US State Division claims the Palestinian group is planning an assault towards civilians in Gaza ‘in grave violation of the ceasefire’.
Hamas has rejected a press release from the USA State Division during which it cited “credible reviews” indicating the Palestinian group would imminently violate the ceasefire deal with Israel.
In a press release on Sunday, Hamas mentioned the US allegations have been false and “totally align with the deceptive Israeli propaganda and supply cowl for the continuation of the occupation’s crimes and organised aggression towards our individuals”.
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The US State Division had claimed that Hamas is planning an assault towards civilians in Gaza “in grave violation of the ceasefire” and referred to as on mediators to demand that the group uphold its obligations beneath the US-backed peace deal.
In a press release late on Saturday, the State Division mentioned it had obtained “credible reviews indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas towards the individuals of Gaza”.
“Ought to Hamas proceed with this assault, measures will probably be taken to guard the individuals of Gaza and protect the integrity of the ceasefire,” it mentioned, with out giving particular particulars on the deliberate assault.
The USA has knowledgeable the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace settlement of credible reviews indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas towards the individuals of Gaza.
This deliberate assault towards Palestinian civilians would represent a direct and grave violation…
— Division of State (@StateDept) October 18, 2025
Hamas referred to as on the US to “cease repeating the [Israeli] occupation’s deceptive narrative and to give attention to curbing its repeated violations of the ceasefire settlement”.
“The details on the bottom reveal the precise reverse, because the occupation authorities are those who fashioned, armed, and funded legal gangs that carried out killings, kidnappings, theft of support vans, and assaults towards Palestinian civilians. They’ve overtly admitted their crimes by media and video clips, confirming the occupation’s involvement in spreading chaos and disrupting safety,” it mentioned.
Hamas mentioned its police forces in Gaza, “with broad widespread and group assist, are fulfilling their nationwide obligation in pursuing these gangs and holding them accountable in keeping with clear authorized mechanisms, to guard residents and protect private and non-private property”.
‘Try to stoke civil battle’
Palestine scholar and Center East analyst Mouin Rabbani described the US State Division warning as mind-boggling.
“I believe that is actually an try and stoke civil battle throughout the Gaza Strip … to attain what thus far Israel has failed to attain,” Rabbani mentioned.
The Dutch-Palestinian analyst identified that Israel has already tried to “wreak havoc” in Gaza by becoming a member of forces with “armed gangs and collaborator militias” who act as Israeli proxies within the war-torn enclave.
“To counsel that that is in any means the USA coming to the defence of these whose genocide it has unconditionally supported for 2 complete years simply boggles the thoughts and defies the creativeness,” Rabbani mentioned.
Hamas and Israel have been buying and selling blame over violations of the US-mediated ceasefire because it got here into drive final week, threatening the success of the week-old deal.
Gershon Baskin, an American-Israeli analyst, instructed Al Jazeera that all through the historical past of agreements between Palestinians and Israelis, all of them have been “breached” a method or one other.
“If the People are critical that they need this to work, they need to be engaged each single day and a number of other occasions a day” to ensure the steps agreed on are carried out on the bottom, he mentioned.
The Gaza Authorities Media Workplace mentioned on Saturday that it had counted virtually 50 Israeli violations of the peace deal, leading to 38 Palestinian deaths and 143 accidents because the ceasefire took maintain.
It referred to as Israel’s actions “flagrant and clear violations of the ceasefire choice and the principles of worldwide humanitarian legislation”.
In line with the workplace, Israeli forces in Gaza fired instantly at and bombed civilians, assaults that mirrored Israel’s “continued aggressive strategy regardless of the declaration of a ceasefire”.
Israel has additionally been accused of failing to adjust to the ceasefire deal by persevering with to dam efforts to reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
The opening of Rafah has been referred to as for with the intention to enhance the stream of humanitarian support into the Strip and to permit Palestinians to journey overseas.
Amid rising frustration with Israel’s refusal to open the Rafah crossing, Rawhi Fattouh, the president of the Palestinian Nationwide Council – the Palestine Liberation Group’s legislative physique – urged the worldwide group on Saturday to deploy worldwide forces in Gaza to guard Palestinians and make sure the ceasefire deal is applied.
