications.
They urged caution, saying that even as all of this forward momentum is occurring, this is still a very delicate time, and there are a lot of ways that these things can go wrong.
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The US servicemen already stationed in the Middle East will monitor compliance with the ceasefire agreements in the Gaza Strip as part of an international mission, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced.
ReplyDeleteShe called media reports that the US would deploy 200 troops to the Middle East "not true and taken out of context." "To be clear: up to 200 US personnel, who are already stationed at CENTCOM (the United States Central Command - TASS), will be tasked with monitoring the peace agreement in Israel, and they will work with other international forces on the ground," the spokeswoman wrote on her X page.
Earlier, the Associated Press reported, citing sources in the US administration, that the US would deploy about 200 servicemen to Israel to provide support and monitor compliance with the ceasefire agreements in the Gaza Strip. According to the agency's sources, the US leadership is setting up a "civil-military coordination center" in Israel that will oversee the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and provide logistical and security assistance.
The Israeli army has stopped airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, Qatar’s Al Jazeera reported.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the TV channel, the attacks stopped after the country’s government approved the ceasefire agreement.
Despite the announcement of a ceasefire agreement, life in Gaza City remains far from normal for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
ReplyDeleteFamilies remain trapped, cut off from aid by Israeli forces, and struggling each day to survive.