The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private-sector players, US officials said Thursday, AP reports.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that were not authorized for release, said US Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid as well as logistical and security assistance into the territory.

The coordination center will be staffed by about 200 US service members who have expertise in transportation, planning, security, logistics and engineering, said the official, who noted that no American troops will be sent into Gaza.

A second official said the troops would be drawn from US Central Command, which has troops stationed in the Middle East as well as other parts of the globe. That official added that the troops already have begun arriving and will continue to travel to the region over the weekend to begin planning and efforts to establish the center.

One of the officials said the new team will help monitor implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the transition to a civilian government in Gaza.

Earlier, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had announced that the Israeli government approved the agreement signed with Hamas.

Accordingly, the Israeli army will now withdraw to new lines in the Gaza Strip, after which Hamas will have 72 hours to release the hostages.

Israel is expected to release about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the remaining 48 hostages captured during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

About 20 Israeli hostages are still believed to alive.

The release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and the partial withdrawal of Israeli forces constitute the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan to resolve the conflict in the Gaza Strip.