Israel has breached the Gaza ceasefire dozens of times in 24-hours, killing Palestinians and sowing fear among people who survived two years of war. Israel blames Hamas, which has rejected that claim. Despite the surge in violence, the US President says the truce still holds.
Published On 20 Oct 2025
Since the flimsy truce that Israel brokered on October 10 to end Gaza’s nearly 100 Palestinians and injure 230 others,
Israel’s army has repeatedly shot at unarmed Palestinians and bombed Gaza during a tense period of accusations and counteraccusations. The most recent claim was made on Sunday when it claimed Israel’s Rafah region had been attacked by Hamas fighters.
Since October 2023, Israel’s occupation of Gaza has resulted in the deaths of more than 68 000 people and the injuries of 170, 200 people, according to international organizations and a UN commission. Nearly 200 people were taken prisoner in Israel as a result of the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, a total of 1,139 people dying in Israel.
Who then violated the ceasefire? A ceasefire is still in effect, right? Do Palestinians finally receive aid and peace? What we are aware of is:
Hamas had broken the agreement, according to the Israeli military, and two of its fighters had killed two Israeli soldiers in Rafah, according to a statement released on Sunday from the Israeli military.
The Gaza Strip was then subject to a “massive and extensive wave” of Israeli strikes.
The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, claimed to be unaware of any clashes and that the Brigades had no relations with any Palestinian fighters there.
Hamas has also been accused of violating the ceasefire at this point.
Israel has claimed that Hamas is dragging its feet in returning the bodies of 28 of Gaza’s Israeli-caused captives.
Hamas has stated from the beginning that it requires extensive digging equipment to find and excavate all the bodies of Palestinians who are thought to have perished beneath the rubble of Israel’s bombing.
The US released a 20-point proposal to end the September strike that was mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and Turkiye at the end of September.
The conditions include:
In its response, Hamas stated that leaving Gaza’s “independent Palestinian administration” would be the only way to release all captives.
The remaining demands on Hamas were, according to the statement, “addressed within an inclusive Palestinian national framework, of which we will be a part and to which we will contribute.”
At least 97 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
11 members of the Abu Shaaban family were killed when the Israeli military opened fire on a civilian vehicle on Friday in the Zeitoun neighborhood.
The family was attempting to get to their house with seven children and three women in the vehicle.
In Gaza on Sunday, Israel carried out airstrikes and attacks.
In northern Gaza’s Shujayea neighborhood on Monday, Israel claimed that the Palestinians “posed a threat” to Israeli soldiers after they crossed the unmarked “yellow line” behind which Israel’s army has pulled back. The Israeli army then killed several of them.
Israel also imposed restrictions on aid, keeping the Rafah crossing closed, and announcing to the UN on Tuesday that it would only permit 300 aid trucks, which is half of the deal’s size.
Hamas released all 20 of the captives’ bodies, and it has also recovered and returned 12 of the captives’ bodies, despite accusing Israel of repeatedly violating the ceasefire.
Hamas reiterated its commitment to the ceasefire’s terms on Friday, but Hamas claimed recovery was challenging because of the volume of rubble Israel had created through its relentless bombing.
Hamas claimed that the project would be labor-intensive and impossible to guarantee without new equipment and external support.
More than 10,000 slain Palestinians are still stranded under debris and rubble across Gaza, according to Hamas’ efforts to retrieve their bodies.
Really, no.
Nearly impossible for those who lived in those neighborhoods to determine the location of their homes has been the result of Israeli bombings that have destroyed entire neighborhoods.
Additionally, many people are afraid of the “invisible yellow line,” which includes those who don’t know whether their home is on the Israeli or Palestinian side of the yellow line.
The yellow line, according to a rough map, covers 58 percent of Gaza and is ultimately under Israeli control.
As Israel continues to obstruct humanitarian aid, food and resources are fatally lacking in the besieged area.
According to a loophole experts told Al Jazeera, the Israeli government did not promise to completely withdraw its forces from Gaza, saying it could maintain a buffer zone until there is no “resurgent terror threat.”
The ceasefire is still in effect, according to US President Trump, who reiterated that US officials would make sure the situation was “very peaceful.”
The Israeli army reported that aid flow had also resumed following Sunday’s Israeli attacks, along with a ceasefire in Gaza.
Hamas has maintained that it will continue to work toward lasting peace and adheres to the ceasefire terms.
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President Donald Trump expanded on his oft-repeated claim that no president had ever won a war before him during a White House meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He also made an even bolder claim.
On October 17, Trump claimed that if he solved another, he would be referred to as a “peacekeeper.” We’ve never, to the best of my knowledge, had a president who successfully ended a war. Bush (George W.) launched an Iraqi war. Many of them start conflicts, but they never end them. When they are not settled, especially when they are, they don’t have anything to do with us.
At least two presidents have personally overseen negotiations that brought about the end of another nation’s wars, and the US president has omitted several instances where presidents’ designated diplomats have succeeded in reaching peace agreements as a result.
According to David Silbey, a military historian from Cornell University, “it massively exaggerates what he’s done, while ignoring any history of what other presidents have done.”
We did not include conflicts that the United States militarily won and later fought in, such as World War II, in our analysis. Trump claimed that none of the eight wars he claimed to have ended were primarily those that involved the US as a combatant and that they “have nothing to do with us.”
Trump’s “direct involvement in major conflicts, using tools from America’s military might to our superior consumer market, has brought peace to decades-long wars around the world in a way unlike any of his predecessors,” according to White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly.
