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SvennoJ on 09 October 2025
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US troops monitoring Gaza ceasefire seen as ‘pivotal security guarantee’ for Hamas

This was the pivotal security guarantee that seems to have convinced Hamas to agree to this deal.

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.

US troops part of regional task force to monitor Gaza ceasefire – what we know

We have been reporting on news of the deployment of 200 US troops to Israel to monitor the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Here’s what we know :

  • The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) will set up the task force of 200 troops deploying to monitor the ceasefire, known as the Civil-Military Coordination Center, or CMCC, a US official said.
  • The troops are deploying to Israel, but none are expected to enter Gaza.
  • The CMCC will be tasked with facilitating the flow of assistance into Gaza, including security assistance and humanitarian aid, US officials told reporters.
  • US troops deployed as part of the task force have expertise in planning, security, logistics and engineering, according to the Reuters news agency.
  • The coordination centre will also monitor to ensure Israel’s military and other security forces avoid clashes during the implementation of the ceasefire deal, which involves the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and Hamas’s release of captives.
  • CMCC will include representatives from the militaries of Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye – and it is likely the United Arab Emirates will also participate.