A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on Friday.
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.
The death toll in Gaza has risen by 151 in the last 24 hours, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The majority of the bodies recovered were from areas that were not safe for rescue crews to reach before the ceasefire.
"A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them at this time," the health ministry said.
-ABC News' Victoria Beaule
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
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
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
