US expected to oversee initial force of 200 foreign troops in Gaza, if ceasefire holds

The U.S. military is expected to oversee a joint force in Gaza that will initially consist of roughly 200 non-American troops, if and when the ceasefire process reaches that point, according to senior U.S. officials.

Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. Central Command, will oversee the International Stabilization Force, which will “probably be a bunch of” Qatari, Egyptian, Turkish, and Emirati troops, a senior U.S. official told reporters.

“His role will be to oversee, observe, make sure there are no violations, incursion; everybody’s worried about the other side,” the official said of Cooper. “So much of this is going to be oversight. Embedded within his team of 200 people will be probably a bunch of people from the Egyptian armed forces, who will help the

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