The U.S. told Israel to “show restraint” on Sunday after Tel Aviv accused Hamas of carrying out attacks on IDF troops inside Gaza, as both sides approached the deal with some level of expectation that Israel will ramp up its massacre campaign inside the enclave.
The death toll in Gaza reached 67,869, with more than 170,105 Palestinians wounded.
Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, said Thursday that he did not agree with the ceasefire deal that was signed by Hamas and the Israeli government, but said that didn’t matter anyway, because Israel will continue where it left off after it receives the hostages.
The IDF on Saturday carried out airstrikes around southern Lebanon to hit heavy machinery that the Israelis say were being used to help Hezbollah build new fortifications in the region, a claim rejected by Beirut as pure nonsense.
The UN announced last week that the IDF managed to destroy at least 83 percent of the structures in Gaza City—the location of the army’s last major offensive before Hamas and Israel announced the approval of a U.S.-backed ceasefire.
Israel continued to carry out strikes across Gaza on Thursday, despite the announcement of a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel after the two-year genocide.
Major protests broke out over the weekend in capitals across Europe in support of the Palestinians in Gaza being tormented and killed by the IDF and the humanitarian-aid flotilla that was intercepted in international waters before reaching the battered enclave.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the IDF killed at least 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the genocide and over 170,000 Palestinians have been wounded.
Israel has seen a dramatic shift in support from Americans as its genocide in Gaza approaches the two-year mark, with more U.S. citizens now saying they sympathize more with the Palestinians.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called ceasefire deal to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza managed to give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nearly everything he could have hoped for, namely the immediate return of all remaining hostages, no Palestinian state, and the opportunity to restart the massacre and starvation campaign whenever he wants if Israel determines that Hamas is in violation of the agreement.