[News] Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza

Mon Oct 13 11:29:29 EDT 2025

Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza
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Israel’s top officials are openly declaring that they intend to 
terminate the Gaza ceasefire after they get their hostages back.

Defense Minister Israel Katz has posted a tweet 
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Hebrew which machine translates as follows:

    “Israel’s great challenge after the phase of returning the hostages
    will be the destruction of all of Hamas’s terror tunnels in Gaza,
    directly by the IDF and through the international mechanism to be
    established under the leadership and supervision of the United
    States. This is the primary significance of implementing the
    agreed-upon principle of demilitarizing Gaza and neutralizing Hamas
    of its weapons. I have instructed the IDF to prepare for carrying
    out the mission.”

Hamas has not agreed 
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any demilitarization or destruction of its tunnels. There is no way to 
demilitarize Gaza and neutralize Hamas of its weapons against their will 
without continued warfare, something Israel has demonstrated it cannot 
do without killing shocking numbers of civilians 
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Katz’s comments echo the public statements of Prime Minister Netanyahu, 
who said 
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a televised speech on Friday that “Hamas will be disarmed and Gaza will 
be demilitarized,” and that if Hamas doesn’t disarm voluntarily then “it 
will be achieved the hard way.”

In another statement Netanyahu said, “We have achieved tremendous 
victories but the campaign is not over; part of our enemies are trying 
to recover.”

Israeli outlet YNet reports 
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Israel is planning to resume its blockade and prevent reconstruction if 
all the bodies of the deceased captives are not returned, when Israel 
already knows that Hamas probably won’t be able to locate all the bodies 
of deceased Israeli captives due to the intensity of the Israeli bombing 
campaign over the last two years.

“If Hamas does not cooperate with the return process, and Israel 
suspects that it is deliberately hiding the bodies in order to preserve 
them as a bargaining chip, it is expected to impose a series of 
sanctions on it — including preventing the reconstruction of the Strip, 
the entry of caravans, the opening of bakeries and the entry of civilian 
equipment,” Ynet reports.

In a recent article titled “Israel assesses Hamas may not be able to 
return all remaining dead hostages 
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CNN reports that “Sources say the Israeli government is aware that Hamas 
may not know the location of, or is unable to retrieve, the remains of 
some of the 28 remaining deceased hostages.”

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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, these two pieces of information would seem to 
indicate that Israel is planning to use the unreturned bodies as a 
pretext to break the ceasefire.

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It is perhaps somewhat noteworthy that Israel’s open preparations to 
resume the onslaught in Gaza directly contradict the statements of the 
president of the United States.

Asked by the press about Netanyahu’s refusal to say that the “war” in 
Gaza is over, Trump forcefully stated, “The war is over. The war is 
over, okay? You understand that?”

Trump suggested 
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stating outright) that he has received “verbal guarantees” from Israel 
that the violence will not resume.

So here we have Israeli officials openly and explicitly saying that the 
attacks on Gaza have not ended, and the US president saying that they 
have. It’s not often you see these two governments directly 
contradicting each other with mutually exclusive positions in ways that 
will necessarily be proven or disproven by the events which follow.

So I guess we’re about to find out who has ultimately been in charge of 
the Gaza genocide this whole time.

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