The Gaza ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel faced its first major test on Sunday, after the two sides exchanged fire and accused each other of violating the deal.<\/p>\n
Israel said it struck \u201cdozens of Hamas terror targets\u201d in response to the militant group\u2019s \u201cblatant violation of the ceasefire agreement this morning,\u201d according to a statement Sunday<\/a> from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on the social platform X.<\/p>\n The IDF said its targets included \u201cweapons storage facilities, firing posts, terrorist cells and additional Hamas terror infrastructure\u201d and that its forces \u201cstruck and dismantled\u201d approximately 6 kilometers of \u201cunderground terrorist infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said two Israeli soldiers died<\/a> as a result of Hamas\u2019s attack in Rafah.<\/p>\n Hamas blamed Israel for multiple ceasefire violations but said its communication with its remaining units in Rafah had been cut off for months, adding, \u201cWe are not responsible for any incidents occurring in those areas,\u201d The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n Israel said it resumed enforcement of the ceasefire later Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cIn accordance with the directive of the political echelon, and following a series of significant strikes in response to Hamas\u2019 violations, the IDF has begun the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire, in line with the terms of the agreement,\u201d the IDF said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe IDF will continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement and will respond firmly to any violation of it.”<\/p>\n An Israeli security official said the transfer of aid into Gaza was halted briefly on Sunday but that aid deliveries would resume on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Gaza ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel faced its first major test on Sunday, after the two ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}