Timeline: Israel’s Tuesday Gaza Ceasefire Violations and Fabricated Narratives

Gaza (QNN)- More than 100 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, marking one of the deadliest days since the ceasefire took effect on October 10. Israel has fabricated claims to justify its attacks and repeated violations of the ceasefire.

Israel killed more than 100 people, including 46 children, in attacks late on Tuesday and on Wednesday.

Here’s a timeline of what happened, including Israel’s claims and violations:

On Tuesday, Israel announced that the body of a captive transferred from Gaza by Hamas through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) did not match one of the 13 to be handed over as part of the ceasefire.

Israeli forensic analysts determined that the remains belonged to Ofir Tzarfati, who was taken to Gaza during Hamas’s October 7 operation and whose partial remains were recovered in November of the same year.

A short time later, Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, said it would hand over the remains of an Israeli captive at 8pm (18:00 GMT), but it held off after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “powerful strikes” on Gaza.

Israel also alleged that an operation took place on Tuesday in Rafah in southern Gaza by Hamas fighters against its forces.

Israel’s military chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, threatened this week that the genocide in Gaza will continue despite the ceasefire now in effect.

Zamir told commanders during a gathering of the army’s senior leadership that the military’s objectives remain incomplete while bodies of captives remain in Gaza, The Times of Israel reported.

“The war is not yet over,” Zamir said.

What Was Hamas’ Response?

Hamas denied responsibility for the attack in Rafah and said in a statement that it remained committed to the ceasefire deal.

Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, also accused Israel of violating the truce.

In a statement, it said, the “treacherous escalation against our people in Gaza clearly exposes Israel’s intention to undermine the ceasefire agreement and impose new realities by force, amid American complicity that provides Netanyahu’s fascist government with political cover to continue its crimes.”

Hamas also accused Israel of obstructing efforts to recover the bodies of the captives while using the same bodies as an excuse to claim noncompliance.

It pointed out that Israel has prevented enough heavy machinery from entering Gaza to recover the remains and has prevented search teams from accessing key areas.

Trump Defends Israel

“As I understand it, they took out an Israeli soldier,” Trump told reporters in response to questions about the Israeli strikes in Gaza. “So the Israelis hit back and they should hit back. When that happens, they should hit back,” he added.

Trump said on Wednesday that the ceasefire “is not in jeopardy” despite the strikes.

Israel’s Bank of Targets on Tuesday

As Israel claimed it had attacked 30 “terrorist” targets, at least 46 Palestinian children were killed in 14 hours in deadly Israeli attacks. After killing dozens, the Israeli military said it is resuming enforcement of the ceasefire agreement.

How Many Times Has Israel Violated the Ceasefire?

According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, Israel has violated the truce more than 125 times. (The number does not include Tuesday’s attacks).

The violations included crimes of direct gunfire against civilians, deliberate shelling and targeting, and the arrest of a number of civilians, reflecting the occupation’s continued policy of aggression despite the declared end of the war, said the Office, after Israel stepped up attacks across Gaza.

Israel has also weaponized the aid entering the Palestinian enclave and said the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt would remain closed. According to the UN and aid agencies, a major ramp-up of aid needed to ease famine and suffering in Gaza after two years of war has yet to happen despite the ceasefire that calls for increased humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.

Israel claims the violations come because Hamas has been too slow to turn over bodies of dead captives and hasn’t returned all the bodies.

Is This Correct?

No.

Hamas negotiators have reportedly stated during ceasefire talks that the presence of Israeli forces and the genocidal, indiscriminate Israeli attacks that caused widespread destruction would complicate the task of locating the bodies of dead captives, requiring greater time and effort.

“They made it clear during the negotiations that time and great efforts will be needed after the withdrawal of the occupying Israeli forces, to collect information about the bodies,” a Hamas source told MEE.

“This was clear and accepted during the negotiations. The signed agreement included a very clear clause about this. Clause 5 e in the agreement stated: ‘Establishment of an information-sharing mechanism between the two sides through the mediators and the ICRC, to exchange information and intelligence on any remaining deceased hostages that were not retrieved within the 72 hours or remains of Gazans held by Israel. The mechanism shall ensure that the remains of all the hostages are fully and safely exhumed and released. Hamas shall exert maximum effort to ensure the fulfilment of these commitments as soon as possible’”.

Hamas released all the 20 living captives during the first days of the ceasefire. Over the past days, it has also handed over the bodies of 15 so far.

Trump spoke earlier on the difficulty of retrieving the bodies of Israeli captives from destroyed areas in Gaza.

“It’s a gruesome process. I almost hate to talk about it so. But they’re digging. They are actually digging,” Trump told reporters in the White House.

“There are areas where they are digging, and they are finding a lot of bodies. Then they have to separate the bodies. You wouldn’t believe this. And some of those bodies have been in there a long time. And some of them are under rubble. They have to remove rubble,” Trump said.

