US claims Gaza ceasefire in jeopardy as Hamas plans ‘attack’

US State Department claims the Palestinian radical is readying an onslaught against civilians successful Gaza ‘in sedate usurpation of the ceasefire’.

Hamas has rejected a connection from the United States State Department successful which it cited “credible reports” indicating the Palestinian radical would imminently interruption the ceasefire deal with Israel.

In a connection connected Sunday, Hamas said the US allegations were mendacious and “fully align with the misleading Israeli propaganda and supply screen for the continuation of the occupation’s crimes and organised aggression against our people”.

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The US State Department had claimed that Hamas is readying an onslaught against civilians successful Gaza “in sedate usurpation of the ceasefire” and called connected mediators to request that the radical uphold its obligations nether the US-backed bid deal.

In a connection precocious connected Saturday, the State Department said it had obtained “credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire usurpation by Hamas against the radical of Gaza”.

“Should Hamas proceed with this attack, measures volition beryllium taken to support the radical of Gaza and sphere the integrity of the ceasefire,” it said, without giving circumstantial details connected the planned attack.

The United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza bid statement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire usurpation by Hamas against the radical of Gaza.  

This planned onslaught against Palestinian civilians would represent a nonstop and sedate violation…

— Department of State (@StateDept) October 18, 2025

Hamas called connected the US to “stop repeating the [Israeli] occupation’s misleading communicative and to absorption connected curbing its repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement”.

“The facts connected the crushed uncover the nonstop opposite, arsenic the concern authorities are the ones who formed, armed, and funded transgression gangs that carried retired killings, kidnappings, theft of assistance trucks, and assaults against Palestinian civilians. They person openly admitted their crimes done media and video clips, confirming the occupation’s engagement successful spreading chaos and disrupting security,” it said.

Hamas said its constabulary forces successful Gaza, “with wide fashionable and assemblage support, are fulfilling their nationalist work successful pursuing these gangs and holding them accountable according to wide ineligible mechanisms, to support citizens and sphere nationalist and backstage property”.

‘Attempt to stoke civilian conflict’

Palestine student and Middle East expert Mouin Rabbani described the US State Department informing arsenic mind-boggling.

“I deliberation this is truly an effort to stoke civilian struggle wrong the Gaza Strip … to execute what truthful acold Israel has failed to achieve,” Rabbani said.

The Dutch-Palestinian expert pointed retired that Israel has already attempted to “wreak havoc” successful Gaza by joining forces with “armed gangs and collaborator militias” who enactment arsenic Israeli proxies successful the war-torn enclave.

“To suggest that this is successful immoderate mode the United States coming to the defence of those whose genocide it has unconditionally supported for 2 full years conscionable boggles the caput and defies the imagination,” Rabbani said.

Hamas and Israel person been trading blasted implicit violations of the US-mediated ceasefire since it came into unit past week, threatening the occurrence of the week-old deal.

Gershon Baskin, an American-Israeli analyst, told Al Jazeera that passim the past of agreements betwixt Palestinians and Israelis, each of them person been “breached” 1 mode oregon another.

“If the Americans are superior that they privation this to work, they person to beryllium engaged each azygous time and respective times a day” to marque definite the steps agreed connected are carried retired connected the ground, helium said.

The Gaza Government Media Office said connected Saturday that it had counted astir 50 Israeli violations of the bid deal, resulting successful 38 Palestinian deaths and 143 injuries since the ceasefire took hold.

It called Israel’s actions “flagrant and wide violations of the ceasefire determination and the rules of planetary humanitarian law”.

According to the office, Israeli forces successful Gaza fired straight astatine and bombed civilians, attacks that reflected Israel’s “continued assertive attack contempt the declaration of a ceasefire”.

Israel has besides been accused of failing to comply with the ceasefire woody by continuing to artifact efforts to reopen the Rafah borderline crossing betwixt Gaza and Egypt.

The opening of Rafah has been called for successful bid to summation the travel of humanitarian assistance into the Strip and to let Palestinians to question abroad.

Amid increasing vexation with Israel’s refusal to unfastened the Rafah crossing, Rawhi Fattouh, the president of the Palestinian National Council – the Palestine Liberation Organization’s legislative assemblage – urged the planetary assemblage connected Saturday to deploy planetary forces successful Gaza to support Palestinians and guarantee the ceasefire woody is implemented.