In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and 1905, Japan defeated an Asian power for the first time. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt assisted in the mediation of a settlement at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. For his contribution to the end of World War II, Roosevelt received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize and the 1906 Nobel Prize.
Israel and Egypt had been at war for three decades, alternating between hot and cold war, by the time President Jimmy Carter signed the Camp David Accords on September 17, 1978. The outcome of discussions at Camp David’s presidential retreat was the agreement. The 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was presented to Sadat and Begin.
Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia’s presidents reached a peace deal in Dayton, Ohio, putting an end to the 1992-broken Bosnian War. Leaders from Europe and Russia were the main US officials in the Dayton Accords negotiations, including veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke and Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Bill Clinton was the US president at the time.
Prior to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics in the United Kingdom-administered Northern Ireland persisted for roughly three decades.
It was spearheaded by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who established shuttle diplomacy, which involves a facilitator negotiating between Washington and Belfast while traveling between the parties in reverse. Clinton served as president at the time.
The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement came about as a result of negotiations led by US Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Sudanese government. At the time of the 2005 agreement, George W. Bush served as president. South Sudan was established as a result of a referendum in 2011.
Trump repeatedly and repeatedly repeats his exaggerated claim that he has won six, seven, or eight wars.
Trump contributed to the ceasefires that recently slowed tensions between Armenia, Iran, and Israel. However, these were primarily incremental agreements with little chance of lasting peace. Some leaders also contest how significant a role Trump plays.
Although the US participated in a protracted peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, violence has continued there and killed hundreds of civilians. The nations alleged ceasefire violations after Trump’s assistance in brokering a deal between Cambodia and Thailand.
Unresolved is the ongoing conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia over an Ethiopian dam on the Nile River. There is little evidence that a potential war was brewing in the cases of Kosovo and Serbia.
Trump has made some notable progress recently, most recently by achieving an agreement to end Israel’s occupation of Gaza. It will take time to see if peace prevails because the agreement has multiple stages.
Trump has cited his diplomatic prowess as meriting a Nobel Peace Prize for weeks.
Trump said in a speech on September 23 at the UN that “everyone believes that I should receive the Nobel Peace Prize for each of these accomplishments.”
Maria Corina Machado, the head of Venezuela’s opposition, was awarded the Nobel Prize on October 10 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”
Trump once said, “We’ve never had a president who solved a war, not a war.”
At least two US presidents, Carter and Roosevelt, personally negotiated peace agreements that won some of the participants Nobel Prizes.
Several other presidents have watched as their elected officials reach peace agreements.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, has stated that he would attend the summit that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have been holding.
Zelenskyy said he would participate if given an invitation, and he did on Monday. Given Viktor Orban’s friendly relations with Moscow and his antagonistic attitude toward Kyiv, the Ukrainian president is uncertain about the location of the meeting in Budapest.
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We will agree if I am invited to Budapest, Zelenskyy said, if it is an invitation in a format where we meet as three or, as it’s known, shuttle diplomacy, President Trump meets with Putin and President Trump meets with me, in one way or another.
Although it is believed that the summit will take place in the Hungarian capital in the coming weeks, no specific date has been given.
Since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022, Trump has continued to push for an end to the conflict.
The US leader veers in his approach and doesn’t make any specific recommendations. However, his frustrations with the sluggish peace efforts has increased.
He expressed disappointment in recent months with Putin over his inability to make any meaningful concessions following their August meeting in Alaska. He has suggested that the US might send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which Moscow claimed would escalate the conflict.
Trump stated in late September that he thinks Ukraine could reclaim all of its territory with the assistance of NATO and the European Union.
However, he changed his tune this week after making a phone call to Putin and demanding that the current battle lines be frozen.
Zelenskyy, who reportedly discussed the subject of the White House summit with Trump on Friday, said he accepts the idea of freezing the front lines but demanded that Moscow be put under more pressure.
After many rounds of discussion with [Trump] and his team over the course of more than two hours, Zelenskyy stated on Sunday that his message is “we stand where we stand on the front lines.”
Zelenskyy expressed concern for the host at the Budapest summit ahead of time.
As the most apropiat EU leader to Russia, Orban has tried to thwart Kyiv’s efforts to secure Western support on numerous occasions and has attempted to halt aid from the bloc to Ukraine.
Zelenskyy expressed his doubts about Orban’s ability to “make a balanced contribution” or “can do anything for Ukrainians.”
Due to Trump’s warm relations with Orban and Putin’s positive relations with Orban, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who spoke to reporters in Budapest on Monday.
However, it is also noteworthy that Putin’s arrest is being sought after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues a warrant.
Hungary hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has also been charged with war crimes, earlier this year, to begin the process of leaving the ICC.
The Russian leader’s arrest warrant has been confirmed by Budapest.
Zelenskyy also warned against a second “Budapest scenario” in reference to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which Russia and other powers offered security to Ukraine and other former Soviet nations in exchange for their surrendering their nuclear arsenals in the wake of the Soviet Union.
Kaja Kallas, the head of European foreign policy, expressed disappointment with Hungary regarding Putin’s potential trip to the bloc.
As she arrived at a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Kallas lamented that it was unfortunate that someone who was being sought by the ICC arrest warrant was visiting a European nation.
The Hague, in front of the tribunal, is the only place for Putin to be in Europe, according to Lithuania’s foreign minister, Kestutis Budrys. Not any of our capitals.
Kallas added that this week’s 19th overall round of EU sanctions against Russia is likely to be approved.
According to Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, the summit was only just getting started.
