The Palestinian technocratic body tasked with managing postwar Gaza announced Thursday that it was opening applications for “qualified candidates” seeking to serve in a “transitional police force” to be deployed in the Strip.

The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) said in a statement on X that the recruitment process is open to “qualified candidates for a professional, accountable, transparent, and merit-based transitional police force in Gaza.”

Positions are available for “qualified men and women who wish to serve in the police force” and who want “to contribute to Gaza’s recovery,” the statement added.

Some 2,000 Palestinians signed up for the police force in the first hours after applications went live, Nikolay Mladenov, the Trump-appointed envoy overseeing post-war coordination in Gaza, told the Board of Peace meeting.

Jasper Jeffers, an Army Major General who was appointed commander of a U.N.-authorized multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza, told the meeting that the force’s long-term plan is to train some 12,000 police officers for Gaza.

Some training programs are already underway to prepare Palestinian police for deployment in Gaza under US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for the territory, which authorizes the deployment of a temporary International Stabilization Force that would support and work alongside the NCAG police force.

While the police force’s precise mandate and role, if any, in disarming Hamas remain vague, the “end state” of Trump’s plan would see “only NCAG-sanctioned personnel” carrying weapons in the Strip, according to details of the........

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