Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire on the Brink
Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire on the Brink
The US-brokered Gaza cease-fire is teetering on the brink of collapse, with Hamas threatening to walk away from the deal — as the terror group traded barbs with Israel Saturday over who was first to violate the fragile truce.
Hamas representatives warned US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that the Gaza cease-fire is “over” and they are “ready to fight,” sources told Saudi state-owned media Al Arabiya.
The terror group threatened that Gaza “will not become another Lebanon,” referring to what the group sees as a prolonged one-sided cease-fire there.
Hamas’ anger seemed to boil over after a series of Israeli strikes on Gaza over the past two days — including attacks Saturday that killed two Hamas commanders — which it denounced as a violation of the cease-fire.
The Israeli Defense Forces, however, accused Hamas of “blatantly” breaking the agreement first, saying one of its Palestinian gunmen drove into a humanitarian zone and opened fire on its troops.
After the explosive revelation surfaced that the deal negotiated by President Trump might splintered crumble, a Hamas spokesperson tried to downplay the reports.
“There is no truth to … Hamas informing Witkoff that the agreement has ended,” claimed Hamas spokesperson Ezzat al-Risheq on Palestinian Quds network.
“We have called on the mediators and the US administration to intervene and compel Israel to implement the agreement.”
Al-Risheq also said Hamas was demanding mediators pressure Israel to publish the identity of the Hamas gunman the IDF said was responsible for breaking the cease-fire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed the fragility of the truce solely on the terror group Saturday.
“Israel has fully honored the ceasefire, Hamas has not,” his office wrote in a statement shared on X, accusing “dozens” of Hamas terrorists of crossing into the Israeli side of the withdrawal line since the ceasefire came into effect.
The White House reportedly backed Saturday’s strikes in response to what it judged was an earlier Hamas violation of the cease-fire, the Times of Israel reported, citing US officials who said the terror group’s leaders are unable to rein in their operatives on the ground in Gaza.
Since the historic deal was enacted on Oct. 10, there have been near daily reports of strikes along the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, Israel launched a new wave against Hamas, reportedly killing 27 people, after the IDF accused the terror group of testing the military border zone “daily.”
The total Palestinian death toll since the cease-fire reached to 307, according to claims from the Hamas-controlled local ministry of health, which does not differentiate between terrorists and civilians.
The IDF, which still controls more than half of Gaza, has accused Hamas of repeatedly violating the terms of the cease-fire deal by going past the agreed upon “yellow line,” a border demarcated by literal yellow blocks and paint that splits the Palestinian enclave in half.
There have been at least three major conflicts along the line since the cease-fire was agreed to, including one that saw two IDF soldiers killed.
The White House has yet to respond to the reports of the disintegration of the deal, but a US source told Israeli news outlet Walla that even though Hamas has not yet officially walked away, the group “has made it clear that it will not be able to accept any more Israeli attacks.”
Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya headed a delegation that arrived in Cairo Saturday to talk with Arab nations about “bolstering the Palestinian position against Israel,” according to Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese outlet Al Mayadeen.
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