Hamas denies involvement in shooting in Rafah

The Palestinian group rejected any connection to what Israel describes as a shooting attack in Rafah in southern Gaza, which it used to justify the series of deadly air strikes.

The continuing bombing in Gaza “represents a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm el-Sheikh under the auspices of US President Trump”, a Hamas statement on Telegram said.

It called the attack “an extension of a series of violations committed over the past few days, including attacks that resulted in deaths and injuries, and the continued closure of the Rafah crossing, which confirms the insistence on violating the terms of the agreement and attempting to sabotage it”.

The group called on ceasefire guarantors “to take immediate action to pressure” Israel to stop its assault and “oblige it to abide by” all provisions of the deal.

Israeli media earlier reported an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters in Rafah.

US-Israel relations in the spotlight as Gaza truce teeters on the brink

Rami Khouri, a distinguished public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, says the attacks being carried out by Israel have been widely expected by many Middle East observers.

“The big issue here is the relationship between Netanyahu and Trump, and between the Israeli government and the American government,” he told Al Jazeera from Beirut, Lebanon.

Hamas in Gaza is “in a very weak position and it is complying as fully as it can with the ceasefire regulations” without any aim to engage in fighting, said Khouri, adding the Israeli attacks are “a test for American diplomacy”.

“We will just have to wait for 24 hours or so to see if there is a sign from the United States government that they are going to put pressure on Netanyahu to stop this kind of an attack,” he said.

What the mediating powers – Turkiye, Egypt and Qatar – will do is another important question, said Khouri.

Israeli army chief: ‘The war is not yet over’

Eyal Zamir says Hamas is committed to returning the remaining deceased Israeli captives, but “it is violating its commitment”.

“We will not remain silent about this. We will continue to act to return all our hostages for burial. This is our moral and ethical duty,” he was quoted as saying by The Times of Israel.

“If Hamas does not fulfil its commitments, it will bear responsibility and will pay a heavy price. Many challenges still await us. The war is not yet over.”

Israeli escalation across occupied territory, not just besieged Gaza

While most international focus is on catastrophic conditions in Gaza, Palestinians say violence and dispossession have also continued to ramp up in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

“It is touching every aspect of Palestinian life everywhere. There is a lot of fragmentation within the Palestinian community, but everyone is affected and targeted in a different way,” Dr Samah Jabr, a Palestinian psychiatrist, told Al Jazeera.

“There is escalation now in the West Bank that was overshadowed by the grave events in Gaza,” she added.

US vice president says Gaza ceasefire holds despite Israeli bombing

JD Vance says the United States expects Israel to retaliate against ceasefire violations by Hamas, but the overall framework of the agreement remains in place.

“The ceasefire is holding. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,” Vance told reporters.

“We know that Hamas or somebody else within Gaza attacked an [Israeli military] soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite that.”

US officials have offered little criticism of the continuous Israeli attacks in Gaza that have killed nearly 100 Palestinians since the beginning of the US-backed truce, along with other violations such as continued Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid.

Hamas denied involvement in a shooting attack that took place near Rafah earlier, which Israel used as justification to launch deadly air strikes.

Israel told US it will bombard Gaza: Report

Israel notified the United States before its latest deadly strikes in Gaza, The Associated Press reports, citing two unnamed US officials.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s order for the air attacks came after Israel alleged soldiers were fired on in southern Gaza by Palestinian gunmen. Hamas has denied any involvement.


Again what motive could Hamas possibly have to fire on Israeli soldiers... Israel is known for false flag 'incidents' and the timing is again very suspicious. Just needed a little more reason to bomb again than misidentifying a body. 

If you look at how staged this is

Hamas lies. They know where the remaining hostages are. Staged excavations are not only abusive - these violations endanger the ceasefire.

Drone footage shows Hamas moving & reburying body remains - then staging a false discovery for the Red Cross to witness. pic.twitter.com/PBtA7xSOo4

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 28, 2025

Israel attacks kill 9 people in Gaza and wound 15 others

Hospital sources tell Al Jazeera at least 9 martyrs and 15 injured in Israeli airstrikes on cities of Gaza & Khan Younis.

Red cresent has the same toll, 4 in Sabra, Gaza, 5 in Khan Younis.

