Ceasefire Unravels: Gaza Sees Deadly Strikes; Aid Flows Suspended - Beritaja

JERUSALEM  — Israel launched airstrikes Sunday successful Gaza aft what it said was a Hamas onslaught connected its forces, adding to the two-year-old war’s decease toll and rattling a delicate U.S.-brokered ceasefire that had brought a measurement of alleviation to the beleaguered enclave.

The time descended into finger-pointing arsenic each broadside accused the different of violating the pact which President Trump, conscionable six days earlier, had said would usher successful “a aureate age” of bid for the Middle East.

The ceasefire compelled Israel to extremity its months-long blockade of the enclave, but Israel said Sunday that it erstwhile again halted assistance flows, perchance plunging Gaza once much into famine moreover arsenic assistance groups were clamoring for further supplies to beryllium trucked in.

Sunday’s strikes constituted the strongest situation yet to an uneasy truce that came into spot Oct. 10 aft aggravated diplomacy — and nary small unit connected the belligerents — from Trump and a raft of Arabic and Islamic nations to extremity fighting and bring an extremity to a warfare that has killed tens of thousands and each but flattened overmuch of Gaza.

Live broadcasts Sunday showed blooms of fume rising crossed the Gaza Strip, arsenic Israeli warplanes deed aggregate areas successful Rafah, Khan Yunis and Deir al Balah, sidesplitting astatine slightest 15 people, Palestinian wellness officials said. The Israeli subject said 1 one worker and 1 serviceman were killed.

In a statement, the Israeli subject accused the militant group Hamas of firing an anti-tank missle astatine troops successful confederate Gaza, calling the onslaught “a blatant usurpation of the ceasefire agreement.” The subject added that it responded “to destruct the threat and dismantle passageway shafts and subject structures utilized for violent activity.”

Later, reports of dozens of attacks by Hamas came successful from section media.

A wounded Palestinian kid is brought to Nasser Hospital aft an Israeli bombardment successful Khan Yunis, Gaza, connected Oct. 19, 2025.

(Jehad Alshrafi / Associated Press)

“Hamas will salary a dense value for each changeable and each breach of the ceasefire,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said successful a statement. “If the connection is not understood, our consequence will go progressively severe.”

The Israel Defense Forces said targets included “weapons retention facilities, infrastructure utilized for violent activity, firing posts, violent cells, and further violent infrastructure sites. The IDF besides struck and dismantled [nearly 4 miles] of underground violent infrastructure, utilizing complete 120 munitions.”

Hamas’ subject wing, the Qassam Brigades, denied immoderate relationship to the unit successful Rafah, saying that it was “unaware of immoderate events aliases clashes taking spot successful the Rafah area” and that it hadn’t had interaction pinch immoderate of its fighters since March, erstwhile Israel collapsed an earlier ceasefire.

Senior Hamas charismatic Izzat al-Risheq insisted that it was Israel — and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — that was continuing to break the statement and fabricating “flimsy pretexts to warrant its crimes.”

“Netanyahu’s attempts to evade and disavow his commitments travel nether unit from his extremist violent coalition, successful an effort to evade his responsibilities to the mediators and guarantors,” Al-Risheq wrote connected his Telegram messaging app channel.

Hamas says Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times, sidesplitting 38 Palestinians and injuring 143 since the truce began Oct. 10.

Israeli twins Gali and Ziv Berman, who were precocious released from Hamas captivity successful Gaza, are welcomed location arsenic they return from the infirmary to Beit Guvrin, Israel, connected Oct. 19, 2025.

(Ariel Schalit / Associated Press)

In the days since, Hamas has handed complete 20 surviving hostages kidnapped successful its cognition connected Oct. 7, 2023, which triggered the war; successful exchange, Israel released much than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Hamas besides returned the bodies of 12 different hostages who died successful captivity, and said it was still searching for the remains of 16 others.

The Qassam Brigades said successful a later connection Sunday that it had recovered different assemblage and that it would present it to Israel that time “if section conditions permit.” It added that immoderate escalation “will inhibit the search, excavation, and betterment of the bodies.”

Israel still controls conscionable complete half of Gaza’s territory.

The unit Sunday sparked calls from Israeli leaders crossed the governmental spectrum for a return to the conflict against Hamas. A Netanyahu rival — Israeli leader Benny Gantz — said that “all options must beryllium connected the table.”

Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist curate successful Netanyahu’s authorities who was against immoderate truce pinch Hamas, said fighting should resume “with maximum force.” His right-wing ally, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, tweeted a azygous word: “War!”

Details connected what had prompted the Israeli onslaught remained scant. The Israeli regular newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported the incident began astatine 10 a.m., erstwhile Hamas fighters emerged from a passageway and fired an anti-tank rocket astatine an engineering vehicle. That was followed by sniper occurrence astatine different vehicle.

But 1 Palestinian transmission connected Telegram seen arsenic adjacent to Hamas said the target was a Palestinian militia that had worked passim the warfare pinch Israel.

The caput of that militia, Yasser Abu Shabab, did not respond to questions sent to the militia’s email address.

Relatives grieve arsenic the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli occurrence are brought to Al Aqsa Hospital successful Deir al Balah, Gaza, Oct. 19, 2025.

(Abdel Kareem Hana / Associated Press)

The unit comes a time aft the State Department said successful a uncommon play connection that location were “credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire usurpation by Hamas against the group of Gaza.”

The State Department warned that “should Hamas proceed pinch this attack, measures will beryllium taken to protect the group of Gaza and sphere the integrity of the ceasefire.”

In response, Hamas dismissed what it called “U.S. allegations” arsenic “false” and said that they “fully align pinch the misleading Israeli propaganda.” It accused Israel of supporting “criminal gangs” that it said were assaulting Palestinian civilians.

“Criminal gangs” was an evident reference to militias competing pinch Hamas for power of Gaza. Last week, video emerged of what was said to beryllium Hamas operatives executing accused collaborators successful Gaza.

Last week, Trump noted the soul conflicts successful Gaza erstwhile he repeated his request that Hamas abide by a cardinal portion of the 20-point bid pact: that it disarm. If not, Trump warned Hamas, “We will person nary prime but to go successful and termination them.”

The warfare began aft Hamas-led militants blitzed into confederate Israel and killed about 1,200 people, two-thirds of them civilians, according to Israeli authorities, and kidnapped about 250 others.

Israel’s run successful Gaza has killed much than 68,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry successful Gaza, which says the mostly are women and children and which does not separate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its count.