\u201cThere is no plan B,\u201d Rubio said on the tour, rebuffing an Israeli reporter\u2019s question of whether Israel needed Trump\u2019s permission before resuming its attacks on Gaza. \u201cThis is the best plan, it\u2019s the only plan, it\u2019s one that we think can succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to The Associated Press<\/a>, Israel notified the Trump administration before conducting Tuesday\u2019s strikes \u2014 presenting the question of whether the U.S. would hold Netanyahu accountable for the latest round of ceasefire violations.<\/p>\n \u201cAll eyes now are going to be on Washington,\u201d said Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine\/Israel Program at Arab Center Washington DC. \u201cWould they really be a referee that calls balls and strikes fairly? Or were they just there for decoration and were they just going to allow the Israelis to get away with murder, as they always have?\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance signaled that they would opt for the latter. He described the attacks as \u201clittle skirmishes here and there\u201d and said that \u201cthe ceasefire is holding.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that Hamas or somebody else within Gaza attacked an [Israeli military] soldier,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWe expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president\u2019s peace is going to hold despite that.\u201d<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s strikes on Tuesday mostly targeted Gaza City, including the courtyard of the al-Shifa Hospital, the Strip\u2019s largest medical complex, and apartment complexes throughout the city, according to Al-Aqsa TV, a station run by Hamas. Other strikes hit Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah. Among the 20 killed in the attacks were civilians and at least one child, Al-Aqsa reported.<\/p>\n Israeli officials claimed Tuesday that Hamas fighters had fired on Israeli soldiers in southern Gaza, while Hamas denied<\/a> responsibility for the attacks.<\/p>\n We\u2019re independent of corporate interests \u2014 and powered by members. Join us. <\/p>\n Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n Thank You For Joining! <\/p>\n \n Original reporting. Fearless journalism. Delivered to you. <\/p>\n Will you take the next step to support our independent journalism by becoming a member of The Intercept?\n <\/p>\n By signing up, I agree to receive emails from The Intercept and to the Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Use<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was the latest of several instances in which the Israeli government pushed the notion that Hamas was the one in violation of the ceasefire agreement. Israeli officials have accused Hamas of intentionally delaying<\/a> the return of the remains of Israeli hostages<\/a>, a claim on which even the U.S. has cast doubt. Speaking to reporters on his own visit to the new U.S. base in Israel last week, Vance urged \u201ca little bit of patience,\u201d citing the difficulty of uncovering bodies buried under tons of rubble of destroyed buildings.<\/p>\n The International Committee of the Red Cross, which is assisting and overseeing the return of hostages, continues to work with Hamas\u2019s search crews \u2014 though the group issued a statement<\/a> on Tuesday reacting to drone footage Israel released<\/a>, which it purports to show Hamas reburying hostage remains to stage a recovery for the Red Cross. The video and the claim have not been independently verified. The Red Cross said it was \u201craising its concerns directly with the parties\u201d and called on both sides to follow international humanitarian law while handling remains. Many of the Palestinian bodies returned by Israel, meanwhile, have shown signs of abuse and torture<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hamas returned all living Israeli hostages within the required 72 hours and has since returned the remains of 15 of the 28 deceased Israelis. The ceasefire deal included a stipulation that allowed Hamas leeway beyond the initial 72 hours to continue its search for the remaining bodies, as long as it continues to communicate with the Red Cross.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThey want Palestinians to do anything to react just to complete their mission.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Israeli government has gone to lengths to undermine the peace process. Israel is still limiting<\/a> the amount of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza; it has continued to block the Rafah border, an essential crossing for aid transfers; and it has continued a range of attacks on Palestinians, including a wave of airstrikes on October 19 that killed at least 26 Gazans, including civilians. One of the attacks struck a school sheltering displaced families in Nuseirat. Israel has also continued to demolish large swaths of city infrastructure within the more than 50 percent of the Strip that remains under its military control. Beyond Gaza, Israel has conducted mass military raids and an airstrike in the West Bank, where daily settler violence against Palestinians continues unabated.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are trying to push the Palestinians to react,\u201d said Ramy Abdu, chair of Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, a watchdog that has tracked Israel\u2019s targeting of civilians in Gaza. \u201cThis is their strategy, they want Palestinians to do anything to react just to complete their mission.\u201d<\/p>\n Abdu said he thinks Israel was never serious about holding to the ceasefire agreement but rather has looked for reasons to resume its attacks. On Tuesday, Israel\u2019s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir\u00a0claimed that Hamas \u201ccontinues to play games\u201d in a social media post<\/a> on X, calling on Netanyahu to resume the bombing.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIf Israel has the genuine intention to bring their hostages back, then it will facilitate every effort to get them back, not articulating these kinds of stories and fabricated images,\u201d Abdu said.<\/p>\n Hamas, for its part, maintains<\/a> it is committed to upholding the deal and has accused the Israelis of barring entry to teams and heavy machinery to complete the digging.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Israel\u2019s resumed aggression fits into a pattern that we\u2019ve seen before, Munayyer added. During previous ceasefires in November 2023 and this January, Israel retrieved as many hostages as it could to soften blowback from its citizens, then restarted attacks on Gaza<\/a>, Munayyer pointed out.<\/p>\n
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