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Israeli military resumes enforcement of ceasefire agreement after carrying out dozens of strikes in Gaza
The Israeli military has said it is resuming enforcement of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza after having carried out strikes against dozens of targets in response to what it described as a violation of the deal by Hamas.
In a post on X, the Israeli military said it had “resumed enforcement of the agreement” in line with instructions from the country’s leadership. The statement said the military had carried out attacks on “more than 30 terrorists in command positions within terror organisations operating in the Gaza Strip”.
It said the military would “continue to enforce the agreement and respond forcefully to any violation”.
Israel trying to impose ‘facts on the ground’ in Gaza in defiance of US-brokered ceasefire
The ceasefire in Gaza was fragile “from day one” as both Israel and Hamas agreed the deal under significant duress from the US and were hoping to blame the other for breaking the truce, Rob Geist Pinfold, lecturer in international security at King’s College London, tells Al Jazeera.
“So what we’re seeing is this game of chicken where both sides are trying to test each other’s limits, test each other’s boundaries, while also looking for the smoking gun that gives them the excuse to violate the ceasefire,” he said.
“The fact that a soldier was killed in Rafah – we still don’t know by whom, we still don’t know if this was ordered by Hamas or this was somebody else or a Hamas cell operating independently – [allowed] Israel to seize this opportunity to violate the ceasefire because this is what they wanted all along.”
He said that while the US will be trying to rein in Israel in private as Trump wants to claim the success of brokering an enduring ceasefire, Israel is trying to “impose its own facts on the ground” in Gaza.
“Israel has still not withdrawn from Gaza. It controls over 50 percent of the Gaza Strip directly and far more indirectly,” he said.
“What Israel has always been seeking to do is basically transplant its model from Lebanon, where there is supposedly a ceasefire but Israel has the ability to act unilaterally against Hezbollah targets, striking regularly and still occupying parts of southern Lebanon.
“So it’s understandable why to many Palestinians in Gaza this might not look like an actual ceasefire and definitely not a peace plan and more an indefinite, prolonged occupation with no end in sight.”
Can we stop pretending Hamas is in any way equivalent to the IDF. Hamas 'violating' the ceasefire is not digging fast enough, Israel violating the ceasefire is bombing and shooting civilians, restricting aid, keeping Rafah closed, firing on fisherman and so on and so on.
Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to at least 100: Civil Defence
Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 12 hours have killed at least 100 Palestinians, including 35 children, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.
As well as demanding an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire, a civil defence spokesperson called for the opening of safe humanitarian corridors to allow the entry of fuel, equipment and necessities to enable the organisation to carry out its work.
