A US official sharing about the deployment said that the Defence Department has dispatched several dozen commandos in recent days, in addition to a small team that was in Israel on October 7 but declined to give the specific number of the security forces deployment. Israel-Palestine War: American Forces Working in Israel To Locate Hamas Held Hostages, Says Pentagon.
The IDF is pushing deeper into Gaza in an effort to rescue the hostages captured by Hamas during the terror attack, while Netanyahu has rejected all calls for a ceasefire.