Ceasefire In Peril: Netanyahu Orders ‘Forceful’ Strikes In Gaza After IDF Troops Attacked

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to carry out “forceful” strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, shortly after troops with the Israel Defense Forces reportedly came under fire from militants.

“Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,” the prime minister’s office said. The military action would mark the first Israeli strikes in Gaza since Israel and Hamas agreed to the hostage deal and ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump on October 9. Hamas has so far failed to hold up its side of the agreement and hand over all of the remaining deceased hostages, while violence in the Gaza Strip has continued.

Israel is also moving the Yellow Line, which was agreed upon under the ceasefire deal, to expand the area of Israel’s control in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli journalist Amit Segal.

Netanyahu made the decision after a militant group fired upon IDF troops stationed in Rafah earlier on Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported. It’s unclear if the attackers were tied to Hamas or another terrorist group in Gaza.

Tuesday’s reported attack came after two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed in the Rafah area last week, with the Israeli military blaming Hamas. Hamas denied that it was responsible for last week’s attack. In response to the previous attack, the Israeli military conducted strikes taking out “six kilometers of underground terrorist infrastructure,” according to the IDF, Fox News reported.

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Earlier on Tuesday, the IDF accused Hamas of lying about recovering hostages’ remains and released a video showing men re-burying human remains in a different area to “stage a false ‘discovery’ for photographers.”

“Despite claiming difficulty locating the bodies of deceased hostages, Hamas continues to hold and manipulate the remains it refuses to release under the agreement,” the IDF stated.

The Israeli military said that the video “clearly shows that the Hamas terror organization is attempting to create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies, while in fact holding deceased hostages whose remains it refuses to release as required by the agreement.”

In response to Netanyahu’s order, Hamas said it would scrap plans to hand over the body of another hostage on Tuesday.

Late last week, President Donald Trump said that Hamas would “have a very big problem” if the ceasefire didn’t hold. Trump had previously warned the terror group to end the violence in the Gaza Strip.

“If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump wrote on October 16 after Hamas publicly executed Gazans. Trump later added that U.S. forces would not be used to take out the terrorists.

After the ceasefire went into effect, the Trump administration sent top officials to Israel, where it established a command center to monitor the agreement.