Washington: The United States will deploy 200 troops as part of a common Gaza stability Task Forest, without Americans on Earth in the Palestinian enclave, two senior US officials said on Thursday.
The officials who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity said that 200 would be at the heart of a task force that would include representatives from Egypt’s military, Qatar, Turkey and probably the United Arab Emirates.
The officials said the exact location of the American troops had not yet been decided. But they would develop a common control center and integrate other security forces that will work in Gaza to coordinate with Israeli forces to avoid clashes.
“No American troops are meant to go into Gaza,” said one of the officials.
In response to a social media post, the White House specified press secretary Karoline Leavitt that up to 200 existing Centcom staff will monitor a ceasefire in Gaza with international forces.
The clarification of the White House spokesman is addressing the first phase of a US-broken Israel-Hamas deal announced by President Trump on October 8, 2025, which includes hostages and partly Israeli’s raise from Gaza, approved by Israel’s cabinet earlier today.
The officials said that it hopes that the Gaza agreement, once initiated, will cool down tensions in the region and create conditions for negotiations on more normalization agreements between Israel and Arab nations.
US President Donald Trump sparked in his first period what is known as the Abraham Agreements – Normalization Agreements between Israel and Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan.
The officials said that Saudi Arabia is a candidate for such an agreement with Israel, like Indonesia, Mauritania, Algeria, Syria and Lebanon.
