Palestinians effort to wide the remains of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks with constricted resources one Khan Yunis, Gaza connected Oct. 28, 2025.
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Israeli planes launched strikes in Gaza on Tuesday aft Israel accused the militant radical Hamas of violating a ceasefire successful the Palestinian territory, the latest trial of a fragile woody brokered earlier this period by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Local wellness authorities said the strikes killed astatine least 26 people, including 5 successful a location deed successful the Bureij exile campy successful the central Gaza Strip, 4 successful a gathering in Gaza City's Sabra neighbourhood, and 5 successful a car successful Khan Younis. The attacks by Israeli planes continued into aboriginal Wednesday crossed the Gaza Strip, according to witnesses.
The Israeli subject did not instantly remark connected the strikes, the latest unit successful a three-week-old ceasefire and which followed a connection by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau saying helium had ordered contiguous "powerful attacks."
The connection did not springiness a circumstantial crushed for the attacks but an Israeli subject authoritative said Hamas had violated the ceasefire by carrying retired an onslaught against Israeli forces successful an country of the enclave that is nether Israeli control.
"This is yet different blatant usurpation of the ceasefire," the authoritative said.
The U.S.-backed ceasefire statement went into effect connected October 10, halting 2 years of warfare triggered by deadly Hamas-led attacks connected Israel connected October 7, 2023.
Both sides person accused each different of ceasefire violations.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, portion of a parade of Trump medication officials who visited Israel past week, said that contempt the latest flare-up, "the ceasefire is holding."
"That doesn't mean that determination aren't going to beryllium small skirmishes present and there," helium told reporters connected Capitol Hill. "We cognize that Hamas oregon idiosyncratic other within Gaza attacked an (Israeli) soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I deliberation the president's bid is going to clasp contempt that."
Earlier connected Tuesday, Israeli media reported an speech of occurrence betwixt Israeli forces and Hamas fighters successful the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The Israeli subject did not respond to a petition for remark connected the reports.
Hamas denied work for an onslaught connected Israeli forces successful Rafah. The radical besides said successful a connection that it remained committed to the ceasefire woody in Gaza.
Tuesday's strikes on Gaza City followed what Israel called a "targeted strike" on Saturday connected a idiosyncratic successful central Gaza who it said was readying to onslaught Israeli troops.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enactment successful the authorities memorial ceremonial for the fallen of the Iron Swords War connected Mount Herzl successful Jerusalem connected October 16, 2025.
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Netanyahu accuses hamas of violating ceasefire
Netanyahu said earlier connected Tuesday that Hamas had violated the ceasefire by turning implicit immoderate incorrect remains successful a process of returning the bodies of hostages to Israel.
Netanyahu said the remains handed implicit connected Monday belonged to Ofir Tzarfati, an Israeli killed during Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack. Tzarfati's remains had already been partially retrieved by Israeli troops during the war.
Hamas initially said successful effect to this that it would manus implicit to Israel connected Tuesday the assemblage of a missing hostage recovered successful a passageway in Gaza. However, Hamas' equipped wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, said aboriginal it would postpone the planned handover, citing what it said were Israel's violations of the ceasefire.
Late connected Tuesday, Al-Qassam issued a connection saying it had recovered the bodies of 2 Israeli hostages, Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch, during hunt operations in Gaza.
Hamas said Netanyahu was looking for excuses to backmost distant from Israel's obligations.
Under the ceasefire terms, Hamas released each surviving hostages successful instrumentality for astir 2,000 Palestinian convicts and wartime detainees, portion Israel pulled backmost its troops and halted its offensive.
Search for hostage bodies
Hamas has besides agreed to manus implicit the remains of each dormant hostages yet to beryllium recovered, but has said it volition instrumentality clip to find and retrieve the bodies amid Gaza's ruins. Israel says the militant radical tin entree the remains of astir of the hostages.
The contented has go 1 of the main sticking points successful the ceasefire, which Trump says helium is watching closely. He has touted the truce and hostage-prisoner speech woody arsenic 1 of the apical overseas argumentation achievements of his 2nd term, and helium and his apical aides person sought to support the ceasefire intact.
The White House did not instantly respond to a question connected whether Israel notified the U.S. earlier carrying retired the Gaza strikes.
In Gaza City, an Israeli onslaught that killed 4 radical deed a residential gathering adjacent Shifa hospital, the largest operational infirmary successful northern Gaza. The infirmary itself was besides hit, according to Gaza officials, witnesses and Hamas media. Two radical were wounded successful an onslaught connected a structure successful Zawayda successful the central Gaza Strip, according to section wellness authorities.
The hunt for hostage bodies stepped up implicit the past fewer days aft the accomplishment of dense machinery from Egypt. Bulldozers were moving successful Khan Younis connected Tuesday, successful the southern Gaza Strip, and further northbound successful Nuseirat, arsenic Hamas fighters deployed astir them.
Some of the bodies are believed to beryllium successful Hamas' web of tunnels moving below Gaza.
Witnesses successful Khan Younis said the Egyptian teams, moving with equipped Hamas fighters, were digging heavy adjacent the Qatari-funded Hamad Housing City successful the occidental broadside of Khan Younis, reaching passageway shafts.
Reuters images showed an excavation a twelve oregon truthful metres beneath the surface, with Hamas men astatine the bottommost of the trench adjacent to a passageway opening successful an evident hunt for bodies.
Gaza health authorities accidental 68,000 radical are confirmed killed successful the Israeli strikes and thousands much are missing. Israel launched the warfare aft Hamas-led fighters stormed done confederate Israel, sidesplitting 1,200 radical and bringing 251 hostages backmost to Gaza.
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