Israel Launches Wave of Heavy Airstrikes Across Gaza, Killing at Least 45
The Israeli military launched heavy airstrikes across Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 45 Palestinians, marking the deadliest day of Israeli attacks in the Strip since the ceasefire went into effect on October 10.
The IDF stepped up its attacks on Gaza after alleging its troops were attacked by Palestinian militants in Rafah, southern Gaza, though some reports indicate an explosion was caused by an Israeli vehicle running over an unexploded bomb.
Israeli officials said later in the day that two IDF soldiers were killed in the attack. According to Haaretz, Israeli military officials said they thought militants fired on Israeli troops after exiting a tunnel, but other reports contradict the claim.
Curt Mills, the Executive Director of The American Conservative, wrote on X that a senior Trump administration official told him: “Hamas did nothing. Israeli tank hit an unexploded IED that has probably been there for months.”
Ryan Grim, a reporter for Drop Site News, reported something similar. “Soon after the explosion in Rafah, I’m told by a source familiar, the White House and Pentagon knew that the incident was caused by an Israeli settler bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance — contradicting Netanyahu’s claim that Hamas had popped up from tunnels,” he wrote on X.
“After Netanyahu said he was blocking all aid from entering Gaza in response, and unleashed a bombing campaign, the administration conveyed to Israel that they know what happened. Netanyahu then announced he would re-open the crossings in a few hours,” Grim added.
Israeli strikes on Sunday mainly targeted southern and central Gaza, and pictures and videos show that children were among the casualties. The latest reported bombing hit a tent sheltering displaced peoplenear the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least six.
OMG.
Israel breaks the ceasefire after they ran over one of their own bombs and blamed Hamas for it???
The madness of the war crimes continues.
One of the best Australian critics of the genocide, Caitlin Johnston, is scathing…
Rather than report that Israel violated the ceasefire agreement as blatantly as any agreement could possibly be violated, the western press have been referring to this as a “test” of the ceasefire. Killing Palestinians is so normalized and accepted as a baseline expectation in the western press that CNN called it the “first major test” of the ceasefire after Israel killed people in Gaza every single day since the ceasefire agreement was signed.
The Israeli government keep issuing statements making it explicitly clear that Israel will not consider the “war” over until Hamas is fully disarmed and Gaza is fully demilitarized, terms that the Palestinian resistance has explicitly refused. These mutually contradictory positions place Gaza on a collision course toward full-scale reignition of the genocide.
…let’s see Trump’s commitment to the ceasefire now he’s not in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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It’s even funnier- they were bulldozing someone’s home and a bomb that they’d previously dropped on it, trying to murder civilians, went off.
The only good zionist is a ____ zionist (fill in the blanks).
I wonder why, with many hundreds of thousands protesting in america against Trump/no kings there is not a peep in our media?
Nothing presented in above article indicates the origin of the unexploded munition. Additionally, if it was an IED, they are seldom used by regular armed forces.
Maybe it was unexploded IDF bomb, equally it may have been a booby mine set earlier by resistance fighters.
In this conflict one should never assume anything, as liars and lies proliferate.
Notice when it was mentioned on RNZ this morning it said Israel claimed it was responding to an attack. It didn’t point out that claim was bullshit.