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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel on Sunday struck targets in the southern Gaza Strip after it said its troops came under fire from Hamas militants, in the first major test of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire meant to halt more than two years of war.

Members of the Palestinian group used an RPG and Israel responded with airstrikes and artillery, the military said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held consultations with Israel’s security heads and directed the military to take “strong action” against any ceasefire violations, but did not threaten to return to war.

Hamas said that it was not connected to any clashes in Rafah in southern Gaza.

The strikes came as Israel identified the remains of two hostages released by Hamas overnight, and the Palestinian group said talks to launch the second phase of ceasefire negotiations have begun.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the bodies belonged to Ronen Engel, a father of three from Kibbutz Nir Oz, and Sonthaya Oakkharasri, a Thai agricultural worker killed at Kibbutz Be’eri.

Both were believed to have been killed during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and their bodies were taken to Gaza. Engel’s wife, Karina, and two of his three children were kidnapped and released in a ceasefire in November 2023.
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Meanwhile, Israel threatened to keep the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt closed “until further notice.” The statement by Netanyahu’s office said reopening Rafah would depend on how Hamas fulfills its ceasefire role of returning the remains of all 28 deceased hostages.

In the past week, Hamas has handed over the remains of 13 bodies, 12 of which have been identified as hostages. Israel said one of the bodies released did not belong to a hostage.

Israel has released 150 bodies of Palestinians back to Gaza, including 15 on Sunday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, part of the Hamas-run government. Israel has neither identified the bodies nor said how they died. The ministry has posted photos of dozens of bodies on its website to help families and relatives attempting to locate their loved ones, but the bodies were decomposed, blackened and some were missing limbs and teeth. Only 25 bodies have been identified, the Health Ministry said.

After Israel and Hamas exchanged 20 living hostages for more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, the handover of the remains of deceased hostages and prisoners remains a major issue in the first stage of the ceasefire proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. A major scale-up of aid, including the opening of the Rafah border crossing, for humanitarian aid and people entering or leaving Gaza, is the other central issue.

The next stages of the ceasefire will focus on disarming Hamas, Israeli withdrawal from additional areas it controls in Gaza, and future governance of the devastated territory.
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Second phase

The Israeli military said on Sunday that militants shot at troops in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in the Israeli-controlled areas, according to the agreed-upon ceasefire lines. No injuries were reported. A senior Hamas official denied that Hamas was involved. Hamas and Israel have each accused each other of violating the fragile ceasefire.

Meanwhile, Hamas says that talks with mediators to start the second phase of the ceasefire have begun.

Hazem Kassem, a Hamas spokesman, said in a statement late Saturday that the second phase of negotiations “requires national consensus.” He also said Hamas has begun discussions to “solidify its positions,” without providing further details.

According to Trump’s plan, the negotiations will include disarming Hamas and the establishment of an internationally backed authority to run the embattled Gaza Strip.

Kassem reiterated that the group won’t be part of the ruling authority in a postwar Gaza. Hamas-run government bodies in the Gaza Strip are running day-to-day affairs to avoid a power void, he said.

“Government agencies in Gaza continue to perform their duties, as the vacuum is very dangerous, and this will continue until an administrative committee is formed and agreed upon by all Palestinian factions,” he said.

Kassem called for a Community Support Committee, a body of Palestinian technocrats, to run the day-to-day affairs, to be established promptly.
Rafah border crossing

Israel didn’t open the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, in an attempt to pressure Hamas to return more hostages’ bodies. Hamas says it needs special equipment to locate the bodies of additional hostages, but Israel believes Hamas has access to more bodies than it has returned.
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The Rafah crossing was the only one not controlled by Israel before the war. It has been closed since May 2024, when Israel took control of the Gaza side. A fully reopened crossing would make it easier for Palestinians to seek medical treatment, travel or visit family in Egypt, home to tens of thousands of Palestinians.

On Sunday, the Palestinian Authority’s Interior Ministry in Ramallah announced procedures for Palestinians wishing to leave or enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing. For those who want to leave Gaza, Palestinian Embassy staff from Cairo will be at the crossing to issue temporary travel documents that allow entry into Egypt. Palestinians who wish to enter the Gaza Strip will need to apply at the embassy in Cairo for relevant entry documents.

The Israel-Hamas war has killed more than 68,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government in the territory. Its figures are seen as a reliable estimate of wartime deaths by U.N. agencies and many independent experts. Israel has disputed them without providing its own toll.

Thousands more people are missing, according to the Red Cross.

Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 people in the attack that sparked the war.
Hamas rejects US claim

The group rejected on Sunday a claim by the U.S. State Department that said it had credible reports of an imminent planned attack by Hamas against residents of Gaza.
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“This planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement and undermine the significant progress achieved through mediation efforts,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement Saturday.

