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200 US troops to help with peace deal

The U.S. will have roughly 200 military personnel in Israel helping oversee the implementation of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.

The official said that Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), will have 200 people on the ground as parties work to get the deal implemented.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later posted on the social platform X that the U.S. forces involved are already stationed at Centcom.

A second U.S. official clarified that no U.S. troops are expected to go into Gaza. Officials said they were still working to determine the exact location of their deployment.

The first U.S. official said Cooper’s role will be to “oversee, obs

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