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A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on Friday.

Last Updated: October 13, 2025, 12:42 AM EDT

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that both Israel and Hamas had "signed off" on the first phase of a peace plan in Gaza following negotiations in the Egyptian Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh. A ceasefire then came into effect on Friday.

Phase one of the deal will see all remaining hostages returned from Gaza, a number of Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails and the partial withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces inside the strip.

Oct 10, 2025, 9:15 PM EDT

What the 200 US troops in Israel will be doing to monitor ceasefire

U.S. troops have begun to arrive in Israel to set up a coordination center that will oversee implementation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, two officials told ABC News.

No U.S. troops will enter Gaza, the officials said.

According to one U.S. official, the 200 troops being sent to Israel specialize in transportation, planning, logistics, security and engineering. They will be working alongside representatives from other partner nations, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations.

The coordination center is seen as a kind of first step in helping to implement the peace process, which will require extensive coordination of humanitarian, logistical and security assistance.

The troops being sent to Israel to create the military-led command center are trickling in through the weekend with various components flying in from the U.S. and the Middle East.

Adm. Brad Cooper, who oversees U.S. troops across the region as head of U.S. Central Command, which is based in Tampa, Florida, was in Israel as of Friday, officials said.

-ABC News' Anne Flaherty

Oct 10, 2025, 6:32 PM EDT

Trump confirms he’s traveling to Israel and Egypt

President Donald Trump confirmed he plans to travel to Egypt and Israel as the initial steps of the Gaza peace plan are reached.

"I'll be going to Israel. I'll be speaking at the Knesset, I think early on. And then I'm also going to Egypt," said Trump during remarks Friday from the White House, adding, “Everyone wants this deal to happen."

"I'll go to Cairo. I think that's where we're going, as opposed to the place of the signing. And we have a lot of leaders from all over the world coming to know they've been invited," he said.

He did not say when exactly he'd be traveling.

Trump said he was confident the ceasefire would hold.

“It's a great deal for Israel, but it's a great deal for everybody, for Arabs, for Muslims, for everybody, for the world," he said.

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

Oct 10, 2025, 6:14 PM EDT

US troops have arrived in Israel

U.S. troops have begun to arrive in Israel as part of their work to support and oversee the ceasefire agreement, a person familiar with their work told ABC News.

-ABC News' Anne Flaherty

Oct 10, 2025, 1:20 PM EDT

Aid organizations call for massive scale-up of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza

The International Rescue Committee and Doctors Without Borders both called for increased amounts of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza immediately on Friday now that the first phase of the ceasefire deal has been agreed upon and gone into effect.

The IRC said they have "more than 5 tons of life-saving medical supplies," ready and waiting to enter Gaza as soon as it is allowed.

"After months of a near-total Israeli siege, the most basic necessities are still urgently needed in Gaza: medical equipment, medicines, food, water, fuel, and adequate shelter for 2 million people who will face the approaching winter without roofs over their heads," Doctors Without Borders said in a statement Friday.

"This ceasefire must be accompanied by an immediate massive and sustained scale-up of aid into and across the Strip, including the north," the organization added.

-ABC News' Nadine Shubailat

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