“Some are in tunnels, that died in tunnels, that are way down under the earth. And the tunnels are like three feet. Can you believe it, three feet high? They lived like this for a long period of time. It’s a horrible atrocity,” he said.

Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, released a statement saying it has met its commitments under Trump’s Gaza plan as it pertains to Israeli captives in Gaza.

“The resistance has adhered to what was agreed upon and has handed over all the living prisoners it has and the bodies it can access,” it said.

“As for the remaining bodies, they require significant efforts and special equipment to search for and retrieve them, and we are making great efforts to close this file.”

Israeli ministers, journalists, and analysts are also pushing the government to resume its genocide in Gaza, exploiting that all soldier prisoners were released.

Hamas, accompanied by the ICRC, has joined Egyptian teams authorised by Israel to search for remains beyond the so-called “Yellow Line”. An Israeli spokesperson said the Egyptian team would use excavator machines and trucks in the search. The Yellow Line is a non-physical demarcation line separating the Israeli occupation forces from certain areas of Gaza, while maintaining control over approximately 50% of the enclave.

Here’s Also a Recap of Why Hamas Could Not Find All Israeli Bodies

• Massive destruction: Some of the bodies are believed to be buried under enormous piles of rubble created by Israel’s bombardment, requiring heavy machinery and advanced scanning technology.
• Restricted access: Over half of Gaza remains under Israeli military control, leaving Palestinian teams unable to move freely or operate safely.
• Lost information: Many resistance fighters who guarded or documented the captives’ locations were assassinated in Israeli strikes, taking vital information with them.
• Fragmented control: Some captives were held by smaller Palestinian factions rather than Hamas’s military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, creating further uncertainty.
• Israel’s blockade: Israel continues to block the entry of heavy machinery and bulldozers into the Gaza Strip, delaying efforts to recover the bodies of its own prisoners, who were killed by its intense bombardment of the enclave.
• In addition, Gaza has no DNA testing capacity to identify decomposed remains. Laboratories equipped with PCR (polymerase chain reaction) technology are required to extract genetic material from decayed tissues, a process impossible under Israel’s blockade conditions.

Lebanon Model

According to Israeli media reports, Israel has admitted that the operation which took place in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Tuesday was likely carried out by an isolated cell that was unaware of the ceasefire.

Israel’s Walla website said the cell had remained for a long time in the tunnels. When the Israeli engineering forces began to strike a key section of the tunnel system in the area, the fighters emerged from underground and opened fire on the unit.

Sources familiar with the details said that, according to assessments, this was a cell that had been trapped for a long period and, as a last resort, carried out the operation.

Palestinian analysts argue that Israel is trying to impose a new framework on Gaza, similar to the model it has applied to southern Lebanon, where the situation remains suspended in limbo between war and peace.

Political analysts say Israel is trying to establish a new dynamic, much like in Lebanon.

Gaza-based Ahed Ferwana told TNA that Israel “is trying to establish a new equation based on deterrence and forced calm without any real political commitments.”

Ferwana described the situation as “calculated management of instability” in which “Israel opens fire whenever it wants and declares a ceasefire whenever it wants, a repetition of what it imposed on southern Lebanon after ending the war.”

“It is a front that never fully closes, without a full-scale war or genuine peace,” he said.

Ahmad Al-Hila, a political analyst, said, “Israel seeks to establish a dynamic that allows it to strike whenever and however it chooses, much like its actions in Lebanon, without oversight or accountability.”

Once again, he added, “responsibility rests with the guarantors of the agreement. It is well known that the movement and the resistance have remained committed to the terms of the accord, while Israel has violated it 125 times to date.”

Mediator Qatar expressed frustration over the attacks, but said mediators are still looking towards the next phase of the truce.

Netanyahu will “try everything” to restart Israel’s war on Gaza, including preventing countries such as Turkey and Qatar from sending troops for an international stabilisation force, Akiva Eldar, a political commentator from Tel Aviv, said.

“I think there’s public support in Netanyahu’s narrative, and his targeting of Hamas is very popular in Israel. Even in the Knesset, there’s no opposition to the use of military force,” he said.

Analysts also say Israel is exploiting this file as a political bargaining chip to delay the second phase of the ceasefire, which involves reconstruction and discussions on the future of Gaza’s governance.

Gaza-based political analyst Mustafa Ibrahim said Israel had “imposed this new equation from the first day of the agreement.”

“Netanyahu does not wait for pretexts; he manufactures them. Hamas explained to the mediators that recovering bodies takes time and heavy equipment, but Netanyahu is managing the conflict according to his internal political calculations and upcoming elections,” he told TNA.

Ibrahim argued that Netanyahu “is continuing the war in another form,” drawing comparisons to the “Lebanese model”.

“He uses limited strikes and exaggerated pretexts to justify prolonging instability, avoiding reconstruction, and keeping Gaza trapped in a permanent state of crisis,” Ibrahim said.