Here's what makes the timing even more suspicious

Francesca Albanese calls for "suspension of all ties with Israel" until "Gaza genocide" ends

On 28 October 2025, Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, presented her most recent report to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues) of the United Nations General Assembly at its 80th session in New York.

Ms. Albanese was speaking remotely from South Africa.

As in previous sessions, the Committee examined human rights questions, including reports of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council. The Committee heard presentations from Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts, and Chairs of Treaty Bodies and Working Groups as mandated by the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly.

Ceasefire hasn’t stopped Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza: UN expert

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, says Israel continues to kill, starve, maim, and displace the people of Gaza despite the three-week-old truce. “The ceasefire declared on October 11 did not stop the assault on Gaza,” Albanese told Al Jazeera from Cape Town in South Africa. Israel has committed at least 125 violations of the truce, killed nearly 100, and wounded about 350 Palestinians since the US-brokered ceasefire took effect, she noted. “Any person with an inch of common sense has been saying … is this possible that in the middle of a genocide we cheer for this proposal that does not take into account any human rights, international law?” Albanese said of Trump’s Gaza “peace plan”.

Pro-Palestinian prisoners in UK will start hunger strike: Campaign group

Prisoners for Palestine says pro-Palestine activists jailed in the United Kingdom will start a series of hunger strikes, claiming all of them have been unjustly treated.

In a statement, the group said it had sent a letter to the country’s home secretary and warned the British government about the planned strike more than a week ago.

According to Prisoners for Palestine, the letter “has gone unanswered and ignored”.

“They have faced systematic abuse throughout their incarceration, and since the proscription of Palestine Action in July, the level of abuse and mistreatment has escalated,” it added.

It added, “The prisoners feel they have no other choice but to launch a rolling hunger strike in support of a principled set of demands, which include an end to interference with their communications, the right to a fair trial, and the proscription of Palestine Action.”

There are currently 33 pro-Palestine prisoners being held without trial in British jails, the group also said.

Two Palestinian children shot by Israeli troops in West Bank

The Palestinian news service Wafa reports that two Palestinian children were injured when Israeli forces opened fire on a group of children in al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

Citing local sources, Wafa said one child was hit in the abdomen and the other in the limbs in the incident on Tuesday night. Israeli troops stormed the village and detained four people.

Red Cross condemns ‘staged recovery’ of Israeli captive’s body

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a statement criticising Hamas for what it called “staging” the recovery of a dead captive’s remains.

Drone footage shared by the Israeli army purports to show Hamas fighters burying the body in the ground before calling in ICRC teams and retrieving it when they were present.

The ICRC said its personnel “were not aware that a deceased person had been placed there prior to their arrival, as seen in the footage”.

“Our role as neutral intermediary does not include unearthing the bodies of the deceased. Our team only observed what appeared to be the recovery of remains without prior knowledge of the circumstances leading up to it,” the statement said.

“It is unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged when so much depends on this agreement being upheld, and when so many families are still anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.”



What would be the purpose of staging this? Can't the red cross see the difference between disturbed and undisturbed earth?!

Hamas lies. They know where the remaining hostages are. Staged excavations are not only abusive - these violations endanger the ceasefire.

Drone footage shows Hamas moving & reburying body remains - then staging a false discovery for the Red Cross to witness. pic.twitter.com/PBtA7xSOo4

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 28, 2025

Turkiye slams Israel for violating Gaza ceasefire

The Foreign Ministry says Israel’s recent attacks on Gaza “constitute a clear violation of the ceasefire”.

The statement expressed “deep concern over the reports of civilian casualties”. “We emphasise once again that full compliance with the ceasefire is vital for preserving the hope of lasting peace and establishing regional security,” it said.

“We reiterate our call on Israel to adhere to the ceasefire and refrain from actions that undermine peace and stability.”

Nine Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on various parts of Gaza this evening in violation of the ceasefire, according to hospital sources in Gaza.

Malaysian PM says he told Trump Gaza deal ‘must be fair’

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says he urged US President Donald Trump to ensure the peace agreement between Israel and Hamas is “fair”.

Malaysia has offered to deploy peacekeepers to war-battered Gaza.

Anwar did his “best to appeal” to Trump that the Gaza “peace initiative must be comprehensive, must be durable, must be fair, ultimately”, the Malaysian leader told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur after wrapping up an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.

Trump attended the summit on its first day. Anwar said he made “full use of the opportunity” of his ride in the US president’s car – after receiving Trump on Sunday – to engage him.