Hamas called the claim “false allegations,” and accused Israel of supporting armed groups operating in Israeli-controlled areas. Hamas urged the U.S. administration to pressure Israel to stop supporting the gangs and “providing them a safe haven.”

Hamas-led fighters clashed with at least two armed groups in eastern Gaza City that the group alleges are involved in looting aid and collaborating with Israel. They executed a handful of suspects in public, in widely condemned street killings.

The Interior Ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, says its forces were working to restore law and order across areas Israel’s military withdrew from following the ceasefire.

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Another Trump promise short lived. Must have been those Democrats sabotaging his schemes...
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>>1449179
wow who'd of guessed two sides that want each other dead for the past decades wouldn't uphold a ceasefire just because some american bald guy goes stop stop stop!!
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>>1449190
Trump’s not bald. Unless you’re talking about his neck-pussy
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>>1449194
its obviously a wig no one in their 80s has hair like that
at best its a hair transplant with alot of dye
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I single-handedly brought peace to the Middle East for 3 days give me a noble peace prize...
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>>1449184

Zohran does mean Iran. So it is the DNC.
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>>1449227
Impeccable logic.
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Guess he didn’t deserve that Nobel
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>>1449179
I think the worst part is all the claims of Israel having no choice but to shoot people for "violating the yellow line" are even more bullshit because there's literally 0 physical markings of the Yellow Line on the ground. So you have people who don't even have internet for months going to see their houses after a ceasefire is announced only to get shot dead for violating a border that only exists on paper.
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>>1449225
It's the best peace deal in the history of peace deals! (tm)
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>>1449184
I think that was Hamas that did that, idk
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>>1449179
Lmao did anyone actually think this peace deal was going to last longer than a month? Someone should have left a head of lettuce out to see which lasted longer.
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>>1449179
>Trump got multiple congratulations from across the isle and a Time Magazine cover for this
>Didn't even last a week
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>>1449179
Has no one on either side of the aisle figured out that Trump doesn't do anything with long term sustainability or fallout in mind? His entire political strategy for the last decade has been to push a specific narrative that dominates a single news cycle, then drop the subject and never acknowledge it again. If he can get something accomplished in that brief window great, if not tough shit we're already on to the next thing
Trump got his headline, he got his photo op, and he got his pats on the back for achieving "peace in Israel" for that news cycle
We're done talking about it now, and you can bet if someone brings it up again during a press conference he or Leavitt will straight up just call them a name, tell them to shut up, and move on to whatever the current news cycle's narrative is
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>>1449397
In terms of Democrats im sure theyre aware of it, they're just too feckless to actually do something about it. For Republicans the majority of them are too retarded to come to that realization, and the few that do notice it just dont care.
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>>1449179
That completely discredits the "guarantors" of the ceasefire (Turkey, Egypt, Qatar and US), when they do nothing to bring Israel to Israel to adhere to the ceasefire (else what were they supposedly guaranteeing?). It also, again, shows everyone in the world that Israel will never keep its word on anything.

Hamas probably expected all of that in advance of signing. It's a PR win for them, along with the disproportionate hostage exchange.
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>>1449445
Not really when according to this article a single guy firing an RPG was enough for the IDF to restart the airstrikes. What they aren't saying is that everyone knows Israel has a long term plan to build Israeli settlements on that land and don't want anyone to be living there when they start construction.
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>>1449392
He didn't even do anything. It was Jared Kushner and Witkoff.
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>>1449179
>bulldozer runs over unexploded bomb
>Israel bombs random gazans in retaliation
More bombs have been dropped on Gaza than any other place on Earth.
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>>1449656
With such a hair trigger, they can just send a mossad guy to go fire a rocket into the middle of an empty road from the far side of an imaginary line and that's justification enough. Pretty good chance that's exactly what happened here.
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>>1449663
>>1449656
They don't need either; they just declare a "yellow line" no one can cross, make the details for it only available online months after they destroyed most of Gaza's internet access, then shoot anyone who crosses even if they own property on the other side of it. Just wait for someone to cross it and then "OH MY GOD THEY REFUSE TO RESPECT THE LINE, TREATY OVER!"
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>>1449665
The treaty was always a sham. It's weird that they made Trump think it was real so he could gloat. Netanyahu (and Jared Kushner) want Gaza completely depopulated so they can start building new settlements.
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>>1449392
So are they going to amend that now that his peace deal fell through again?
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>>1449667
And a Trump Tower, coming soon to Moscow as wrll.
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Good going DJT faggots. Should we give him the Nobel now?
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>>1449732
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-posts-ai-image-of-trump-winning-nobel-peace-prize/



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