{"id":223784,"date":"2025-10-19T04:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:23:06","slug":"us-says-hamas-is-planning-imminent-attack-on-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223784\/","title":{"rendered":"US says Hamas is planning ‘imminent’ attack on civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US State Department says it has “credible reports” that Hamas is planning an “imminent” attack on civilians in Gaza, which it says would violate the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

A statement released on Saturday said a planned attack against Palestinians would be a “direct and grave” violation of the ceasefire agreement and “undermine the significant progress achieved through mediation efforts”.<\/p>\n

The state department did not not provide further details on the attack and it is unclear what reports it was citing.<\/p>\n

The first phase of the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is currently in progress – all living hostages have been released and bodies of the deceased are still being returned to Israel.<\/p>\n

Also part of the agreement, Israel freed 250 Palestinian prisoners in its jails and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.<\/p>\n

Washington said it had already informed other guarantors of the Gaza peace agreement – which include Egypt, Qatar and Turkey – and demanded Hamas uphold its end of the ceasefire terms. <\/p>\n

“Should Hamas proceed with this attack, measures will be taken to protect the people of Gaza and preserve the integrity of the ceasefire,” the statement said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hamas has not yet commented on the statement.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has previously warned Hamas against the killing of civilians. <\/p>\n

“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,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social earlier this week.<\/p>\n

He later clarified that he would not be sending US troops into Gaza.<\/p>\n

Last week, BBC Verify authenticated graphic videos that showed a public execution carried out by Hamas gunmen in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The videos showed several men with guns line up eight people, whose arms were tied behind their backs, before killing them in a crowded square.<\/p>\n

BBC Verify could not confirm the identity of the masked gunmen, though some appeared to be wearing the green headbands associated with Hamas.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Israel said it had received two more bodies from Gaza<\/a> that Hamas said are hostages, though they have yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n

So far, the remains of 10 out of 28 deceased hostages had been returned to Israel.<\/p>\n

Separately on Saturday, 11 members of one Palestinian family were killed<\/a> by an Israeli tank shell, according to the Hamas-run civil defence ministry, in what was the deadliest single incident involving Israeli soldiers in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said soldiers had fired at a “suspicious vehicle” that had crossed the so-called yellow line demarcating the area still occupied by Israeli forces in Gaza.<\/p>\n

There are no physical markers of this line, and it is unclear if the bus did cross it. The BBC has asked the IDF for the coordinates of the incident.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 attack, in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 others hostage.<\/p>\n

At least 68,000 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are seen by the UN as reliable.<\/p>\n

In September, a UN commission of inquiry said Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza<\/a>. Israel categorically rejected the report as “distorted and false”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US State Department says it has “credible reports” that Hamas is planning an “imminent” attack on civilians…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-223784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}