Trump “is a good listener in private engagements”, Anwar said, noting “He gave some views. I politely disagreed with some issues.”

Lebanon’s Aoun calls for end to Israeli attacks in meeting with US envoy

President Joseph Aoun has called for an end to the near-daily deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon during a meeting in Beirut with US envoy Morgan Ortagus.

Israel has intensified its attacks on Hezbollah targets across the country despite a ceasefire. The strikes, now more frequent and widespread, have killed more than a dozen people in recent days.

Ortagus urged Lebanese leaders to accelerate Hezbollah’s disarmament and consider direct talks with Israel – a divisive issue in Lebanon.

Hamas names two deceased Israeli captives whose bodies it recovered

The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has recovered the bodies of two dead Israeli captives, Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch, during search operations conducted today, a statement on Telegram says.

There are still 13 bodies of captives in Gaza. Hamas said earlier that it recovered the body of one abductee, but after Israel began attacking Gaza, the group said it would delay the handover.

Over the weekend, Egypt deployed a team of experts and heavy equipment to help search for the bodies of the remaining captives.

An Arab official involved in negotiating the ceasefire said that talks are under way with both sides to try to prevent the truce from collapsing. “Both sides violated the agreement, but there was no significant breach,” The Associated Press quoted the unnamed official as saying.

9 people dead, not of any significance since they're Palestinians...

An Israeli strike in the Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City killed at least three women and a man, according to Gaza Civil Defense, while in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip at least five people were killed, including two children and a woman. In northern Gaza, the director of Al Shifa hospital Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya reported at least three strikes landing nearby.


Oh, Israel wasn't done yet

New Israeli attacks in Gaza kill 18

Medical sources in Gaza tell Al Jazeera at least 18 Palestinians have been killed and about 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes across the war-torn enclave.

Israeli planes launched a series of attacks from north to south after Israel accused Hamas of violating a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory, the latest test of a fragile deal brokered earlier this month by US President Donald Trump.

The US later played down the deadly air strikes and tank fire, saying that “skirmishes” are expected after two years of war.

Israel shows desire for ‘permanent military control’ over Gaza

Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, says Israeli officials have demonstrated a “clear and consistent intent to establish permanent military control over Gaza and to change its demographic composition”.

“We remain deeply concerned over this issue, as the changes already made to land and borders have not been meaningfully reversed despite the recent ceasefire, and statements by Israeli officials make it clear that objectives of ethnic cleansing and establishment of settlements in the Gaza Strip remain firmly in place,” Pillay told reporters.

Israel’s discussion of annexing the occupied West Bank is also alarming, Pillay added, citing a recent vote in the Knesset supporting that goal.

US has not offered further comment on Israeli strikes on Gaza

There hasn’t been anything coming directly from the US State Department. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio is travelling with President Donald Trump on their way to a summit in South Korea.

But we have heard from US Vice President JD Vance, who spoke briefly to reporters and said the latest “skirmishes” between Israel and Hamas are to be expected.

This is something that was anticipated during the negotiations leading up to the ceasefire, which took effect on October 11. Vance stressed to reporters that in the Trump administration’s view, the ceasefire is holding.

This is not a ceasefire ffs. 


Netanyahu will keep testing the (no) limits. 18 dead today, how many with next excuse to kill more civilians.

Main events on October 28th

• Israel bombed Gaza from north to south – killing at least 18 Palestinians and wounding dozens – after an alleged exchange of gunfire between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters.
• Hamas has rejected any involvement in what Israel described as a shooting attack in Rafah in southern Gaza, which it used to justify the deadly air strikes.
• The International Committee of the Red Cross issued a statement criticising Hamas for what it called “staging” the recovery of a dead captive’s remains.
• UN official Navi Pillay said Israeli officials have demonstrated a “clear and consistent intent to establish permanent military control over Gaza and to change its demographic composition”.
• The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced it recovered the bodies of two more dead Israeli captives, Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch.

Blow to Trump’s claims on Gaza peace deal as Netanyahu orders major strikes

Benjamin Netanyahu has once again chosen to defy Donald Trump by publicly announcing the violation of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered a major military offensive against defenseless people of Gaza accusing Hamas of violating the deal. Rifat Jawaid argues that this was expected since Netanyahu is known for not respecting a peace deal.

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