Netanyahu orders 'powerful strikes' on Gaza after over 125 Israeli truce violations
Iran Press TV
Tuesday, 28 October 2025 5:45 PM
The Israeli regime's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the military to carry out immediate "powerful" strikes on Gaza as Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement in the besieged territory. The regime has broken the ceasefire over 125 times in the past few weeks.
"Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu instructed the military to immediately carry out powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip," a statement from his office said on Tuesday.
The Israeli regime said it was in response to what it called Hamas's ceasefire violations by not handing over the bodies of the remaining 13 captives that are still inside Gaza.
In a statement issued late Tuesday, Hamas condemned Israel of "systematically obstructing" efforts to recover the bodies of its own soldiers in Gaza, saying it refused entry to joint Red Cross-resistance teams to several areas, and blocked heavy equipment needed for the searches.
"The occupation's claims that the resistance is delaying the process are baseless," Hamas said, warning Israel is "fabricating false pretexts" to justify new aggression in violation of the ceasefire.
A US official told Israel that Washington does not see any violation of the agreement by Hamas that would warrant a response, urging Israel not to take radical measures that could lead to the collapse of the ceasefire agreement.
Bombings have already been reported in parts of southern Gaza.
In response to the statement issued by Netanyahu's office and the breach of the ceasefire, Hamas said, "The Zionist occupation continues its systematic policy of obstructing efforts to locate the bodies of its soldiers inside the Gaza Strip."
It added that Israel has "explicitly refused to allow joint teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Palestinian resistance to enter several areas in Gaza to carry out this humanitarian mission."
The movement stated Israel's claims that "the resistance is delaying this process are baseless and intended to mislead public opinion. It is fabricating false pretexts as a prelude to launching new aggressive steps against our people, in flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement."
Meanwhile, Hamas's military wing has announced that it will postpone the handover of the Israeli captive's body that it found earlier today "due to violations" by Israel.
In a statement, the Qassam Brigades stressed that any Israeli escalation "will hinder search, digging, and retrieval operations of the bodies, which will lead to a delay in recovering the bodies" of the dead captives.
Hamas called on mediators to "compel the occupation to halt its deception" and allow humanitarian work to proceed.
"We call on the mediators and guarantor parties to assume their responsibilities, confront these dangerous obstructions, compel the occupation to halt its deception, and allow the relevant teams to carry out their humanitarian duties free from political or hostile interference."
The development comes after Netanyahu said Israel would respond after Hamas handed over human remains that, he claimed, did not belong to the missing captives.
He added that the remains handed over overnight were of a captive whose body, he said, Israeli forces had already recovered earlier during their aggression in Gaza.
Since the beginning of the current truce between Israel and Hamas, Netanyahu has been carrying out provocative acts meant to strain the ceasefire agreement.
Gaza's Government Media Office has accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire, including killing 94 Palestinians, since the agreement came into effect on October 10.
Hamas stated that, for a period of time, the movement requires assistance on the ground in the form of specialized teams and heavy machinery.
Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, in a recent interview warned that the Israeli regime was "blackmailing, stalling, and manipulating" the recently agreed ceasefire deal with Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza.
Israel was "manipulating the pretext of bodies to justify renewed aggression" in Gaza, he stated.
During Israel's two-year-long genocidal war on the besieged strip, the occupying regime killed at least 68,527 Palestinians and wounded 170,395 others, before a ceasefire agreement was reached in Gaza earlier this month.
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