A major hostage-prisoner exchange took place between Israel and Hamas on Monday (Oct 13), marking the crucial first step of a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza. Under the United States-brokered peace plan, the US military will oversee a multinational force of around 200 troops from Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and the United Arab Emirates that will monitor the ceasefire. Gregory Treverton, professor of the practice of international relations and spatial sciences at the University of