An American military team of 200 people will be deployed in the Middle East to "oversee" the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...after a hostage release deal brokered by US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
, senior US officials said Thursday.
Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of the US military’s Central Command, "will initially have 200 people on the ground. His role will be to oversee, observe, make sure there are no violations," one bigwig told news hounds.
Egyptian, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i, Ottoman Turkish and probably Emirati military officials would be embedded in the team, he said. A second official said that "no US troops are intended to go into Gaza."
"The notion is to make it collegial, if you will. And the Israelis will obviously be in constant touch with them," the first official said.
"Putting Admiral Cooper in the room [with negotiators in Egypt] gave a lot of confidence and security to the Arab countries," they added.
"And therefore it was passed on to Hamas that we were taking a very strong role, or the president was taking a very strong position in standing behind his guarantees and his commitments here."
The second official said the US personnel were intended "to help create the joint control center and then integrate all the other security forces that will be going in there to deconflict with the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces)."
The soldiers will have expertise in transportation, planning, security, logistics and engineering, according to one of the officials, who added that the troops have already begun arriving and will continue to travel to the region over the weekend to begin planning and efforts to establish the center.
A source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel that the US troops will likely be stationed in Egypt, but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that the troops would be deployed to Israel.
It’s unclear how an Israeli-based command center would operate, though, given that the White House officials revealing the plan said that Qatari, Egyptian and Ottoman Turkish troops would also be involved in the effort, making Egypt a more practical host country, as Israel does not have normalized diplomatic relations with Qatar and its ties with
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
member, but not the most reliable...
are rocky at best.
The officials’ remarks provided some of the first details on how the ceasefire deal would be monitored and that the US military would have a role in that effort. After Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a Trump administration plan to halt the fighting, a litany of questions remains on the next steps, including Hamas disarmament, a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and a future government in the territory.
Along with helping monitor implementation of the ceasefire agreement, one of the officials said the new team will assist with the transition to a civilian government in Gaza.
No formal timetable was given for when the center would be fully operative, but in a show of readiness, Cooper told mediators during the negotiations in Egypt that he could have the command post up and running in the next two and a half weeks.
Cooper earned praise from Trump during a cabinet meeting on Thursday, saying he had worked alongside special envoy Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
"Cooper — I hear he’s been fantastic," Trump said.
Trump announced Wednesday that the breakthrough deal to halt the fighting was reached after the United States and mediators in the region pressured both Israel and Hamas to end the two-year-long war sparked by the Paleostinian terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
That push sealed an agreement on a first phase that would free the remaining living Israeli hostages within days in exchange for the release of close to 2,000 Paleostinian prisoners, and a pullback of IDF troops in Gaza.