Main events on October 29th
- At least 109 Palestinians, including dozens of children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past 12 hours in a major breach of the US-led ceasefire agreement.
- The US and other mediators say the ceasefire remains in place despite the gross violations, with Qatar’s prime minister saying all the parties remain committed to the deal.
- Palestinians in Gaza have held funerals for loved ones killed in the wave of Israeli bombings, while hospital staff treat dozens of patients suffering from shrapnel wounds and internal bleeding.
- Israel has banned the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced, spurring condemnation from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society advocacy group.
- Intensified Israeli army and settler attacks against Palestinians continue in the occupied West Bank, with several violent raids, arrests and other incidents reported.
CNN doesn't want to call out Israel in any way but Shehada makes a good point:
Gaza’s new normal is a truce without peace
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/middleeast/analysis-gaza-ceasefire-israel-strikes-new-normal-latam-intl
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According to Muhammad Shehada, a Gaza expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations, that territory [the 53% behind the yellow line that the IDF occupies] includes isolated Hamas cells trapped in tunnels and outside the militant organization’s command and control. With limited resources and no connection to Hamas’ remaining leadership, each cell is “a catastrophe in the making,” Shehada says.
“The closer those IDF vehicles come to a tunnel or to a hideout to those disconnected, isolated militants or the more they run out of food, the higher the chances that they emerge in battle with Israeli soldiers,” Shehada told CNN. “They would rather die in combat than die of starvation or wait for the IDF to find them.”
After the first major violation of the ceasefire [which was a bulldozer driving over unexploded ordnance] on October 19, Hamas issued a statement saying that “contact with the remnants of our groups” in areas like Rafah had “been cut off since the resumption of hostilities in March.” It is these “remnants” that Shehada says are ticking “time bombs.”
“Hamas doesn’t even know how many are there that are still alive,” said Shehada.
Although cell phones are dangerous to use for detection, describing it as "Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle" Japanese soldiers that didn't know WW2 was over, I don't really buy it. They can hear most of the bombing has stopped... then find a safe place to check the news on a smart phone.
Not being able to stay in contact, that's believable. Who do you call when the chain of command is killed... But they must know something is up.
However there will always be lone wolfs. Indiscriminately killing over 100 civilians isn't going to stop them. And there are tons of people with literally nothing left to lose around Gaza.







