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.
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. The Qassam Brigades postponed the handover of a captive's body due to repeated truce violations by Israel.
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.
