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Israeli officials say the ceasefire holds despite Hamas provocations.
2025-10-20
[X] Which means Israel will continue to pretend it’s true until Bibi is convinced they’ve got back as many of their dead as realistically possible, even though Hamas will no doubt continue to attack daily in violation of the ceasefire until Israel throws up its hands in disgust and announces it is done. Or perhaps President Trump will, first.
… tunnels and explosives, Hamas is waiting to strike.”

… • Sniper attack on Israeli soldier in Rafah, IDF returned fire

• Ongoing exchanges of fire despite ceasefire

• Two armed Palestinian suspects who crossed the yellow line border near Jabalia killed in IDF airstrike

• Netanyahu holding a security meeting with Defense Minister and IDF

• Israeli national security minister calling to resume fighting immediately after ceasefire violations

• The offical IDF response hasn’t been delivered, we should see it in coming hour or two
I don’t know if this is true, but seen in the thread:



…violations of the agreement in Gaza.

The Times of Israel adds:
Washington said leaning on Jerusalem to keep truce going, prevented it from halting aid deliveries, as Witkoff and Kushner set to visit Monday to discuss second phase of deal.

The IDF announced the resumption of the ceasefire in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 Strip on Sunday evening after a deadly attack on troops in the southern Gaza Strip in the morning, and a subsequent wave of retaliatory Israeli strikes had threatened to shatter the fragile truce.

Washington was said to have scrambled to intervene to prevent the US-brokered ceasefire from falling apart, just over a week after it came into effect on October 10.

Two Israeli soldiers — Maj. Yaniv Kula, 26, and Staff Sgt. Itay Yavetz — were killed and three others were maimed when Paleostinian terror operatives launched an attack on troops in the Rafah area on Sunday morning. The IDF blamed Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
 for the attack, and launched a wave of intense strikes against the terror group in response.

On Sunday night, however, the military announced that, "in accordance with the directive of the political echelon, and after a series of significant strikes, the IDF has begun renewed enforcement of the ceasefire following its violation by the Hamas terror organization."

It stressed that Israel would "continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement and will respond forcefully to any violation."

Israel’s announcement that it would return to upholding the truce came after the military carried out strikes against 20 targets in Gaza, which the Hamas-run civil defense agency said killed 45 people, although the figures could not be verified and did not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held consultations with Defense Minister Israel Katz and other security bigshots in the wake of the deadly attack on troops in Rafah, and decided that Israel would respond "fiercely" to the incident, while still maintaining the necessary momentum to secure the return of the remaining slain hostages from Gaza under the first phase of Washington’s ceasefire framework, Channel 12 reported.

"Israel does not want to bring about the collapse of the ceasefire... There is simply a straightforward equation of a violation and a response — and this will continue as long as Hamas keeps violating the agreement," a security official told the network that

The same official also warned that the area between the so-called Yellow Line — to which the military withdrew under the terms of the current ceasefire — and the Egyptian border is "a hotspot for potential escalation."

"It is ostensibly under Israeli control, but [in underground tunnels that remain operative] Hamas bandidos bandidos Death Eaters are hiding — trying to harass Israeli forces under cover of the ceasefire, even without explicit orders from their commanders," the official said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address...
 in Washington, officials within the administration of US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
 were working to prevent the flare-up of violence from collapsing the ceasefire entirely, the Axios news outlet reported, citing US officials familiar with the developments.

According to the outlet, US special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner spoke to Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer about the developments, and that Washington requested that Jerusalem "respond proportionately but show restraint."

The appearance of cracks in the ceasefire came ahead of a planned visit from Witkoff and Kushner to Israel on Monday, and the expected arrival of US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday.

A US official told The Times of Israel that the three officials were expected to meet with Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials during their visit to further advance Washington’s framework for the Gaza ceasefire.
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